Welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition with licensed nutritionists and dietitians from nutritional weight and wellness.

We explain the connection between what you eat and how you feel.

Stay tuned for practical real-life solutions for healthier living through real food nutrition.

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Good morning, everyone, and welcome to Dishing Up Nutrition, brought to you by Nutritional

Weight and Wellness.

I'm Carolyn Hudson, and I've been a registered and licensed dietitian for many years.

And over these years, I have seen firsthand the impact the foods people eat have on their

body and, of course, their brain health.

So last week, Kara started the show with a great quote from Dr. Allen R. Gay.

He's the author of Nutritional Medicine.

And that's really a science-based nutrition reference book for physicians and health care practitioners.

Here's what he wrote.

And I quote, Big Macs lead to Xantac, which leads to Prozac.

So if you didn't hear that quote last week, I'm going to go into a little more detail about that.

So eating Big Macs or making poor food choices, time and time again often leads to digestive problems,

gastrointestinal problems, which will most likely require some kind of digestive medication,

such as Xantic or Prylosec, nexium, previsid, tombs, you know, we all hear about those, right?

So taking any of these digestive medications often leads to an inability to break down or digest your protein.

And that's going to result in a deficiency of amino acids.

And you need amino acids to actually make neurotransmitters.

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