Rejuvenating Your Brain With a Green Mediterranean Diet

Green Mediterranean diet rich in walnuts, green tea and lower red/processed meat was found to have a positive effect on brain health, slow brain aging, revealed research (1^✔ ✔Trusted Source
The effect of weight loss following 18 months of lifestyle intervention on brain age assessed with resting-state functional connectivity

Go to source). // The green-Mediterranean includes a daily intake of walnuts (28 grams), 3-4 cups of green tea and a cup of Wolffia-globosa (Mankai) plant green shake of duckweed per day over 18 months. The aquatic green plant Mankai is high in bioavailable iron, B12, 200 kinds of polyphenols and protein, and is therefore a good substitute for meat.

Unlocking the Secrets of a Green Mediterranean Diet

Obesity has been linked with the brain aging faster than would normally be expected.

This attenuated aging was associated with changes in other biological measures, such as decreased liver fat and liver enzymes.

Increases in liver fat and production of specific liver enzymes were previously shown to negatively affect brain health in Alzheimers disease.

Researchers at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel studied 102 individuals who met the criteria for obesity. They used the brain scans taken at the start and end of the study to examine the impact of the lifestyle intervention on the aging trajectory.

"We were encouraged to find that even a weight loss of 1 percent was sufficient to affect brain health and lead to a 9-month reduction in brain age," added Prof. Galia Avidan of the Department of Psychology.

With global rates of obesity rising, identifying interventions that have a positive impact on brain health could have important clinical, educational, and social impacts, the researchers said.

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Reference:

1. The effect of weight loss following 18 months of lifestyle intervention on brain age assessed with resting-state functional connectivity - (https://elifesciences.org/articles/83604)

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