US EditionA unique combo of two top diets slowed brain aging by over 2 years
- Published Tuesday in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, a study found that closer adherence to the MIND diet was linked to slower brain ageing over about 12 years in over 1,600 Framingham Heart Study Offspring cohort adults.
- Researchers analyzed over 1,600 participants from the Framingham Heart Study Offspring cohort enrolled from 1999 with an average age 60 and an average MIND diet score just under 7.
- Quantitatively, researchers found each three-point increase in MIND adherence was linked to 20% less gray-matter shrinkage and a 2.5-year delay in brain aging.
- Among specific foods, researchers found berries and poultry contributed most to slower brain aging, while sweets and fried fast foods were linked to faster ventricular expansion and hippocampus decay.
- The researchers caution that associations were stronger in older participants, reinforcing the MIND diet’s potential but noting the observational study cannot prove causation.
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MIND diet may protect against structural brain deterioration
The combined Mediterranean and blood pressure lowering diet (MIND) may slow the structural changes related to brain aging, finds research published online in the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry.
MIND diet adherence linked to slower gray matter loss over 12 years
The combined Mediterranean and blood pressure lowering diet may slow the structural changes related to brain aging, finds new research published in the Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry. This diet is associated with less tissue loss over time, especially gray matter—the brain's information processing hub, with a key role in memory, learning, and decision-making—and less ventricular enlargement, which reflects brain atrophy, where ti…
expert reaction to a prospective cohort study on adherence to the MIND diet and longitudinal brain structural changes, as published in Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
experts comment on a prospective cohort study looking at adherence to the MIND diet (combined Mediterranean and blood pressure lowering diet) and longitudinal brain structural changes Dr Mohammad Talaei, Lecturer in Life Course Epidemiology, Centre for Preventive Neurology, Wolfson Institute of Population Health, Queen Mary University of London, said: For a very long time, the public and the scientific community have been interested in whether…
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