Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weights. If there was one food that can fix your brain, what would that food be? Go ahead and put it in the

comment section below. Now, there are a lot of foods that can support the brain. But out of those foods,

there are certain foods that are much better than others based on the nutrients

in those foods. So today I'm going to talk about the key nutrients that support your brain

and then what foods would match that more than others. Now, when I'm talking about the brain,

I want to mainly focus on cognitive improvements. I'd like to emphasize improving attention, your perception,

your memory, your ability to learn, reason, plan, problem solve, make decisions, and

multitask. There's a huge connection between what you eat and how your brain operates. And I think that even more than

nutrients, the fuel that you run your brain off is probably the most important thing. Is your

brain running off primarily glucose or ketones? We'll talk more about that. There's a huge

liability running your brain off primarily glucose, and there's virtually

no liabilities when you run your body off ketones.

In fact, your brain will respond much better when you feed it ketones.

Now, the first nutrient I want to talk about is B1, thymine. Now, what does it do? Well, in relationship to the brain,

it's essential to act as a co-enzyme in the production of energy. And I'm talking about ATP in your

mitochondria, which is the energy factory of your entire body. But as far as your brain

goes, B1 is very, very, very important. In fact, without B1, your neurons, your nerve cells

that make up your brain, cannot receive glucose. In fact, if you look at someone with dementia

or Alzheimer's, what's really going on is their nerve cells are starving to death, okay?

And so even if you're on the ketogenic diet, a certain portion of your brain will still need glucose.

But that glucose can be made by your own body through a process called gluconeogenesis.

So you really don't need any additional glucose to feed your brain,

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