Our brain is a sophisticated, highly specialized, and amazing organ that keeps us alive and functioning. Yet, how many times during this week did we consider how our food and other lifestyle choices will affect the health and functioning of our amazing brain? For instance, how often do we connect our lifestyle choices to our brain functioning now and in the future? Last time I wrote about exercises for our brain, both physical and other lifestyle behaviors. This time, it’s about feeding our brain with nutrients!

Just a reminder of how important our brain is, here again is a little more about it. Made up of nervous tissue and cells, our brain controls our ability to think and reason, our ability to move, our emotions, our memory, and every bodily function, including our ability to breathe. As a structure working to perform all these complex jobs, whether we are awake or asleep, our brain is an especially important, hard-working machine. I think that since our brain is so vital to every aspect of keeping our bodies functioning, let us think a bit more about how to feed it!

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

Sean O'Casey