While many factors contribute to cognitive function, proper nutrition is a powerful way to safeguard the health of your brain—try these top six foods and nutrients to protect your cognition with age.

In a nutshell, walnuts are linked to longer lifespan and improvements in gut microbiome diversity, heart health, weight management, and male reproductive health.

Delaying meals by four hours alters appetite, hunger, caloric burn, and fat tissue activity, suggesting that eating earlier may be a simple intervention to support healthier body weights in the general population.

How does food affect our health and lifespan? That’s a complicated question because it’s hard to isolate the intake of one nutrient—in this study, researchers try to answer this question.