AARP Reports Dark Berries Like Acai Improve Brain Health
If you are looking for a great tasting way to help improve your brain’s health try eating a bowl full of dark colored berries, such as Acai berries. The AARP has reported that according to some recent research, it has been found that dark colored berries like Acai berries, blueberries, and strawberries, help to keep your brain healthy. These berries trigger your brain to clean itself up, by getting rid of toxic substances that have been linked to mental decline due to age.
What these studies have revealed is that the polyphenolics that are found in these dark colored berries help to protect the brain from inflammation and biological changes. Studies, that have been done by Shibu Poulose (molecular biologist), with mice and these berry extracts have shown that the mice that were fed the berry extracts improved their ability to process information. Poulose also presented information on why the brain function declines with age at the American Chemical Society meeting last August.
What Poulose believes is that as a person gets older their brains natural ability to rid itself of toxic waste slows down. Due to this slow down the toxic waste builds up in the brain and then interferes with that person’s mental ability. Based on his studies Poulose found that the berry extracts make it possible for the brains cells to remove that toxic build up before any damage occurs.
One interesting fact to note is that it is not just the dark colored berries, like Acai berries and strawberries, that help clean out the toxic waste in the brain. Any fruit or vegetable that is a deep red, purplish blue or orange in color contain polyphenolics. The sooner you start eating them the better!