Hey, it’s your brain, hope you’re well.
There are a lot of people on instagram, facebook and youtube that love to say that the kinds of foods that we eat don’t actually effect how we feel.
I call baloney on that one.
Of course they can affect how we feel, and if you look at some of the data, you can see the foods that really do negatively impact the brain.
The first one needs no introduction… Sugar
There was an interesting study published in the British Journal of Nutrition that specifically looked at the effect of the intake of sugary soft drinks on cognitive function in people with type 2 diabetes (T2D).
803 people completed neuropsychological tests and their soft drink intake was also assessed.
They found that iIncreased sugar-sweetened soft drink consumption was associated with a decrease in performance in visual spatial memory, working memory, scanning and tracking, executive function. Interestingly, diet soft drink intake was not related to cognitive performance.
This tells us that it is the sugar in the soft drink that could be causing problems. Doesn’t mean that diet soda is great to consume, but it means as far as cognitive function goes… sugar sucks.
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Next one is Alcohol, long term, not just the impairment that comes from short term use:
A study in Alcohol and Alcoholism compared the cognitive function of 48 long-term drinkers with that of 36 heathy control subjects.
There were lots of cognitive tests used but to summarize results, alcohol-dependant patients performed much worse in attention and executive function tasks.
Essentially this means that their frontal lobe was affected (theorized). So things like executive function were harmed, making it so overall control of cognitive function was less.
This next one is tricky, because if you look at the data on high Omega-6 rich oils, it can be confusing.
On one hand, we see in the research that omega-6 fats do trigger inflammation. On the other hand we also see that they could even play a role in anti-inflammatory responses.
The bottomline is that it comes down to having way too much in the way of omega 6s and this results in potential neuroinflammation.
If you imagine a network of roads and bridges as the way in which our neurons communicate with each other, this can make some sense.
Now imagine that neuroinflammation is this crazy fog that comes in and makes it so that the signal trying to go from one neuron to another cannot cross the bridge because there is too much fog…
Make sense?
The last study I want to touch on, since a lot of people seem to think that fructose isn’t all that different from sugar, is High Fructose Corn Syrup.
Now, disclaimer, this study is done in rodents, but still, very illuminating!
A study conducted in Hippocampus looked at the effect of HFCS on spatial memory function and hippocampal neuroinflammation in adolescent/adult male rats.
They were given chow, water and either 11% sucrose solution, 11% HFCS solution or an extra bottle of water as a control.
They found that the rats, although the sucrose group was moderately impaired, HFCS significantly reduced spatial learning and memory.
They also found that HFCS increased neuroinflammation as protein expression of pro-inflammatory cytokines (interleukin 6, interleukin 1β) was increased in the dorsal hippocampus.
Because this neuroinflammation seemed to be heavily surrounding the hippocampus region (which affects memories), it makes sense that this impacted the rats in such a way.
It’s just intriguing that HFCS impacted them MORE than sugar.
Then we think about all the foods that contain both sugar AND high fructose corn syrup, right?
It’s sad, because when I was in school, I used to eat skittles for brain power… Oh man, I wish I could slap my college self!
Anyhow, onward and upward with improving and optimizing!
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