Dietary Nucleotides in Neurodegenerative Diseases

Citation: Pozo AS. Dietary Nucleotides in Neurodegenerative Diseases. Biochem Mol Biol J. 2016, 1:1. There has been an explosion of scientific interest in the health enhancing role of specific foods or physiologically-active food components, the so-called functional foods [1]. It is believed that diet play an important role against neurodegenerative diseases and some functional foods can help to prevent the onset of the disease or reduce the degree of progression, once established. The nutritional recommendations for most neurodegenerative diseases are an adequate intake of energy and protein, as well as vitamin E, for its antioxidant character, and vitamins of the B group (folic acid, B6, B12, choline), for its ability to prevent the accumulation of homocysteine. Other physiologically-active food components such as polyunsaturated fatty acids and gangliosides have been postulated.