Nourishing our brain with good food while having to sit for long hours on end at our home-office desk is important. Not just for overall health and wellbeing, but to keep our brain sharp, nourished and alert so we can continue to work productively from home.

The Importance of Brain Health
The Cleveland Clinic, in one of their articles titled, The 6 Pillars of Brain Health sums up the importance of brain health beautifully: “Lifestyle has a profound impact on your brain health. What you eat and drink, how much you exercise, how well you sleep, the way you socialize, and how you manage stress is all critically important to your brain health.”

It can often happen that we neglect the health of our brain when working from home, or when traveling the world as a digital nomad and sitting long hours on end to get our clients’ work done. Serving nourishing food to our brains is important. Our brain is one of the most incredible organs that we have. The grand conductor in our lives plays a vital role in everything we do. Yet, we often overlook the brain and its influence on our overall health and wellbeing, not to speak of overall performance and productivity.

If the brain is not nourished, various conditions and diseases can affect it. To help your brain function at its best, it’s important to incorporate healthy and nourishing brain food into your diet. This can be achieved through various methods, such as:

DAILY FOOD INTAKE
Incorporate healthy brain foods into your recipes when cooking at home or preparing food. \

Top Tip: The easiest way to remember to add healthy brain foods to cooking is by having the ingredients within easy reach on your kitchen’s preparation counter.

BRAIN FOOD WITHIN EASY REACH
One of the best ways to keep the brain nourished is to set up a small corner of your desk with what I term a brain food health corner. Add brainfoods such as almonds, cranberries, and dates to glass bottles, and display these on your desk. Fill a small bowl with some fruits or cut vegetables such as carrots daily, and keep on your desk to chew on during snack times. 

Top Tip: There is no need to go out and buy fancy or expensive Tupperware and bottles. You can simply use the glass bottles that coffee or tea comes in, or Tupperware after you’ve used butter. I usually clean the glass bottles and let them sit open for 4 – 5 days before adding dried fruits and nuts to them for my office desk.