Eat less to think better!

2023-05-10 12:55:06

  • Brain inflammation limited by calorie restriction

A recent animal study uncovers a new mechanism to explain the positive impact of calorie restriction on the brain.

Low-calorie diets have been shown to prolong life expectancy and improve thecognitive stateboth in humans and in animal models, but the cellular processes associated with these benefits are only gradually being discovered: eating less seems activate a specific class of enzymes, sirtuinesinvolved in DNA repair, creating an epigenetic context capable of slowing down the rate of aging… or even simply limit theinflammation of neurons, and therefore their loss. This is what this recent study (1), carried out at the Institute of Neurosciences of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, ​​seems to show on two groups of old rats, one who had been subjected to calorie restriction and the other No. Rats that ate less performed better on a spatial object recognition test that assesses their memory. But most importantly, had less inflammation and neuronal loss at the level of theseahorsethe brain structure essential to the process of learning and memory…

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