Can Food Really Heal Your Brain? | Dr. Jeff Bland & Dr. William Li
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Coming up on this episode of The Dr. Hyman Show. Food is medicine, but then that begots the question of, well, what foods contain the most medicine and how do you grow foods that contain the most medicine? And it turns out that regenerative agriculture is that method. We've seen a 50% drop in lots of minerals and other nutrients in vegetable crops over the last 50 years. So even if you're eating your broccoli, it's not as good as it used to be. Now, before we jump into today's episode, I'd like to note that while I wish I could help everyone by my personal... You know, I often remind people that sleep is not just a luxury, it's a necessity. It impacts your energy, focus, metabolism, and overall health.
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And if you're in need of deepening your knowledge around your health journey, well, check out my membership community, Dr. Hyman Plus. And if you're looking for curated, trusted supplements and health products for your health journey, visit my website, drhyman.com, for my website store and a summary of my favorite and thoroughly tested products. Today, I want to zero in on the research behind five specific foods that you can add to your diet for tremendous capacity to support your brain and health, and make us feel, think, and perform better. Now, some of you may be familiar with a few of these foods, but others may surprise you. So let's jump right in with the first food that can literally change the way your brain works for the better.
The first is dark green leafy vegetables and specifically a category called cruciferous vegetables, also known as brassicas, basically the broccoli family. Kale, collards, spinach, arugula, Swiss chard, collard greens, mustard greens, bok choy, romaine lettuce, turnip greens, beet greens, watercress, endive, escarole, broccoli rabe, dandelion greens, radicchio, watercress, lettuce, chicory, pretty much anything green. What is the mechanism of green leafy veggies and the positive effect on their brain? Well, there's a lot of reasons. Antioxidants and protective phytochemicals. Now, we don't think of phytochemicals as essential nutrients, but they kind of are. They're protective foods, right? We know harmful foods like sugar and processed food and so forth, but they're also protective foods, and we want to eat more of those and less of the harmful foods.
Now, green leafy vegetables contain anti-inflammatory molecules and antioxidants, things like vitamin C and E, carotenoids, which are the green, orange things actually also, but they're in the green vegetables, lutein, which is great for your eyes, alpha-linolenic acid, which is plant-based omega-3s. They contain polyphenols, which are these plant-based anti-inflammatory chemicals, flavonoids, things like camphorol. All of these things reduce inflammation. oxidative stress, which causes inflammation, and then reduce, more importantly, neuroinflammation, which is inflammation of your brain.
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