The No. 1 Thing You Can Do To Keep Your Brain Healthy, According To A Neurologist

nopparit via Getty Images The brain is the most complex organ in the body. That’s what we — Raj Punjabi and Noah Michelson, the co-hosts of HuffPost’s “Am I Doing It Wrong?” podcast — asked Dr. Madhureeta Achari, a neurologist in independent practice for 30 years, when she recently dropped by our studio. If everything’s great, but one tire is flat, the car is still not going to go.” Achari advised that if trying to get everything we need to keep our brains in superb shape feels “overwhelming,” we should concentrate on “eating the rainbow.” “ lots of fresh fruit and vegetables, whole grains — I think 90% of us, or something, consume most of our grains in an ultra-refined form. “They don’t help you,” she said, noting that the “wellness industrial complex” has promoted the “weird idea that somehow we are smarter than our bodies.” “We are not smarter than our bodies,” she emphasized. “Our ancestors lived a certain way, they ate a certain way, they did certain things, and that’s the reason we exist today.” So, if you want to keep your brain as healthy as possible, “feed your cells” a wide variety of foods full of micronutrients daily, Achari said, and chew your food well.