Multiple factors like stress, inflammation, and metabolic changes play a major role in aging . However, according to recent research published in Nature Chemical Biology, there is another factor that is implicated in the aging process called SGDGs (3-sulfogalactosyl diacylglycerols), a class of lipid molecules that decrease in the brain with age and may have anti-inflammatory effects. Researchers discovered that lipid levels in the brain are quite different in older mice than in younger ones and that levels of all SGDGs and related family of lipids change considerably with age.
These changes in SGDGs may be regulated by a process similar to the ones regulating aging. Researchers also found SGDGs to exist in human and primate brains, indicating their role in animals other than mice which need to be examined further for their role in human neuroinflammation . This discovery of SGDGs…
