Stop Your Brain from Slowing Down By Eating Lots of Healthy Berries

Mix them into your smoothie, or have them with your cornflakes. No matter how you do it, load up on berries. Strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, doesn't mater what kind. A new study presented at The American Chemical Society's national meeting this week says that a healthy intake of berries daily can actually improve brain function.

All of the aforementioned berries, as well as the popular acai berry, act as what the study called a bodily "housekeeper". The berries help to to recycle toxic proteins that are associated with memory loss due to old age, as well as an overall decline in mental function. Eating berries battles the brain's natural inclination to slow down with age. 

Shibu Poulose, with the Department of Agriculture's Human Nutrition Research Centre on Aging in Boston, says, the good news is that natural compounds called polyphenolics found in fruits, vegetables and nuts have an antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effect that may protect against age-associated decline.

The scientists involved with the study centered their research around why it is that why nerve functions either slow down or decline with old age. Their findings suggest that the brain's natural housecleaning process tends to slow down with age. Eating berries, or so they say, keeps this process up to speed.

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