Update on Fatty Acids and the Brain

Overview

Journal Nutrients

Date 2025 Jan 8

PMID 39771036

Authors

Andrew J Sinclair

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Abstract

The brain is a lipid-rich organ, mainly due to the very high lipid content of myelin, but in addition to this, all the neuronal cell membranes, of which there are over 80 billion in the human brain [...].

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