If you’ve been taking a vitamin E supplement in the hopes of defending your brain from Alzheimer’s disease, consider eating more spinach and sunflower seeds instead.

According to a new study published this week in the Archives of Neurology, getting more vitamin E from your diet – not supplements – offers significant protection from the disease.

Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive and degenerative brain disease that likely begins years, even decades, before the signs of impaired memory and thinking show up.

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