Your brain is like a car. A car needs gasoline, oil, brake fluid and other materials to run properly. Your brain also needs special materials to run properly: glucose, vitamins, minerals and other essential chemicals. For example, the fuel (energy) for your brain is glucose. You can get glucose by eating carbohydrates or other foods that can be converted to glucose.Your brain must manufacture the right proteins and fats to do things such as grow new connections or add myelin, the fatty sheath to axons. You do this by digesting proteins and fats in food and using the pieces, that is, the amino acids and fatty acids, to make the new brain proteins and fats. Without the correct amount and balance of particular building blocks, your brain will not work properly. Too little (deficiency) or too much (overabundance) of the necessary nutrient can affect the nervous system. (For a table that shows the effects of too little or too much of specific nutrients, please see Nutrient Effects on the Nervous System.)
In fact, some fats are essential for proper brain function. Two lipids important to the brain are the n-6 and n-3 fatty acids. Low levels of n-3 fatty acids in a diet can cause visual problems especially by affecting the retina. Studies in animals have shown that diets without n-3 fatty acids cause learning, motivation and motor problems and may affect systems that use the neurotransmitters dopamine and serotonin in the frontal cortex. The n-6 fatty acids are also important in proper brain function because they affect neurotransmitter release and they also influence the ability of neurons to use glucose.
Aspartic Acid
Used to make aspartate; found in peanuts, potatoes, eggs and grains.
Choline
Used to make acetylcholine; found in eggs, liver and soybeans.
Glutamic Acid
Used to make glutamate; found in flour and potatoes.
Phenylalanine
Used to make dopamine; found in beets, soybeans, almonds, eggs, meat and grains.
Tryptophan
Used to make serotonin; found in eggs, meat, skim milk, bananas, yogurt, milk, and cheese.
Tyrosine
Used to make norepinephrine; found in milk, meat, fish and legumes
The blood brain barrier (BBB) keeps many substances out of the brain, but it also must let nutrients into the brain. You might think of the BBB as a wall between the bloodstream and neurons. A substance must cross through this wall from the blood to reach neurons.
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2007-07-23 04:21:39
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answered by Aseel 4
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hi,
no specific food as such required. the diet should b nutritious. also walnuts,almonds, dates, fishes are a part of good diet. memory is already decided by the anatomical structure of brain that is more the folds in brain more is the intelligence n so is the memory.
thanks
2007-07-23 02:37:06
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answered by cutegal 1
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Fish help improve long term memory, there have been studies that some omega acids also repair synapse.
2007-07-23 01:35:12
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answered by Joseph R 3
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Blueberries
2007-07-23 07:05:39
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answered by Giggly Giraffe 7
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I read somewhere that the dark colored fruits are good for short and long term memory. Things like red apples, red and purple grapes, also anything with omega 3s.
2007-07-23 01:45:54
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answered by Rondo 3
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2016-10-09 06:46:49
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answered by cole 4
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Green tea, coffee and cacao beans and wild salmon and includes garlic and onion.
2007-07-23 01:39:54
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answered by dodadz 4
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my wife insists ginko biloba helps her memory. however, that's never been proven in well controlled studies.
2007-07-23 06:47:31
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answered by belfus 6
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Carrots and liver and onions.
2007-07-23 01:29:29
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answered by Anonymous
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