Imagine being able to enhance your mood, your mental acuity, your overall cognitive function

just by what you choose to put at the end of your fork.

You see, food is not just sustenance or energy to fuel our bodies, it's one of the most

potent forms of medicine that's available to us, literally medicine. In today's episode

we're exploring the impact of food, five specific foods, we call them super foods, but

really they're just foods that help boost our mental health, reverse brain aging, and protect us

from chronic ever more common neurodegener diseases like Alzheimer's and dementia and

and Parkinson's.

Hi, I'm Dr. Mark Hyman and welcome to Health Hacks.

The typical American diet, which the vast majority of Americans eat, is loaded with sugars, starches, ultra-processed food-like substances, science projects, basically, and inflammatory fats, which can do the exact opposite.

Drive inflammation that harms our physical health and clouded our brains,

strips us of our zest and vitality for life and makes us prone to sadness, anxiety, and depression.

It literally breaks our brain.

And that's why so many of us are walking around with a broken brain.

Now in previous episodes of the podcast podcast I've discussed in depth how food

influences our mood and mental state which I strongly encourage you to check out and

a link to them in the show notes. However today I want to zero in on the research

behind five specific foods that you can add

to your diet for tremendous capacity to support your brain and health and make us feel,

think, and perform better.

Now some of you may be familiar with a few of these foods but others

may surprise you. So let's jump right in with the first food that can

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