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Today I'm going to share the five foods that I believe are absolute game changers for your cognitive health, and a couple of

them might seriously surprise you.

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If you've read my new book, The Gut Brain Paradox, then you know this simple truth.

The way to a sharper brain starts in your gut.

So today I'm sharing five foods that do wonders for both your gut and your brain, starting with one that most people avoid.

Chicken skin and chicken livers.

Yes, that boneless, skinless chicken breast is not the way to good gut health and brain health.

Instead, the chicken skin, which you've been told to stay away from, and the chicken livers, which are kind of thrown in the trash, are actually loaded with a really cool polyamene called spermidine. And I'll let you guess where that name came from.

Spermodyne is one of the most important, powerful anti-aging compounds that we know of.

In fact, a 2021 cell report study found that dietary spermidine improved cognitive performance

in older adults, in humans.

And in animal studies, an enhanced mitochondrial function and triggered autophagy, your cell's natural cleanup process.

Believe it or not, that's why I developed an entire program called the Chicken and the Sea Diet

in my new book, The Gut Brain Paradox.

It's a modified carnivore plan that the outline is in the new book. It's full of

spermidine-rich proteins that have a variety of benefits. You know, I spend quite a bit of time in

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