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"A 2-percent drop in body water can so significantly dehydrate the neurons and the passage of neurotransmitters in brain function that we can become fuzzy-headed, develop short-term memory difficulties, have trouble with basic math, and lose focus on the computer screen. This is with only a 2-percent drop. A glass of water can significantly reverse some of the process of dehydration." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"A deficiency of folic acid can affect the nervous system and brain function. Vitamin B6. The body needs B6 to produce both red and white blood cells, as well as to convert stores of carbohydrate (glycogen) into glucose. Nerve cells need B6 in order to function properly; this vitamin may also be involved in the metabolism of polyunsaturated fats. Vitamin B12.1 call B12 the enzyme-assistant vitamin because it is required for several enzymatic reactions. It helps protect against heart disease by helping to control homocysteine levels and thus reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.)

"Neurotransmitters are necessary for normal brain function as well as the control of mood. Some people find that taking an antidepressant during the first few months of therapy is just the extra lift they need to get them back on track, and then they stop the medication. This was the strategy Rosemary used to help beat her clinical depression. "I had type 2 diabetes; I was overweight and depressed," says DRUGS USED TO TREAT MAJOR OR CLINICAL DEPRESSION Antidepressants: ?Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"Essential fatty acids, especially omega-3, are needed for a healthy cardiovascular system, for proper nerve and brain function, proper hormone balance, proper elimination, and a solid immune system. Unfortunately, most of our foods are devoid of these essential fatty acids, leaving the general population deficient as well. The best foods to get your essential fatty acids from are fish such as salmon, sardines, and anchovies as well as some plant oils such as flax oil. There are three types of omega-3." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Omega-3 fatty acids provide a long list of benefits; for example, they decrease risk factors for cardiovascular disease, such as high triglyceride and LDL cholesterol levels; they improve brain function and concentration, boost energy production, enhance mood, improve blood pressure, reduce cancer risk, and help reduce fat production. The fats that you need to avoid are the following: ?trans fats, which can be identified on food ingredient lists as partially hydrogenated oil, shortening, or hard margarine." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"If you interfere with that, you interfere with brain function.' But establishing whether this is the case, and then the exact nature of each additive's contribution, will be difficult and could take decades. Research studies into the effects of dietary factors on brain function are few and far between (in a world financed mainly by commerce, it can be difficult for scientists to access funding), and the food industry is quick to find fault with them." - Sue Palmer, Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About it (Get the book.)

"Being too alkaline can throw off body and brain function as much as being too acidic can. We focus on acidity because most people are too acidic in their blood, but we need to be mindful of both directions. The optimal urine pH for the first urine of the morning (which is the most accurate) is 6.4 to 6.8. However, if too much acidic food is eaten and the body, blood, and urine become acidic instead of alkaline, then the spleen, liver, heart, and kidneys, which are the blood-purifying organs, become overworked and ultimately weakened and susceptible to disease." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"These chemicals resemble neurotransmitters in the brain, and their adverse effect on body and brain function has been discussed in the medical community for decades. Recent studies conducted by British researchers at the University of Southampton have linked artificial food additives specifically to hyperactivity in children. In the study, three hundred participants were fed juices spiked with artificial sweeteners and preservatives, and then they were observed." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.)

"Perhaps, with the advent of new, more portable instruments for measuring cognitive and brain function, it was now possible to do the kinds of studies of which people previously had only dreamed: to study the effects of long-term and intensive meditative practice on the brains and cognitive functioning of senior monks from the Tibetan monastic community." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"The decreased incidence [45] and a delay in the onset [46] of AD among women on hormone replacement therapy following menopause [47] has also contributed to a belief that these agents may play a relevant role in brain function and cognitive decline associated with aging [48]. However, a decline in estrogen or testosterone does not explain why males with Down's syndrome are at significantly higher risk of developing AD-type changes and at an earlier age than their female counterparts [49]." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"While there is much we still don't know about the complex interplay between shifting hormonal levels and brain function, this link to the neurotransmitter system is shaping up to be pivotal. In one 2004 study researchers used PET scans to compare neurotransmitter activity in women with and without PMDD They found that the brains of women with the diagnosis had an impaired ability to "trap" tryptophan in the prefrontal cortex, thus limiting the production of serotonin, which helps regulate mood and behavior such as angry outbursts." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"Integrity of blood vessels. • brain function. • Joint flexibility. • Permeability of cell membranes. • brain function in children. • Arthritis. • Alzheimer's • Lung function. • Protect the retina's photoreceptor cells. • Play a significant role in supporting the cardiovascular system, because of its effect on blood pressure, lipoproteins, cholesterol, prostaglandins, and fibrinogen. Those people who consume large amounts of fatty acids oil have decreased risk of developing cardiovascular conditions." - Robert Redfern, The Miracle Enzyme Is Serrapeptase (Get the book.)

"It corresponds with the nervous system and brain function, with integrity and wisdom as its pervading qualities. The endocrine gland associated with this chakra is the pituitary. In giving you each of these colors and their corresponding chakras, I am hoping you will use this knowledge as a way to understand the true nature of each plant more fully. Of course it helps to know the chakras in more detail, as the correspondence oftentimes is not a physical one." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.)

"Greyson have shown that the experiences recounted by the patients often correspond to what actually happened during the time they had zero brain function. Researcher Kenneth Ring found that consciousness at the portals of death gives rise to visual experiences that are essentially the same whether they are had by sighted people or by those who have been blind from birth. The NDE phenomenon shows that some form of consciousness can persist even in the absence of a functioning brain." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"Home Remedies Ancient medical texts in China and Japan discuss tea's medicinal qualities, which include stimulant properties, curing blotchiness, quenching thirst, aiding indigestion, curing beriberi, preventing fatigue, and improving urinary and brain function. Throw Me a Lifesaver! CANCER PREVENTION: Polyphenols in tea are important antioxidants that help prevent certain types of cancer, such as oral, skin, digestive, ovarian, and lung." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.) "NEUROPROTECTIVE: Rats who had suffered brain damage and were fed a spinach diet showed a reduction in damaged tissue and increased brain function. Tips on Using Spinach SELECTION AND STORAGE: • Buy it FRESH! Between travel and storage at warmer temperatures, much of the nutrient content might already be gone. If it's wilted, take a pass. • Choose spinach with stems that have no signs of yellowing and vibrant, deep green leaves." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"Essential fatty acids are crucial to healthy brain function, healthy eyes, joints, skin, and hair, as well as our immune system. They reduce inflammation and the risk of heart disease. Among other things, they help create elastic cell membranes. When the body doesn't have these healthy fats, it turns to the unhealthy fats to build cell membranes. As you can imagine, cell membranes made with unhealthy fats are not quite up to par. Trans fats not only disrupt healthy cell function but also become poor building blocks that result in a more fragile system." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.) "It positively affects brain function, depression, and heart health. In my experience, most people with Spent who take rhodioia start feeling better within a few weeks to a month. Dose: 200-600 milligrams per day of a Rhodioia rosea extract standardized to contain 2% to 3% rosavins and 0.8% to 1% salidroside. Or 2? grams per day of the nonstandardized root. Caution: Avoid if you have manic depression (are bipolar). Rhodioia is not recommended for pregnant or breast-feeding women. Although unusual, at high doses rhodioia may cause insomnia. You can take all of these adaptogens individually." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.)

"But it has no capacity to store fuel, so Cortisol's role in providing a steady flow of glucose is critical to proper brain function. Operating on a fixed budget of fuel, the brain has evolved to shift energy resources as necessary, meaning that mental processing is competitive. It's simply not possible to have all of our neurons firing at once, so if one structure is active, it must come at the expense of another. One of the problems with chronic stress is that if the HFA axis is guzzling all the fuel to keep the system on alert, the thinking parts of the brain are being robbed of energy." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"It relates to the skull as a cavity and its role in the attraction and storage of Source energy, which, of course, has immense ramifications for brain function. Energetic Integrator 6 also has strong connections to the emotional self, so it is important in maintaining physical-emotional harmony. Energetic Integrator 6 generally adheres to the connections noted in TCM for the kidney meridian. Of course, it is bioenergetically connected to the kidneys themselves and all of the microtubules in the kidneys." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.) "The stomach meridian in TCM and the stomach Energetic Integrator route in NES branch to cross the prefrontal lobes, so the Stomach Driver field has an energetic link to higher brain function, especially as related to intellect and learning. There may even be a bioenergetic link to the physical symptoms allopathic medicine associate with Alzheimer disease. However, as with most things bioenergetic, many systems come together to form complex informational networks, and the brain is an integration point for most of these networks." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"It is an important constituent of body cells, important for proper nerve and brain function, and a necessary element in the formation of hormones and in the transport of cholesterol in the bloodstream back to the liver. But high blood cholesterol can cause fatty tissue to accumulate on the inner lining of arteries, which often results in heart disease or strokes. Diet, heredity, and metabolic diseases influence the level of cholesterol in the blood. There are two components to cholesterol: LDL (low-density lipoprotein) and HDL (high-density lipoprotein)." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"Although there is some evidence that increasing carbohydrate availability causes glycogen sparing in slow-twitch muscle fibers during running [45], the major mechanisms to explain the benefits of carbohydrate feedings during prolonged exercise are the maintenance of plasma glucose concentration (sustaining brain function) and the provision of an additional carbohydrate supply to allow the muscle to continue high rates of carbohydrate oxidation [20, 46]." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Cleansing, and more so during periods of fasting than while eating raw, can bring about a unique physiological state with unique brain function. This state is often called faster's high or detoxer's high. Whether fasting or eating all nontoxic raw foods, this pleasurable altered state of consciousness is also called a spiritual high because the mind is so much sharper and clearer. Some even report being visionary in perception and thought." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.) "They must understand the science of physiology and brain function behind the helpless feelings. They must work with their bodies, minds and emotions in order to claim that freedom. Understanding this retracing factor demystifies the compulsion, gets rid of confusion and allows the person to consciously override these addictive urges. The good news is that with this understanding, most times we can just count slowly and deliberately from 1 to 15. Or we can count from 1 to 100, if that's what it takes to carry us well past the urge to indulge." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"Effect of fruits, vegetables, or vitamin E—rich diet on vitamins E and C distribution in peripheral and brain tissues: implications for brain function. J. Gerontol. A. Biol. Sci. Med. Sci. 55, B144-B151. 186. Sutherland, B. A., Rahman, R. M., and Appleton, I. (2006). Mechanisms of action of green tea catechins, with a focus on ischemia-induced neurodegeneration. J. Nutr. Biochem. 17, 291-306. 187. Mandel, S. A., Avramovich-Tirosh, Y., Reznichenko, L., Zheng, H, Weinreb, O., Amit, T., and Youdim, M. B. (2005). Multifunctional activities of green tea catechins in neuroprotection." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"All substances like cocaine, methamphetamines (speed), heroin, inhalants, marijuana, LSD, ecstasy, and more have adverse effects on short- and long-term brain function. This is a SPECT scan of a normal brain. Figure 3: SPECT scan of a normal brain This is a SPECT of a brain on methamphetamines (the same class of drugs as Ritalin). Figure 4: SPECT scan of a brain on methamphetamines Any questions? Medications Eighty-one percent of Americans take at least one medication per week." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.) "In Part II I will explore how each of these keys affects your mood, behavior, attention, memory, and overall brain function, and supply quizzes that will help you identify which of these keys is out of balance for you so you can optimize and heal your brain. This will give you a personalized road map for your journey back to health and wellness. It will help you heal from your broken brain and from a host of other symptoms you may be suffering with. I would like to give you an introduction to the keys now, as they are critical for understanding how the whole program works." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.) "By deliberately and carefully working to find the cause or source of the irritation to his system (nutritional deficiencies, toxic foods, food allergies, gluten, environmental toxins, food additives, yeast overgrowth) and identifying the missing ingredients needed to restore normal physiological function (a multivitamin, omega-3 fats, vitamin B6, zinc, magnesium, vitamin D, healthy gut bacteria, and 5-hydroxytryptophan for sleep and anxiety), Clayton s health and brain function could finally start to normalize." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.) "It was the total load of all the stresses on his system interacting with his unique genetic susceptibilities, which thus led to his abnormal brain function and health problems. Clayton's treatment was disarmingly simple." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

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