
Nutrition and mental health: Exploring the surprising science of food and emotion
Life Examined
What Are the Micronutrients in a Vitamin and Mineral Pill?
The main focus should really be on those vitamins and minerals because that's what we're giving in actually quite not high doses. The RDA is about identifying a minimal amount for a healthy population to prevent them from getting a frank nutritional deficiency like scurvy or rickets. So when you think about the brain as what I like to call the hungriest organ, which is that it's 2% of your body weight, but between 20 to 40% of the nutrients you consume go towards brain metabolic activity.
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