The #1 Best Food for Your Brain

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 26 September 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Let’s talk about the #1 food for the brain.

It’s a misconception that the brain can't regenerate—certain parts of the brain can regrow.

The top foods to avoid to support a healthy brain are:

1. Omega-6 fatty acids (soy oil, corn oil, canola oil, and cottonseed oil)

2. Sugar

3. Refined carbs

The best food to support brain health is wild-caught salmon.

Wild-caught salmon can help enhance the brain in many ways, including supporting:

• Memory

• Focus

• Thinking

• Problem-solving

• Learning

It may also be beneficial for those with mood disorders or brain inflammation. Consuming more wild-caught salmon may even help reduce insulin resistance, which is at the core of many brain problems.

The brain is the fattiest organ in the body. Omega-3 fatty acids are the healthy fats your brain needs. They’re the building blocks of your brain. Wild-caught salmon is rich in omega-3 fatty acids.

Wild-caught salmon is keto-friendly. It’s low-carb and has a good amount of protein and nutrients. But, to get these incredible benefits for the brain, be sure the salmon you choose is wild-caught and not farm-raised.

Try having your salmon with a kale salad topped with olive oil and unfortified nutritional yeast to take your brain health to the next level.

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0:00.0	Let's talk about the number one best food for your brain. Now, the brain is a very interesting
0:05.2	organ. It's the fattiest organ of all of your organs in your body. It only makes up 2% of
0:10.5	our body weight, but it consumes 20% of all of our fuel. And the size of your brain does not
0:18.0	equal your intelligence. Another misconception of the brain is that the nerves cannot regenerate.
0:24.4	What you're born with, you have, you can't change, but that's absolutely not true. Certain parts
0:28.9	of your brain can completely regrow. And lastly, there are no pain receptors in your brain. This is
0:34.5	why sometimes when they do brain surgery, that you're wide awake. Now, related to the best food for
0:39.2	the brain, we should probably define exactly what we're trying to do with the brain. We're talking
0:44.0	about the food that improves memory, concentration, focus, thinking, problem solving, learning, mood
0:52.6	disorders, brain inflammation. So I did a deep dive into this topic, looking at all the key
0:58.1	nutrients that the brain needs. And also, there are basically three foods that destroy the brain.
1:04.6	In fact, when you go to the grocery store, you're going to find the majority of these three
1:08.8	ingredients, okay? So let's start with number one. Omega six fatty acids. Now, what is that?
1:16.2	That is like soy oil, corn oil, canola oil, cotton seed oil. These are the fats or oils that
1:24.4	create a lot of inflammation in your nervous system. The second ingredient is you guessed it sugar.
1:31.1	And even if you look at diabetes, which is a diet of consuming too much sugar, you have something
1:35.8	called type three diabetes, which is Alzheimer's. So they now know that Alzheimer's is really a
1:42.8	situation where the nerves are starved of a glucose. Now, you might immediately think, well,
1:50.3	I thought diabetes was high sugar. So that should be feeding the nerves, all the sugar and fuel
1:56.5	it needs, right? Well, unfortunately, when you start feeding too much sugar to the nervous system,
2:01.8	you have this thing called insulin, which is kind of like the gatekeeper that controls the
2:06.6	absorption of glucose. That starts going up and up and up. And then you develop this protected
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