Try adding some brain food to your diet. Here are five suggestions full of antioxidants and other mind-empowering good things taken from an article published on brainready.com. Read the full article here.
- Wild Salmon. Wild salmon (not farm raised) can help do everything from improve your brain matter, your mood, your synaptic connections, your arteries, reduce your risk of stroke, Dementia, and Alzheimer's, and much more.
- Cacao Beans. This amazing, hedonistic bean is one of the world's longest-revered foods and has in recent years been shown to be a veritable powerhouse of cognitive enhancement, mood and bliss-enhancement antioxidants, flavonoids, catechins, and many other brain and body-enhancing elements. In fact, chocolate has been very recently cited by some top health professionals and researchers to be the single most exciting health food.
- Matcha (Tencha-grade green tea powder). Epigallocatechin Gallate, a compound found uniquely in green teas which has been shown to possess almost unbelievable anti-cancer, anti-aging and overall health benefits. Matcha contains exponentially higher amounts of EGCG than regular brewed green tea.
- Acai Berries and Blueberries. Acai is a berry that possesses not only all of the antioxidant, vitamin, and brain benefits of other purple berries such as blueberries and blackberries but also (oddly, for a berry) contains Essential Fatty Acids like Omega-3's, and is even high in protein. And blueberries have been reported time and time again for their high antioxidant and vitamin count. But more then that, they've been proven to slow and even REVERSE age-related brain decline, as well as improve short-term memory loss and help reverse age-related loss of balance.
- Coffee Beans. Regular coffee consumption has been shown to actually reduce the risk of mental decline and diseases such as Dementia and Alzheimer's, and has also recently been found to be (shockingly) the "#1 source of antioxidants in the average American diet." Don't feel guilty—drink up!
