Caring for the brain requires an understanding of its needs. The brain is a demanding organ. Despite comprising just two percent of the average adult body weight, the brain requires 20 percent of the body’s energy and up to 25 percent of the heart’s blood flow. In each of the 100 billion neurons in the brain are energy factories known as the mitochondria; these neuronal mitochondria turn glucose into chemical energy in the form of adenosine triphosphate. Feeding your brain the right nutrients becomes more important as we age.
This book provides a tool to help keep your brain as sharp as possible so that any memory lapses that do occur are the laughable kind.