How To Use Nutrients To Support Our Brain Health

Sep 30, 2022

Discover the vital link between gut health and brain function, emphasizing how nutrition shapes our well-being. Explore the connection between mental health issues and dietary choices, revealing how processed foods and toxins impact us. Learn about essential nutrients like omega-3s and vitamins that support cognitive performance. The discussion also highlights the power of supplements to fill nutritional gaps and the importance of seeking professional advice for optimal brain health.

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INSIGHT

Brain Damaging Factors

Many things damage our brains: processed diets, lack of nutrients, environmental toxins, and self-medication with sugar, caffeine, and alcohol.
These factors contribute to widespread mental health issues like depression, anxiety, and PTSD.

ADVICE

Dietary Changes for Brain Health

Eliminate junk foods, processed foods, starch, and sugar, which harm the brain.
Reduce alcohol and caffeine intake, and minimize exposure to toxins.

ADVICE

Lifestyle Interventions

Prioritize lifestyle changes like exercise, adequate sleep, and stress management techniques.
If these changes don't fully improve brain health, consider optimizing nutrient levels.

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This episode is brought to you by Beekeeper’s Naturals and Athletic Greens.

Your brain is an organ that’s connected to everything else happening in your body. Most of us never learn how to manage our energy and bodies. Instead, we use drugs like sugar, caffeine, and alcohol to self-medicate and manage our energy and moods. We don’t connect our behaviors and choices with how we feel. Many of us get too little good food, nutrients, light, air, water, rest, sleep, rhythm, exercise, community, love, meaning, and purpose. We’re exposed to far too much poor-quality food, stress, toxins, and allergens. But even if you manage all those things correctly, you still might not be getting the right amount of certain nutrients that support your brain and body. That’s where supplements come in.

In today’s episode in my series I’m calling Health Bites, I am talking about how to heal our broken brains with the right nutrients. The brain is resilient and can recover and heal when given the right conditions.

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Here are more details from the episode (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):

Things that damage our brain (3:48 / 1:18)
The top nutrients we need to support our brain health: multivitamins, Omega-3 fatty acids, magnesium, vitamin D, folate, B6, and B12, and probiotics (6:17 / 2:55)
The gut-brain connection (11:26 / 8:55)
The role of glutathione in brain function and how to boost it (12:24 / 9:46)
Supporting mitochondria for brain health (13:14 / 10:42)
Calming nutrients to support the brain (14:13 / 11:42)