Omega-3 and B vitamins for brain health
Described as an “exciting finding” by Harry Rice, PhD, VP of regulatory & scientific affairs for the Global Organization for EPA and DHA Omega-3s (GOED), a paper published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition reported that B vitamins may protect against age-related brain wasting, but only in people with high omega-3 levels.
Scientists from the University of Oxford reported that high-dose B vitamin supplementation slowed brain wasting (atrophy) in people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) by 40% but only when omega-3 levels were already high.
On the other hand, in people with low blood levels of omega-3, supplements of folic acid plus vitamins B6 and B12 had no beneficial effect.
In an accompanying editorial, Imrich Blasko from Innsbruck Medical University in Austria wrote that, even with the study’s small number of participants and the need for the findings to be repeated, the study has “important implications”.
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