Discover the 6 TOP Foods that BREAK Your BRAIN!

In this video you'll discover the top foods that break your brain. Hello and welcome to Total Health with Dr. Nick where my purpose is to inspire, empower, and motivate you to live longer, healthier, and more abundant lives. And today's video is a great one because today we're going to talk about that master computer you have up here called your brain and what foods unbeknownst to you could be breaking it. That's right they can cause brain damage and cause all kinds of brain fog, cognitive dysfunction, maybe Alzheimer's disease, many many other problems, maybe even brain tumors that you're not even aware of. So make sure you watch to the end because you're going to want to make sure you get each and every one of these. And before we get started make sure you like, you share, you comment, and subscribe. Click that little bell notification so you get notified anytime I do a video because a lot of you have been telling me, Dr. Nick I haven't seen any of your videos in a while. 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Well guys we all know your brain is the supercomputer inside your skull. In fact the most important structure is our creator, God surrounded by solid bones. That gives you an idea how important your brain is because it's literally encased in a helmet. In fact the petriest portion of your temporal bone is the hardest bone in your body. So it gives you an idea just how important our brain is. Of course it's then surrounded by fluid to help with shock absorption. So your brain is the master control center. It receives between 10 and 12 trillion bits of information every single second, controlling and coordinating, telling you constantly how your body's doing. It's like a feedback loop. Your brain sends messages to your body through your nerve system. Your body sends messages back up to your brain. So it is the single most important organ in your body. Now a lot of you may be thinking it's the heart, but you know what? You can do a heart transplant and it still works, but you cannot do a brain transplant. If you take that out, I know some of you are thinking, man I'd like to work on my husband a little bit, or my wife, or my cousin, or my mother-in-law. No not you, not you mother-in-law. You're the best. So anyway, but no you'd like to do a brain transplant on some people, but you cannot do that. The brain cannot be transplanted. Well it's responsible for keeping and controlling every single organ in your body. So for your heart to beat and lungs to breathe, it doesn't happen because you ate broccoli. It happens because your brain sends electrical activity to it. In fact, if at any point in time your brain is cut off by cutting nerves to your organs, those organs work anymore because they're no longer in communication with the master control center. This is why it's essential to keep your brain healthy, keep it free of toxins, and unfortunately a lot of the foods that you're eating are causing toxicity to your brain. So let's jump in with number one, and this is probably the most common one because many of today's kids are consuming most of their calories with sugary drinks. Well it turns out these sugary drinks are causing major inflammation to the cells within your brain. Neuroinflammation and neuronal or nerve loss of the microglia and astrocyte cells leading to dementia and Alzheimer's disease. So many times we start to see that patients with Alzheimer's, and I did a video on this, they have problem processing carbohydrates. Their brain can't really function using glucose anymore. So you really need to look at the foods you're putting into your body such as these sugary foods, these sugary drinks, which are major amounts of empty calories and how much inflammation they can actually cause. According to the journals of gerontology, animal studies have shown that high fructose intake can lead to insulin resistance in the brain as well as reduction in brain function, memory, learning, and formation of brain neurons. So that's right, your brain is not able to form new brain neurons or new brain cells. So as a result, the brain starts to age prematurely. The brain can't really heal itself is really what it comes down to. So reduce or limit or absolutely get rid of the sugary drinks in your foods. They are damaging. Many of them have artificial sweeteners in it, but even if not, if you're using the real ones where it's got real sugar in it, you really need to reduce, eliminate, just get out of this, stop drinking it. Number two is refined carbohydrates. We talk about that a lot in my videos because they're so damaging. There's so many different processed foods within these refined carbohydrates. It's not like eating a sweet potato where you're eating something that God created. And as I always say, eat things as close to the way God created. So if you're going to have carbs in your diet, have things as close to the way God created, like a sweet potato or maybe rice or things like that, where it's a one ingredient food, but these refined carbohydrates have high glycemic index. That means it spikes your blood sugar. So GI, your glycemic index, is the load that a food puts on your body that actually raises your insulin levels, the glycemic index. This means your body digests them quickly, causing spikes in your blood sugar and in your insulin levels. And many times I've talked about this. People who age the fastest, the ones who get studied the most are diabetics. So if you want to slow down your aging process, stop spiking your insulin so much with those refined carbohydrates. Research has shown that a single meal with a high glycemic load can impair memory in both children and adults. So guys, it doesn't take a lot of consistent eating of these processed refined carbs. You can do it just with carbo-loading of these dangerous kind of carbs. One study looked at elderly people who consume more than 58% of their daily calories in a form of carbohydrates and found that they had almost double the risk of mild mental impairment and dementia. So like I said, it really starts to create a problem with glucose processing within the brain and it's leading to dementia and Alzheimer's disease. Another study found that children aged six to seven who consume diets and high refined carbs also scored lower in non-verbal intelligence. So the problem is this. Many times we look at this and I've seen the commercials myself. We start to look at these foods that are loaded up with high fructose corn syrup like our sugary drinks I just spoke about or some of these types of foods and we say, but you know what, it's made from corn so it's got to be natural. God created it that way. This is not the same as the way God created it. This is not the same as corn on the cob. This is highly refined, high fructose, high sugar syrup. So these refined carbohydrates are also foods that you need to really reduce or eliminate from your diet. Stick to as close to natural as God created it. Next, artificial sweeteners. Now I can't talk enough about artificial sweeteners and how damaging they are to the brain. I mean they're linked with everything from seizures, grand mal seizures, to tumors, to heart disease, to cancers. I mean these things are bad news and I'm talking about the pink, the yellow, and the blue stuff. We're talking about the NutraSweet, basically the aspartame that's in the Equal and the sucralose that's in the Splenda just because it's made from sugar so it's just like sugar. That's a lie. This is made in a chemical laboratory. Splenda is basically where you take a hydrocarbon and you add all kinds of chlorines to it. So this is very, very dangerous stuff. It is very damaging to the body overall. One study looked at the effects of a high aspartame diet. By the end of the study, they were more irritable, had higher rate of depression, and performed worse in mental tests. Now aspartame, that's a really bad one because that one splits. When it gets to a certain temperature in the body, it can actually split into methyl alcohol and formaldehyde. Both of them are very, very dangerous. Formaldehyde is a carcinogen. So this is a known cancer-causing agent known as embalming fluid. So you really, really need to stay away from that. Another study found that people who consumed artificially sweetened drinks had increased risk of stroke and dementia. So once again, we're looking at cognitive decline. We're looking at brain decline. And not only that, increased risk of stroke. We've had patients who we've experienced that we're trying to work with to fix it when they've had a stroke by using neural feedback and actually trying to rewire their brain. So this is patients we work with. This is very, very complex stuff to deal with. So you want to do everything you can to avoid it. And if it means to stay away from these artificial sweeteners, you need to do that. A study of repeated aspartame intake of mice found that it impaired memory and increased oxidative stress in the brain. Another found that long-term intake led to an imbalance in antioxidant status of the brain. So the brain can't even cleanse itself. The brain can't even detox when you're taking in things like aspartame and these artificial sweeteners on a continuous basis over a period of time. And many of you are drinking these in a form of Coke Zero or these other, you know, non-sweetened drinks. Well, they're sweetened with all this other dangerous stuff. I don't advocate drinking Coca-Cola and things like that, but I would almost rather have the regular sweetened one with say cane sugar than the ones that are sweetened with this. So you think you're doing a good thing. Meanwhile, you're creating a whole other list of problems. Not to mention, it's a proven fact that people who are drinking these sweetened drinks with these artificial sweeteners actually crave carbohydrates more. I've never seen a thin person really drinking these things. Typically it's people who are overweight. So obviously it's not working. God created you to eat healthy, to eat whole, to shop the perimeter of the stores and stay away from the center aisles where all the highly refined processed junk is. Next is trans fats. Now we all know about trans fats, but really what are they? Well, these are basically hydrogenated oils. This is where they take an oil and start to infuse hydrogen into it to thicken it up because what they're trying to do is take an oil and thicken it and make it spreadable like a margarine, like a shed spread. So that way it looks like butter. And then they flavor it and they take the other kinds of chemicals out that give it foul smells and they highly refine it and process it into something that's now spreadable. Well, these are dangerous for you. It's industrial produced trans fats, also known as hydrogenated oils. These artificial fats can be found in shortening, margarine, frosting, snack foods, ready-made cakes, and prepackaged cookies. So virtually everything you see here is all made with trans fats. You would never know it sometimes because you're thinking, well, but it's, it's just a donut or it's just a cookie. It has trans fats in it. Absolutely. Now here's what you have to be careful of. Many times they make the portion size so small that it'll say trace, trace trans fats, not enough to measure. Well, it's in there. Cause you're not just having a quarter of a cookie. You're going to have the whole cookie or you're going to have a sleeve of them. And you might start to have maybe eight or 10 cookies or more. So you're definitely getting trans fats, but they manipulate the numbers by saying and making the, the, the serving size so small that they say, well, it's trace amounts of trans fats or zero trans fats, because if it goes below a certain number, they don't have to count it. Well, that's tricky and it's deceptive and it's costing you your health. Studies show that people who consume higher amounts of trans fats have an increased risk of Alzheimer's disease, poor memory, lower brain volume, cognitive decline, heart disease, cancer, type two diabetes, and brain inflammation. So once again, stay away from anything with trans fats, stick to the healthy fats that God created. It's funny when our ancestors ate fats, when they lived on a farm and they maybe had lard or beef tallow or whole eggs and, oh my gosh, their cholesterol should have been through the roof, but there were lower instances of heart disease and cancer and diabetes back then, not compared to now where we have these overly processed refined trans fats and carbohydrates and so on. Next is gluten. Now I know a lot of you are thinking, well, I don't have a gluten sensitivity because I don't bleed out of my rectum, I don't bleed when I take a poop, I don't have irritable bowel syndrome or colitis or irritable bowel, things like that. But you could still have a gluten sensitivity, even though you're not tested for, say, celiac. Your gluten sensitivity can cause bloating, it can cause brain fog and things like that. So pretty much everybody has a gluten sensitivity because the gluten of today is not the same as the gluten of our ancestors. Our ancestors had a very different type of gluten. It was not so much of a major part of the wheat as it is today. Now gluten is just a protein made of gluten and gliadin. That's really what comes together to make gluten. So gluten is a term for the proteins that are found in wheat, semolina, spelt, farina, and barley. So it's in a lot of different things. Gluten acts as the glue that helps maintain the food's shape and consistency. So for example, when you're watching somebody at a pizzeria, especially if you're from New York or New Jersey, and you're watching them open it up and open it up, and next thing you know, the pizza's this big. When it started off as a little ball like this, that elasticity, that's the gluten. That's what gives it its texture. So in some ways, gluten is good, as long as it's not manipulated too much. Wheat has been shown to cause leaky gut, celiac disease, allergy reactions, and even brain fog. Now something that most people don't realize when it comes to eating bread or eating wheat is this. So even if it's not just the gluten in the bread, sometimes the wheat itself, when it breaks down, and researchers found that when they took the wheat and they broke it down in a chemical laboratory, it broke it down into something called gluteomorphine. Gluteomorphine means basically a gluten and morphine, an exogenous morphine. So an endogenous morphine is the morphine that we have inside our bodies. An exogenous morphine is a morphine-type molecule that we get outside of our bodies. And this actually made something that researchers called gluteomorphine. What they found was this gluteomorphine bound to the same receptor sites in their brain as heroin and opium do, right over here. So heroin and opium bind to that side of the brain. And how they knew this was that when people would go into the hospital with, say, a heroin overdose, they would give them something called naloxone. And naloxone would break that addiction in a way, so they would come out of it. Well, they gave the same drug to people who were eating a lot of wheat, and they found that they consumed less of it because it broke that high. They would get the same high that they would get from eating or using cocaine or heroin or opium, for that matter. So what happens is, and I hear this all the time, patients will come in and say, Dr. Nick, you know what? I'm not into the sweets. I don't have a sweet tooth. I don't eat cakes and I don't eat cookies and pies. I'm not into that. But my bread, I just can't stop eating the bread. And the reason is because you're high on it. You're eating certain things like a muffin or a sandwich, and you get that high, and then you start to come down and crash. And then you go back down to the vending machine and get another muffin or a Twinkie or something you brought, and you start to go back up again. So you'll have these highs and lows all day long simply because you're addicted to these wheat-type products. Heavy metals is another one. Now, the problem is heavy metals, sometimes you don't see it in certain foods. You have no idea where it's coming from. It comes from mainly amalgam fillings, but it also can come from predatory larger fish, the ones that tend to live the longest. So mercury is a heavy metal contaminant and neurological poison. So this stuff is really, really dangerous. Mercury tends to bind in the neurons in your brain. That's what makes it so dangerous because lead, on the other hand, lead likes to bind in the bones. So when we try to chelate lead out of people, we have to get it out of their bones. But the mercury can actually get into the brain. And many of you have maybe heard years ago about mad hatter's disease, because hatters, when they would make the felt hats, there was mercury in that. And many of them went mad as a hatter. So they would start to feel crazy and they would go nuts. And it was because they were exposed to the mercury. The mercury was into their system. Now, you can't measure this with a blood test because the blood test measures acute mercury. You have to actually do a urine challenge test where you take a chelating agent that pulls it out of your tissue, like your brain, and then you excrete it through your urine. That's where it gets measured. And then we measure that through different testing, and then we could start to work on getting it out of your system. So once again, if that's something you're interested in looking into, check our link down below and contact our office. After a person ingests mercury, it spreads all around their body, concentrating into brain, liver, and kidneys. In pregnant women, it also concentrates in the placenta of the fetus. Now, lead, for example, lead can be passed down through four generations. So if someone used lead, or not that they used lead, but it was in maybe their pipes of their house, it was in some cans that they used for packaging, that's how it gets into your food. It used to also be in paint. And we always saw the commercials, don't eat paint chips. Well, I don't know too many kids who did, but it might've been in a drinking water because it was coming in through the pipes. The effects of mercury toxicity include disruption of the central nerve system, neurotransmitters, and stimulation of neurotoxins, resulting in damage to the brain. For developing fetuses and young children, mercury can disrupt brain development and cause the destruction of cell components, leading to cerebral palsy and other developmental delays and deficits. Now, something else that's an interesting fact or side fact is many people believe the fall of the Roman Empire happened because they lined their aqueducts, those big tunnels that were up in the air that brought water into the city of Rome, they were lined with lead. So it literally started to drive them crazy. And that's what many believe was the fall of the Roman Empire. So guys, I hope you got a lot out of this. I hope you learned many, many things that you should be avoiding. Some of the things that you thought, they were good for you. I'm drinking Coke Zero. Coke Zero is okay because I'm not getting all that sugar in it. I'm starting to get healthier. I'm trying to lose weight. I'm having wheat. I'm having my healthy whole grains and my whole wheat, like my doctor told me. I'm making sure I have sandwiches on healthy whole grains and whole wheat. Guys, it's not healthy for you. So all these foods you need to avoid. Shop the perimeter. Like I always say, the best thing we can do is eat according to the way God created us to eat. Eat things that don't have multiple ingredients. Now, you can combine things. That doesn't mean you can't take two things and combine it together. Like take a salad of carrots and cabbage and onion and lettuce and combine it together. That's multiple ingredients. But it's not multiple ingredients where it has a label where the ingredient list is this big and there are things you can't pronounce. Remember, if you can't read it, you don't eat it. So stop blaming genetics. Stop blaming God for your poor health. We have to start looking inside and figuring out that we're doing it to ourselves. Many times we're digging our graves with our own fork. So I hate to be a little rough on you, but it's the truth, okay? You have to start taking better care of your body. Stop blaming your genetics. Stop blaming your mama. Stop blaming your daddy. You can't blame them. Blame yourself because you're a genetics. And this is really what we work on in our practice is epigenetically transforming people. Now, what does that mean? Epigenetics simply means that it's above the genes. So you might have the genes for certain things like heart disease, cancer, diabetes, but your lifestyle will cause those genes to be either suppressed or expressed. I like to say that your genes are basically like your gun, but your finger on the trigger is your lifestyle. So you get to choose what you want to do. So guys, once again, I hope you like the information. Don't go away. Make sure you check out my other videos. If you like this one, you're I love it. Appreciate you. This is Dr. Nick. I will see you on the next video. Bye-bye.