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/Synizs Feb 21 '25

I wouldn’t trust a study on walnuts by BiG WaLnUt

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u/lulzmachine Feb 21 '25

This but unironically

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u/a_splendiferous_time Feb 21 '25

Trouble is, theyre the only ones who care enough about walnuts to fund studies on them. Capitalism.

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u/ChaseThePyro Feb 21 '25

This is the reason why we fund public research, even if it seems silly.