Most likely, you've seen the advertisements that appear during video streaming, promising to increase your mental capacity or effectiveness by simply finishing a set of exercises on a branded website.
Other sources advise maintaining a healthy diet of reading and writing to keep your brain in good shape. Your brain will be more resistant to neurological disorders like Alzheimer's if you keep it active.
However, maintaining brain activity alone won't result in optimal neurological performance and health. The other component is eating the right foods to ensure that your body can handle the additional workload.
Twenty percent of the blood and oxygen produced by your body is used by your brain. Considering that 60% of its mass is made up of fat, poor nutrition may force it to consume itself in order to maintain function.
For this reason, in addition to being tailored to keep us healthy, our diets also need to be adjusted to keep our brains content and able to exercise.
So here are some diet tips to keep your brain happy.
4 Diet Tips For Your Brain Health:
1. Glucose and Carbohydrates
Think of glucose as the fuel that travels with your bloodstream to your brain. It ignites the mitochondrial engine that keeps your brain active because glucose is the only source of energy for your brain cells.
Sugary foods and drinks are only a short-term fix that can cause long-term complications. You can also find healthy glucose in carbohydrates in low carb high glucose foods like grapes, beans, and low fat diary instead of high carb foods like spaghetti and French fries.
2. Replace Coffee
This might be one of the toughest tips to implement because coffee forms such an important part of a lot people’s morning ritual. I understand, it’s probably one of the fastest ways to deliver energy to your brain because it increases your adrenaline flow.
The bad news is that its benefits are extremely short lived. You’ll soon find yourself craving another one to be functional again. And high doses of coffee are simply not good for you.
I recommend two alternatives instead. Green tea is called a mind tonic for a reason: its polyphenols help regulate a healthy flow of glucose to your brain.
If tea is not your cup of tea, I recommend trying out my Lemon Cucumber Mint Water, as it will help you avoid the caffeine crash, keep you hydrated, and more importantly, alert.
3. Incorporate Healthy Fats
As I’ve said before, sixty percent of your brain is fat. If your diet has a serious lack of healthy fats it will start cannibalizing itself to function, causing long-term dangers.
In order to remedy this you need to have a diet that rich in omega-3 and omega-6 fats.
Omega-3 is usually found in salmon, if you need a recipe, here’s my Sinful Salmon and Pasta dish. Omega-6 best source, on the other hand, are walnuts. They also make the perfect snack.
4. More Protein Less Problems
Like your biceps, your brain also needs protein to grow and thrive. In this case protein helps neurons network with increased efficiency.
If you’re lacking protein in your diet, you’ll start noticing that it’s increasingly hard to organize your thoughts cohesively. It also affects your memory capacity.