Nutrition - improve your brain performance & wellbeing with these tips from professionals

If you want to get one step ahead of others and boost your brain power, incorporate these foods into your diet everyday. Add them in consistently and get one step ahead of your colleagues and friends and grow old gracefully in the process.

One key tip is to stay hydrated everyday. I drink three pints of water within 45 minutes of waking up as a habit. Your brain is over 70% water.

Take a look at the video below by Jim Kwik and see how you can add these brain foods into your diet today.

The Doctor’s Kitchen was set up by medical doctor, Rupy Aujla. Rupy's work focuses on the medicinal effects of eating well. He creates delicious recipes and highlights the clinical research behind the ingredients he uses uses.

You can also take a look at The Doctor’s Kitchen for healthy eating recipes and the podcast series here.

That donut.. Just increased your chances of getting dementia or Alzheimer’s later on in life.

Think about that next time you’re in the shopping aisle and are tempted by that pack of Hobnobs or carrot cake.

Dr. Lisa Mosconi holds a Ph.D. degree in Neuroscience and is a certified Nutritionist. She has dedicated her career researching and understanding brain deterioration.

She concludes that brain ageing is more within our control than initially thought and that diet plays an integral role in brain health.

In the past, Alzheimer’s was considered to be as a consequence of ‘bad’ genes inherited or due to ‘natural ageing’ of the brain. This is now universally accepted as being false and that there is a direct link between sugar consumption and brain disease. And that sugar rots the brain. More recent studies show people with diabetes have a four-fold risk for developing Alzheimer's.

Dr Mosconi has published Brain Food: How to Eat Smart and Sharpen Your Mind. Take a look here if you're interested.