What if the secret to a healthier ageing brain has been sitting in your fruit bowl all along?
How does vitamin C affect the ageing brain? Ageing does not only change the body. It changes the brain too. Names become harder to recall. Concentration slips. Tasks that once felt automatic demand more effort. Scientists have long been trying to understand what helps keep the brain healthy as people grow older, and now a new study points to something surprisingly ordinary: vitamin C. Researchers from Japan, whose findings were published in PLOS One, examined more than 2,000 older adults and discovered that people with higher vitamin C levels in their blood tended to have healthier brain structures and stronger neural connections. The study does not suggest that vitamin C is a cure for dementia or memory loss. But it does raise an important question: could everyday nutrition quietly influence how the brain ages? What the new study actually found The research involved 2,044 adults with a median age of 69 years. All participants underwent detailed MRI scans, and researchers measured vita...
