Eating cinnamon may aid learning ability—study
Cinnamon bun. File Photo
This news is for lovers of cinnamon—a new study has revealed that the spice can enhance a person’s ability to comprehend.
A new research from The Rush University Medical Center in California has presented a series of evidence claiming that consuming a cinnamon roll improves a person’s learning capabilities.
The experiment, conducted on laboratory rodents, showed mice that were determined to have poor learning ability were found to show improvement after being fed ground cinnamon.
According to the study, the rodents’ bodies metabolized the spice into sodium benzoate, a chemical used in treatments for brain damage.
Once the chemical entered into the brain, the mice displayed vast improvement in terms of memory and learning.
Sadly for a set of smarter mice who were fed the spice, it didn’t seem to have such an impact.
“We have successfully used cinnamon to reverse biochemical, cellular and anatomical changes that occur in the brains of mice with poor learning,” Kalipada Pahan, lead researcher and professor of neurology at Rush, was quoted in a Huffington Post report.
“We need to further test this approach in poor learners. If these results are replicated in poor learning students, it would be a remarkable advance.”
Not much is currently known about what causes people to be a poor learner and have low performance, but the household spice seems to be providing some innovative solutions.
In a separate study, Professor Pahan and his colleagues also determined that cinnamon could reverse changes in the brains of mice with Parkinson’s disease. Khristian Ibarrola/ rga
