India, Feb. 13 -- Cognitive decline is one of the more serious brain health issues that an individual risks facing with age. A healthy lifestyle goes a long way in mitigating it, and according to Dr Austin Perlmutter, board-certified internal medicine physician, author, and educator, so do certain foods.

Taking to Instagram on February 13, Dr Perlmutter highlighted the role of berries, specifically blueberries and strawberries, in reducing the risk of cognitive decline and dementia with age.

To make the case for berries, Dr Perlmutter cited a study titled 'Dietary intakes of berries and flavonoids in relation to cognitive decline,' which was first published in 2012 in Annals of Neurology.

It was a large-scale observational study which ...