Foods that weaken the brain and nervous system include white sugar (which depletes B vitamins and causes anxiety), refined starches and gluten (silent killers of brain function), stimulants like coffee and chocolate (which are depressants in the long run), alcohol (which damages the nervous system), saturated fats (which cause microthrombi and atherosclerosis), and ultra-processed foods containing monosodium glutamate. Conversely, foods that strengthen the brain include a varied, colorful diet rich in antioxidants, essential fatty acids from flaxseed, chia, and nuts, coconut oil (especially for Alzheimer's patients), beetroot (which can cross the blood-brain barrier), and dark chocolate (70-80% cocoa). Brain health also depends on adequate sleep, physical activity, and avoiding excessive screen time, as writing by hand has been shown to slow brain aging.
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Foods that weaken or strengthen the brain and nervous system. Does anyone who's already with me on this live stream think this live stream will be good, will be good for you tonight? Is there anyone here who already feels the need to strengthen their brain, to improve their brain, improve cognitive functions, memory, reflexes, energy, disposition? Is there anyone here who feels they need to combat nervousness, anxiety, depression, irritability?
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Answer here in the comments.
How is your nervous system health?
Oh, are you frequently having memory lapses?
No, professor, I'm very forgetful.
Continuous forgetfulness.
Leave the kitchen, go to the living room to get something. Oh, what? Did I come to get it from the kitchen itself? Go to the refrigerator, open the refrigerator.
What did I come to get from the refrigerator?
So there's continuous forgetfulness, memory lapses.
In fact, people sometimes ask me: "Professor, where do you get the topics for the live streams?" From the needs I perceive, that I observe in my daily consultations?
I'm receiving a lot of people, people not so old, complaining about their memory.
People.
Just today I saw an online patient in their early 50s and he has signs of premature aging in the brain area.
And when I mention this to the patient, without them saying anything, many of them say: "Wow, and the iris shows your genetics, whether it's from your father, your mother, which side of the family." "And when I say, 'You have maternal genetics.'
And when I talk about this memory issue, people say, ' Wow, my grandmother had Alzheimer's, or my mother has Alzheimer's, she 's very forgetful. I'm becoming forgetful, I'm worried about that.'
So, do you already have a family history that worries you?
A family history of people with dementia.
In my time, the word Alzheimer's didn't exist, but we called it that. I remember my grandmother, my grandmother would sit quietly for hours and hours, with a cigarette on her finger, a straw cigarette, corn husk, just looking at us and moaning.
She would just stay like that. Hmm, hmm, hmm.
Every now and then she would start saying nonsensical things, silly things, cursing, complaining a lot.
And for us, we would call her, 'She's senile.' Grandma is senile, she's becoming senile.
I have this history of senility in my family, which today is called Alzheimer's.
I have other very present health stories in my family, of illness, actually.
But I decided not to repeat history.
And that's why we're here sharing this knowledge, right? And your nerves, how is the health of your nervous system?
Sometimes the eyes reveal it, and I comment on it with the person, and sometimes there's a family member accompanying the person here in the office, and I say: "Look, maybe you don't realize it, but here your eyes show a picture of nervous irritability, zero tolerance."
And then their eyes meet, they exchange glances, and sometimes it's the couple, and the partner who's with them says, "I should know, doctor, I'm the one who knows."
Nervous irritability for no reason, you know? Suddenly you're like this, even you can't stand yourself.
Anxiety, depression, that person who is, you know, on the verge of going crazy, totally nervous, stressed, agitated.
Now, a quick question. Have you ever stopped to think that the cause of this nervousness, this anxiety, this irritability is a blocked brain, a frozen brain, a clouded brain, you know? a cloud in the brain.
Lately, people have been talking a lot about "how is it?"
Brain fog, clouded brain.
But I've been saying that word for many years, clouded brain. I've been saying this for about 40 years. It's like having a cloud in my brain. Have you ever stopped to think that the cause of all this might be on your plate? Look who's here on YouTube, are you seeing the image of the brain I posted? What kind of food are you feeding into your head? Are you putting real food here on my right?
Or are you putting things in your brain that are making a mess of it? They're leaving the brain stuck together with a glue that's hindering reflexes and preventing neural transmission.
Quick thinking.
I've said in past live streams that all diseases begin and end in the intestines. This is a quote from the father of medicine, Hippocrates, who lived there almost 400 years before Christ.
All disease begins, but all disease can also end, in the intestines. It starts when the intestines aren't functioning properly and can end up affecting your body, your head, your brain, when your intestines return to normal.
Hippocrates spoke of the intestines. I usually refer to it as the gastrointestinal system.
Diseases begin in the gastrointestinal system.
Illnesses are closely related to what we eat.
The table, what you eat, what you drink, is responsible for almost everything in our well-being. I always say, the table is responsible for active people.
Intelligent, hardworking people, people who work hard, who get their hands dirty, because of intelligent people with quick thinking, but the desk can also be responsible for apathetic people.
by unfriendly people, by indolent, lazy people, it can be responsible for people, you know, who have difficulty, difficulty, difficulty learning things. Did you know that?
Could what you eat be affecting these things?
Someone once said, a doctor who has since passed away, Dr. Max Gerson, called the intestine, or rather the gastrointestinal system, the second brain.
And there's already a Brazilian doctor, Dr. Elion Póvoa, Dr. Gerson or Gerson, he wrote a book, The Second Brain, and Dr. Elion Póvoa wrote another book, The Unknown Brain.
And they show in both of these books that most of our neurotransmitters— dopamine, serotonin, the hormone of joy, well-being, and pleasure—are produced by these hormones.
Over 90% of these hormones are produced in the digestive system, in the intestines, and not in the brain.
And from here in the intestines, through the vagus nerve, they then return, they go to the brain and will now control our body. So the intestines are the second brain. Learn the following.
Anything that inflames the intestines ends up inflaming your brain as well.
And you might be watching this live stream right now, and you might have an inflamed gut.
No, I don't have an inflamed bowel.
You can tell how inflammation of your intestine can manifest itself through diarrhea, colitis, ulcerative colitis, even having bloody stools due to Crohn's disease, celiac disease, and you may also have an inflamed intestine if you suffer from slow, constipated, or dry bowels.
This afternoon I attended to a very nice boy. He was 8 years old, oh, uh, 11 years old, 11 years old, he came to me because of other things, but I saw in the boy's eyes that the boy was very much like this, oh.
And I've already seen signs of gastrointestinal hypofunction.
And then I asked, listen, the good boy answered nicely.
How many times a day do you poop?
And then he answered one.
And when I was about to say something else, he said: "Not every day yet."
He had other issues, other complaints, but he also had a complaint related to ADHD.
ADHD with problems at school.
So, let me tell you, chronic constipation, slow bowel movements, I told him, you have to poop three times a day. For someone who eats three times a day, children eat even more, at least twice a day, well, not with laxatives.
So, when it doesn't work, we call it constipation, chronic constipation. And, on the other hand, diarrhea. You think that's inflammation, but slow bowel movements, constipation, you didn't think that was inflammation, because both constipation and diarrhea are two sides of the same coin.
You have to be aware of that.
So, what are the common diseases today in the brain area?
And the nervous system. Is there anyone in your family? You who are watching me here on YouTube, write in the comments. Is there anyone in your family who suffers from Parkinson's disease?
It's a neurological disease.
I didn't include it here, but I could have included degenerative multiple sclerosis, someone suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, but those are rarer diseases, while Parxo's disease is common. Is there someone in your family, close to you or who has passed away, but whom you remember suffering from dementia, very severe memory loss from Alzheimer's? Do you know anyone in your family who has this problem? I think it's terrible. I spoke to someone last week, I think it was Friday, and he said that some people in his family had Alzheimer's disease, that they didn't recognize him as their son.
Imagine a mother not being able to recognize her son, her daughter.
The bond between mother and child is the most beautiful, most sacred thing that exists.
Those months in the womb create an inseparable connection for the rest of their lives.
But now, the person doesn't recognize their daughter, their son, doesn't know their name. There are degrees of Alzheimer's where they don't even know their own name, they don't know anything about themselves. That's just too terrible. Do you know anyone in your family who has this? Stories like that?
Now, surely you know someone with anxiety.
Generalized anxiety, or generalized anxiety disorder, is now abbreviated as T, generalized anxiety disorder.
But there's a lot of anxiety that you don't see.
When I examine the iris of my patient, my client, I often say that they have anxiety, but the family around them, their friends, that's not anxiety.
But when I clarify what kind of anxiety I'm talking about, it's that quiet person, seemingly calm.
But their mind races day and night.
That person who is in a state of mental chatter, in a constant repetitive mental conversation, almost talking to themselves.
And sometimes they think, this is common in teenagers, they think, think, think, think, and get lost. Then it's ADHD, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. They have such a hyperactive brain that they get lost in anxiety, depression.
I have treated children with depression, young people with depression, young adults, older adults, elderly people who suffer silently, depression, nervous irritability, it's something that appears very easily. In the person's eyes. I 'm not even talking about PMS, that irritability that exists linked to an unbalanced hormonal system, but there are people who don't. But just last week, while I was examining a young woman, I told her: "You have irritability, anxiety, but nobody sees it." You have a great deal of control. You hold on. When I said that, she looked at the person next to her, gave a little smile, and said, "Exactly, okay?" So, some people think the other person is calm, but they're not. The other one is controlled.
He's controlling himself. And when you don't explode— of course, if you explode, the other person will suffer— but when you don't explode, the other person has nothing to do with your nervousness, your irritability, your zero tolerance. You try to control it, you don't explode. So what happens then? implode.
It implodes in an autoimmune disease, it implodes in an inflamed intestine, in fibromyalgia, in that body where everything hurts and the doctors only give an analgesic, an anti-inflammatory, and it doesn't relieve the pain even a little and doesn't solve the problem.
You know, there are people who show their nervousness, and they recognize it, and everyone who lives with them recognizes that nervousness.
I just talked about slow bowel movements, about constipation. In the northern and northeastern states, when they see someone angry, irritated, nervous, or exploding, many exclaim: "Watch out, watch out, so-and-so is in a bad mood today."
That woman is in a bad mood today. They are speaking a word without knowing what they are saying. In fesado. In is inside.
Heavy is inside, full of fees.
So now, quickly, I want to point out to you the worst foods—in quotes, because they aren't even food for humans—but the worst foods for your brain and nervous system.
I could take a break here in the live stream for those who have been following me for a while, and I could do a quick Q&A session. Let me know in the comments which foods you know are the worst for the brain and nervous system.
Hmm. Can you answer quickly?
What are the differences in your way of understanding things?
What are the worst foods for your brain and nervous system? I'll wait for you to write.
I put the white sugar and the sweetened products here first.
I have an old book here, a really old one.
When was this book published?
1991.
It's in bad shape. Look at the book's title.
Look at the title of this book.
Our killer food.
Perhaps you can find it in a used bookstore, among the secondhand books. Look at the name.
Our killer food. A book from 1991.
Dr. Daniel Boarim, nutritionist and physician.
And the book cover, look at that, the book cover already shows what the components of this killer food are.
Our killer food.
And when he talks about sweets, about candy, I asked the little boy this afternoon, 11 years old, listen, he had already mentioned some things that weren't healthy.
For example, he used a name that I don't remember now, and I didn't know that name. It's a nickname for a small soda that he buys at school.
He buys that soda there at snack time. He has a name, a nickname for the little one, okay?
Well, then I asked at the end, listen, and he has a voice that was there, he has a certain freedom, free access, to sweets, he eats sweets, he likes sweets. Then he nodded yes.
And here in this book, Our Killer Food, Dr. Boari talks about that child, what's his name? Child prodigy.
That child who never stops, restless, who bothers others, who fights with others, and who is agitated. Then, people say, he has a lot of energy, he needs to let loose, he needs to run, he's too trapped, he has a lot of pent-up energy.
And I learned from this doctor here many years ago, right? 91, 40, 40 years ago, right?
91, 40 years ago, uh, 30, 30 years ago, it's 30-something years ago, I learned a word. When I get my hands on that terrible child, right? I've seen children here in my office who were attacking their parents, attacking their grandparents.
When I started talking to the child in a very gentle and caring way, trying to be a friend—it's not their fault, right?—I tried to be a friend to the child.
She is like this because someone led her down this path.
And then I start, but then she senses that we're going to mess with the treat, mess with the soda, the sweet cookie, the lollipop, the popsicle, the ice cream. But it turns into a demon in here. He wants to fight with me, he wants to fight with his mother, he wants to fight with his grandfather, and he starts hitting.
I write "glycodrama," or "sugar drama," on my record.
White sugar doesn't contain a single nutrient, other than carbohydrates, which are also a nutrient, but are empty calories.
And besides lacking nutrients, white sugar depletes your stores of B vitamins.
And children who have free access to sweets suffer from generalized anxiety; they are difficult to control, impatient, quarrelsome, tearful, grumpy, and many other problems.
Oh, but it hurts my chest, it hurts my heart when the mother, to calm this child, goes and gives them a sweet cookie, promising to take them to the store, downtown, so they can have an ice cream.
Give the child a small bottle of dark, yellowish, or orange soda, trying to calm them down.
A filled cookie.
So, when I mention white sugar, do you eat it? No, it doesn't eat. He's so mentally unstable that he thinks it's like eating sugar with a spoon. No. That's why I add sugar and sugary things.
This is the worst food, both for irritating the nerves and for causing a mess in the brain, starting the degeneration of your central nervous system.
After sugar, after sugar, I would place refined starches, especially refined wheat, in second place.
I have this book here; I have several books about wheat. I have one on the shelf called " wheat belly."
But here's this book, I'm going to show it to those who are here with me on Instagram, look. And who's here on YouTube?
The main live stream is on YouTube, on Pro Edomar Cunha's channel. Professor Edomar Cunha.
Look at the book's title. The mind's diet.
The mind's diet. And further down it says this: The surprising truth about gluten, which is the protein in wheat, the sticky substance that refined wheat creates; the surprising truth about gluten and carbohydrates, those simple carbohydrates, the sweets, the treats, the cake, the pie, the pudding, where milk, sugar, eggs, wheat flour and a whole lot of chemicals are mixed together.
The surprising truth about gluten and carbohydrates, the silent killers of your brain.
Silent killer of your brain.
And now another thing that is defended by many doctors, they want to promote it, they say it's good for some situation, as a medicine, for some situation, I even tolerate it, but as food for daily use, coffee and caffeinated drinks.
Oh, but coffee is good for the brain, it's good for memory.
Children who drink coffee are more alert at school.
And why does she need coffee, caffeine, a stimulant to stay awake at school? First, because she's sleeping wrong. She's going to bed very late, she's always on screens, on the computer, on her cell phone. With her mother and father causing a lot of commotion at home, she goes to bed late and then wakes up feeling unwell in the morning, needing coffee to wake up properly, and so do the adults.
But you need to learn this: any stimulant that speeds up the heart, that makes the heart beat faster and sends blood to the head, well, that 's not good. It sends blood to the feet, it sends blood to the extremities, every stimulant is later a depressant. And you didn't know that.
So it stimulates you, it sends blood to your brain and it wakes you up and you think that's a good thing, because you 're doing it forcefully, forcing yourself, but then what happens later?
Depression. So much so that if you drink coffee daily, sometimes more than once a day and sometimes in excessive amounts, when you stop drinking coffee altogether, what do you feel? Chemical dependency, withdrawal syndrome. You experience headaches from coffee, black tea, mate, and chocolate.
But it's not the chocolate that's the problem, it's the cocoa.
Back in my homeland, in the south, there's chimarrão, guaraná from the Amazon, black tea, mate tea, yerba mate, chimarrão. There are fewer, but there are some. It's just that the names change. Coffee is caffeine, while chimarrão (a traditional South American infused drink) is theine.
Cocoa has less fat, but cocoa is more addictive. Therefore, chocolate, theobromine, theobromine, the god, the god bromine, which activates dopaminergic pleasure centers in the brain. And then you think you deserve a little pleasure.
Oh, Professor Domar, you're scaring us.
You're going to run everyone over on the live stream. But I have to be honest with you. I have to tell the truth. Do you want me to play with you? Okay.
Guaraná from the Amazon.
I wonder what her name is? Are you watching the live stream from Manaus today?
Guarana from the Amazon contains guaranine, which is all from the same family as chitins. It has almost four times more caffeine than coffee.
Eh, guaranine, chantilly, stimulant. Okay?
Now, what about alcohol? There's no need for me to waste time talking about this one.
But what doctors, researchers, and scholars always say is something in excess. Does that mean a little bit of alcohol is okay to use? No, I'm not in favor of poison, not a little, not a lot.
Alcohol damages the nervous system.
Alcohol weakens the nervous system.
So much so that if you consume alcohol, you ca n't drive because you lose your reflexes.
And if you drink a little too much, you get unsteady, you lose your balance, it varies from person to person, right, the ability to resist, but don't come with that story, you know, of "oh, in moderation," they make a nice advertisement and then say, " drink in moderation."
That ugly voice, drink in moderation. That's a huge hypocrisy, okay?
Rancid fats, saturated fats.
I told a gentleman here last week that his entire circulatory system was blocked, uh, the arteries, the cardiac area, the cerebral area.
And then I started talking to him, a very nice, very kind gentleman.
And then I said to him, "Sir, you're already old, and you even look good for your age." Then I said to him, "Have you noticed that in the kitchen sink we put greasy dishes, wash the cutlery, the dishes, the pots, the pans, but we put boiling water in the sink?"
You put detergent in the sink, soap in the sink, and every now and then the sink drain gets clogged, it clogs up, the grease trap gets congested.
Then he laughed and said, "That's right, isn't it?
And we've been putting fat into our bodies our whole lives.
I have an old book here, it doesn't exist anymore, called 'Intelligent Fats.' And it talks about the type of fat that doesn't contribute to intelligence, but then it talks about the good fats, the fats that are good for the brain.
The fat that you keep at a low temperature. For example, you made a chicken stew on Sunday and the house is full of people, so you just clear the table, you take that leftover chicken, leave it in the pan, put it in the oven and store it. Later, when the guests leave, you go to clean it.
At the end of Sunday afternoon, when you go to move the pan that had chicken, what happened to the chicken fat? It solidified, it became hard, the lard, the animal fat, all that fat that becomes hard, the animal fat is saturated.
This saturated fat will also harm your brain functions in the long run. Why? Because it will cause microthrombi in your arteries. It will cause small clots in your circulation and will appear." In the imaging exam, carotid arteries with atherosclerotic plaques cause atherosclerosis.
With the exception of fish fat, all animal fat is saturated.
And vegetable fats, with the exception of coconut oil ( extra virgin coconut oil is also saturated, but there's saturated fat and saturated fat). The type of saturated fat in coconut oil is an exception; it's medium-chain triglycerides.
While others are long-chain triglycerides, this completely changes the metabolic reaction in the liver. It won't cause circulatory problems; on the contrary, it will help your circulation and your brain function, as I'll explain in a moment. Now, good fat, a good quality olive oil, which is monounsaturated fat, a cold-pressed sunflower oil—did you know there's cold-pressed soybean oil?
—but if you fry it, you break down the molecules, and then they cause damage to your brain, to your central nervous system.
Another thing that harms your brain is an excess of cooked food.
You only eat dead food, food without... Life, food that has already been cooked is dead.
And then you don't know why you're getting old, why your brain is slowing down, your reflexes are slow?
Why you no longer have that lucidity, that quickness, that fast reasoning of youth?
You only eat dead food. So you have to eat food that hasn't been cooked, living food, so that you have brain vitality.
And many nutrients are killed by high temperatures, by the heat of the frying pan, the stove, the air fryer. I think it's even worse.
Here's a summary of the worst foods in the world for the brain.
Soda, processed meats, sausages, french fries, filled cookies, frozen pizza, bacon, ice cream, instant noodles, donuts, right? Instant noodles have monosodium glutamate, the same one that's in children's snacks and that a few years ago a brand's advertisement was like this: It's impossible to eat just one.
Why was it impossible to eat just one?
Because it contains monosodium glutamate.
You have Read food labels.
Many of the snacks you eat that aren't fried, but baked, contain monosodium glutamate.
Today, a dear client from another city, who came here in person, started complaining on her phone, sending a picture of a cookie, asking if she could eat whole wheat.
I said, "No, it's wheat." And the fiber... she just added a little bit of fiber to make it seem like it's whole wheat. It doesn't go there. This happened during a break between consultations. Then I went to see another client. During another break, she had another complaint. She showed me a picture of a gluten-free cookie. " I can eat this one, right?"
But the label said: "High concentration of added sugar."
I told her, and she said, "Oh, I didn't see that, I hadn't seen that."
It's tough today. It's tough, you know? If you run, the beast will catch you. If you stop, the beast will eat you; everything is distorted. Now, before we finish, regarding the best foods for the brain, I've mentioned, for example, the worst, and now the best foods for the brain and nervous system.
First and foremost, a diet that is as natural, varied, and colorful as possible.
When you have a varied diet, you get protein, you get carbohydrates, and you get good fats for the brain.
When you eat a variety of fruits and vegetables, a colorful table, what do you get?
A diet rich in antioxidants is essential, because not just anything penetrates the brain.
There is something called the blood-brain barrier, the hematoencephalic barrier, which prevents just anything from entering the brain, but these substances that are present in very strong colors, very strong flavors, very strong odors, can penetrate the blood-brain barrier and reach the brain. The smell of garlic, the taste of an onion, the color of a beet, a red dragon fruit, a blueberry, an açaí berry.
So, when you have a lot of colors, you have a lot of antioxidants, in simple terms, a lot of rust inhibitors. And some people have rusty brains.
After establishing a varied diet, you need to prioritize foods richer in essential fatty acids.
When you see this word, essential in healthcare, it means it cannot be missing.
If it's outside your diet, you're going to have a problem. It's the time for the oegas that you find in flaxseed, that you find in chia, that you find in mint, that you find in that punk purslane.
We have many plant-based sources of omega fatty acids. We have, we have seaweed, kombu, hiique, wakame, nori.
We have freshwater algae, chlorella, spirulina.
All of these are sources of AGs, essential graphic acids.
And that's another highlight of the evening. Do you want to have a better brain, a better nervous system, better reasoning, and a more robust memory? You need to include nuts in your diet, not on a birthday cake, not at a party, not at the end of the year; you have to eat one or two nuts daily.
Avocado, Brazil nuts, and almonds. Today I spoke with someone from Uberlândia and they mentioned the Baru nut, okay?
So you need to eat this regularly.
Every day you need a source of good fats, because more than 60% of our brain is fat, but it's the good kind of fat.
Fat that doesn't become rancid, fat that shouldn't oxidize. You have to eat raw, shelled sunflower seeds daily. There is fat in this seed.
You have to eat raw, shelled pumpkin seeds daily.
There is fat in that seed.
You need to eat chia seeds regularly, and flax seeds regularly. Which is brown and which is golden?
They are all the same.
So you need to eat those sources of good fats.
They are natural sources of omega-3. but of good quality.
Natural coconut. Do you know someone who is already starting to develop Alzheimer's or is in an advanced stage?
Start slowly with a tiny teaspoon of extra virgin coconut oil. Virgin. Mix it into a small portion of the food she will eat in the morning. Another teaspoon of extra virgin coconut oil at lunch, just in the small portion she's going to eat. Another teaspoon at dinner. How many days have you been there? 10 days, 15 days. She's gotten used to it, her bowels are fine. Increase to a teaspoon. It's a little bigger than a coffee pot.
In the morning, at noon, and at night. Another 10 days, 15 days, two weeks.
Increase to a teaspoon. It's a little bit bigger.
Maybe another month, a teaspoon in the morning, a teaspoon at midday, a teaspoon. In very severe cases of Alzheimer's, the recommended dosage may be one tablespoon two to three times a day, mixed with food.
You'll be surprised by the improvement in the brain of this person who already has Alzheimer's. You'll be surprised.
So you need to eat foods with strong antioxidant properties.
Tilo, the beetroot, raw beetroot is powerful for the brain.
That red color of beetroot can cross the blood-brain barrier and help nourish the brain.
But what appears in those commercials?
Dark chocolate, 70%, 80%, pure cocoa, the best source of antioxidants that exists. And it really does have quite a lot of antioxidants.
And fish, professor, I mean, of all meats, it's the least harmful, but what is the problem with medicine? She targets a substance, isolates that substance, and then says, "Ah, but yerba mate and coffee have an antioxidant, fish has omega-3, and cocoa has another antioxidant substance." They focus on one thing and forget everything else.
They don't look at the other side effects because they have the conventional medical perspective. The remedy is one positive result and 10 negative ones. And many of these so-called powerful foods, powerful substances, also end up having side effects.
But this diet that I've shared with you doesn't have any side effects.
So there's the danger of blindly focusing on just one substance.
When I recommend you eat chestnuts, walnuts, almonds, you can eat them without worry, unless you have a specific allergy.
But this allergy can be corrected.
When I tell you to eat blueberries, to eat beets, to eat jaboticaba, there will be no side effects. You can eat this food and look for the antioxidant substance within the context of all the nutrients in that plant, food, or fruit.
It's different from looking for it in coffee, from looking for it in fish, from looking for it in cocoa.
So, whole grains, look here, the highlight is beetroot, oilseeds, good quality eggs. The yolk of the egg, some people only eat the white, the yolk, right? A very lightly boiled egg, cooked very quickly, has a lot of choline.
Substances that work on Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, neurodegenerative diseases— those diseases that damage the nerve sheath, the myelin sheath—choline.
Raw peanuts are a source of lucid acids, also beneficial for the brain.
So, learn this: There is no such thing as a natural food, a miracle natural remedy. Do you want to isolate a substance? It doesn't exist.
There is a healthy lifestyle that isn't just about diet; it also includes the best functional foods for the brain and the best functional foods for the nervous system. For example, bananas are a source of tryptophan, which produces serotonin, helping you relax, rest, and sleep better.
Chestnuts and nuts help with memory. Did you see that the nuts even have the shape of a brain?
So, these are functional foods for the brain; they are foods that make the brain function better.
But brain health, the health of the nervous system, goes beyond food.
You have to eat good food, you have to do physical activity to send blood to the head, and the blood carries the therapeutic agents contained in each of these highlighted foods.
Sleep.
If you don't sleep well, if you don't sleep at least 2 hours before midnight, you can be sure that you 'll miss it later on. Like I said about coffee, coffee gives you energy and cheers you up, but it's a... it's a... it's a false sense of excitement, and later on you 'll miss that energy you sought.
So, when you stay up until midnight, until 1 a.m., watching television, looking at your cell phone, watching videos, when you can't sleep because you have insomnia problems, you need to treat that, because you 'll regret it later on. What if you have a family history of people with Alzheimer's or senility?
If you have a history of forgetfulness, memory lapses, and if you don't sleep well, well, you're tempting fate.
So, nutrition, as I highlighted today, physical activity is important, sleep is important.
Interesting.
Today I was looking at a study that showed that people who write more by hand—not on the computer, but on their cell phones or digital devices—no. People who write more by hand, with a pen.
It says that the brains of these people age much later. It ages, but it doesn't suffer the effects of aging. Now, this damn computer, cell phone, screens, is ruining everyone's memory, ruining concentration, damaging your nervous system. You have no patience for anything anymore.
Now, in addition to that, you need to have family, good relationships at home, good relationships with friends and neighbors, a different lifestyle, a healthy lifestyle. So, there is no such thing as the perfect body, the miracle diet, or the cure-all pill. What exists?
Look here, there is consistency.
I recommended chestnuts, walnuts, almonds, flaxseed, chia seeds, sunflower seeds, and pumpkin seeds to you. But you shouldn't use this once a week; you need to use it regularly and consistently.
It demands it, there is awareness. You need to be aware of what is harmful to you and what is unhealthy. And you have to have the desire to improve. You have to have the desire to be better every day.
I repeat what I've said many times before. If you, ma'am, if you both continue on the same path you've been on until now, do you think you'll get a different result?
If you want to see different results in your mind, your brain, your nervous system, I get people returning from consultations telling me wonderful things.
Goodbye, depression, goodbye anxiety. Goodbye irritability. God, insomnia.
Memory returning little by little.
Last week someone came back and said, " My hair is turning black again."
She used to be very fair-skinned, and now she says, "It's gray because the black is mixed in with the white, so it's making it gray."
How about allowing yourself to undergo this kind of guidance tailored to your specific situation? Today I focused on the brain, the mind, memory, and the nervous system, but whatever your health problem may be, seek guidance. I'll finish with the last slide here, putting our office contact information, the landline 15.
33 26 17.
But nowadays everyone uses WhatsApp.
This WhatsApp number is for information about appointments, and for scheduling in-person or online appointments. It could be from a distance. The secretary will guide you on how to conduct an online remote consultation, okay?
And it also serves as a place for you to ask questions about the deology course, which will have an immersion phase in July. Send a message to this WhatsApp number that's on the screen. 15 9 81 90 91 99 15 9 8190 91 99. And now, do you like it? For those of you watching for the first time, the second time, or those who were n't used to my live streams, I asked you to wait a little while for those who are already regulars. I ask that you arrive giving a thumbs up, liking, and sharing. But for those who are just joining us, did you enjoy the live stream? So now, go ahead and like it, comment, and share it on Instagram. I'm going to log off Instagram now so we can do the consultation giveaway. If you'd like to schedule a consultation with me, I've left my contact information so you can book a regular appointment. Now, how about you win a consultation tonight in the raffle? But this is for first-timers, okay? This doesn't apply to those who have already had a consultation. So now I'm going to read your message, I'm going to read your note. If you have any questions, I'll answer them quickly, OK? But if you want to schedule a consultation with me and enter the draw for a free consultation, just write quickly now and put me in the draw, okay? If you have a name listed on your YouTube channel that's not identifiable, put your real name next to it, OK?
And I'm going to put here the list of those who want the consultation. Let me see who's been with me from the beginning. The first people who joined were Magalia, Wanger from Rio Grande do Sul, Maura Oliveira Barbosa, Fátima Barbosa, Jonatas from the Northeast, Carmen Daltro, Isilda Carneiro, right? Those who are always here, uh, Miriam Vieira, a dear former student, I'm waiting for you for level two now. The advanced level, Miram, is Nadir Oliveira, it 's Ilma Dias da Rocha, who else? Mr. Wilson is always here with me.
Jonatha is greeting Rosânia from Salgado in Sergipe. Zaga Azuleide Gomes, my former student, used to say, "I've arrived, professor," right? Who else?
Edna Monteiro, good evening. Okay, thank you.
Who else is here? Leila Mendes, Maria Fabre, and Dona Elizabe. Mrs. Elizabeth, I thought it was lovely. Your granddaughter had an appointment today.
What a smart girl, huh? Girl's head. A girl like that, you know? For her age, she's very mature. I liked it, okay? I hope she enjoyed the consultation. Juliana, a Monday I love, learning about health.
Long live our teacher, Professor Domar. Thank you, Juliana. Who else?
Hey, Antonio.
Antônio Berto, right? Good evening, Manu.
Manu from Pará is always with us.
Helenice Giron.
Who else?
Hey, good evening, Manu. Hey, Mrs. Hermelinda, a hug. A hug for Pastor Gilberto.
Okay, I'll even ask, I'll give a message to Mrs. Hermelina, if she's with me.
Mrs. Hermelinda, you've brought me many avocados, and perhaps you have some stored at home?
They are avocado pits.
If you have any, bring me some avocado pits, Mrs. Hermelinda. Oh, I'm having some avocado pit maceration here. Fantastic. It 's OK. Good evening, Ramon from Vársia Grande, in Mato Grosso. I'm watching TV and eating a piece of papaya. That's good.
for human beings.
Hugs, Ramon. Look at that!
Oh, Nadir identified herself here from Campinas.
Azuleide says the topic is very interesting.
Uh, Ramon saw the ad online. That's wonderful, Ramon.
Ilma Dias.
Ilma Dias Rocha is from Sorocaba.
I just saw Vera Rocha here on Instagram. Could it be from your family?
Vera has already had very good results with me, right? Good evening, doctor. I am a member of the board of directors of FENAT in Tubarão, Santa Catarina. How wonderful.
My federation of therapists, right? I'm sending all my students to register with this federation. And Inrid Salomão was missing, but now she's back. How wonderful.
What did Manu write? Your life will never be the same after taking the theology course with Professor Edomar. Look at that!
Well, I met you when I was assisted by someone who had been your student.
Beauty. Azuleide wrote: "Professor, I'm even teaching online.
Thank you so much for allowing me to help people too. Look here, she took the course here and is working.
Silv Prates is in Santa Catarina, Barra Velha. She lived in Paranavaí when she came here.
Joseli Martins Araújo de Lima. Good evening. Mrs. Adélia from Uberlândia.
Jonatas wrote: "This course changed my life completely, both professionally and personally." "The best course I've ever taken." Thank you, Jonathan. And he also says: "Take advantage of the opportunity, don't think too much, take the course as soon as possible, you will never regret it."
I can only thank you very much, professor. Thank you very much. Hey, Alber Santos, good evening. Alber Santos from Pernambuco.
Andreia, good evening.
Good evening. Carla Vans, good evening.
Soasil, I think she's from Rondônia, right? Hey, Ilma da Rocha says: "My mother passed away last year from paronychia."
So let's make sure we don't repeat this history. And an aunt of mine is with the German, but she lives far away. Send this live stream to her family. Marilsa Carvalho, good evening. Maria Lúcia, good evening. Vilma from Fortaleza says, "In my family, there are many people with anxiety and depression." Send this live stream to them, okay? So, says sozil, gl o zlatado, a genés fala do gluteo, do leite, do açúcar, que é veneno paraa área do cérebro, né?
These artificial sweeteners, wheat flour, are what they're writing here.
Camila mentions sugar, gluten, lactose, and alcoholic beverages, right?
Well, everyone here is responding, you know? Wonder. All of this is poison, isn't it, Genésia? Flávia's stuff is processed, super processed, and like boxed juice. That's not even juice, that's chemicals, right?
And the Estela do Rio Bonito. Look, yesterday I was there in Rio Bonito, Estela, at my place, in the countryside, but yesterday it rained, it drizzled, and I put on a raincoat and I just went to pick some vegetables. Yesterday I brought kale, I brought chewing gum, endive, I brought spinach, I brought gherkins from the farm, I brought sweet corn. I thought I wasn't going to harvest any green corn. I planted very late, but I brought green corn.
Wow, I thought of the green video, now my mouth is watering.
And I should have reminded the lady who cooks for us to do it. Tomorrow she has to make some corn on the cob. I gave it to my son, and my granddaughter sent me a picture today of herself eating a corn on the cob and expressing her gratitude. Yeah, except for pesticides. That's right, Sozil. Okay.
Hey, who else is here?
Camila Ferreira talking about ultra-processed foods, soft drinks, artificial sweeteners, right?
I showed you, Vilma, uh, Mrs. Maria Elizabe, canned goods, soda, white sugar, processed meats, milk, cheese, ready-made juice, snacks, fried food, you see, everyone? Okay, then?
Jocaitani, good evening.
Ugh, that stinky snack, huh? Hey, who else? Worst foods for the brain, says Zuleid, she repeated it here, right?
Thank you, Flávia Menezes. Peace of the Lord.
Oh, it's the book "Mind Diet" that Sozinho wrote. I love books, professor. I have 18 books by the best naturopaths in the world. Congratulations, right? It even includes one by Professor Edomar Cunha. AND.
Hey, Reinan F Brasil, good evening.
Hey Zilma, good evening.
Coconut oil is good for you, she says.
Look at that!
So, Mrs. Vilma, you need a more detailed treatment to remove that fat from the carotid arteries, right? Garlic. Fermented garlic. Healthy.
Yes, right? This food looks mouthwatering. Okay. Hey, who else here have n't I read yet? Let me read the ones I haven't read yet. Lucia Cristina, can commercially produced coconut oil be extra virgin? Okay, Professor Edomar, how to help heal wounds on diabetic feet, in diabetics. Blood glucose levels need to be normalized. Mr. Wilson, who's here on the live stream, when he did an experiment with us, he had surgery on his foot and it wouldn't heal. He changed his habits, his diet, stopped taking medication for diabetes, stopped taking medication for blood pressure, insulin, two types of insulin, and today he lives without any of that, just on food, okay?
Hey, great, Vilma. Look at all the good stuff you eat raw, right?
And she says: "I learned from the professor about radishes, turnips, carrots, beets, onions, garlic. I learned to eat fresh coconut. Even better, you see, Genésia?
Fresh coconut is better, okay?
Elane Barbieri.
Now the names for the raffle have begun.
Please put Bruna da Cruz's name.
Bruna da Cruz asks Lúcia Cristina. Okay, let's go. Oh, I miss your live streams, they're great. A big hug, Dr. Edomar. I remember you were always with us, right, Jocaitan?
What a sensational live stream, she says. What a delightful live stream.
Oh, Jineia Botelho, Vicente Crispim, Paulo Silva, good evening.
Oh, put my name and my amateur husband's, Teresa Cristina.
Teresa Cristina and amateur.
Not a professional yet, just an amateur. Just kidding.
Oh, Cátia Regina asks to put Senira.
Senira.
Okay. Who else?
Oh, people here praising the live stream.
Wonderful.
Oh, it's already happened to me, "Jô, right, Davi? At the consultation. Today I saw a Davi here, Davi, right?
Who else was at the consultation?
Uh, Marilsa Ramos.
It'll be quick now.
Marilsa Ramos.
Uh, Dora Rocha.
Dora Rocha.
Dora Rocha is only for first-timers, OK?
Uh, Isabel Matos, good evening.
Uh, Ilma Rocha says: "Wonderful live stream, I already put it in." Dora Rocha, avocado pit for PVC. Who asked for that? Catarita Colombina.
Avocado pit. What is this avocado pit water for?
For the first signs of PVC. Do you know what PVC is? Oh Darita, Venice's darn thing is arriving, uh, for the joints, fantastic. For the knee, for the hip, right?
Uh, Ilma Dias asks to put Júlia Siquier, Giúlia, right?
Giúlia Siquier Veiga, okay? Uh, good evening, professor. Very good.
Put Claudinei's name in the draw.
Claudinei is..." Conceição is asking, okay?
Uh, Amía, I'm a student of the professor. The course was a turning point in my life. I believe in God that next month I'll start seeing patients. Congratulations. I'm looking forward to doing the advanced course.
Isaías Gomes, good evening. Maura Oliveira Barbosa, uh, who else here says to Marilsa: "I love pineapple"? Remember?
Ah, pineapple? No, chayote. It reminds me of my childhood.
Fermented lemon soda made with demerara sugar that contains good probiotics. That's Peixin Antônio.
Of course it's better than the others, but that's Peixinja, okay? No, no, no need for that. Uh, I'm doing the lemon treatment.
I'm already on the sixth day. Congratulations, Mrs. Elizabe.
Nadir Oliveira in the draw. Quickly.
Nadir Oliveira is here.
Uh, did you like the game, Tarita PVC, that damn old lady is arriving.
Juliana in the draw.
Juliana, uh, how do you make this avocado pit water? Uh, you remove that little skin from it, Grate it raw using a grater, either the finer, flaky kind or the one that produces finer flakes. Then, put one pit in 1 to 1.5 liters of cold water overnight.
Keep it in the refrigerator during the day and drink it as you go. I'm finishing drinking 1 liter of avocado pit water in a little while, okay? Fantastic. Let's move on to tonight's raffle. Let's go. I'm going to ask permission from those who are with me on Instagram. I'm going to end the Instagram live here because I'm going to use my phone for the raffle. Okay?
Thank you. For those who just arrived on Instagram and couldn't watch, go to my YouTube channel, Prof. Edomar Cunha.
There you can subscribe to the channel, watch the live stream on the channel, it will be recorded. I'm ending the live stream now, it will be recorded and you can watch it from the beginning. A fantastic class tonight, okay?
Thank you for joining me. For those who arrived here on Instagram, but I'm going to end it now. Good night everyone.
Just a little bit.
And Now? And now?
And now? Your heart is pounding.
Why?
Because it started.
Simone da Silva.
Put my husband's name. But she didn't put the name. I'll put your name, Simone.
Ah, Dan, Dan. Dan.
Done. And there's one more who asked here. Uh, Wilka Garcia asked to put.
Uh, Flávia.
Done. Finished.
Finished. That's enough.
Let's go. Let's go. Uh, so let's go here from 1 to 14 people.
Bye.
Number 13.
13. This person who entered here, look, what is it?
Flávia Will Garcia, where are you from?
Uh, Will Garcia, Flávia, who is Flávia? She's present.
She has to raise her hand, she has to answer there. She's present.
She's present.
Hello, hello, Flávia or Will Garcia, is that OK?
Great. Lauro de Freitas in Bahia, so contact the office.
Let me put the number here. 15.
Oops.
It's 15 9 8 1 90 91 90 e9.
Oops, I did it wrong here.
What did I do?
What did I do here?
Uh, 15 981 90 91 99 for consultation.
OK. So, uh, Will Garcia, ask your sister-in-law to send a message, a WhatsApp to the office, say that you were drawn, I'll pass the list to her too, to the secretary, and then she will guide you on how to make this consultation. Okay, everyone? Did you like today's live stream? So, one last thing, share a little more until next Monday, God willing. It was a pleasure being with you. Good night everyone.
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