What is the best diet for ensuring a healthy brain?
The answer to that question is unknown. It is currently a field of active scientific research. What we know, though, is that what we eat has changed dramatically from the diet that helped shape our genes and nervous system. Much of this nutritional change has occurred over the past 10,000 years. Such a short time frame has not allowed our genes to adapt to the profound dietary alterations that determine what we are eating throughout the world today. Hence, our genes and diet are currently “out of sync.” The diet to which humans have become adapted over millions of years has now become maladaptive. This means that until our genetic makeup changes, the gene-diet dissonance will create health problems. Some of these adversely impact the brain. We have all heard that “the brain burns glucose.” Glucose is the sugar that is measured in the blood stream when blood tests are performed. It is what becomes elevated when diabetics lose blood sugar control. They inject the hormone insulin to keep
