Dr. Datis Kharrazian

We definitely want to avoid partially hydrogenated fats.

That's definitely up there.

So partially hydrogenated fats are fats that are in boxes, bags, processed food.

Those types of fats are devastating for neural membranes.

they will be a serious factor in your brain health if you consume those on a regular basis.

So you definitely want to avoid partial hydrogenated fats.

And then there's a strong relationship with certain food proteins that have been linked to brain inflammation in more and more of the population.

Most common ones are gluten sensitivity, dairy, casein sensitivity.

Other ones are egg, protein sensitivity.

But those are specific to if you actually are sensitive to them and you react against them, right?

And then you can look at it from food groups that just secrete more insulin.

So higher carbohydrate, higher sugar, higher concentrated sugars release more insulin.

Insulin turns on the inflammatory mechanisms in the brain.

Insulin causes insulin resistance in the brain.

insulin elevations can disrupt neurotransmitter transport mechanisms of the brain.

So they can cause a lot of disruption.

So it's really just like processed fats, certain inflammatory foods people are reactive to, really high carbohydrate, high sugar grains.

Those are all the things that for sure are bad for the brain.

It's the stuff everyone already knows.

Yeah, I mean, there's definitely trends that happen in functional medicine and in the community.