Nutrition & Brain Health: Understanding the impact of the foods we eat on our Mental Health
Have you thought about the importance of the nutritional status of your brain health? Every year more and more people are extremely interested in ways of helping their bodies to function optimally. When we think of having good quality of life throughout the years, the brain is one of the main organs that we should be supporting, in the best way possible. What we choose to eat is important in maintaining good mental health. This is a statement, especially in the last two decades, that researchers have brought to the table in many studies. One expample of it is a systematic review study published in 2018 by PubMed called "Healthy dietary indices and risk of depressive outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies" (1) this study concluded that adhering to a healthy diet, in particular a traditional Mediterranean diet, or avoiding a pro-inflammatory diet appears to confer some protection against depression in observational studies. Our brain uses
