This 2,000 Year-Old-Tree Boosts Focus, Sharpens Memory, and Helps You Finish a Sentence

Ginkgo biloba is the last surviving member of a plant dynasty that dates back 200 million years.
This 2,000 Year-Old-Tree Boosts Focus, Sharpens Memory, and Helps You Finish a Sentence
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By someone who actually remembers where she put her car keys, thank you very much.

I’ll say this up front. I have a good memory. Not photographic, nothing as glamorous as that, but solid. The kind of memory that remembers your birthday, your dog’s name, and the exact inflection you used when you said you “didn’t mind” going to that awkward dinner in 2017. And I plan to keep it that way. Which is precisely why I take Ginkgo biloba (and another reason which you will find out if you read on.)

Nicole James
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Nicole James is a freelance journalist for The Epoch Times based in Australia. She is an award-winning short story writer, journalist, columnist, and editor. Her work has appeared in newspapers including The Sydney Morning Herald, Sun-Herald, The Australian, the Sunday Times, and the Sunday Telegraph. She holds a BA Communications majoring in journalism and two post graduate degrees, one in creative writing.