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BRAIN HEALTH
MENTAL MANAGEMENT
A GOOD DEATH
Let's not just fade away; let's FLOURISH as we age!
The MINDRAMP Podcasts focus on three key components that have been shown to contribute to flourishing in the later years of your life. You will find mini-series of episodes that explore each component.
1) Keeping your brain and body healthy - see The Roots of Brain Health
2) Managing your mental states - see Flourishing
3) Planning the kind of death you want to have - (coming 10/1/24))
You will also find the occasional episodes that focus social concerns that I feel have an impact on our well-being, for example "Elections."
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COGWHEELS #6 : Diet & Nutrition: You are what you ingest.
You are what you eat. You are what you ingest.
To stay alive, you need to ingest elements from the world outside your body. These elements – food, water, air – provide you with the energy you need to stay alive and to do all of the exciting things you do to make life worth living.
The problem is that you ingest a lot of gunk along with the good stuff. Your body has to work hard to sort out the good from the bad. It needs to integrate the good stuff and expel the bad. Unfortunately, the American diet and lifestyle does a bad job of this sorting process. There is a good chance that what you are eating – what you ingest – is making you sick.
In this episode, we take a quick look at how the quality and quantity of what you ingest alters your health, your mood and your mind.
Chapters:
- Introduction – We ingest the outside world
- Chimpanzees on a fast food diet
- Brain Food: The Surprising Science of Eating For Cognitive Power – Lisa Moscone
- Your Brain on Food: How Chemicals Control Your Thoughts and Feelings – Gary Wenk
- What We Should Ingest
- Your Take Home Idea – You are What You Ingest
- Conclusion
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