A Mediterranean diet may help multiple sclerosis (MS) patients ward off damage to their thinking skills.
A loss of such key mental skills, or “cognitive impairment,” is a common feature of MS, a neurological disease that short circuits critical communication between the brain and body.
Prior research has suggested that Mediterranean diets “have broad health benefits,” Katz Sand added, including some protection against heart disease, obesity, cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer’s and overall mental health decline. About 7 in 10 of the study participants were women, at an average age of 44. All completed a nutrition assessment and a screening for mental sharpness, or acuity."When we grouped people according to their Mediterranean diet score, those in the lowest group were far more likely to meet our criteria for cognitive impairment than those in the higher groups,” Katz Sand said.
In sum, she noted, the metabolites produced by digestion may have “distant effects outside the gut, including the ability to protect the brain from physical and cognitive decline due to MS.”
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