The Neurochemical Benefits of Tubers
📌 Tubers are highlighted as a single food that can promote happiness, calmness, stabilize blood sugar, and ease the menopausal experience by addressing mood changes.
🧬 Tubers aid the body in making GABA (Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid), a neurotransmitter crucial for reducing stress, which naturally declines after age 35 as progesterone decreases.
🧠 Tubers support the production of serotonin (stimulated by estrogen, which declines) by feeding the gut microbiome, which is essential for mood regulation.

Five Specific Actions of Tubers
📊 Blood Sugar Stability: Adding tubers to a meal can significantly reduce blood sugar spikes observed when using CGMs or blood sugar monitors.
🧬 Neurotransmitter Synthesis: Tubers promote the synthesis and usable breakdown of both GABA and serotonin for the body.
🧲 Estrogen Detoxification: They provide the necessary nutrients to help the body break down toxic estrogen metabolites (like 4-O) and eliminate them, preventing storage as fat.
😌 Nervous System Soothing: By calming the nervous system, tubers help decrease cortisol production, leading to better sleep; unused cortisol is otherwise stored as fat.
🔬 Microbiome Health: Tubers feed the gut microbiome, which is critical for producing neurotransmitters like serotonin, especially when estrogen levels drop.

Identifying and Utilizing Tubers
🍠 Variety is Key: Consumers should eat various types of tubers (different skin/flesh colors like white, yellow, or purple) to obtain a wider spectrum of antioxidants and nutrients.
🟣 Purple Sweet Potatoes are specifically noted for their ability to multiply microbes in the lower intestine, aiding in serotonin/GABA production and estrogen breakdown.
📚 Detailed resources, including a full list of foods with these five qualities and numerous tuber recipes, are available in Dr. Mindy's new book, "Age Like a Girl."
🥔 Examples of beneficial tubers include sweet potatoes, yams, turnips, all types of potatoes (red, white, russet), turmeric, and jicama.

Key Points & Insights
➡️ Focus on eating tubers daily as they are considered the "hero food" for menopausal women when viewed through neurochemical, microbial, and detoxification lenses.
➡️ Incorporate variety in your tuber consumption to maximize the intake of different nutrients and antioxidants available across different types (e.g., purple vs. yellow sweet potatoes).
➡️ Tubers help address the common post-40 female issue of anxiety and poor sleep caused by declining GABA levels by supporting its natural production pathways.

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