Want a Healthy Brain?

Researchers at England’s University of Oxford recently concluded that consuming more vitamin B12 in our diets may prevent brain shrinkage and memory loss later in life. In a study of 107 people ages 61-87 (who did not have any brain disorders), those with the highest B12 levels in their blood were six times less likely to have brain shrinkage than those with lower levels of B12.

Study author Anna Vogiatzoglou, M.Sc. said, “this study suggests that simply adjusting our diets to get more vitamin B12 through eating meat, fish, fortified cereals, or milk may be something we can easily accomplish to prevent brain shrinkage and so perhaps save our memory.”

The Oxford study did not measure whether B12 in supplement form would make any difference in brain shrinkage .