{"id":82571,"date":"2025-10-16T17:00:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T17:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/82571\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T17:00:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T17:00:02","slug":"top-10-brain-foods-to-sharpen-memory-and-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/82571\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 brain foods to sharpen memory and focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fatty fish are rich in omega-3 fatty acids, especially DHA and EPA, which are important structural components of brain cells. These fats support neuronal communication, help reduce inflammation, and also promote blood flow in the brain&#8211; and thus, regularly eating fatty fish can help improve one&#8217;s brain function. <\/p>\n<p>A <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0002916523463204#sec3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">study titled &#8216;The Relationship of Omega-3 Fatty Acids with Dementia and Cognitive Decline<\/a>&#8216; published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition reads, &#8220;Our findings suggest that 1) long-term omega-3 fatty acid supplementation may reduce risk of Alzhimer&#8217;s Disease; 2) dietary omega-3 fatty acid intake, especially DHA, may lower risk of dementia or cognitive decline; and 3) peripheral biomarkers of omega-3 fatty acids may serve as predictors of cognitive decline.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fatty fish are rich in omega-3 fatty acids, especially DHA and EPA, which are important structural components of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[63392,9620,63391,63390,134,111,139,556,69,63389],"class_list":{"0":"post-82571","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nutrition","8":"tag-brain-foods-for-better-memory","9":"tag-brain-health","10":"tag-foods-to-improve-focus","11":"tag-foods-to-sharpen-memory","12":"tag-health","13":"tag-new-zealand","14":"tag-newzealand","15":"tag-nutrition","16":"tag-nz","17":"tag-top-10-brain-foods"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}