8 Natural Foods to Increase BrainPower

admin | August 9, 2015 | Natural Health

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Boost Your Brain Naturally

As we get older most people find there brainpower or memory is not what it used to be. Even if your Brain is functioning well you may want to try and improve it.

There are all sorts of ways that are suggested to increase your brainpower or prevent it from decreasing. These range from exercising to solving puzzles. One of the best ways though is in what you eat. You can get an awful lot out of our natural foods that can help to keep your brain functioning normally and to stimulate it.

Below are 8 Natural foods that you should look to include in your diet to help with your mental capacity.

Please share any foods that you find helps your brainpower that are not in the list

Brain Foods

Walnuts

Interestingly enough, walnuts actually resemble small brains. Perhaps this is a clue that we should eat them. A study conducted in the 2007 found that a diet including more than 2% walnuts was able to reverse brain aging, including age related motor and cognitive defects. Walnuts are rich in antioxidants which fight against free radical damage to the brain cells’ DNA.

Berries

Berries are undoubtedly one of the best anti aging foods around. These little fruit gems protect the brain from oxidative stress while decreasing the effects of age related conditions such as dementia and Alzheimer’s. In addition to delaying memory decline by up to 2.5 years in one study, blueberries have been found to improve learning capacity and motor skills.

Spinach

Popeye knew what he was doing when he ate his spinach. Spinach is a dark green leafy vegetable that is loaded with vitamin E, which has been shown to improve cognitive function. Vitamin E helps increases brain tissue and released dopamine which controls information flow in the brain. Further spinach contains lutein, an antioxidant that could protect against cognitive decline.

Carrots

While it’s known carrots are great for vision, did you also know that they are also great for the brain? Helping to reduce inflammation and restore memory, the compound found in carrots, known as luteolin, appears to reduce age-related memory loss and boost overall brain health. Other foods that are also high in luteolin include olive oil, celery, rosemary, and peppers.