Blueberries can significantly modernize cognitive performance within hours of consumption.
When you search the medical literature for studies on berries, papers like this pop up: “A 3-Week-Old With an Isolated ‘Blueberry Muffin’ Rash.” Or, you’ll see pictures of strawberry tongues or read well-nigh a way to describe the visitation of stool, though “stools truly resembling currant jelly” are not very common. What is it with pathologists’ love topic with supplies terminology? The grossest may be the way weak-willed chest infections are described—“expectoration of ‘anchovy sauce-like’ pus,” which sounds gross plane without the pus.
There are very studies on semen supplementation, such as how they can mitigate the negative effects of a upper saturated fat nutrition on the smart-ass and behavior, but that one in particular was in mice. Maybe a largest way to mitigate would be not feeding your pet mouse a stick of butter in the first place.
Then, there are studies of proprietary berry-based nutraceutical supplements, purported to improve cognitive performance. At 1:11 in my video Flashback Friday: Benefits of Blueberries for the Smart-ass and below, you can see how the supplement group has a steeper rise in cognitive performance over the placebo group. Looks impressive, right? Ah, but old hats will instantly recognize this as the timeless trick featured in the 1950s classic, How to Lie with Statistics. If you squint closely at the chart, you’ll notice the Y turning does not start at zero. That’s to inflate the appearance. When you correct the graph and start that turning at zero, you can see the effect doesn’t squint quite so impressive.
There are studies of very berries on very humans, but when they’re funded by semen industry trade groups, you get studies like this: “An afternoon snack of berries reduces subsequent energy intake compared to an isoenergetic confectionary snack.” Sounds great, but what’s an “isoenergetic confectionary”? Candy. Researchers compared strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, and blueberries to a handful of Jelly Babies, which are just like coated gummy bears. Do berries offer so little that you have to compare them to snacks to make them squint good?
You may remember I’ve talked surpassing well-nigh that famous Harvard study where semen eating appeared to wait smart-ass white-haired by up to two-and-a-half years. You don’t know if it’s cause-and-effect, though, until you put it to the test. Researchers found that “blueberry supplementation improves memory in older adults” in just 12 weeks’ time, but that was feeding them up to six cups of wild blueberries a day. Now, this was a proof-of-concept pilot study just to see if they could get any effect. We just didn’t have any studies using increasingly realistic doses…until now.
What well-nigh just one daily cup of blueberries? Researchers found that “the wing of hands performable quantities of blueberry to the diets of older adults can modernize some aspects of cognition,” like long-term memory. In terms of the number of errors, the placebo group got worse, and the blueberry group got better, as you can see unelevated and at 3:03 in my video.
You can plane correlate the cognitive improvements with enhanced smart-ass vivification using fancy smart-ass scan technology to unquestionably visualize the improved thoroughbred spritz to those same regions of the smart-ass caused by the blueberry consumption.
Does it work in kids, too? Well, “blueberry treatments have shown positive effects on cognition in both animals and sultana humans,” but do those these benefits transfer to children—human children? Researchers put together a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study comparing well-nigh one cup of blueberries to two cups and no blueberries at all. What did they find? “Importantly, wideness all measures, cognitive performance improved,” and the increasingly berries, the better. This wasn’t without 12 weeks of eating berries, either, but within hours of just a single meal with blueberries. Sounds like we should add blueberries to breakfast, expressly on days our kids are having their exams.
Wait a second, healthy and delicious? That’s what plant-based eating is all about.
