Unless you want to get Alzheimer’s:
As a server I cringed every time a customer ordered a well-done steak. Why turn a beautiful piece of beef into a hunk of blackened leather like that? Now–AT LONG LAST–there’s some science to back me up. See burning food (let’s be honest, “well-done” means “over cooked”) creates compounds known as glycotoxins.
According to research published by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in the US, eating a diet that’s high in glycotoxins could be a cause of long-term mental ailments including Alzheimer’s.
In the first phase of the study, researchers found that mice raised on a diet high in glycotoxins (specifically a type called advanced glycation end products, or AGEs), “were more likely to develop dementia-like cognitive and movement problems as they aged than mice fed a low-glycotoxin diet,” reports ScienceAlert.
These glycotoxin-munching mice also displayed increased amounts of amyloid beta proteins in their brains. These are the sticky proteins that are often found in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease. When the study moved from mice to men, the results were worryingly similar.
Read the whole thing and then order a nicely marbeled ribeye steak, medium rare. Your brain will thank you. Yum!
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