Green Mediterranean Diet: How Eating Healthy Can Make Your Brain Younger — New findings from a long-t |
A Green Mediterranean Diet can slow brain aging, according to a study from Ben-Gurion University. Researchers found that a 1% reduction in body weight can make the brain appear nearly 9 months younger over an 18-month period. This discovery offers a potential method for slowing obesity-driven brain aging and a strategy for evaluating lifestyle changes’ impact on brain health.
The larger study was led by Prof. Iris Shai of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, an adjunct Professor from the Harvard School of Public Health and an honorary professor at the University of Leipzig, Germany, along with her former graduate student Dr. Alon Kaplan, and colleagues from Harvard and Leipzig Universities.Obesity is linked with the brain aging faster than would normally be expected.
They used the brain scans taken at the start and end of the study to examine the impact of the lifestyle intervention on the aging trajectory. The results revealed that a reduction in body weight of 1% led to the participants’ brain age being almost 9 months younger than the expected brain age after 18 months. This attenuated aging was associated with changes in other biological measures, such as decreased liver fat and liver enzymes.
The DIRECT-PLUS trial research team was the first to introduce the concept of the green-Mediterranean, high polyphenols diet. This modified Mediterranean diet is distinct from the traditional Mediterranean diet because of its more abundant dietary polyphenols and lower red/processed meat. On top of a daily intake of walnuts , the green-Mediterranean dieters consumed 3-4 cups of green tea and 1 cup of Wolffia-globosa plant green shake of duckweed per day over 18 months.
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