A few months ago, I told you about how olive leaf extract can help you lower your blood pressure naturally. I’m a big fan of this option, as I think it’s much safer than a lot of the blood pressure drugs on the market. Most of the research on olive leaf extract has been positive, and I’ve told you about some of those studies in the past. But occasionally, studies of olive leaf extract have had some inconsistencies. Researchers at the University of Reading, Massey University, and the Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organization decided to try to get to the bottom of the olive-leaf debate once and for all.

Babies need vitamin A to help their hearts develop properly. But the effects of vitamin A on your heart after you’re born aren’t as clear-cut. Vitamin A does affect your heart in several ways – that much is known. But researchers haven’t yet decided whether the net effect of this vitamin on the heart is positive or negative. There have been plenty of studies conducted on this topic, but they seem to come to opposite conclusions. Whatever the final answer is, vitamin A is not a topic we should ignore.

Right now, while we have a number of strategies that can help prevent and slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease, we don’t have any way to reverse it altogether. However, a team at the Gladstone Institutes has recently made a promising discovery about what goes wrong with memory function in Alzheimer’s patients. They’re hopeful that these findings could lead to better ways of supporting this process to enable people to better hold onto their precious memories.