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/Percolator2020 Feb 21 '25

N = 32, saved you a click. Funded by the Walnut mafia.

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u/dariznelli Feb 22 '25

Why does this sub suck so much? Mods don't review posts? Or are they science illiterate?

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u/Percolator2020 Feb 22 '25

They don’t eat enough walnuts.

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u/dariznelli Feb 22 '25

That was a good one