“These compounds have shown strong potential to protect your precious neurons against neurodegenerative conditions and degenerative disease such as oxidative stress, glutamate excitotoxicity and neuroinflammation”

In addition to more traditional seasonal dishes, there are good reasons to add some soft fruit to Christmas meals to enjoy extra health benefits, scientists at the James Hutton Institute have said.

Researchers at the Institute have teamed with colleagues in Portugal and the United States to study the potential of polyphenols to provide protection against the symptoms of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s.

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This article was originally posted by The James Hutton Institute