1. eat fish thathas fat [salmon, mackerel and tuna]and take in concentrated fish oil.
2. eat lots of fruit and vegtables, and the rawer the better...
3. restrict sugar, sodium and processed foods.
4. use vitamin suppliments to imitate a nutrient-full diet of our ancestors.
5. restrict sunflower oil,butter, corn oil. hydrogenated vegetable oils and trans fatty acids.
here are five yummy brain energizers-
blueberries,
carrots,
fresh deep sea fish
nuts-preferably unsalted almonds and walnuts
and white tea [or green if you can't get white]
any other thoughts or information???
RE: five ways to boost your brain...
On point 5, several months ago there was research that these literally clog up the brain and ossify it. So things like crisps, cakes, biscuits. It cut down drastically my odd temptations toward crisps, I can tell you! The fats used in these foods are like grit in an engine, and grind it to a halt.
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RE: five ways to boost your brain...
But boosting the brain is by no means all about diet - that's only one aspect! I'm not into all this, but there are specific brain-gym exercises, yes? If you "exercise" any part of your brain it can literally grow e.g. the directional or visual-map aspect of a London cabbie's brain.
RE: five ways to boost your brain...
you got it venetian!!!
it's more than just food for sure. Exercise produces achemical that actually has been found to expand the communication network and the increased blood flow. This has been found to actually grow the areas that control memory, reasoning, thinking, motor function and thinking!!!
{These test results where at the University of California, and the University of Illinois.}
So if you start exercising you will boast the cognitive functioning. This just shows that the brain is really amazing, can continue growing, healing, and gaining in heal even if you have had a life-long habit of sitting around and eating junk food...
You are also so right about the fat. At the University of Waterloo, in Ontario, Canada, they found that fat really alters the shape of brain cells!! What happens is the communication network are lesser and shorter than a healthy-diet brain. The conclusions draw from experiments was that the memory can be crippled because of the actual physical changes that take place.
Thanks for answering, because l think this is vital information to share.
RE: five ways to boost your brain...
Drinking the right amount of water.
Knowing when to drink water can be like a lost skill.Processed foods can gradually corrupt
thesensation and mechanism ofthirst and confuse a person into the wrong response - often taking something sugary instead of water.