My neurologist, Dr. Eric Pioro of the Cleveland Clinic has a list of 'supplements' that he recommends that persons with ALS add to their diet.
One of these is CREATINE......
I take this on a fairly regular basis adding it to my Carnation Instant Breakfast as an example.
The following is an excerpt from an article on wiki>>>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creatine
"Creatine has been demonstrated to cause modest increases in strength in people with a variety of
neuromuscular disorders.
[31] Creatine supplementation has been, and continues to be, investigated as a possible therapeutic approach for the treatment of muscular, neuromuscular, neurological and neurodegenerative diseases (
arthritis,
congestive heart failure,
Parkinson's disease, disuse atrophy, gyrate atrophy,
McArdle's disease,
Huntington's disease, miscellaneous neuromuscular diseases,
mitochondrial diseases,
muscular dystrophy, and
neuroprotection), and
depression.
[32][citation needed]
A study demonstrated that creatine is twice as effective as the prescription drug
riluzole in extending the lives of mice with the degenerative neural disease
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (
ALS, or
Lou Gehrig's disease). The neuroprotective effects of creatine in the mouse model of ALS may be due either to an increased availability of energy to injured nerve cells or to a blocking of the chemical pathway that leads to
cell death.
[33] A similarly promising result has been obtained in prolonging the life of
transgenic mice affected by Huntington's disease. Creatine treatment lessened brain atrophy and the formation of intranuclear inclusions, attenuated reductions in striatal
N-acetylaspartate, and delayed the development of
hyperglycemia.
[34]"
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