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5+ reasons to enjoy more pumpkin spice [slideshow]
Cinnamon
Cinnamon could be your ticket to a better brain. Researchers found that, after eating cinnamon, mice who were identified as poor learners had learning skills that rivaled the learning skills of the most talented rodent learners.
They also found that eating ground cinnamon helped mice’s memories. And that’s an area we could all use a little help with as we get older. But the benefits of this super spice don’t stop there. These same researchers found that cinnamon can reverse Parkinson’s disease in mice too.
Researchers believe cinnamon is so beneficial to your brain because your body turns it into sodium benzoate. And sodium benzoate is used to treat brain damage. It increases an important protein in the learning and memory department of your brain (otherwise known as the hippocampus) and encourages the neurons in this area of your brain to grow and change.
Cinnamon had also been associated with lower blood sugar and blood pressure…
