Thursday, February 6, 2014

Low Carb Diets Might Hurt Short Term Memory

Researchers at Tufts To school in Massachusetts released results this month which will interest you. So let me find out if I can walk you through their study. Their study seemed to have a really small sample personality - only 19 lovely lady.   The women had an equal body-mass index (BMI).   Another "flaw" - the research was only measured in almost 3 weeks.

About half many women went on a 7-day period of no-carb, the accomplice on low-carb.   They discovered that the no-carb group experienced worse on short-term intellect tests (such as writing number sequences). Reaction time and effort also worsened. But introducing even 5 grams of carbs working day reversed the decline.

Here's the explanation...  

The brain uses glucose (sugar) since it's main fuel.   Because your body breaks carbohydrates into sugars like glucose, your brain won't get what it without carbs.   That produces logical sense, but to tell the truth, I'm not sure this research "proves" it. What fundamental, if you are in order to go low carb, could be to trigger ketosis (where body burns fat for fuel).     But don't cut out all carbohydrate food.

As an aside, a new but related study, handed out in Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2008 Aug. 28 (8): 1556-62 was much better regarding statistical validation (using 3673 female and male participants with mean cultivates between 55 and 61).   They tested short-term memory simply using a 20-word list over a 5-yr period and found a correlation starting from HDL cholesterol (the "good" cholesterol) and memory.   In knowledge, low HDL cholesterol is a root cause of deficit and decline centered at memory in midlife.

Bottom Formula: Low carb diet plans, especially in the early stages where they are seen as "no carb" diets, possibly be starving your brain.   So the key is you need some cabohydrate supply, even in a low-carb diet.



Trevor Ponder contains the author of several books on improving neural memory. Download a free ebook and get a 6-part memory flair at trevorponder. com? ezine trevorponder. com? ezine.

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