Hi everybody, welcome to the Tonin Sculpt podcast.

My name is Nicole.

I'm the registered dietitian nutritionist for the Tonin Sculpts app.

I have my master's in nutrition.

I've been working in nutrition for a couple of years now.

So today I'm excited to talk to you all about brain health and foods that you can eat to make sure that your brain is working the best that it can.

So our brain controls a lot in our body. It helps us with memory, movement, function, even controlling our organs and how we problem solve and think and feel.

So you can see that it's really important to keep it very healthy

and working well, especially when you're in school and work and doing all of the things every day.

Our brain also uses 20% of the amount of calories we eat. So every day you want to be sure that you're

eating enough. So eat enough and eating enough of the right foods.

When we eat greasy foods or high sugar foods, we see that we either get a spike in energy

or we start to feel very sluggish and not able to go about our daily activities.

When we eat sugary foods, we'll see that spike where we have a lot of energy,

and then we come crashing down because we just had that energy, we didn't eat anything to sustain it.

So when you have a diet filled with cookies or chocolate, that's what's going to happen.

Then when you eat greasy foods, it's a slower digestion type of food. And then that

will make you feel sluggish. You're not getting the energy right away and everything's moving very

slowly. And that's sort of what happened to me when I first started to get into nutrition. I went

into college and I was a very picky vegetarian and all I chose was French fries and cookies.

That's all that looked appetizing to me and I would take naps all the time.

I studied but then I just went to sleep, I went to class, I went to sleep.

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