Vitamin C may reduce stroke
A new study of people (65 healthy and 65 who had hemorrhagic strokes) found that those who had strokes had Vitamin C deficiencies. The theory is that Vitamin C reduces blood pressure and helps make collagen....
read moreHigh-carb diet may increase dementia risk
Medical reports are now linking brain shrinkage, dementia and Alzheimer’s with small increases in blood sugar caused by high-carb diets....
read moreAsparagine in meat, egg and dairy essential for brain development...
Although Asparagine is found in foods, which means it can provide an essential amino acid to most organs in the body, that’s not true for the brain because it Asparagine is not easily transported via the blood-brain barrier....
read moreVitamin B may stave off stroke
New research of data collected from 54,913 participants indicates that Vitamin B may be beneficial in reducing the risk of stroke by 7 percent. The researchers also found that folic acid appears to decrease the effect of the Vitamin...
read moreThe Mediterranean diet reduces the risk of genetic stroke
The Mediterranean diet appears to interact with a gene variant that’s normally associated with type 2 diabetes. Five years of research found that even people who had two copies of the gene variant had a reduced number of strokes...
read moreAge-related cognitive decline might not be inevitable
Good news! Age-related cognitive decline might not be inevitable. New research suggests that things like diet, mental activity, brain training, exercise and perhaps even medication can help....
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