Dr. Miguel Toribio-Mateas

Maybe some mixed seeds, like, you know, sunflower, pumpkin seeds, maybe some mixed nuts, you know, for the crunch, the protein, the omegas.

So think about sprinkles as opposed to like, oh, I need to like rehaul my, overhaul my whole diet.

Keep the basics, like the wardrobe basics, and then add, you know, like you would have the same outfit with a different belt, the same outfit with a different scarf or, you know, whatever.

Think about that same structure.

So keep the basics of your wardrobe and use up the accessories.

Okay.

And I respect the skepticism because as we've discussed plenty throughout the episode, nutrition is very nuanced.

And I know that people like clean answers.

So, you know, just knowing that eating a particular food is going to change your brain function sounds like amazing, and maybe in a tightly controlled experiment it does something.

Is it going to completely make you a better person or is it going to improve your brain so much that you've hacked it?

Is it going to remove or vanish your ADHD or your autistic symptoms or, you know, what are you trying to achieve with that?

Is it going to do something to your biology?

Absolutely, yes.

But the way that it's going to do that might be so subtle and in combination with other ingredients that you're putting as part of your diet.

We know, for example, that something as rich in antioxidants like a tomato has got lycopene.

polyphenol that is good for your gut and your brain and your skin and, you know, the whole of the body, your eyes.

But if you mix it with olive oil and you heat up the olive oil as well, because sometimes people think, oh, if you fry something or if you heat it up, you lose.

But in fact, the studies actually say that when you heat up the olive oil and you put the tomato in there, like we do around the Mediterranean in Spain and Italy, we have this thing called sofrito.

and the sofrito is tomato or tomato paste or fresh tomato with olive oil and maybe some parsley or some other herbs and the polyphenol content in that particular meal that is the start of a meal then you use that to make something else increases dramatically because of the combination of the different polyphenols in the different foods so this is an example of this if you isolate your thinking to one particular food and thing this food i've seen a study

The study is a very controlled thing.