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“Participants who consumed greater than two servings of mushrooms per week (1.5 cups of cooked mushrooms, about 300 grams) were 43 percent less likely to have mild cognitive impairment than those who consumed mushrooms less than once per week.”

“In particular, those who took the nutritional supplement showed improvements in power, strength and endurance, mobility and stability, heart rate and lean muscle mass as well as episodic memory, fluid intelligence accuracy, executive function reaction time, and processing efficiency.”

“This last group were slowest to learn the new reward locations and more likely to accidentally re-visit spots where they had already collected a reward – a sign of short-term memory lapse. These results suggest that sialylated HMOs are a particularly crucial component of breast milk for the development of flexible cognition.”

“People who consumed the most copper—more than about 1.6 milligrams per day—performed better on most cognitive tests than those who consumed the least, scoring 3.8 points higher on a test of processing speed and attention, 1.2 points higher on a verbal fluency test, and 0.2 points higher overall on the global cognition score.”

“The researchers found that regardless of the participants' average blood pressure, those with high systolic short-term exhibited poor attention and psychomotor speed, and those with mid-term blood pressure variability showed poor executive function.”

“In addition, the expression of various proteins produced in the hippocampus, including FNDC5 (also called irisin) and brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), increased, suggesting that supplemental lactate augments the beneficial effects of exercise on the hippocampus and subsequent cognitive function.”

“This 2018 review describes the biological pathways that enhance slow-wave sleep, the deepest stage of non-REM sleep in humans, and how slow-wave sleep influences cognition.”

“The women completed cognitive tasks that assessed verbal learning and memory by having them learn and later recall a list of words, verbal fluency by asking them to name as many animals as possible in one minute, and mental speed, attention, and working memory by having them match numbers with symbols as quickly and accurately as possible.”

“The probiotic also altered their gut microbial composition toward a more favorable profile and increased levels of isovaleric acid and gamma-aminobutyric acid (also known as GABA), metabolites involved in melatonin production and circadian rhythm regulation, respectively.”

“A review of randomized controlled trials found that people generally had enhancements in working memory performance and improved visual information processing after eating cocoa flavanols.Eating cocoa after a night of total sleep deprivation actually counteracted the cognitive impairment that lack of sleep can cause.”