What's your super-food? Blueberries?
This week on The One Show, science reporter Michael Mosley is investigating what will really keep us young and Ìýbeautiful.
Do you look younger than your years? Send in a current photo of yourself here, and tell us the secret to staying young. Your picture could be shown on the programme!
In his first 'How to stay young' film, Michael looks at the claim that eating can improve our memories.
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As we get older our short-term memories tend to deteriorate. With age the hippocampus, the memory centre of the brain, starts to shrink and cells have fewer connections. So we find it harder to remember.
Research in the United States by Robert Krikorian has shown statistically significant improvements in memory following a 12-week trial in which people consumed blueberry juice or concord grape juice.
And studies in rats have shown that there is improvement in the hippocampi of older, blueberry-fed rats, they look like the brains of younger rats.
In Michael's blueberries test, he asked three viewers to eat blueberries every day for three months. The memories of the two viewers he re-tested did show an improvement.
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