3 important nutritional advice for your brain

Everything stands and falls with a healthy brain. By exercising, skipping alcohol and continuing to stimulate your brain as much as possible, you can keep your brain as healthy as possible. But what exactly should you eat for that? These are the most important nutritional advice for your brain.

Your brain makes you who you are. They make you think, have memories, make plans, feel like making love, cry about a sad movie and so on. Meanwhile, by producing hormones, they regulate many processes in your body, such as your breathing, your heartbeat, your mood and your metabolism. If something goes wrong in our brains, it has a major impact. For example, we become forgetful, depressed or have difficulty concentrating. The good news: nutrition has a major impact on brain health. More good news: With all the research done in recent years, we know more and more what we should and shouldn’t eat to protect our brains against brain disease. We share the three important nutritional advice for your brain.

1. Skip the fast carbs

Our western diet contains too many sugars and ‘fast’ carbohydrates. Think of cookies, candy, soda, pasta and white rice. These are products that contain a lot of sugar and very little fiber. This combination causes a rapid rise in your blood sugar. And that’s not good for your brain. In response, our body produces the hormone insulin, which lowers blood sugar. If you often eat these types of products, your blood sugar level keeps fluctuating from high to low. These fluctuations hinder brain function and affect your memory, mood and learning ability. So rather choose high fiber products that keep your blood sugar stable, such as whole wheat bread, whole wheat pasta, brown rice and legumes. If you do eat ‘fast’ carbohydrates, combine them with fiber-rich products, such as vegetables, nuts or seeds. This prevents the carbohydrates from causing a spike in your blood sugar level.

2. Experiment with herbs

High blood pressure is a silent killer, also for your brain. Because the pressure in the blood vessels is constantly too high, you run a greater risk of brain stroke. High blood pressure also increases the risk of dementia. If possible, always go for pure products, experiment with different herbs and sprinkle as little as possible with the salt pot. Also serve yourself less processed food – bye bye cookies, chips, snacks, meal mixes and fast food! And do you eat nuts† Season them with, for example, paprika or curry powder instead of salt.

3. Eat more oily fish

If there’s one thing that’s important to keep your blood vessels flexible, it’s healthy fats. If you don’t get enough omega-3 fatty acids, it can lead to cognitive problems, such as forgetfulness or reduced concentration. Therefore, eat meat less often (because: rich in saturated fat) and eat several times a week vette vis, such as herring, mackerel and salmon. Fish is an important source of omega 3 fatty acids. These polyunsaturated fatty acids ensure that nerve cells in the brain can communicate well and quickly with each other. Prefer not to eat fish? Omega 3 fatty acids are also found in vegetable oils, especially linseed oil, and a little bit in green leafy vegetables.

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