How does diet affect your brain?

You eat food every day to live or live to eat? "demonstrate the complex effects that diet and obesity have on brain health, mental function and behavior," said Dr. Ralph DiLeone of Yale University, an expert in neurobiology..." "what you eat directly affects the structure and function of your brain and, ultimately, your mood. Like an expensive car, your brain functions best when it gets only premium fuel. Eating high-quality foods that contain lots of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants nourishes the brain and protects it from oxidative stress — the “waste” (free radicals) produced when the body uses oxygen, which can damage cells.Unfortunately, just like an expensive car, your brain can be damaged if you ingest anything other than premium fuel. If substances from “low-premium” fuel (such as what you get from processed or refined foods) get to the brain, it has little ability to get rid of them. Diets high in refined sugars, for example, are harmful to the brain. In addition to worsening your body’s regulation of insulin, they also promote inflammation and oxidative stress. Multiple studies have found a correlation between a diet high in refined sugars and impaired brain function — and even a worsening of symptoms of mood disorders, such as depression."

your brain functions - Like an expensive car -best when it gets only premium fuel. Eating high-quality foods that contain lots of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants nourishes the brain and protects it from oxidative stress (...)your brain can be damaged if you ingest anything other than premium fuel. If substances from “low-premium” fuel (such as what you get from processed or refined foods) get to the brain, it has little ability to get rid of them

We ready in LiveScience "Now, scientists have found support for this adage in researching showing that poor diets may adversely affect mental health in all stages of life, from fetal development through old age.Duke University researchers found that a mother's high-fat diet triggers brain inflammation in the developing fetus, leading to anxiety and hyperactivity in the offspring. This supports observations in humans that obesity in pregnancy is associated with childhood attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), said Dr. Staci Bilbo of Duke, who led the study. Turning from in-utero development to the teenage years, researchers at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta found that a high-fructose diet may exacerbate depressive-like symptomsin adolescents. Harrell said that such a profound dietary effect is of particular concern during the human teen years, a critical time for the development of the brain's stress response. Studies presented here today at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting find that the typical, modern Western diet, when consumed by the mother, may hinder the development of a baby's brain while still in the womb. That same diet can lead to depression among adolescents, and contribute to dementia and Parkinson's disease in older adults.

"So, what's the scientific evidence for considering the cognitive effects of these foods? (ask question Psychology Today) Mostly, it's related to what happens when we do not get enough of them. For example, studies have shown that consuming too little tryptophan makes us depressed and angry and has been blamed for multiple wars and acts of cannibalism. Too little sugar or water-soluble vitamins (the B's and C) will induce changes in brain function that we will notice after a few days of deprivation. Many authors jump to the conclusion that giving high doses of such nutrients will rapidly improve our mood or thinking: sadly, this is rarely the case. Ordinarily the foods in this category require far more time."

"The anti-oxidant rich foods such as colorful fruits and vegetables, fish and olive oils, fruit juices, anti-inflammatory plants and drugs such as aspirin, some steroids, cinnamon and some other spices, nicotine, caffeine and chocolate, the fat-soluble vitamins, nuts, legumes, beer and red wine. People who eat these foods do not report acute changes in their thoughts or moods (depending upon how much they consume!) but certainly benefit from consuming them regularly over their life span. In general, the benefit comes from the fact that all of these foods provide our brains with some form of protection against the most deadly thing we expose ourselves to every day - Oxygen. Because we consume food, we must consume oxygen. Because we consume oxygen, we age. Thus, people who live the longest tend to each food rich in ant-oxidants or simply eat a lot less food."

brain is fat "most of its weight would come from lipids (fats). To keep your brain healthy, eat hearty when it comes to nuts, seeds, and fatty fish. The fatty acids are found only in those foods, and help to create and maintain new cell membranes"

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The field of Nutritional Psychiatry is relatively new, however there are observational data regarding the association between diet quality and mental health across countries, cultures and age groups – depression in particular. Here are links to some systematic reviews and meta-analyses:

https://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/99/1/181.long

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23720230

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4167107/

There are also now two interventions suggesting that dietary improvement can prevent depression:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3848350/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4050338/

Diet during early life is also linked to mental health outcomes in children (very important from public health perspective):

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24074470

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25524365https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23541912

Extensive animal data show that dietary manipulation affects brain plasticity and there are now data from humans to suggest the same:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4563885/

Finally, while there are yet to be published RCTs testing dietary improvement as a treatment strategy for depression, the first of these is underway and results will be published within six months:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3636120/

source:

www.health.harvard.edu

www.livescience.com

www.psychologytoday.com

medicaldaily.com

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