Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind
A Powerful Plan to Improve Mood, Overcome Anxiety, and Protect Memory for a Lifetime of Optimal Mental Health
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Publisher Description
Combine the surprising truth about brain food with the cutting-edge science of brain metabolism to achieve extraordinary improvements to your emotional, cognitive, and physical health.
Are you struggling with attention problems, mood swings, food obsession, or depression? Whatever the issue, you have far more control over your thoughts, feelings, and behavior than you realize. Although medications may bring some relief, in Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind, Dr. Georgia Ede reveals that the most powerful way to change brain chemistry is with food, because that’s where brain chemicals come from in the first place.
In this provocative, illuminating guide, Dr. Ede explains why nearly everything we think we know about brain-healthy diets is wrong. We've been told the way to protect our brains is with superfoods, supplements, and plant-based diets rich in whole grains and legumes, but the science tells a different story: not only do these strategies often fail, but some can even work against us. The truth about brain food is that meat is not dangerous, vegan diets are not healthier, and antioxidants are not the answer.
Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind will empower you to: understand how unscientific research methods drive fickle nutrition headlines and illogical dietary guidelines weigh the risks and benefits of your favorite foods so you can make your own informed choices about what to eat evaluate yourself for signs of insulin resistance—the silent metabolic disease that robs your brain of the energy it needs to thrive improve your mental health with a choice of moderate-carbohydrate and ketogenic diets that you can personalize to your food preferences and health goals Drawing on a wide range of scientific disciplines including biochemistry, neuroscience, and botany, Dr. Ede will ignite your curiosity about the fascinating world of food and its role in nourishing, protecting, and energizing your brain.
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Psychiatrist Ede debuts with a stimulating examination of how eating better can boost brain health. Exploring how various foods affect the mind, she explains that refined sugars and flours are unnaturally rich in carbohydrates that cause glucose and insulin spikes in the bloodstream, impeding communication between neurons in the brain and making "concentrating, remembering, and processing information" difficult. To reduce carb intake, she recommends following a modified paleo diet that "allows meat, seafood, poultry, eggs, fruits, and vegetables and excludes grains, legumes, dairy, refined carbohydrates, alcohol, vegetable oils, and ultraprocessed foods." If the paleo diet doesn't yield improvements after six weeks, she suggests switching to the narrower ketogenic diet, noting studies that have shown it "cools inflammation," "bolsters antioxidant defenses," and keeps glucose levels in check. The science is rigorous yet accessible (cytokines in the brain respond to molecules formed from excess sugar by crossing "into the bloodstream to alert the rest of the body that the brain is under attack and instruct your whole body to temporarily adopt a new set of priorities to deal with the emergency"), and the dietary advice is easy to follow. It's a solid guide to eating better.
Customer Reviews
Terrible
Severely limited by fact that author is not a nutrition or brain science expert.
Great Read
Incredibly informative book that needs to be reread several times. The main message is simple though: eat what energizes and nourishes you and avoid what damages your body and brain.