A study following 10,000 Norwegian men for 40 years found that those eating berries,

more than 14 times a month were more likely to be alive at the end of the study.

Higher intake of anthocyanus, the brightly colored pigments in berries, has been associated

with anti-inflammatory effects, but these are all just associations.

You can't prove cause and effect until you put it to the test.

A double-blind, randomized placebo-controlled study found that blueberry smoothies could

turn off inflammation genes.

This is measuring the expression of pro-inflammatory genes in white blood cells taken from individuals

before and after six weeks of drinking placebo smoothies with no blueberries.

They got worse over time.

Six weeks later, more inflammatory chemicals pouring out,

whereas the blueberry group started out about the same at week zero.

But six weeks of daily blueberries,

and the expression of inflammatory genes such as IL-6 went down.

Strawberries, sweet bing cherries, black raspberries, extracts of goji berries,

and Indian gooseberries, AMLA, has also been shown to decrease inflammatory markers in interventional trials.

Have people eat out largely unhealthy breakfast, including a bagel with cream cheese,

margar and egg, and a glass of milk, and the rise in C-reactive protein in IL-6,

and the subsequent six hours was less when just 10 grams of strawberry powder,

equivalent to five large strawberries, was added to the meal.

A couple of blueberries was able

to significantly blunt the IL-6 spike after a ham and cheese sandwich, and the same

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