Brain Brilliance

Brain Brilliance offers 60 delicious and nutritious recipes as well as a wealth of diet and supplement tips and hacks for children living with Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, ADHD, Autism, and other unique and special brains. If you are a parent, teacher, or carer, you can learn how to help them thrive and live their best neurodivergent life with a little bit of nutritional know-how.

Brain Brilliance will help you and your children make the important connection between what they eat and their mood, behaviour, and learning – even if they are highly selective eaters and resistant to change. This book provides the most accessible and up-to-date evidence-based nutritional advice to improve a child’s brain function for all ages, from toddlers to school age to teens, and beyond.

Understand the importance of the microbiome and the gut-brain link, as well as the negative role that ultra-processed foods play on the neurodivergent brain. Lucinda also highlights how to rebalance your child’s blood glucose levels to prevent 'hanger' and meltdowns. Learn how inflammation and the immune system can also dysregulate the neurodivergent brain and what to do about it.

Woven throughout this book are gentle and respectful ways of managing mood swings, tics, anxiety, chronic pain, speech delay, and learning difficulties through better nutrition. Find easy-to-prepare breakfasts, lunches, suppers, drinks, and those all-important savoury and sweet snacks – which include switches for all the key 14 food allergens.

All the recipes contain brain foods which encourage optimal development, mood, and behaviour, whilst being kind to the sensory palate. They are fun to make and easy to cook.