6 types of food for improving your memory

According to health experts, foods which are rich in antioxidants and Omega-3 fatty acid can improve your brain and memory.

Based on different researches, 6 types of food below can be good for your grey matter.

Walnuts

Walnuts look like little brains and this may be the reason why walnuts are good for our brains.

A research in 2009 in Nutrition Magazine showed that diets with walnuts can not only reverse the symptoms of aging at least 2% in mouse’s brain but also increase the brain’s performance and information process.

Walnuts contain many antioxidants which can prevent DNA of brain cells from the free radical in our bodies.

Carrot

Carrots were known to be good for eyes long time ago – therefore, it’s good for brains as well. According to a research publishing in 2010 on Nutrition Magazine, carrots have a substance called “luteolin” which decrease the symptoms of Alzheimer and Encephalitis. Luteolin is also found in olive oil, chili and celery.

Berries

Adding some types of vitamin-rich berries into your diets is not a bad idea at all if you want to improve your memory and this is the conclusion of several researches.

A research which was published in 2010 on Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry said, after 12 weeks of daily adding blueberry juice into daily diets, 9 elderly - who started to meet some minor memory problems – showed that they could remember better together with higher concentration. Groups with blueberry also decrease the symptoms of depression.

Based on a report in 2009 on Nutrition Magazine, researchers said they fruits like blueberry and strawberry are rich in antioxidants which are useful in stress decrease in cells involving aging and increase in signal transmission in brain.

Fish

Though a recent research indicate that fish oil slow down the cognitive decrease in Alzheimer patients, other researches emphasizes that fish which are rich in Omega-3 fatty acid can prevent us from Alzheimer.

A research in 2005 in the Archives of Neurology magazine said people who were 65 years old or older ate fish twice a week would decrease 13% of cognitive impairment compared with those who ate fish less often. As for the one who ate fish once a week, they had 10% less decline in thinking than others.

Besides, fish are also a good source of vitamin B12 which can prevent you from Alzheimer.

Coffee and tea

Coffee and tea make you easy to wake up in the mornings; therefore, they prevent you from Alzheimer and improve your cognitive awareness.

Tea has the effect of protect our brains. Drinking tea help you remember better and process information faster than those who don’t. This conclusion was drawn after a research of 716 Chinese adults 65 and older in 2010 by Journal of Nutrition, Health and Aging.

Spinach

This vegetable contains lots of vitamin C and E and the scientists’ research had proved that it improved the cognitive awareness.

A research published in Journal of Aging in 2000 told compared to control group, rats supplemented with vitamin E showed a significant increase of 500-900% dopamine in brains and peripheral tissues in 8-month period. Dopamine controls the flow of information into different areas of brains.

Also a research in Brain Research Journal in 2000 found that aging rats were fed with diets supplemented with spinach, strawberry and blueberry had some improvements in memory.

Similar to it, diets with spinach, strawberry and blueberry is good for your nerves, brain and memory.