People who love to eat fish may have fewer cerebrovascular diseases.🐟🐟🐟

It is well known that eating more fish is good for the body. Recently, a research show that elderly people who love to eat fish have fewer cerebrovascular diseases. Cerebrovascular disease involves harm to cerebral blood vessels and is a risk factor for stroke and vascular dementia. The University of Bordeaux conducted a large-scale research of the relationship between vascular disease and dementia. 

They analyzed the results of MRI scans of more than 1600 people over 65-year-old who had no history of cardiovascular disease,  dementia or stroke in the research. The participants also filled out a questionnaire about their eating habits. The participants were divided into four groups based on their frequency of eating fish: four or more times a week, two to three times a week, once a week or less than once a week. Then the researchers compared their signs of cerebrovascular disease.

Eating more fish may have fewer cerebrovascular diseases

In the MRI scans, the participants who ate fish more frequently showed fewer signs of damage in their brain than the participants who ate fish less frequently. Compared with the elderly in the study, the association between vascular disease and fish intake was stronger in 65 to 69-year-old people. However, there was no significant connection between vascular disease and fish intake in over 75-year-old people.

Experts believe that for most people, the risk of dementia depends on the different complex factors, such as environmental and genetic factors. People understood which aspects of lifestyle have the greatest influence on brain health. It is the key to enabling them to make the good decisions of their lifestyle. This observational research cannot determine the reason and result relationship. Although the researchers try to control for other factors that may lead to differences in signs of cerebrovascular disease, it is still difficult to clearly ensure the relationship between cerebrovascular disease and the number of fish intake. Based on the study, it is also unclear about the relevance of the findings to long-term brain health. Although fish is a important source of essential fatty acids and the National Health Service in the United Kingdom also recommends eating two servings of fish a week as part of a balanced diet, no single specific food or supplement can be maintaining the brain healthy.

Not smoking, drinking within the recommended range, eating balanced diet, exercising moderately and have a healthy lifestyle are all lead to a healthier brain and body.😁

Reference：

Fish Intake and MRI Burden of Cerebrovascular Disease in Older Adults 11 2021,
10.1212/WNL.0000000000012916; DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000012916