Sentences with phrase «slower brain shrinkage»

«This exciting study finds that a Mediterranean diet is associated with significantly slower brain shrinkage in people in their 70s, and suggests this link might be causal.

For participants with elevated homocysteine at the beginning of the study, results were even more dramatic — they slowed their brain shrinkage rate by 53 percent.

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Findings from the MS - STAT trial showed that a high, daily dose of simvastatin was safe, well tolerated, and slowed brain atrophy (shrinkage) by 43 % over two years compared with placebo.

Cabbage is also a good source of B vitamins, which slow shrinkage of the brain by lowering homocysteine.

And in a September study in the journal PLoS One, University of Oxford scientists found vitamin B12 supplements slowed the rate of brain shrinkage in older adults with mild cognitive impairment, a precursor to Alzheimer's disease.

Neuroscientists say brain shrinkage can be slowed significantly with lifestyle changes.

At present, there is no evidence that swallowing more than 1,000 mcg of vitamin B12 daily will slow the rate of brain shrinkage any better than swallowing exactly 1,000 mcg of vitamin B12 daily, which is a very safe dosage.