2024-08-15 07:36:51
Author: Kadriye Bag/August 15, 2024/ 23 views
Dear friend, dear friend,
How your brain works has a lot to do with what you eat.
This idea has long made many doctors laugh.
But some brilliant doctors showed the way long ago.
After World War II, Dr. Catherine Kousmine made extensive use of nutrition to combat cancer and degenerative diseases such as multiple sclerosis (1).
GAPS diet for autism
Starting in the 1990s, another prominent woman of Russian descent, Dr. Natasha Campbell-Mcbride(2), demonstrated that diet could help people with autism.
As a neurologist and neurosurgeon, she helped her son overcome autism (2).
She has supported many patients with this condition within the field Cambridge Nutrition Clinican organization she founded and leads (2,3).
She offers these patients a specific diet she calls GAPS(3).
This diet completely eliminates starch and sugar (4,5).
Cereals, sugar, potatoes, parsnips, sweet potatoes and yams are excluded for at least one year (4.5).
After a year or more, new potatoes can be reintroduced along with buckwheat and millet or quinoa seeds (4,5).
But wheat and all industrial foods were eliminated (4,5).
This is a diet built around (4.5):
High-quality proteins (meat, eggs, organic or wild-caught seafood); cooked vegetables (especially steamed vegetables), raw vegetables and salads, high-quality vegetable oils: especially olive and coconut oils.
Fruit can be eaten between meals, preferably raw (4,5).
According to recommended therapists, the GAPS diet is suitable for the following diseases or conditions (4,5):
Autism, multiple sclerosis and autoimmune diseases, ADHD, depression, schizophrenia.
This diet does not claim to cure patients, but rather to help their brains function better (4,5).
What is brain fog?
One of the effects of the GAPS diet is to reduce brain fog (6,7).
Therapists are becoming increasingly aware of this concept (6,7).
Brain fog affects many people whether or not they have a more serious illness.
These symptoms may be permanent or intermittent.
In all cases, the patient’s life is affected.
Brain fog manifests as (6,7):
Slightly blurred vision, difficulty concentrating, a feeling of being underwater, a feeling of living side by side with one’s own life, the impression of brain sluggishness, poor memory, and difficulty doing things.
Breakfast portion size
The GAPS diet brings about very significant life changes (4,5).
Sometimes, simple changes in diet can improve brain fog before taking such drastic measures (6,7).
Dr. Anne Nilsson of Lund University in Sweden reiterated this health solution (8,9,10,11).
In 2007, researchers conducted a study that helped change the way science looks at blood sugar and the brain (8,9,12,13).
This research was published inEuropean Journal of Nutrition 2009.
This is one of his earliest publications.
Since then she has published many other works. Dr. Anne Nilsson has become an important scientist in the Western nutrition community (9,10,11).
For the study, the scientist selected 40 healthy volunteers aged 49 to 70 years who agreed to be followed by her team (8).
The purpose of these observations is to understand the correlation between diet and brain function.
More specifically, the researchers wanted to understand the impact of blood sugar on cognitive function (8).
The scientists divided the participants into two groups.
Participants in the first group received a high-glycemic index breakfast. They drank a drink that caused a rapid rise in blood sugar levels (8).
As a result, their blood sugar peaks before falling back down.
They then performed cognitive and memory tests.
They performed the first test 35 minutes after breakfast, then the second test 90 minutes later, the third test 120 minutes later, and the fourth test 150 minutes later (8).
Then, at the 170-minute mark, they were given an attention test.
The second group received a moderate glycemic index breakfast. Their blood sugar levels remained essentially the same throughout the morning.
They underwent the same tests as the first group.
Then, compare participants’ results on different tests.
As a result, the group whose breakfast helped regulate blood sugar levels performed better on tests 2, 3 and 4, as well as on the concentration test.
Apparently, they are able to maintain attention longer.
Conclusions: A breakfast that helps maintain blood sugar levels is more effective in preventing morning decline in cognitive function and attention.
It was through this and subsequent work that many dietitians were able to confirm this hypothesis with their patients (14,15).
Simply put, when you eat a protein breakfast that includes vegetables, you’re less likely to feel tired during the day than when you eat a classic continental breakfast.
You’ll have clear ideas in the morning!
Of course it’s yours,
Augustine of Liva
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