Learn the exact anti-candida protocol I've successfully used with thousands of patients at my New Zealand Clinic & via Skype (wipes out overgrowth of yeast, bad bacteria & parasites & keeps them from coming back). Click below to get my free "Candida Crusher Shopping List" PDF & start your final journey to recovery: Eric Bakker... the Naturopath. Thanks for coming back. We're going to talk about different foods, but more so what's in those foods and how they really relate to your general wellbeing, particularly mental wellbeing. Six foods that increase your psychological wellbeing. Okay, also for a great gut. So I made a few notes here.
Let's talk about a couple of different categories here. So complex carbs, which is one of my big concerns these days with paleo diets and keto diets, and people have taken a lot of the good carbs out of the diet in favour of high meat and high fat. Even though people talk about healthy keto, many people still take it to an extreme and take lots and lots of carbs out of their diet. Too many fruits, too many vegetables, starchy foods, legumes, grains, a lot of these are stripped out of people's diets in favor for too much fat in meat.
I've seen this routinely. Particularly last year, I saw a lot of keto craze. So you need complex carbs. They're important for energy production, okay? Carbs are also very important to keep up good emotional health. I've always noticed that when people skimped on carbs in their diet, they became more grumpy and they had more mood disorders.
So complex carbs, obviously the brain needs glucose. So a large chunk of the fuel that we eat gets consumed by the brain and glucose is one of those fuels. Okay? Sugars feed the brain basically, but there are good sugars and bad sugars. And we know about the bad sugars, candy, ice cream, a lot of takeaway food, high fructose corn syrup, artificial sugars, lots of sweets, sweetening agents that have put in foods these days really to make people want to eat those kinds of foods.
Well, these things actually increase obesity and ramp up depression, but there's certainly not been linked with the consumption of healthy carbohydrates, complex carbs, grains, nuts, seeds, starchy vegetables, green leafy vegetables, many different types of fruits that contain very healthy amounts of carbs and fibers and resistant starches that really helped to improve that gut function and our psychological wellbeing.
Antioxidant group, the brightly colored foods, we're told also today not to eat any more by a particular doctor. Okay? Don't eat tomatoes, they're bad for you. You'll die. Keep away from bell peppers and and potatoes and all the night shades and all this sort of stuff. So where's all this junk come from? You get some guy in a white coat hopping around telling you not to eat this vegetables and these will shorten your lifespan and all this sort of junk. Antioxidant rich foods are very important for health. They stop oxidative stress, they reverse oxidative stress. Okay? So oxidative stress is important in the body for many different reasons.
For example, energy production happens through oxidation, also a little bit like, what can happen with iron and water, it can create rusting or an accelerated aging or damage to the body, which the antioxidants have to mop up. So the brightly colored foods are very rich in antioxidants, avocados and those sorts of foods. Many different foods contain antioxidants, but unfortunately, again, some people are cutting these foods out of their diet. So don't do that.
All right? If you want good levels, especially of the hormones dopamine and serotonin, antioxidants will help to protect those in the brain environment rather than having them being degraded. So there's a lot to be said for these brightly colored foods in your diet, blueberries, raspberries, strawberries, and you get the picture, aubergines, tomatoes, bell peppers, zucchinis. There are lots of foods containing antioxidants.
The third group is the Omega-3 or the fish oil, I call them the fish oils, but Omega-3 you're going to find in walnuts and chia seeds and a whole lot of different things. So the Omega-3 is very important because you need to get this in your diet. Your body can't make these essential fatty acids by themselves. So Omega-3 has proven through many, many different research papers I've read that people who have a diet rich in fatty fish, seeds and nuts, oils containing Omega-3 tend to have a more positive mood and also higher cognitive function than people who don't have the Omega-3 in their diet...
So that's the six sort of groups I just wanted to discuss in terms of the nutrients in some foods and mental and emotional health. If you can hit on these six categories and eat these foods regularly, you're going to find, like me, you'd be pretty happy most of the time, not all the time. Thanks for tuning in. Don't forget to click on the link if you want my free candida report. Thank you.
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