Dr. Miguel Toribio-Mateas

Everybody's going to be at different stages in their journey.

And it's going to be a mix of where am I in that journey and where do I take it?

Yeah, of course, of course.

And this resonates completely with what I was trying to say, that I'll give you like kind of like the, you know, too long didn't read answer, which is basically it's not incompatible.

You know, we do have really good science on fermented foods, on, you know, the broccoli family of vegetables, on polyphenols from berries, on...

The science is undeliable.

The research is very robust.

This is strong.

But there's only one side of the story.

So, you know, you can be at a point in your life where you find you struggle with something.

And if you get stuck in mostly beige foods, mostly foods that are going to, okay, they're going to anchor you.

They're going to give you safety.

But they might also not give you the nutrients that your brain needs.

and that your nervous system needs.

And other parts of your body, like your muscle, is host to the most substantial colony of mitochondria.

So mitochondria are the power plants in cells, and they are very important for mental health.

Now you have mitochondria in every cell in the body, but muscle actually has the most number of mitochondria of all tissues in the body.

So if you have a diet that is quite depleted in protein,

your muscle is not going to get the protein that it needs to keep itself at the levels that it needs to be at.

So, you know, you're strong and it carries your bones and so on.