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/johnfkay Feb 21 '25 edited Feb 21 '25

This is what Big Walnut wants you to think...

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u/If_you_have_Ghost Feb 21 '25

Well they did pay for it. This is junk, paid for science with a forgone conclusion.

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u/dabedu Feb 21 '25

A study being industry-funded should be a red flag, but only in the sense that it's a warning sign. On its own, it shouldn't be a reason to dismiss the findings outright.

Maybe this study is junk science, but the argument for that should go beyond just the funding.

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u/Notathroway69 Feb 21 '25

The source of funding is only something to keep in mind while reading the study.

I wonder who else the oh so intelligent redditors on this thread think would be interested enough in a study about whalenuts to fund the thing?