The One Fruit You Should Eat Right After You Wake Up For A Better Day
June 14, 2018 by Justine Schwartz
Today’s wellness tip is all about getting happy from food. And no, we’re not talking about that buzz you get from gobbling a quarter pounder, we’re talking about foods that actually help your brain produce endorphins, aka the “happiness hormones.”
Did you know that foods containing high levels of B12, vitamin C, zinc, potassium and iron can actually play a big role in boosting the brain’s production of endorphins? The result is a feeling of euphoria, pleasure, stress release and even pain reduction. Yas! We’ll eat to that.
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Jessica Rosen, certified holistic health coach and co-founder of Raw Generation, exclusively tells us, “Your brain needs an adequate amount of essential nutrition in order to convert amino acids into endorphins. Fresh fruit and vegetables provide the highest concentration of readily absorbable vitamins and minerals.”
Which ones, you ask? “Vitamin C is particularly integral to the production of endorphins,” she says. “Eating foods with a high concentration of vitamin C such as grapes, oranges, guava, strawberries and papaya are a great way to help amp up the amount of feel-good chemicals being produced!”
“Fruit are a great way to correct low endorphin levels and many of these additionally boost or are a precursor to serotonin production which works in harmony with endorphins to make you ‘feel good,'” Urvashi Singh Hutt, nutrition coach and founder of Aphorism confirms.
Here are the most effective ones:
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