3 ideas for protecting your aging brain

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• A new large-scale study of more than 3,500 people out of Columbia and Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard builds on previous research and strongly suggests that flavinoid deficiency is driving age-related memory loss. Flavinols are nutrients found in fruits and vegetables; this study involved taking multivitamins. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

• A new, small study of 140 people found an association between people who have sleep apnea and spend less time in deep sleep and the kinds of biomarkers in our brain’s white matter that are linked to an increased risk of stroke, Alzheimer’s disease and cognitive decline. “These biomarkers are sensitive signs of early cerebrovascular disease,” reports study author the Mayo Clinic’s Dr Diego Z Carvalho. “Finding that severe sleep apnea and a reduction in slow-wave sleep are associated with these biomarkers is important since there is no treatment for these changes in the brain, so we need to find way…