Postmenopausal Women Boost Memory with Malaysian Tualang Honey

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Improvementin Immediate Memory After 16 Weeks of Tualang Honey (Agro Mas) Supplement inHealthy Postmenopausal Women

The Journal of NA Menopause Society, 15 Sep 2011

OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to evaluate the verbal learning and memoryperformance of postmenopausal women who received tualang honey (Agro Mas) incomparison with women receiving estrogen plus progestin therapy and untreatedcontrols.

METHODS: Atotal of 102 postmenopausal women were recruited and randomly assigned to threegroups: tualang honey (20 mg/d), estrogen plus progestin therapy (Femoston1/5), and untreated control. Their verbal learning and memory performances wereassessed using the Malay version of the Auditory Verbal Learning Test beforeand after 16 weeks of intervention. Data were analyzed using therepeated-measures analysis of variance, and a P value of less than 0.05 wasconsidered significant.

RESULTS:There were significant differences in the mean scores of total learning as wellas the mean scores of trials A1, A5, A6, and A7 between the three groups. Therewere also significant differences in the overall mean scores of total learningand trials A1 and A5 between both estrogen plus progestin therapy and tualanghoney groups when compared with the untreated control group. However, significantdifferences in the mean score for trials A6 and A7 were only observed betweenthe estrogen plus progestin therapy and untreated control groups.

CONCLUSIONS:Postmenopausal women who received tualang honey showed improvement in theirimmediate memory but not in immediate memory after the interference and delayedrecall. This is comparable with the improvement seen in women receivingestrogen plus progestin therapy.