New Research Shows Diet Can Delay Brain Aging Significantly Gray matter in the brain, responsible for memory, thinking, and decision-making, inevitably declines with age. However, new research shows that the speed of this process depends largely on what is on your plate. A large-scale study found that people who followed the so-called MIND diet lost gray matter significantly more slowly than others-equivalent to about 2.5 years of reduced brain aging. What Is the MIND Diet? MIND stands for Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay. It is essentially a hybrid of two well-established dietary patterns. ПРОДОЛЖИТЬ ЧТЕНИЕ