Glucose spikes from sugary or starchy meals cause your brain to lose steady energy, triggering brain fog, mood swings, and irritability. Over time, chronic blood sugar swings increase your risk of Alzheimer's disease.
You talk about glucose spikes. What is it and how is it affecting our cognitive performance, our brain?
Glucose spike is what happens after a meal if you eat too many starches and sugars. So it's a rapid increase in how much glucose is in your body. Specifically for your brain, this means a couple things. Instead of your brain having a nice steady amount of energy coming through, it's experiencing this roller coaster, this spike and this dip. This can lead to many different symptoms. It can lead to brain fog. Very interesting, right? Because that glucose roller coaster can slow down the speed of the signals between your neurons, and that can be felt as brain fog. It can affect your mood, it can make you more irritable, it can make you hangry, it can make you sad, it can make your mental health worse. And then long-term, being on a glucose roller coaster is linked to the development of Alzheimer's disease. So your brain, if you want to take really good care of it, you need to make sure that you have steady glucose, not this big roller coaster going on.
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