Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life (Genius Living Book 1)
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The good news is that, as with inflammation, your diet directly affects neuronal membrane fluidity.
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This can be achieved by sticking to wild fish, pastured eggs, and grass-fed or pasture-raised meats, which have more omega-3s and fewer omega-6s. If you don’t like fish, or are unable to consume it two to three times per week, consider supplementing with high-quality fish oil (I’ll provide tips for choosing one in chapter 12, but here’s a hint: fis
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How to buy and consume: Fresh blueberries are great, but don’t be afraid to buy frozen blueberries, which are often much cheaper (and more widely available) than fresh. Always opt for organic. Blueberries are great in smoothies and salads or eaten as a snack.
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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 desensitize itself by reducing the number of receptors on the surface.
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The empowering news here is that we can mimic many of these benefits in part by keeping tight reins on our bodies’ production of insulin. We can do this by engaging in brief periods of fasting (which I will introduce in chapter 6), avoiding rapidly digesting sugars, and demoting starches (especially processed grains) from mainstays in our diets to
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the lethargy that you feel soon after a high-carbohydrate meal. This happens because the pancreas, the organ that secretes insulin, isn’t an instrument of precision; it’s more like a blunt tool, meant to help us store fat during times of plenty
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One way to optimize this critical brain cleaning is to stop eating two to three hours before bed to reduce circulating insulin.
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leptin. Leptin is the “satiety” hormone that helps regulate energy balance by inhibiting hunger, and it plummets with sleep deprivation. Leptin’s job is to control energy expenditure through its action on the hypothalamus, the brain’s master metabolic regulator.
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deprivation. Leptin’s job is to control energy expenditure through its action on the hypothalamus, the brain’s master metabolic regulator. Because leptin is secreted by fat cells, the more fat cells one has, the more circulating leptin.
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