Protect Your Gray Matter

Welcome to today's Kwik Brain Challenge. And if you're watching this on video on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, you see I'm in the Kwik Brain kitchen and we're going to talk about Kwik Brain snacks. That is your challenge because what you eat matters, especially for your gray matter. Now, the episodes I'm going to be referencing, you can see our notes at jimkwik.com/notes. But the episodes, I'll put links in the show notes, are for Dr. Lisa Mosconi, who talks about neuronutrition, which is amazing. She's a neuroscientist and she's also a nutritionist, and we go deep in that area of neuronutrition. Now, here in the kitchen, what I'm gonna ask you to do as part of your challenge is every single day incorporate one simple brain food in your day and make it a conscious effort. So for me, I make it really convenient because I believe that in order to create a new habit, you have to make it really easy. It's not about necessarily trying harder. Sometimes it's about trying easier. And literally snacks, because instead of having a snack that's not good for you in your environment, control your environment. Just like we talked about controlling where the phone is in the home and controlling where you do your work, where you do your creative space, making sure you monitor and control your environment. Now in my environment, I have a lot of brain foods. 2 of my favorite brain foods I have right in front of me, and these are the snacks that I have. Number one are blueberries. I like to refer to them as brain berries. And you know that blueberries are full of antioxidants, which are very neuroprotective. They also taste amazing. Blackberries, also extraordinary for your mind. The other snack that I have here, I love walnuts. And walnuts, it's kind of interesting, when you look at a walnut, it looks like what? It looks like the human brain. Because nature, it's not only there's science behind this, but it's a great mnemonic memory device. Certain foods look like the organ it's supporting. So for example, Let's say a tomato. It has four chambers, just like what? The human heart. So it looks like the organ that it's serving. Just if you take a carrot and you slice it and you look at it, it looks like what? Looks like the human eye. And so those are little memory aids. And for this, when I'm looking at a walnut, it looks like it looks like a brain, right? And so when you look at these foods, it provides a signature or a sign of nature to help you remember what it's good for. Now, by the way, walnuts. Great omega-3s, which are great for the brain also as well. Also high in vitamin E, which is very neuroprotective also for your brain cells. And so what do you do? You take this and you have a snack, and you take it with you to work, or you take it with you to school. And then little things, again, little things become a lot, because what you wanna remember is consistency compounds. Consistency compounds. It gets additive, if you will. Because you can know things, but the whole point of this Kwik Brain Challenge is to take knowledge and turning into power. And the only way it becomes power is when you apply it. So what I'm gonna ask you to do as part of this challenge is take a photograph of your favorite brain food, post it online, share it with people, #KwikChallenge. And again, we'll share some of our very favorites. So it's @JimKwik on Twitter, on Facebook, also on Instagram. So that's your assignment. If you wanna go deeper in this subject, listen to our past episodes with Dr. Lisa Mosconi. With Max Lugavere and listen to my episode on how to memorize and remember the top 10 favorite brain foods that we have in this community. Remember, what you eat matters, especially for your gray matter. Enjoy this challenge, and I'll see you in our next episode. Thank you.