Coffee makes your brain younger: Research shows that by normalizing stress hormones, coffee reverses memory deficits

( Natural News ) Do you start your morning off with a cup of coffee or tea? Many people do – and research continues to show that caffeine can have many great health benefits. Beyond coffee’s reputation for offering an instant pick-me-up, scientists have found that caffeine and its analogs may actually help stave off age-related cognitive deficits . While coffee may give your brain a boost in the short term, it seems that the cerebral benefits of coffee are actually quite long-lasting. Published in the journal Scientific Reports from Nature , a recent study has shown in animals, caffeine actually counteracts age-related cognitive deficits. Conducted by a cohort of Brazilian researchers from the Instituto de Medicina Molecular (iMM Lisboa), associates from Inserm in Lille, France, and in collaboration with teams from the U.S. and Germany, scientists have shown how a certain receptor in the brain plays a key role in brain aging. Abnormal expression of the adenosine A2A receptor was found to induce aging-like memory impairments in rat models – but it just so happens this receptor is also a target point for caffeine. In the animal models, the team found that using caffeine analogs blocked the adenosine A2A receptors and relieved memory- and stress-related deficiencies, returning the rats back to their normal capacity. Luisa Lopes, study coordinator and Group Leader at iMM Lisboa, explained, “This is part of a larger study initiated 4 years ago in which we identified the role of this receptor in stress, but we did not know whether its activation would be sufficient to trigger all the changes.” Mother Nature’s micronutrient secret : Organic Broccoli Sprout Capsules now available, delivering 280mg of high-density nutrition, including the extraordinary "sulforaphane" and "glucosinolate" nutrients found only in cruciferous healing foods. Every lot laboratory tested. See availability […]

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