“We found that these proprietary compounds reduce deficits caused by mild cognitive impairment, which can be a precursor to Alzheimer’s disease,” said Susan Farr, Ph.D., research professor geriatrics at Saint Louis University School of Medicine.<\/p>\n Farr added, “This probably means eating spearmint and rosemary is good for you<\/strong>. However, our experiments were in an animal model and I don’t know how much — or if any amount — of these herbs people would have to consume for learning and memory to improve. In other words, I’m not suggesting that people chew more gum at this point.”<\/p>\n Farr presented the early findings at Neuroscience 2013, a meeting of 32,000 on Monday, Nov. 11. She tested a novel antioxidant-based ingredient made from spearmint extract and two different doses of a similar antioxidant made from rosemary extract on mice that have age-related cognitive decline.<\/p>\n She found that the higher dose rosemary extract compound was the most powerful in improving memory and learning in three tested behaviors<\/strong>. The lower dose rosemary extract improved memory in two of the behavioral tests, as did the compound made from spearmint extract.<\/p>\n Further, there were signs of reduced oxidative stress, which is considered a hallmark of age-related decline, in the part of the brain that controls learning and memory.<\/p>\n “Our research suggests these extracts made from herbs might have beneficial effects on altering the course of age-associated cognitive decline<\/strong>,” Farr said. “It’s worth additional study.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The research, which was supported by the VA Medical Center in St. Louis, was conducted in conjunction with Kemin Industries, which manufactures specialty ingredients for vitamin\/dietary supplements<\/strong> or that can be added to food to enhance its nutritional and health benefits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From the Saint Louis University media release: Enhanced extracts made from special antioxidants in spearmint and rosemary improve learning and memory, a study in an animal model at Saint Louis… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[321,339,4,336],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15899"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15900,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15899\/revisions\/15900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"senior](\"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/senior-alzheimer.jpg\")
<\/a>Enhanced extracts made from special antioxidants in spearmint and rosemary improve learning and memory<\/strong>, a study in an animal model at Saint Louis University found.<\/p>\n