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The Question About Einstein's Diet

The Question About Einstein's Diet

Weā€™ve long known that diet plays a key role in our overall health. And in recent years the connection between the microbiome ā€” the microorganisms that reside in our gut, the makeup of which is partially dependent on what we eat ā€” and our brain function is becoming increasingly clear.

So this all begs the question: Was Einsteinā€™s genius, as some have claimed, aided by his diet? Letā€™s find out.

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What Einstein Had For Breakfast

What Einstein Had For Breakfast

Scientists have long understood that the human body, including the brain, needs food to function optimally. It appears Einstein understood the importance of getting some brain fuel before starting the day.

Einsteinā€™s breakfast was actually pretty nutritionally dense. Eggs are high in protein and minerals like iron, selenium, and phosphorus; mushrooms, a favourite of the physicist, are high in B vitamins and antioxidants. Itā€™s unlikely these foods were the source of Einsteinā€™s genius, but a diet high in proteins, vitamins, and minerals may have helped Einsteinā€™s brain function optimally.

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What Einstein Had For Lunch

Being a terrible cook and eating things out of cans is the mark of genius.

Compared to breakfast, lunch was much less of a regular occurrence in Einsteinā€™s daily life. In 1915, he wrote a letter to his second son, Hans Albert Einstein, in which he says, ā€œI am often so engrossed in my work that I forget to eat lunch.ā€

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What Einstein Had For Dinner

What Einstein Had For Dinner

Some of Einsteinā€™s scientist friends would regularly get together to discuss physics and other academic pursuits. These dinners were frugal repasts of sausage, GruyĆØre cheese, fruit, and tea.

Indeed, even when the food was much fancier, Einstein was more prone to getting wrapped up in conversation paying little attention to what he was eating. His friends, mathematicians Maurice Solovine and Conrad Habicht, brought him caviar for his birthday.

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The Health Of Einstein

The Health Of Einstein

When Einstein was 38-years-old, one of his friends became so concerned about the scientistā€™s digestive problems that he sent him to a doctor. The physician diagnosed him with a ā€œchronic stomach maladyā€ and mandated a four-week special bland diet.

Despite the tasteless diet, hisĀ stomach problemsĀ persisted into his later life and seemed to become more serious with time. Doctors told him first to eat a balanced diet of meat and simple carbohydrates. Then, about a year before he died, a doctor suggested he cut meat, fat, and alcohol out of entirely. His vegetarianism lasted only one year.

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The Death Of Einstein

The Death Of Einstein

In April of 1955, Einstein died from anĀ abdominal aortic aneurysm. Although his diet likely isnā€™t to blame, his lifestyle habits may have been. According to the Mayo Clinic, tobacco use is the biggest risk factor for developing an abdominal aortic aneurysm.

So is a diet of beans, eggs, and mushrooms the secret to cracking scienceā€™s toughest questions? Of course not. But eating those kinds of nutrient-dense foods may give you the energy to try.

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