FIR Episode 33: One dietary change can improve your executive function

How can one small dietary change immediately benefits your quality of life through the lens of your cognitive executive function?

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In this Free and Inspired radio episode, learn about what executive functions are, how they relate to the quality of your day and how to improve your own under your own steam.

Have you ever heard of executive function?

It’s the term that classifies our most important cognitive abilities. 

For instance, these abilities include working memory, your ability to say no, flexibility, planning for a goal, reasoning and solving problems.

Executive function is essential in almost everything we do.

How often do you wish you could be more disciplined or concentrate and focus when you need to?

Executive functions are impaired in many mental health conditions, including the following:

• Attention deficit hyperactivity (ADHD)
• Conduct disorder
• Depression
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
• Schizophrenia

Poor executive function is associated with higher consumption of unhealthy foods

Find about about a simple dietary change that has clear evidence to improve your cognition over the day. For example, diets high in fruits and vegetables improve executive function.

Sometimes changing the diet can be easier said than done.

Learn about the first steps to take and how to build on things in a practical way that will see you turn your brain fog around.

Such as where to start to increase your fruit and vegetable intake.

All this and more in this episode of Free and Inspired radio.