Is this the best diet for your brain?
I’m always looking for ways to stay healthy. I can look after my body by engaging in regular exercise and making sure I monitor my diet. But I also want to look after my brain, and I think this is something many people neglect.
It’s fine staying physically fit — exercise can help to ensure that, as we grow older, we can do many of the things we take for granted when we’re young.
So we can look after our bodies, but what about our brains?
It might seem that there is little we can do about cognitive decline, after all, isn’t it just an inevitable fact of growing old? This is certainly the case when we consider that many older people will develop dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease.
I’ve written about ways we can remain cognitively fit before, but a recent study offers some intriguing evidence about what we should eat to keep our brains healthy.
The study
The study, published in the journal Alzheimers Research and Therapy adopted a multimodal intervention, that is, it combined different strategies into one lifestyle model. This included diet, exercise, stress management, and supplementation.
Fifty-one participants followed the intervention for 20 weeks. The researchers assessed…
