MIND diet may protect the brain by slowing biological aging
PsyPost • • health
Key Points:
- A large study analyzing nearly 170,000 UK participants over ten years found that adherence to the MIND diet significantly lowers the risk of dementia, stroke, depression, and anxiety, while high consumption of ultra-processed foods increases these risks and is also linked to Parkinson’s disease.
- The MIND diet, combining elements of the Mediterranean and DASH diets, emphasizes green leafy vegetables, berries, nuts, whole grains, and fish, and limits butter, cheese, and red meat; it showed broad neuroprotective effects validated across American and Chinese cohorts.
- Biological analyses revealed that the MIND diet may protect brain health by improving metabolism, slowing biological aging, reducing obesity and inflammation, and preserving brain volume in key regions involved in sensory processing and emotion
