How to Feed Your Brain

Seven evolutionary steps to transform your mental health

When I first started to write this book, I assumed it would be a straightforward matter of detailing all the nutrients that help the brain to function at its best.

I soon realised that the task I’d set myself was more complex than I’d anticipated. To understand the requirements of the modern human brain, I first had to comprehend how it had grown, from small and unremarkable to large and phenomenal, over the course of human evolution. No other animal has experienced brain…