Micro Class: Your Hungry Brain

Hi, this is Brian.

Welcome back to another micro class. This one's on your hungry brain. It's inspired by Change youe Brain, Change youe Life by Daniel Amen, Maryland. Here you are.

Hello you.

Here's your brain. How much do you think your brain weighs? What would you guess? It's about £3. And depending on how big or small you are, that's about 2 to 3% of your total body weight. But get this, your brain is hungry. Your brain uses 20 to 30% of the calories you consume. Imagine that 20 to 30% of the calories you consume go right there. Tiny but expensive piece of real estate.

And knowing this, if we want to.

Optimize our lives, actualize our potential and change our brain so we can change our life, we better pay attention to what we eat. Dr. Amen makes the point very clear. Doesn't matter how much you meditate, how much you exercise, how much you do whatever, if you're not feeding your brain well, you will not be optimal, period. If you're continuing to eat a lot of processed foods, fake foods, artificial sweeteners, pesticides, all these things, you're not going to thrive. In my interview, I asked him what.

His number one tip was, nutrition wise. Can you guess what it was.

To reduce sugar? Number one tip to feed your hungry brain is, well, as you possibly can, is to reduce the amount of sugar that you consume. Remember, 20 to 30% of the calories you consume go to feed your hungry brain.

And also know that as your size grows, so as your size of you grows and grows like that and like that. And that's your body weight, right?

As your size grows and you put on more weight, the size of your brain actually shrinks. Dr. Amen calls us something like the.

Dinosaur syndrome or something.

Huge body, tiny brain. Rick Warren, the pastor of the super megachurch with whom Daniel Amen wrote a book called the Daniel plan. He watched Dr. Amen on a PBS special and saw this idea, the dinosaur brain thing, right? And the idea that the bigger you get, the smaller your brain gets. Can you believe that? The bigger you get, the smaller your brain gets. That's not a good equation. Anyway, Rick Warren saw this, reached out to Dr. Amen and they wrote a book together about it for now. Remember, tiny, 3 pounds, 2 to 3%. But it consumes 20 to 30% of your calories.

What's one thing you can do? One thing.

That's it. That's the number one thing that you could do to boost your nutrition by 5%.

You don't need to go nuts?

You can if you want to, but what's a tiny thing you can do to feed your hungry brain? Better get on that.

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