Magnesium found to boost learning and memory

Magnesium (http://www.dreddyclinic.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=20680&hilit=Magnesium&sid=5ac27ae3a6920827c89db681d360366b ) is an essential nutrient that benefits health in many important ways. For example, research has shown it helps to prevent heart disease (http://www.dreddyclinic.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=131&sid=5ac27ae3a6920827c89db681d360366b), slashes the risk of cerebral palsy (http://www.dreddyclinic.com/findinformation/cc/cerebralpalsy.htm), and can even treat age-related hearing loss (http://www.dreddyclinic.com/findinformation/hh/hearingloss.htm). Now a study by Chinese scientists, published in the in the January 28th issue of the journal Neuron, shows magnesium could have a powerful impact on the brain, too -- and boost learning and memory.

In a statement to the media, the researchers noted that diet can affect cognitive capacity. Because learning and memory tend to decline with age and disease, they decided to search for dietary factors that could prevent these changes by having a positive influence on the sites of communication between brain cells (neurons) called synapses. Professor Guosong Liu, Director of the Center for Learning and Memory at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, led the new study to see whether supplementing the diet with magnesium could boost brain power in this way. Read more...

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