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  • Drugs That May Hurt Memory All medications have side effects, but the following commonly-used drugs block the action of a crucial brain chemical called acetycholine; having too little can impair mental function, particularly in elderly people.

    'Neurobics' and Other Brain Boosters 2008

  • Dandelion is high in both lecithin and choline, precursors to acetycholine.

    Eat Your Weeds: Dandelion 2008

  • Feldberg and Gaddum17, though unable to reproduce effects obtained by Kibjakow with pure Locke's solution, found that, when eserine was added to the fluid perfusing the ganglion, stimulation of the preganglionic fibres regularly caused the appearance of acetycholine in the venous effluent.

    Sir Henry Dale - Nobel Lecture 1965

  • American physicians prefer to prescribe acetycholinesterase inhibitors (acetycholinesterase is an enzyme that breaks down acetycholine, a brain chemical), a class of drugs which are of limited or no value to Alzheimer's patients.

    LewRockwell.com 2009

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    Dr. Eric Braverman: You Don't Have to Live With Menopausal Madness 2009

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    Dr. Eric Braverman: You Don't Have to Live With Menopausal Madness 2009

  • Alzheimer’s: lecithin is involved with increasing the percentages of acetycholine which has shown positive affects in brain function of laboratory mice.

    Eat Your Weeds: Dandelion 2008

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