A study reveals that nicotine may protect your brain

 

 

Various scientific studies have always warned about the substance nicotine in smoke and its harmful effects on human health, but do they have any positive effects?

 

A new study published in the Scientific Journal of Toxicology revealed that the substance nicotine in cigarettes, which is an addictive substance, may protect the brain from aging.

 

Where the lead researcher in the study, Dr. Ursula Winzer Sirhan Ursula Winzer-Serhan that previous studies have found that nicotine may benefit the cognitive skills of a person, as nicotine binds and activates the action of acetylcholine nicotine receptors nAChRs present in the brain, which work to reduce Neurodegeneration, which is a gradual loss of structure or function Neurons, including cell death, these cells.

 

Consequently, the study's researchers explained that using medicated and studied nicotine may benefit the brain effectively.

 

In turn, the researchers stated that the reason behind the relationship between the use of nicotine and protecting the brain from aging is not yet known, and here we must focus on the harms of this substance before starting to use it medically.

 

The researchers and some laboratory experiments in mice, in order to search for the effect of nicotine in different doses on appetite, weight, anxiety and the level of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors present in the brain.

 

During the experiment, researchers added nicotine to the drinking water of mice in different doses, either low, medium or high.

 

The researchers found that the mice who ate water with low nicotine doses did not find any effect in the blood and did not change the amount of food eaten by them or even their weight or the level of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors.

 

As for the rats who consumed water with high doses of nicotine, the food intake and their weight decreased, and the level of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors increased, and the researchers in these mice did not find any increase in the level of anxiety.

 

The researchers are now working on more experiments on the subject and the effect of nicotine on nervous degeneration, in addition to revealing about the existing causes regarding the effect of nicotine on weight and appetite.