Why the #1 Best Brain Food to Boost Memory & Focus is SALMON

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if there was one food that can fix your brain what would that food be go ahead and put it in the comment section below now there are a lot of foods that can support the brain but out of those Foods there are certain foods that are much better than others based on the nutrients in those Foods so today I’m going to talk about the key nutrients that support your brain and then what foods would match that more than others now when I’m talking about the brain I want to mainly focus on cognitive improvements okay I’d like to emphasize improving attention your perception your memory your ability to learn reason plan problem solve make decisions and multitask there’s a huge connection between what you eat and how your brain operates and I think that even more than nutrients the fuel that you run your brain off is probably the most important thing is your brain running off primarily glucose or ketones we’ll talk more about that there is a huge liability running your brain off primarily glucose and there’s virtually no liabilities when you run your body off ketones in fact your brain will respond much better when you feed it ketones now the first nutrient I want to talk about is B1 thyine now what does it do well in relationship to the brain it’s essential to act as a co-enzyme in the production of energy and I’m talking about ATP in your mital condra which is the energy Factory of your entire body but as far as your brain goes B1 is very very very important in fact without B1 your neurons your nerve cells that make up your brain cannot receive glucose in fact if you look at someone with Dementia or Alzheimer’s what’s really going on is their nerve cells are starving to death okay and so even if you’re on the ketogenic diet a certain portion of your brain will still need glucose but that glucose can be made by your own body through a process called gluconeogenesis so you really don’t need any additional glucose to feed your brain but you definitely need B1 to be able to utilize that glucose or those cells will die so out of all the nutrients that your brain needs uh B1 is right up there at the very top if you want look up more data on this I put some videos down below um but you just need to look up something called berry berry and you’ll you’ll get the whole picture of what what happens but if you’re deficient in B1 related to the brain because there’s a lot of other connecting problems that can occur your memory is going to suffer your ability to focus and have attention on certain things will be very limited you’ll feel agitated you’ll be irritated depression is a very common symptom that the B1 deficiency so if you have depression I would highly recommend taking B1 and I would also add in vitamin D3 those two together will uh most likely pull you out of that depression another symptom would be something called latic acidosis because you’re not able to metabolize glucose you get a lot of builtup of lactic acid and uh that can show up in restless leg syndrome and another interesting symptom of a B1 deficiency is autonomic nervous system dysfunction so let’s say if for example you stand up and you get dizzy or you have a condition called pots where it’s a very severe situation where you can’t stand up or else you feel very very disoriented so B1 is essential for getting the fuel to your brain now there’s also something called brain derived neurotrophic factor and that is like Miracle Grow for your brain it allows the neurogenesis or the formation of new nerve cells and there’s three things you can do increase this compound and two of them um go beyond just nutrition so one is vitamin D3 vitamin D3 is so so important for your brain and you primarily need to get that from Sun you can also get it from fatty fish like salmon you can get it from cob liver oil and I even did a video on how to uh make your own Vitamin D supplements using mushrooms sundried I’ll put that link down below but vitamin D is essential in helping you generate new nerve cells exercise is another really big factor because it supplies a lot of blood flow to the brain and then of course you have fasting fasting hands down is probably one of the best ways to trigger this compound and it does a lot of wonderful things for the brain and I did a whole video on that I will put that video down below as well and then we have zinc I mean zinc is the most important Trace mineral it’s involved in more enzyme Pathways than all of the other trace minerals combined but as far as the brain goes it’s Vally important and where do you get zinc well zinc is in red meat it’s in fish like salmon it’s in shellfish it’s in uh seelp and it’s in a lot of other foods but the primary reason why people are not getting enough zinc is not from the diet it’s because they’re eating something that’s depleting zinc it’s usually cereals or grain products that are loaded with phytic acid and of course sugar and alcohol and other things will deplete your zinc all right the next nutrient that’s really really important would be something called DHA that is a type of omega3 fatty acid and where do you think you find that fatty fish like salmon as you see I keep coming back to Salmon which is a common thread through this video but DHA is vitally important in supporting the membranes around the neurons and these membranes are made from fat primarily DHA and so so we need a lot of this unique fat to support the brain and of course on the flip side of that we don’t need a lot of omega-6 fatty acids to support the brain so the more omega-6 fatty acids you have as in corn oil soy oil canola cotton seed oil the less omega-3 fatty acids you’re going to get and so I think a really big problem with a lot of people is they do not consume enough omega3 fatty acids so salmon um halib tuna Civ oil sardines vital now the other big connection to someone’s cognitive Improvement has to do with their gut so I can’t really talk about improving cognitive function without talking about your gut because there’s a huge connection between your gut and your brain in fact a lot of the microorganisms in your gut make neurotransmitters and they also make B vitamins okay as in vitamin B1 and the other B vitamins that are essential for cognitive function so when we’re talking about gut health I’m talking about fermented foods okay sourkraut would be one of them but there’s also kefir and kimchi and and fermented vegetables and there’s a lot of other fermented foods and from different cultures and of course the microbes also live off fiber that’s usually in these fermented foods so there are a lot of nutrients that support the brain but the most important one would be B1 okay and then you have D3 you have zinc and omega-3 fatty acids okay now to reverse engineer this we just need to know what foods are high in B1 okay or what food is high in B1 vitamin D3 omega-3 fatty acids and zinc okay so the number one food that I think is best for improving your cognitive function is salmon because it’s loaded with B1 it has vitamin D3 it has zinc it has omega-3 fatty acids and a lot of other nutrients that are good for the the brain that I didn’t mention but again I’m not talking about just having salmon you have to have a lot of different foods and you can get these nutrients from other foods but salmon tends to have some really key nutrients to support your brain and of course I’m talking about wild CAU salmon okay I’m not talking about uh farm raised salmon and uh I highly recommend consuming the skin on the salmon okay so you can you can bake it bake the skin and U it’s actually quite delicious now getting back to B1 there’s some other key uh foods that are very important to supply B1 one would be nutritional yeast you can put on your salad you can um cook with it you can just take it as a supplement but nutritional yeast not only has B1 bu