Posted Sep 9, 2022, 6:02 AM
Eating strawberries to protect us from Alzheimer’s disease? This is what researchers at the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago recommend. They followed at regular intervals for two decades 450 individuals not genetically susceptible to this disease: diet, episodic memory, work and semantic tests, visuospatial capacity, perceptual speed… and post-mortem analysis of their brain. They discovered that a higher intake of pelargonidin, an antioxidant compound very present in strawberries and in red fruits, is associated with a lower presence in the brain of a marker (tau proteins) associated with a characteristic form of neurodegeneration. Alzheimer’s (Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, July 2022). Cautious, the researchers note, however, that their work, observational, does not prove a cause and effect relationship. Still, strawberries have never hurt anyone, except allergic people.
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