The #1 Best Food for Your Brain

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let’s talk about the number one best food for your brain now the brain is a very interesting organ it’s the fattiest organ of all of your organs in your body it only makes up two percent of our body weight but it consumes 20 of all of our fuel and the size of your brain does not equal your intelligence another misconception of the brain is that the nerves cannot regenerate what you’re born with you have you can’t change but that’s absolutely not true certain parts of your brain can completely regrow and lastly there are no pain receptors in your brain this is why sometimes when they do brain surgery that you’re wide awake now related to the best food for the brain we should probably Define exactly what we’re trying to do with the brain we’re talking about the food that improves memory concentration Focus thinking problem solving learning mood disorders brain inflammation so I did a deep dive into this topic looking at all the key nutrients that the brain needs and also there are basically three foods that destroy the brain in fact when you go to the grocery store you’re going to find the majority of these three ingredients okay so let’s start with number one omega-6 fatty acids now what is that that is like soy oil corn oil canola oil cottonseed oil these are the fats or oils that create a lot of inflammation in your nervous system the second ingredient is you guessed it sugar and even if you look at diabetes which is a a diet of consuming too much sugar you have something called type 3 diabetes which is Alzheimer’s so they now know that Alzheimer’s is really a situation where the nerves are starved of a glucose now you might immediately think well I thought diabetes was high sugar so that should be feeding the nerves all the sugar and fuel it needs right well unfortunately when you start feeding too much sugar to the nervous system you have this thing called insulin which is kind of like the gatekeeper that controls the absorption of glucose that starts going up and up and up and then you develop this protected mechanism called insulin resistance so more fuel more insulin resistance less connection of that fuel to the neuron you literally end up starving the neurons of fuel this is why there’s such a high incidence of Alzheimer’s or dementia with diabetes and the third ingredient which is kind of a large category refine carbohydrates this is those lovely breads pasta cereal crackers biscuits waffles pancakes muffins things like that not only do these carbohydrates turn into sugar really quick but they have gluten and gluten destroys the gut for most people and if you’ve ever heard of something called the brain gut access whatever’s going on down in the gut is going to be going on in the head there’s been a huge link between gluten problems in your gut and dementia and of course these refined carbohydrates just completely deplete you of the trace minerals that the brain also needs and I’m talking about zinc selenium and iodine and just as a side note if an infant is deficient in iodine their IQ becomes much lower unfortunately because the full brain development doesn’t occur so all three of these ingredients omega-6 fatty acids sugar refined carbohydrates all contribute and create insulin resistance and again insulin resistance starves the nerve cells of their fuel creating death of the neuron so now let’s get to the number one food that would heal the brain and all of these problems so I looked at a lot of different foods and analyzed them from different angles and the best solution or the best food for the brain is wild caught salmon now there’s other types of seafood that you can use too like sardines but wild caught salmon is at the top of the list the question is why because the brain is mostly fat it’s 60 percent fat and 20 percent of that fat is made up of something called DHA that is the omega-3 fatty acid that that builds the structure of a lot of your brain so salmon is very rich in omega-3 fatty acids not just DHA but another one called EPA which is involved in the next benefit lowered inflammation so salmon lowers your inflammation salmon provides the omega-3 the building blocks of your brain the fat that it needs and as a side note cholesterol by itself is very important in the membranes of your brain and this is why drugs like statins which block the production of cholesterol have massive side effects for cognitive function mood disorders neurological issues hormone issues things like that a very important food would be wild caught salmon because it’s very very fatty it’s rich in cholesterol it’s rich in omega-3 which helps inflammation as well as insulin resistance you can help correct insulin resistance by this omega-3 fatty acid remember insulin resistance is at the core of a lot of brain problems these Omega-3s are really amazing because they can directly improve memory learning cognitive function like Focus as well as your mood so if someone has depression anxiety one of the things they use that’s pretty successful and well researched is by using fish oils high in omega-3 fatty acids and because there’s a lot of protein in Salmon you get all the building blocks for neurotransmitters for the brain and on top of that well-cut salmon is is keto friendly it’s low carb good amount of protein super healthy protein with other nutrients and ketones bypass this insulin resistance damage in the nerve cell and feeds the neurons directly without having to involve any glucose so the brain has this other fuel it can use more efficiently which is ketones which by the way is great for seizures in fact the ketogenic diet okay has been proven to improve seizures and lastly it’s the pink pigment that is in Salmon if it’s wild caught okay because if it’s not well caught it is farm raised and they have to use certain dyes to turn it from Gray to Pink that pink pigment is a phytonutrient called astaxanthin and this is a powerful antioxidant to help protect the neurons against the damage from omega-6 fatty acids refined carbohydrates and sugars so there you have it salmon is absolutely the best food that you can eat for your brain and also with that salmon that doesn’t really complete the meal so you want some dark leafy green vegetable with it the probably the best one if you want to look at the brain health that would be kale and because kale is loaded with folate vitamin C beta-carotene all these antioxidants now if you had that as a salad and you put some nutritional yeast on it okay unfortified you’ll have all the B vitamins necessary for the brain too the brain loves and needs B vitamins talking about B1 B5 B12 B2 B3 B6 add a little olive oil to that and you’ll have a super Health brain supporting meal now I created another very popular video on the brain if you have not seen this uh check it out I put it up right here