Genius Foods
Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life
Editorial Review
The way we live today is fighting our optimal cognitive performance, and putting us at risk for some nasty afflictions. Our diets supply cheap and plentiful calories with poor nutrient content and toxic additives. Our careers shoehorn us into doing something Our lives are not going on the same rhythm all the time. Sometimes, we don’t get enough amount of sleep. Life puts us under constant stress. We, sometimes, not eat well too. We either eat too much or eat too little. Even those who design for themselves a healthy recipe to follow don’t necessarily stick to it for a long time. At last, all of this affects our brain health and leads to problems with our memory, long-term diseases such as Alzheimer’s, headaches, and so we lose attention and focus, we don’t make the right decisions, and our interpersonal skills become weaker. Helping us overcome all these instabilities that are linked to our neural system and to what extent our brains are functioning well according to the kind of food we’re that is entering our bodies, the authors introduce us in the summary of Genius Foods to the methods of eating that will set our brain cells for a long life of mental agility. Not just will we be happy people but also, we’ll learn how to let our brains function properly as much as we can. and over again, while our brains thrive on change and stimulation. We are saddled with stress, a lack of connection to nature, unnatural sleep patterns, and overexposure to news and tragedy. We’ve created a world so far removed from the one our brains need to evolve. We’ll explore how you can optimize your cognitive function. You will learn how every biological action has an equal and opposite reaction, and how your habits can lead to optimum brain health.
Book Reviews
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Wisdom to Share
Everything you are, do, love, feel, and aspire to is enabled by a complex, invisible symphony of neurological processes.
Our diets supply cheap and plentiful calories with poor nutrient content and toxic additives. Our careers shoehorn us into doing something over and over again, while our brains thrive on change and stimulation. We are saddled with stress, a lack of connection to nature, unnatural sleep patterns, and overexposure to news and tragedy. We’ve created a world so far removed from the one our brains need to evolve.
Despite the damage forced on you (and us) by modern life, and whether you’re suffering from poor mood or memory, stress, or brain-fog; you don’t have to live with them anymore.
Sugar is sticky once it’s in your body, akin to the stickiness of maple syrup on your finger—with one important difference: once sugar sticks to your inside, it can’t be washed off. On a molecular level, this is called glycation, and it occurs when a glucose molecule bonds to nearby cells, causing damage.
One of the forms of sugar, glucose, is used as a fuel for our leg muscles as we ascend a flight of stairs, our brains as we crunch for a test, and our immune systems as we fight off a cold. But glucose molecules waltz into cells—they need an escort.
When we’re healthy, muscle, fat, and liver cells require little insulin to respond. But repeated and prolonged stimulation of insulin receptors will over time force the cell to resist the insulin, by reducing the number of receptors on the surface. As a result, insulin keeps streaming in the blood.
When insulin levels are elevated, it interferes with the cleanup process our bodies use to flush out unneeded by-products.
Our excessive consumption of glucose forces the mitochondria to use glucose as a fuel, and this comes at a cost: glucose metabolism leaves free radical wastes behind.
The first step to a healthier brain is minimizing the sources of sugar in our diets. We should be thinking in terms of the total amount of concentrated carbohydrates we consume. This includes more overt sources of sugar, like sweet beverages, processed foods, syrups, and pastries, and also whole-grain foods that affect the blood sugar.
Change is hard, especially dietary changes. We bring to every meal years of habit, societal pressure, and cultural norms.
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I ask that you seek your own truth. Challenge your assumptions, be unafraid of authority, and question everything.
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