Orange juice could help improve brain function in elderly people

Does this need to be added to your non-existent stroke diet protocol? Will your doctor follow through and create a diet protocol for you? Would your 4-6 week hospital stay be long enough to get similar results? Your doctor will need to ask the researchers. Pulp? Or no pulp? Would younger people benefit? So many questions yet, your doctor will need to run a clinical trial.

These are my ideas.

What would a post-stroke diet look like?

The article here:

Orange juice could help improve brain function in elderly people

 

The research it is based upon here:

Chronic consumption of flavanone-rich orange juice is associated with cognitive benefits: an 8-wk, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial in healthy older adults.

1. Rebecca J Kean,

1. Daniel J Lamport,

1. Georgina F Dodd,

1. Jayne E Freeman,

1. Claire M Williams,

1. Judi A Ellis,

1. Laurie T Butler, and

1. Jeremy PE Spencer

+ Author Affiliations

1. ¹From the School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences (RJK, DJL, GFD, JEF, CMW, JAE, and LTB) and the Molecular Nutrition Group, School of Chemistry, Food and Pharmacy (JPES), University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom (JPES).

+ Author Notes

• ↵2 Partially funded by the State of Florida Government, Florida Department of Citrus, and supported by 2 Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council grants (BB/F008953/1 and BB/G005702/1).
• ↵3 Address correspondence to JPE Spencer, Molecular Nutrition Group, School of Chemistry, Food and Pharmacy, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AP, United Kingdom. E-mail: j.p.e.spencer@reading.ac.uk.

Abstract

Background: Research indicates that the chronic consumption of flavonoids is associated with cognitive benefits in adults with mild cognitive impairment and neurodegenerative disease, although to our knowledge, there have been no such studies in healthy older adults. Furthermore, the effects of commonly consumed orange juice flavanones on cognitive function remain unexplored.

Objective: We investigated whether 8 wk of daily flavanone-rich orange juice consumption was beneficial for cognitive function in healthy older adults.

Design: High-flavanone (305 mg) 100% orange juice and an equicaloric low-flavanone (37 mg) orange-flavored cordial (500 mL) were consumed daily for 8 wk by 37 healthy older adults (mean age: 67 y) according to a crossover, double-blind, randomized design separated by a 4-wk washout. Cognitive function, mood, and blood pressure were assessed at baseline and follow-up by using standardized validated tests.

Results: Global cognitive function was significantly better after 8-wk consumption of flavanone-rich juice than after 8-wk consumption of the low-flavanone control. No significant effects on mood or blood pressure were observed.

Conclusions: Chronic daily consumption of flavanone-rich 100% orange juice over 8 wk is beneficial for cognitive function in healthy older adults. The potential for flavanone-rich foods and drinks to attenuate cognitive decline in aging and the mechanisms that underlie these effects should be investigated. This trial was registered at clinicaltrials.gov as NCT01312610.