Dopamine eating: lunch

Breakfast and lunch are the most important meals of the day for your dopamine production. What you eat for breakfast powers your brain until lunch, what you eat for lunch powers your brain until dinner. In terms of quantities, tune into your own hunger and fullness signals and consider what you’ll be doing after you’ve eaten - how much fuel will you need?

A dopamine boosting lunch will include around 25g of protein (for the tyrosine), green leaves, nuts, seeds, olives, olive oil and some beetroot for vasodilation (so the nutrients can get up to your frontal lobe to boost your focus, attention and concentration).

My dopamine-boosting lunch bowl:

It took two minutes max to put the following in a bowl:

• watercress, spinach and rocket

• sundried tomatoes and olives

• beetroot cubes

• mozzarella

• broccoli sprouts

• a generous slug of olive oil

• a grated carrot

• pumpkin seeds.

I was pleasantly full and focused for hours. This is the power of food.