Just two days. That’s all it takes for a high-fat diet to begin undermining your memory, according to groundbreaking research that challenges everything we thought we knew about diet and brain health.

A mouse study, published earlier this month in the journal Neuron, zeroes in on a neurological mechanism that may help explain why memory deficits occur in response to long-term high-fat diets.

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