Feed Your Brain
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Feed Your Brain

How to Combat Depression With Fat

Your nerves, mood, and memory require lipids

The human brain is often likened to a computer. I don’t know why; it’s nothing like a computer. Break open a head and you will see that the organ within is just a lump of wobbly fat. Yet it took millions of years of human evolutionary biology to fine tune that lardy lump. It runs entirely on what you feed it.

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Explores the link between diet and mental health, and how food influences brain function. How what you eat can change the way you feel, sharpen your focus, and affect your memory.

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Maria Cross

MSc. Registered nutritionist, specialising in gut and mental health. Subscribe to my newsletters on Substack: mariacross.substack.com