When it comes to keeping our brains healthy for the long haul, many of us think that, eventually, the fight may all be for naught. After all, our genes play a big role in our future mental health outlook, and we assume they often play at least as big a role as the actions we take in our everyday lives to accept or reject those gene expressions.
If that sums up what you think on the subject, then this might just blow your MIND: recent findings indicate that you can achieve optimal brain protection when you eat a specific diet, regardless of your genetic predisposition. Specifically, researchers discovered that when people consume a diet that includes foods like berries, leafy greens, whole grains, and fresh fish, their risks for general memory loss and Alzheimer’s disease itself drop dramatically. These findings were seen to be of particular relevance in seniors.
The diet is known as the MIND diet, or the Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay, and involves consuming foods that are “brain-healthy,” or conducive to maintained cognitive ability going forward. Similar to both the DASH diet, which helps hypertension patients lower their blood pressure, and the Mediterranean diet, which is great for the heart and longer life overall, the MIND diet has numerous benefits, perhaps none more known than its effect on enhanced brain health.
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