{"id":98627,"date":"2019-11-15T21:22:31","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T05:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/nutritional-psychiatry-your-brain-on-food"},"modified":"2019-11-17T00:14:45","modified_gmt":"2019-11-17T08:14:45","slug":"nutritional-psychiatry-your-brain-on-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/nutritional-psychiatry-your-brain-on-food","title":{"rendered":"Nutritional psychiatry: Your brain on food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nutritional-psychiatry-your-brain-on-food2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Think about it. Your brain is always \u201con.\u201d It takes care of your thoughts and movements, your breathing and heartbeat, your senses \u2014 it works hard 24\/7, even while you\u2019re asleep. This means your brain requires a constant supply of fuel. That \u201cfuel\u201d comes from the foods you eat \u2014 and what\u2019s in that fuel makes all the difference. Put simply, what you eat directly affects the structure and function of your brain and, ultimately, your mood.<\/p>\n<p>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 \u2014 the \u201cwaste\u201d (free radicals) produced when the body uses oxygen, which can damage cells.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, just like an expensive car, your brain can be damaged if you ingest anything other than premium fuel. If substances from \u201clow-premium\u201d 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\u2019s 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 \u2014 and even a worsening of symptoms of mood disorders, such as depression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think about it. Your brain is always \u201con.\u201d It takes care of your thoughts and movements, your breathing and heartbeat, your senses \u2014 it works hard 24\/7, even while you\u2019re asleep. This means your brain requires a constant supply of fuel. That \u201cfuel\u201d comes from the foods you eat \u2014 and what\u2019s in that fuel [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98666,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98627\/revisions\/98666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}