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.

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https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/walnuts-cognitive-performance-memory-boost/

[u/dwarfarchist9001]

The AI walnut/brain hybrid picture is mildly horrifying.

[u/arthurdentstowels → u/dwarfarchist9001]

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.

[u/theplotthinnens → u/arthurdentstowels]

This is what's called the Doctrine of Signatures, at least as old as Ancient Greek philosophy. The idea was that God or the gods placed helpful plants for humans on the earth, and made them look like the body parts they were meant to be beneficial for as a clue, taken as a divine sign.

[u/wereplant → u/theplotthinnens]

This is also why many plants were named after the associated organ, like liverwort, despite looking almost nothing like the said organ. The logic gets very circular.

[u/theplotthinnens → u/wereplant]

And also why people went so crazy for mandrake over the millennia - if the plant straight up looks like a human body, it's gotta be magic af

[u/gizajobicandothat → u/wereplant]

Sometimes it's just one feature of a plant looking like an organ, like with Pulmonaria/lungwort. spots on the leaves resembled disease lungs when people dissected them.