Found a way to improve memory in the elderly.
Even among doctors there is a misconception that with age, the human memory is reduced, and this process is irreversible.
But, as evidenced by a new study, this process is even possible to reverse and return to the seemingly lost memory.
Scientists drew attention to the fact that the flavanols present in cocoa beans, is able to return memory to the elderly, even if it was already obvious problems.
According to the study, and according to the author of the study, Dr. Scott little, memory decline starts in middle age, although it is practically not very noticeable, but 50-60 years of trouble remembering now clearly visible. Scientists found the recipe from memory loss and the secret is in the cocoa beans. The flavanols contained in them, improve communication of the brain in the dentate gyrus has been shown in mice and then in humans.
The study involved 37 healthy recipients aged 50 to 69 years. One group of participants followed the diet with a high content of flavanols in cacao beans (900мг). The other group received only 10 mg of flavanols same.
At the end of the research it was found that the first group of people has been shown to significantly improve memory and normalizing the function of the dentate gyrus of the brain responsible for memory.
