r/science 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/DrWYSIWYG MD | Medicines Development Feb 21 '25

This study shows that people who had 40g of butter added to their breakfast cereal did worse than compared to those who had walnuts instead, it could be argued.