THE protein from soya beans may help prevent memory loss. A study from Kyushu University in Japan has shown that when the protein is broken down, it becomes the molecule dipeptide and this can impact memory.
In research published in June in the journal Science Of Food, a group of mice was injected with molecules that stimulated Alzheimer’s disease – some of the mice had also been fed soya bean protein.
The mice that received the protein did better at a short-term memory test than the other mice. Toshiro Matsui, a professor in the university’s faculty of agriculture who led the study, said: "We hope this is a step towards functional foods that could help prevent memory degradation or improve our memories."
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