Provided we eat natural fruits and vegetables we’d expect our health to remain in relatively good shape, but like most things, there are certain fruits and vegetables that outdo the others. One powerful little berry that punches far above it’s weight is the blueberry. Popular in smoothies and on breakfast cereals, this dark blue fruit does everything from boosting cognitive brain power to upping the game of your immune system.

Another, perhaps even more welcome, benefit of blueberries, is that they can extend your life. They not only help to fight off cancer and heart disease, but the delay aging itself in the body and the brain. Life Extension has more:

Blueberries have appropriately been labeled as “superfruits,” possessing the ability to block and even reverse many of the consequences of aging.

Long thought to mainly deliver their benefits through their antioxidant effects, blueberries are now recognized as having impacts on many different aging processes. In fact, recent studies prove that blueberry extracts can extend life span by significant amounts.

It’s the specific flavonoid components of blueberries, rather than the whole fruits, that provide so many health benefits. Those compounds are now seen to prevent obesity, ameliorate the high blood pressure, lipid disturbances, and sugar intolerance of the metabolic syndrome, reduce cardiovascular risk, prevent cancer, and of course protect brain function both after stroke and from neurodegenerative diseases.

If you’re not already doing so, get these powerful berries into your diet, preferably in large quantities. Don’t forget to check out the full post, where all the science behind this is explained.

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