10/17/2025
Day 17/31: Midlife Vitality: Above All
🧠✨ Brain Health Edition
If you’re someone who reaches for wine before walnuts on Friday nights, this one’s for you.
How to use it: Screenshot this card before you grocery shop. Pick one row (horizontal, vertical, or diagonal) to complete by Sunday. Check off each food as you eat it. Three in a row = your brain gets the nutrients it needs for next week’s focus. Make it easier by batch prepping Sunday - wash berries, boil eggs, portion nuts. Your Sunday brain will show love to your Friday brain for planning ahead.
I used to think brain fog was just part of getting older. But, no, I was feeding everything except my brain.
Here’s what shifted for me: Each food on this bingo card directly talks to your neurons. Blueberries carry messages to your memory center. Omega-3s calm the inflammation that makes you forget words. Dark chocolate (yup) increases blood flow to your prefrontal cortex within 2 hours.
The research is clear - midlife brains respond MORE efficiently to these nutrients than younger brains. We absorb omega-3s better. Antioxidants work harder for us.
My weekend plan? Salmon tonight, scrambled eggs with spinach tomorrow, and that dark chocolate is happening on the regular (for brain health, of course 😉).
If you’re open to sharing - which 3 foods are you most likely to actually eat this weekend? I genuinely want to know what works for your life. 👇