But recent evidence seems to indicate that antioxidants delivered in breast milk might also contribute to longevity. At Genox, Cutler takes oxydative-stress profiles of patients to gauge the level of damage from free radicals. About 5 percent of patients who demonstrate high levels of oxydative stress are suffering persistent, low-grade infections, he said, and can be helped by administration of antibiotics. In addition, oxydative stress can result in cardiovascular disease and cancer, he said. Using information gleaned from an oxydative-stress profile, damage can be minimized through diet.
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She trains patients to inhibit or eliminate brain patterns that don't belong in the brain. Her system has been used to treat patients with brain injuries, stroke, cerebral palsy, Parkinson's disease, epilepsy, depression, coma and memory loss. It is not effective, she said, in treating Alzheimer's disease, which she believes is caused by a virus. Ayers, who has been doing this research for 25 years and formerly worked in the field of epilepsy and quadriplegia at the University of California, Los Angeles, medical school, said the therapy trains damaged areas of the brain to stop misfiring, and healthy areas to take over functions lost in the damaged areas. Neither is true, Ayers said, and she believes her machine proves it.