Blueberries and HSP 70

Blueberries are an excellent food with many nutritional benefits. Blueberry supplemented diet reverses age-related decline in hippocampal HSP70 neuroprotection at HD Lighthouse cites a research paper with some encouraging news. As a comment by Marsha L. Miller, Ph.D. indicates, the more recent study adds to our knowledge of blueberries which already included blueberry antioxident properties and stimulating effects for new brain cell generation.

Miller writes of an enhanced capacity to generate a heat shock protein (HSP 70) in older rats fed blueberries as the newer study documents. Heat shcok proteins facilitate the capacity of cells to deal with stress, help with proper protein folding and assist with degradation of older proteins. That's quite a few benefits from a tasty fruit.