Get Smart By Eating Smarter
Eating healthy food improves your brain ability to understand, analyze and perform higher level tasks. But how does that exactly work? U.S researchers did study on gerbils, and they found out that; food nutrients like infant formula or eggs increase brain synapses and improve cognitive abilities.
The study was led by Dr. Richard Wurtman at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and provided
evidence of how eating healthy would impact your brain membraine.
Gerbils were given combinations of three compounds needed for healthy brain membranes,
- Choline, found in eggs.
- Uridine monophosphate, found in beets.
- Docosahexaenoic acid, found in fish oils.
Gerbils were examined after four weeks and they found that their cognitive improvements in tasks thought to be relevant to gerbils, such as navigating mazes. Researchers dissected the mouse brains to determine a biological cause for the improvement. Wurtman finds biochemical evidence that there was more than the usual amount of brain synapse activity, which was consistent with behaviors indicating higher intelligence.
“I hope human brains will, like those of experimental animals, respond to this kind of treatment by making more brain synapses and thus restoring cognitive abilities,” Wurtman says in a statement.
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