This Is Your Brain on Food: An Indispensable Guide to the Surprising Foods that Fight Depression, Anxiety, PTSD, OCD, ADHD, and More

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This is your brain on an indispensable guide to the surprising foods that fight depression etc by uma naidoo. Uma is a psychiatrist, nutritionist, and professional chef. Her ideas are chronicled in her own book.

This is your brain on food presents a broad overview of the effects of dietary pattens, specific foods, and nutrients on brain function and mood. If there was ever a time to dedicate ourselves to taking care of our whole selves through our food, it is... Read More

Dr. O'bryan does a great job of tying autoimmune diseases and all those aches and pains back to what we eat and the microbiome. It's easy to understand (especially for people like me that are not by trade doctors, psychiatrists, etc). It's straight fo... Read More

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It's worth noting that when epidemiological research is followed-up by more controlled clinical research, 80% of the time the hypothesis derived from the epidemiological study is demonstrated to be false. Without looking at the raw data, it's hard to ... Read More

Many nuts and seeds are high in omega 6's and very low in 3's including brazil nuts (1000 to 1), and pumpkin seeds (175 to 1) vegans are routinely deficient in zinc and iron. It's not from not eating enough pumpkin seeds. Overly processed foods, false... Read More

High fat diet is high in saturated (sfa) and monounsaturated (mufa) fat. Coconut oil is largely lauric, capric and palmitic sfa's. Also pushing canola oil seems odd to me.

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Quality

I am not new to medical nutrition, and all the recommendations in this book are accurate based on current literature and research.

An excellent guide to understand and how to maintain a healthy brain.

I know mental health often depletes us of our energy so there is even a 'cheat sheet' at the end of each chapter that anyone ca... Read More

I embrace and wish to see more approaches that actually encourage action, change, and improvement.

Packaging/appearance

The chapters are arranged so you can read one chapter and skip the next couple, depending on what your interest is, as they eas... Read More

Competitiveness

Not the least of which is getting more omega 3's rather than omega 6's.

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This product had a total of 2,649 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jul 19 2024.