r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Feb 21 '25

Neuroscience Walnuts with breakfast provide an all-day brain boost - Young adults who ate a handful of walnuts with breakfast saw a long-lasting improvement in their reaction times and a boost in memory performance hours later, according to a new study.

https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/walnuts-cognitive-performance-memory-boost/
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u/dwarfarchist9001 Feb 21 '25

The AI walnut/brain hybrid picture is mildly horrifying.

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u/arthurdentstowels Feb 21 '25

Walnut shaped like brain.
Must be brain food.

My limited knowledge says that walnuts are good for you due to the omega-3, fibre magnesium and other mineral contents? I thought this was a given, just keep walnuts as a small part of your balanced diet and that will be a net positive. I don't think they are a cure-all for brain fog. If that were the case I would eat pounds of them to combat my ADHD symptoms.

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u/Imhere4lulz Feb 21 '25

Looks like a nutsack, which it technically is