UK Researchers Find Low Vitamin D Causes Damage to Brain
Dr. Allan Butterfield, professor in the UK Department of Chemistry and lead author of the paper, explains the findings.
Dr. Allan Butterfield, professor in the UK Department of Chemistry and lead author of the paper, explains the findings.
Allan Butterfield is UK's Alumni Association Endowed Professor of Biological Chemistry at UK, and the Director of the Center for Membrane Sciences.
The focus of his research is the study of oxidative stress on the brain, one of the main components of Alzheimer's Disease.
In this podcast, Professor Butterfield discusses his research group's experiments and results, and talks about fighting the disease by stimulating the brain's production of antioxidants.