A new study that tracked 2500 Australian children for 16 years found that babies breastfed for less than six months had a 61% increased risk of mental health problems at 8 years of age than those children breastfed for longer.

The study was done by a team at the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research in Perth.

One of the hormones that control appetite is leptin. Released by fat cells, it normally crosses into the brain and tells it to stop eating.

In many obese people, however, leptin is unable to cross into the brain, as it has trouble penetrating the blood-brain barrier.

Now a new study reveals that not only does leptin regulate appetite, but it

A natural chemical (flavonoid) found in strawberries has recently been shown to boost long-term memory formation in mice.

The chemical is called Fisetin

Most forms of dementia are not very treatable or reversible. For example, there is not much you can really do for patients with Alzheimer’s disease or multi-infarct dementia when it comes to reversing the memory loss and cognitive decline.

Normal Pressure Hydrocephalous and Celiac disease, however, are two fairly common reversible dementias frequently misdiagnosed and overlooked.

Traditional Persian medicine holds that saffron is useful in treating depression. Came across a study published in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology

New research with pomegranate juice is revealing how the fruit may turn out to be a super brain food.

A new study (by lead researcher Richard Hartman out of Loma Linda University in California) published in the journal Neurobiology of Disease

In the 1950s, apparently all kids in England got daily cod liver oil capsules at school.

Not sure when this stopped, but a

Would you like to live longer AND maintain superior brain health? Then you need to learn to raise & increase to your HDL cholesterol levels…

Interestingly, in what has been referred to as the "Methuselah Syndrome", people with

A study out of Rush University Medical Center in Chicago published in the August issue of Archives of Neurology seems to indicate that if you consume a high saturated and trans fat diet, you will experience more cognitive decline if you take a copper-containing vitamin supplement compared to if you didn’t (most multi-vitamin pills contain copper).

A new study seems to indicate that strawberries may be useful for preserving learning and memory as we age.

The study published in Neurobiology of Aging, and was conducted by researchers at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, Boston

A study published in the July issue of the Journal of Biological Chemistry finds that

Dr. Marius Smuts from the Nutritional Internvention Research Center in South Africa found that primary school children given a daily spread of fish oil on bread showed improvements in learning and memory.

Researchers at the University of Singapore have found that

A study out of the University of Adelaide, to be published in the Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, shows that

Raising a child is no easy matter. At least in the U.S., there’s no required course or reading on parenting. This is unfortunate, because I think there’s an awful lot we all could learn about this most important of jobs.

As we get older, the brain’s pipes (blood vessels) slowly start to clog and narrow. This process, referred to as atherosclerosis, results from natural wear and tear, as well as lifestyle choices.

As the vessels clog and narrow, blood flow diminishes to neurons, and they don’t work as well as they should

No matter what your age is, this article is relevant to you.

This is because diabetes is becoming an epidemic. It is now predicted that 1 in 3 American children will grow up to develop diabetes.

During the last 2 months, I’ve made several posts that highlight the brain enhancing power of antioxidants. Basically, as we age, all parts of our body degenerate and rot. This sort of cumulative damage is called ‘oxidative damage’,

A study out of the University of Massachusetts indicates that there is something in apples that helps keep your brain sharp as you age.

The research was published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease

Out of the July issue of Pediatrics we have yet more evidence that infants fed breast milk wind up with a higher IQ than if they are fed only formula. The more breast milk they got, the better their scores.

About 2 weeks ago, I posted how an “empty stomach” can improve memory and boost brain power via a stomach-made hormone called ghrelin.

Ghrelin travels to the hippocampus, the memory engine of the brain, and causes new connections to form between brain cells.

Now, a study has been published that shows

A federally funded study out of UC Berkeley just recently showed that infants born to mothers exposed to DDT (a pesticide) had significantly

In the last several years, several small studies seem to indicate that chewing gum can help reduce stress and improve short- and long-term memory.

Is it the sugar or the chewing?

One study out of the University of Northumbria on 75 healthy volunteers found the improvement was present even when the gum was sugar-free.

Yet another study has come out that adds more support to the idea that oxidative stress leads to Alzheimer’s disease. {An earlier post of mine explains oxidative stress & damage in more detail}

The latest is from UCLA’s School of Medicine, published in the July issue of Biochemistry

A recent article published in Nature Neuroscience reveals that when the stomach is empty, it makes a special hormone called ghrelin.

Amazingly, ghrelin travels to the hippocampus portion of the brain and causes new connections to form between brain cells there. As discussed in previous posts, the hippocampus is the memory engine of your brain.

A study of 1,003 Japanese adults reveals that green tea may help keep your brain sharp as you get older.

The more green tea they drank, the less likely they were to develop cognitive problems.

The findings were reported in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

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