Why Walnut Resembles the Brain It Nourishes

Why Walnut Resembles the Brain It Nourishes
Is the walnut's cerebral shape a helpful hint from nature that it contains high amounts of the very fatty acids our brain requires? Shutterstock
Sayer Ji
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Nothing could be more beautiful or poetic than when a healing food actually looks like the organ system it nourishes and heals in the body.

While commonly viewed as mere coincidence or an act of extraordinary randomness, it is difficult for me to acknowledge the exquisite design of the walnut, whose eerily skull-like shell encompasses the fatty-acid rich, bihemispheric “brain” of the nut, without opening myself to the possibility that Mother Nature wove metaphor and meaning into the natural order of things.

Walnuts are well known to have a disproportionately high amount of the very fatty acids, specifically the EPA/DHA omega-3 fatty acid substrate alpha-linolenic acid that the brain requires for optimal health. Moreover, walnuts contain well-known neuroprotective compounds such as gallic acidvitamin E isomers, melatonin, folate, and polyphenols. Coincidence? Or is Mother Nature providing a clue so obvious we would have to be nuts (or nut deficient) in order to overlook it?

Sayer Ji
Sayer Ji
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Sayer Ji is the author of the best-selling book, “Regenerate,” and is founder and director of GreenMedInfo.com, the world’s largest open-access natural health database. As a natural health rights advocate, Mr. Ji cofounded Stand For Health Freedom, a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting basic human, constitutional, and parental rights, and recently launched Unite.live, a worldwide platform for conscious content creators.
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