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4 Eating Habits for Greater Brain Health

Common eating habits, such as consuming carbohydrates first in a meal, can significantly impact glucose spikes in the blood, affecting how the brain functions. To improve and optimize brain health, it’s essential to establish scientific eating habits.

How does blood sugar level affect your brain power?

Every cell in your body needs energy to function, and one of the main ways to provide that energy is through glucose. However, consuming foods high in starch and sugar leads to glucose spikes, which do not provide the necessary energy for your body or brain to maintain stability.

In the video 4 Eating Habits for Greater Brain Health on Jim Kwik’s YouTube channel, Jessie Inchauspé, a French biochemist, discusses the impact of glucose on the body and brain. Jessie shares her knowledge on the relationship between glucose and cognitive performance.

Providing energy to the body is not just about eating more glucose. In fact, excessive glucose intake can lead to problems like inflammation, diabetes, and more.

Listen as Jessie shares four simple food principles you can incorporate into your diet today to help balance glucose, improve cognitive performance, and live a better life.

Video Content Timestamps:
0:00 – Glucose Goddess
2:04 – What is glucose?
4:00 – Glucose spikes and brain health
5:24 – The Glucose Goddess method
6:55 – Breakfast: Sweet vs. Savory
9:20 – Do this before a meal
12:38 – If you eat bread first…
15:04 – This trick after a meal
17:11 – How to change easily

Key Takeaways:
Habit 1: Should you have a sweet or savory breakfast?
Most of us have sweet breakfasts. The result is that your brain releases dopamine, the “feel-good” molecule, in response to sugar. This tricks you into thinking you have energy, but in reality, you don’t. You just feel happy because of the dopamine.

Inside your body, especially in the mitochondria—tiny organelles that produce energy—sweet foods for breakfast make them tired, stressed, and unable to generate energy efficiently.

By shifting from a sweet breakfast that causes a major glucose spike to a savory breakfast focused on protein, you won’t get as much dopamine, but you’ll have stable energy.

Throughout the day, you’ll be able to focus better, feel great, maintain stable moods, and have an entirely new experience with your days. You’ll also be more productive. A savory breakfast in the first week will be a big change, laying the foundation for stable glucose levels and a better life experience.

The food you eat is the fuel for your body. Although the brain makes up only about 2% of your body mass, it requires 20% of the energy. It consumes a lot of energy and is very sensitive to fluctuations in blood sugar levels. Providing your brain with a stable supply of glucose will help it function much better.

Starting breakfast with protein reduces cravings, improves energy, makes you less hungry, reduces inflammation, helps with skin issues, and even stabilizes hormone problems. You’ll sleep better too.

Habit 2: Add vinegar to your diet

Take one tablespoon of vinegar in a large glass of water before one of your meals each day. Acetic acid in vinegar is great because it slows down the breakdown of food into glucose molecules, reducing glucose spikes.

You can use any type of vinegar, and if you don’t like vinegar, lemon juice can be a substitute.

Habit 3: Save the bread for after your main course
Bread is starch, which breaks down into glucose. It’s best to eat starchy foods at the end of a meal because the rest of the food in your digestive system will slow down glucose absorption.

Ideally, start your meal with vegetables and save any starches or sugars for the end.

Habit 4: Move more after eating
After one meal each day, engage in 10 minutes of physical activity. This will help absorb some of the glucose from the meal you just ate.

The content is based on the video “4 Eating Habits for Greater Brain Health” on Jim Kwik’s YouTube channel.

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