This One Food Could Make Your Brain 11 Years Younger

Broccoli sprouts, we have more sulforaphane than broccoli, for example. But greens in general, cruciferous vegetables, dark leafy green vegetables in general, there's two very recent studies that showed how important or crucial they are for brain health. And I know when we talk about a lot of people used to be very concerned about having heart attack. Then it changed to cancer being the most feared disease. Now I believe the most feared disease is dementia, Alzheimer's disease, having cognitive decline. So anything that we can do to protect our brain is something that we should be doing every single day. Cruciferous vegetables got famous because they're cancer fighters. And Paul Talalay and his group at Hopkins did all that work and they were right. But the Harvard group showed that the more people consume of cruciferous vegetables, the better their cognition. I mean, you're mentally younger if you eat these foods. The folks that are consuming one serving of greens every day had cognition that it was 11 years, as if their brain was 11 years younger than those who consume the least amount of greens, which is remarkable by itself, 11 years. I was a big berry neglector for the longest period of time, I got to tell you. They're very beautiful in the produce aisle, but they somehow never jumped into my cart. But I realized I have to put my financial purchases at the grocery store where my mouth has been and have to really start eating blueberries and strawberries and whatever. And I found addicting isn't the right word, but they become part of your life. There are two different kinds of anthocyanins. Strawberries have one, there's another one in blueberries, and there are many, many others. In raspberries, even black beans have them. But take that color and bring it into your life, and it has a great many benefits.