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"Lead can take the place of calcium in brain cells, but the brain cells are no longer capable of processing messages from nerve cells. Children who are exposed to lead are more likely to have lower intelligence quotients and to develop learning disabilities and behavioral problems than normal children. If women are exposed to lead during pregnancy, especially if they are calcium-deficient, their children may have abnormal neurological development. Lead exposure in adults can increase the risk of kidney damage and high blood pressure. Lead can also be incorporated into bones." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"At one time scientists thought that your brain cells were different, that they didn't change. Perhaps they even orchestrated the cycle of cell death and rebirth elsewhere in your body. Not so. Even key brain cells wither away and are reborn. Every part of you can change, and your brain is no exception.3 More fascinating still is the discovery that the pace of cell renewal doesn't simply follow some predetermined script. It varies depending on what you do and how you feel. A key signal that tells your cells whether to decay or grow, for instance, is movement." - Barbara Fredrickson, Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the 3 to 1 Ratio That Will Change Your Life (Get the book.)

"Other laboratory studies have also confirmed that some polyphenols from juices appear to offer brain cells stronger protection than antioxidant vitamins do. How could polyphenols protect against Alzheimer's disease? The development of the disease isn't fully understood, but some researchers believe it's related to a buildup of plaque from deposits of a protein called beta-amyloid. The antioxidant properties of polyphenols may help protect brain cells from the damage and death from oxidative stress associated with these deposits." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.)

"Lead can take the place of calcium in brain cells, but the brain cells are no longer capable of processing messages from nerve cells. Children who are exposed to lead are more likely to have lower intelligence quotients and to develop learning disabilities and behavioral problems than normal children. If women are exposed to lead during pregnancy, especially if they are calcium-deficient, their children may have abnormal neurological development. Lead exposure in adults can increase the risk of kidney damage and high blood pressure. Lead can also be incorporated into bones." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"Melatonin is made from the amino acid tryptophan, but in order to get tryptophan from your food into your brain cells, you need insulin (stimulated by carbohydrates). Insulin selectively pushes tryptophan into your brain cells. For these reasons, just eating protein (high in tryptophan) alone doesn't have the same calming effect because proteins contain other amino acids that can be stimulating and defeat the calming tryptophan effect. Eating plain carbohydrates alone (to get the necessary insulin) also doesn't work, as these are often too stimulating." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"Mice that run in cages experience a growth of brain cells, and mice that run in cages together with other mice experience even greater growth of brain cells.34 It is reasonable to assume that the more intensive and enriched educational experience enhanced the intricacy and increased the number of synaptic connections in the brains of the children. If mental illnesses are diseases partially of synaptic plasticity, the enhanced learning may have been a protective factor as well. Diet, exercise, and learning acted as prophylactics against the development of mental illness." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"The antipsychotic drugs cause obviously observable brain damage in the form of tardive dyskinesia and a variety of studies show that they kill or maim brain cells.9 Similarly, there's growing evidence that the stimulants we give to children can permanently change the function of the brain.10 Here, I will focus on a particularly ominous body of literature confirming that the SSRI antidepressants can permanently damage the physical structure of the brain, including various parts of brain cells (neurons). This scientific literature is becoming extensive." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Drugs in either class may be effective in treating depression because the brain cells that release norepinephrine alter the function of the brain cells that release serotonin and vice versa. To say the brain is complicated is certainly an understatement. MAOIs are thought to be especially useful in treating atypical depression, a group of symptoms associated with depression that are just the opposite of those seen in typical depression." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"Under healthy conditions, the only nutrient that fuels the brain cells is blood sugar— for which carbohydrates really are essential. Additionally, in biochemistry, we say that "fats burn in the fire of carbohydrates" because in order to break down fat, you need important chemicals that are produced from burning those carbohydrates. So you need to get your carbs but you need to get the right kind of whole grain carbs and you need to get them in appropriate portion controlled amounts. Lunch or Di nner; With Or Without." - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.)

"Certain oils, like frankincense, can also stimulate brain cells and help improve kids' powers of concentration. At the ranch last summer, right after the last Harry Potter book came out, all the kids wanted to stay up late reading. I diffused some frankincense oil in the kids' rooms and they read for hours! Several kids liked the frankincense so much that I sent them home with a diffuser and a bottle of oil. Frankincense is a good choice for teenagers' rooms as well, especially for kids with high stress levels who spend hours every afternoon locked up in their room." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"It is in this range that the cells operate most efficiently, especially for the brain cells. 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." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"In addition, vitamin D helps you build muscle and protects your brain cells from injury or inflammation. Vitamin D slows the growth of cells—a factor that may well reduce your risk of most cancers by as much as 50 percent. Vitamin D is also crucial for fertility, glucose control, reducing high blood pressure, and ameliorating seasonal affective disorder. Vitamin D helps you fight infections and improves the effectiveness of vaccines. Without enough vitamin D, your risk of autoimmune diseases may increase by as much as 300 percent." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"Their brain cells had responded to the procedure as if they'd been given the drug that originally eased their symptoms. Commenting on the remarkable nature of the study, the team's leader, Fabrizio Benedetti, stated, "It's the first time we've seen it [the effect] at the single neuron level."7 The University of Turin findings supported studies that had been conducted earlier by a team at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. In that investigation, it was reported that placebos could actually raise the brain levels of dopamine in the patients who receive them." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.)

"Exercise also promotes the growth of neurons, or new brain cells, in the cerebellum and elsewhere. A brain that is constantly producing neurons is a brain that is operating at its peak and is much more resistant to negative chemical changes that adversely affect mood and prompt the difficult parts of ADD-type behavior. All parts of the brain benefit from exercise, from the highest lobes, which include the executive center of the brain, to the limbic system and the amygdala (emotional centers) and the cerebellum, which deals with coordination and balance." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.)

"Scientists are heralding the discovery of "mirror neurons," a new class of brain cells that may track the emotional flow, movement, and intentions of the person we are with, and induce this perceived state in our own brain by activating it in the same areas that are active in the other person.''8 What this means is that we are physiologically affected by those we spend our time with (not that we needed data about mirror neurons to know that!). So choose your friends wisely, and try to spend time with those who give you a sense of equanimity rather than amplify your stress levels." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"The connection: you need cholesterol to make brain cells. A level too low (around 160 mg/dl) has, in fact, been linked to depression, aggression, and cerebral hemorrhages. Low cholesterol can also promote global amnesia because proper nerve transmission is affected. You need cholesterol for memory. Cholesterol helps neutralize toxins produced by bacteria that swarm into the bloodstream from the gut when the system is weak. So your body also uses cholesterol to fight infections. The total blood level goes up when you have an infection and HDL falls because it is being used up in the fight." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"Molecular approaches aggressively displaced systems neuroscience, becoming the dominant research approach and promising to delve more deeply into the basic question of why brain cells live and die. Copious funding began to pour in for molecular researchers who aimed to develop treatments that could preempt the first signs of disease-related damage in the brain rather than treat secondary symptoms as cholinesterase inhibitors did." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"These brain cells are essentially the physical sites of empathy, sharing, and caring. Autistic people, however, appear to have malfunctioning systems of mirror neurons. This makes it very difficult for them to know how others feel, and therefore makes it hard for them to care. This malfunction was graphically revealed during a recent study of autistic children at UCLA using MRI scans." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"He placed three REGs near a culture of human brain cells, then asked a group of healers to send intentions for the culture to grow more quickly, and to engage in traditional space-conditioning meditations. Any deviation from the random activity of the REGs would indicate the probable presence of greater coherence. Radin also prepared a control batch of cells, which were not to be sent intention. After three days, there was no overall difference in the growth between the treated cells and the controls. Nevertheless, as the experiment progressed, the treated cells began to grow faster." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.) "However, certain cycles carried on even when Halberg removed the brain cells in question—the adrenal glands—and even the brain itself. In his eighties, Halberg made his final breakthrough discovery: the synchronizer within every living thing is not internal but resides in the planets—particularly the sun.4 The sun is a furious star. This huge ball of gases, with a surface temperature of around 11,000°F, is encased by strong magnetic fields in the outer solar atmosphere—a recipe for periodic explosions, as the gases build up and magnetic fields intersect on the sun's surface." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"Toth explains, "When you use recreational drugs like cocaine or speed, it's like putting a blow torch on your delicate brain cells. People who have chronic long-term use of these kinds of drugs tend to lose memory much faster than other people." Cardiovascular dysfunction can cause memory loss. The blood vessels that carry oxygen and blood and food substances to the brain are stopped, either by a narrowing of those arteries or a blood clot. "The culprit might also be free radical damage," Toth says. "Free radicals are extremely small ions that are on the loose." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"A single brain cell is connected to an average of 10,000 other neurons, and clusters of these neurons are organized into fields of neurons containing approximately a million brain cells each.22 brain cells communicate with one another through the use of chemical messengers called neurotransmitters. The brain is an amazing network of single brain cells communicating with other single cells of clusters of brain cells interacting with other clusters and of entire neural fields talking to other neural fields." - Robert W. Hill, Ph.D. and Eduardo Castro, M.D., Getting Rid of Ritalin: How Neurofeedback Can Successfully Treat Attention Deficit Disorder Without Drugs (Get the book.)

"It is a progressive, degenerative brain disease characterized by the irreversible death of brain cells. This gradual but poorly understood degeneration leads to shrinkage and atrophy in certain regions of the brain, a decrease in certain neurotransmitters, notably acetylcholine, and an alteration of the synaptic connections between cells that enable us to learn and retain memories. The overall result of these losses is a variable mental decline that affects the ability to remember recent events, learn new things, and multitask. Doctors don't know what causes the process." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"Mercury, in particular, has an affinity for brain cells. 4. Drugs and alcohol. This category includes not just recreational substances, but also common pharmaceutical and over-the-counter drugs. These medications are generally nontoxic when taken in the proper dosages, but they can build up in the system during long-term use, if not adequately metabolized and detoxified. 5. Food additives. This includes food colorings, preservatives, and common excitotoxins, such as MSG or aspartame. These additives are often eaten in excess by kids who overindulge in processed foods and junk foods." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Here, I will focus on a particularly ominous body of literature confirming that the SSRI antidepressants can permanently damage the physical structure of the brain, including various parts of brain cells (neurons). This scientific literature is becoming extensive.11 When researchers do admit that antidepressants cause persisting brain dysfunction and damage, they typically spin the results by claiming that the abnormalities represent an improvement." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Unfortunately, as time goes on, these deficits of brain cells can become more pronounced, and even self-perpetuating, because the brain, similarly to other parts of the body, is governed by the principle of use it or lose it. Another important part of the brain that is often relatively dysfunctional in ADHD kids is the primary attention system of the brain, which is linked intricately to the frontal lobes." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Around age 10—we don't know why or how—the brain itself starts snipping away brain cells. We think it is so the cells don't continue growing and put pressure on the skull, which won't be enlarging too much more after the age of 10. "The adult brain only weighs three pounds or less, about 2 percent of your total body weight, and yet 25 percent of all your body's energy is used to conduct memory activities. The brain reacts to any incoming signal in 1/30th of a second." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Omega-3 fatty acids are especially conducive to brain function because they prime the outer membranes on brain cells to receive signals from nerves more efficiently, thereby maximizing learning potential. Foods rich in omega-3 fatty acids are good snacks during work time. These include walnuts, cooked soybeans (edamame), strawberries, and anything with raw tofu in it. B vitamins have a similar effect, while also boosting energy. These vitamins are found in abundance in citrus fruits like oranges and grapefruit." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.)

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