Tua Tagovailoa has Carbs as his Brain Armor?

This Nutrition Plan Is Insane (and Kinda Genius)

So apparently, our quarterback, Miami Dolphins star, Tua Tagovailoa is out here eating spaghetti to save his skull.

No, really. This is not a joke.

The Dolphins QB spoke at a press conference and casually dropped a wild, low-key brilliant nutrition plan where he loads up on carbs before games — not for energy, not for size, but to protect his brain.

As in, his actual brain. As in, the same brain that’s gone through several concussions in his NFL career.

Somewhere in between a concussion protocol seminar and the Olive Garden menu, Tua basically said: “Bread = better brain water retention = less CTE.”

We’re in the age of lasagna-level logic now.

And we kind of love it.

When asked about his new game-day nutrition, Tua said he’s focusing on “carbing up more for the games and getting more fluids in.”

Fair enough.

But then it got weirdly scientific. Like McDaniels level genius scientific.

Here’s Tua, in full nutritionist/neurologist mode:

“Your brain kind of sits in fluids… if I’m eating eggs, bacon and sausage and there’s not much carbs, like if there’s no bread or whatnot, you kind of drink water and it’ll just flush out of you.”

Pause.

So we’re now learning that toast is the key to brain fluid retention. That a sausage-egg-only breakfast is basically a hydration void. And if you want your brain to be safe from helmet-to-helmet hits, you better smash a bagel or two.

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This is some next level peak football superstition.

Why stop at eating? How about taping your ankles with fettuccine. In all honesty, it’s kind of brilliant. Who wouldn’t want to eat an entire pound of spaghetti and then go run for 40+ mins. Who needs electrolyte drinks and sports science when you’ve got ciabatta rolls doing the work?

Tua’s basically saying:

No toast = dry brain.

Dry brain = bad.

Wet brain = good.

Carbs = sponge for water.

Therefore, carbs = brain helmet.

It’s the most Miami Dolphins thing ever.

A QB turning into a whole dietician-philosopher hybrid before our eyes. One week it’s touchdowns. The next, it’s “brain water logistics via sourdough.”

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Somewhere in a cryo chamber, Tom Brady just got a psychic migraine.

The man who gave us 200 pages of “no nightshades” and “never eat strawberries” now has to watch Tua become the new poster boy for rigatoni recovery.

Meanwhile, the Dolphins are 3–1, and Tua’s brain? Hydrated. Protected. Possibly floating in Gatorade and gnocchi.

Someone better make the meme. I’m talking Tua in a Dolphins jersey with a helmet made out of noodles and marinara. Let’s get “Pasta Protects” on a t-shirt before Sunday.

Until then, just remember the golden rule:

Protect your dome.

Carb the f**k up.