How the food you eat affects your brain – Mia Nacamulli

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When it comes to what you bite, chew and swallow, your choices have a direct and long-lasting effect on the most powerful organ in your body: your brain. So which foods cause you to feel so tired after lunch? Or so restless at night? Mia Nacamulli takes you into the brain to find out.

Lesson by Mia Nacamulli, animation by Private Island.

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  1. So that post-lunch crash isn't just me being lazy, it's just my frontal lobes screaming for a steadier release of glucose, Time to swap the white bread for oats😅

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  3. Great video! If anyone here is looking for meal ideas, meals for 1 and/or DIY ingredients, that is what I do on my channel. The main focus is less consumption of preservatives, stabilizers and fillers that are common in pre-made grocery store meals and ingredients. I also have "playlists" for specific categories such as "weight loss meals" "low carb" "meatless" "Latin cuisine" and more. Although the emphasis is on cleaner eating I don't believe in depriving yourself of treats. So on my channel I do also post indulgent food and there are videos with eating out. ❤