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Which is the finest of the flavors?

Which is the finest of the flavors?

A healthy brain votes for vanilla.

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Marc Arginteanu
May 28, 2024
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The pod of the vanilla flower is packed with brain power. In 2016, Korean scientists studying the brains of mice, determined that eating vanilla encouraged the growth of neurons in the hippocampus. Vanilla also increased BDNF (Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor). BDNF helps support survival of existing neurons (under normal circumstances and after injury…

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