Blueberry Muffins and the Case of Lost Memories

If you, my gentle readers, are anything like yours truly, you might spend much of your time looking for your own tail. Forgetful of where you seen it last, you wonder in circles until, in turn, you forget what it was you were doing in the first place.

Migraine people are kinda like that from time to time. Something needs to be done about such situations and fast.

Enter the blueberry muffins.

Well, the blueberries, actually. It's just that blueberry muffins do seem to be the prime source of blueberries for most of us. And they taste good.

So, blueberries. They are, apparently, effective at reversing age-related deficits in memory, says study published in the science journal Free Radical Biology and Medicine.

"Blueberries are a major source of flavonoids, in particular anthocyanins and flavanols. Although the precise mechanisms by which these plant-derived molecules affect the brain are unknown, they have been shown to cross the blood brain barrier after dietary intake. It is believed that they exert their effects on learning and memory by enhancing existing neuronal (brain cell) connections, improving cellular communications and stimulating neuronal regeneration."

The conclusion was - flavonoids helps improving memory by activating signaling proteins in hippocampus, the part of the brain that controls learning and memory.

Especial improvement was made in "spatial working memory tasks". In simple words, if we eat blueberries, it might become possible to finally find our collective lost tails.

link: Getting Forgetful? Then Blueberries May Hold The Key