ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the brain's biochemical make-up and evolution; the correlations between an aquatic diet and mental health make sense. Research studies are bringing to light the extent to which mental health is related to nutrition. Protective nutrition ahead of rapid growth stages is best, building up stores for times of high demand, as with folic acid before conception. Since timing of conception is so unpredictable, a woman becoming at all open to pregnancy—and likewise a man at all likely to cause pregnancy—each needs to establish and sustain a good state of nutrition and health for six months before conception. Sound nutrition is important, not only for building brain structure, but also as an appropriate setting for the various lifelong controls: genetic, metabolic, temperature, hormonal, allergenic, and immunal. Nutrition of the brain, as of any part of the body depends on a good blood-supply as well as food-supply, so mental health is related to cardiovascular health.
