The use of apples and apple juice protects brain cells from damage and prevents memory loss in old age is not associated with Alzheimer's disease and other mental illnesses. These findings came American researchers from the University of Massachusetts (g.Louell, Massachusetts) based on experiments on laboratory mice.
In order to investigate the effect of antioxidants-rich apple juice on the aging brain, researchers conducted a series of experiments on healthy mice of different ages. For some time, several groups of animals receiving food containing a proper amount of nutrients or foods with depleted staff. In the water that some mice were, suffering from lack of nutrients was added to apple juice concentrate.
Scientists have estimated the intelligence of rodents by placing them in a standard maze and measured the time that they needed to get out of it.
Mice of different ages, who received a normal diet, were drawn from the labyrinth with the same speed. The same ability to demonstrate and young animals receiving depleted feed. Aging mice suffering from a lack of nutrients spent significantly more time to find a way out of the labyrinth. However, animals of the same age who received apple juice, to cope with the job even better than the mice who received normal food. Analysis of brain tissues of rodents showed that the nerve cells of older mice that received apple juice, were in better condition than their fellow cell receiving normal feed.
According to researchers, adding apple juice to the diet of older mice completely protected them from oxidative stress brain cells caused by malnutrition. Quickness mice dramatically increased with the increase in the number of her apple juice.
