PIKA YOGA: How Your Diet Impacts Your Meditation, Sleep, and Focus
Brain Food or Brain Fog? How Your Diet Impacts Your Meditation, Sleep, and Focus What if some of the most common ingredients in our modern food supply, lurking in everything from salad dressings to packaged snacks, are subtly undermining your ability to meditate deeply, sleep soundly, and focus with the laser-like clarity you seek on your PikaYoga journey? It’s a startling thought, but emerging discussions and historical dietary shifts suggest that what fuels our bodies profoundly fuels our minds – for better or for worse. We often hear about "brain food," but less about "brain fog" culprits that might be regulars in our pantry. The story of some modern cooking oils is a curious one. Consider this: an oil once prized for lubricating ship engines during wartime, derived from seeds that require tens of thousands to produce a single tablespoon, undergoes a long industrial process involving high pressure, solvent washes, bleaching, and steam injection to remove its...