Women who eat apples, basil, rosemary, thyme, oregano and sage during pregnancy could be protecting the brains of not only their children, but also their grandchildren.

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A five-year study by the Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, which was published in Nature Cell Biology overnight, found ursolic acid, which is found in apples and some herbs, turns on a gene which makes a fat which can improve the health of nerve fibres.

“As we age and also in certain disease states such as Alzheimers disease, the axons become fragile and break,” Senior research fellow at the Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Roger Pocock, told Ross and Russel.

“What we found was when we provide this molecule in apples it protects against this fragility over multiple generations.”