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"Before long I was receiving dozens of requests: people with cancer, children with brain damage or birth defects, estranged family members, wounded pets. I tried to choose carefully and always put up a photo of our Intention of the Week: a child with cerebral palsy; a newborn who'd sustained brain damage after a difficult birth; a teenage runaway; a woman who'd found the love of her life in late middle age only to discover she'd got breast cancer. Our site was turning into the cyber equivalent of a weekly prayer group." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"By the early 1950s, symptoms of ADHD were referred to as "minimal brain damage," even though there wasn't any real physical evidence of brain damage. In the 1960s, the disorder was once again renamed. It became "hyperkinetic reaction of childhood," and doctors started to occasionally use a less addicting stimulant, methylphenidate, or Ritalin. Ritalin seemed to work by enhancing the activity of dopamine, one of the brain's primary neurotransmitters, which is associated with attention, a positive mood, and physical grace." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"We were interested in studies of monkeys showing that exposure during pregnancy to dexamethasone, a drug used to prevent bleeding in the brain in premature babies, caused brain damage. No one had as yet considered the possibility that it could have such a side effect in human newborns, but I couldn't get any of the doctors working with the babies to collaborate with me on the research. Could it be that they didn't want to be associated with research that might reveal that a drug they had been using for years was actually causing brain damage?" - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Some theorize that beyond cognitive enhancement, nicotinic drugs might even prevent age-related brain damage. Researchers, including my friend Professor Shun Shimohama in Kyoto, Japan, have conducted experiments in which nicotine is added to petri dishes containing nerve cells and various toxic substances present in the brain that are thought to kill neurons, such as beta-amyloid protein and excitatory amino acids such as glutamate. Remarkably, nicotine appears to minimize cell damage and provide a protective effect." - 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.)

"Upon autopsy, they were found to have physical signs of brain damage. "Cortisol, specifically, damages part of the brain called the hippocampus, which is involved in Alzheimer's disease. One of the causes of high Cortisol and low DHEA is eating refined carbohydrates on a regular basis. And indeed people with Alzheimer's disease have been found to have high Cortisol and low DHEA levels." Mixing protein with carbohydrates may be helpful, Dr. Debe says. "People addicted to eating carbohydrates who don't want to make any drastic change right off can start by not eating the carbohydrate by itself." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "But even if schizophrenia were a brain disease, it would not make sense to add further brain damage and dysfunction by administering neuroleptics." At the Pfeiffer Treatment Center in Illinois, named after the late Dr. Carl Pfeiffer, who worked with thousands of schizophrenic patients, practitioners individualize all therapies. After determining a patient's biochemical subtype, the following supplements may be administered in varying doses: omega-3 fatty acids, zinc, manganese, vitamin C, glycine, tryptophan, histidine, and tyrosine." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"I tried to choose carefully and always put up a photo of our Intention of the Week: a child with cerebral palsy; a newborn who'd sustained brain damage after a difficult birth; a teenage runaway; a woman who'd found the love of her life in late middle age only to discover she'd got breast cancer. Our site was turning into the cyber equivalent of a weekly prayer group. The most remarkable success at this writing is helping to reunite a teenaged runaway with her mother." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.) "I found an interesting answer in a study of people with brain damage. Investigators at the Behavioral Neurology Program and Rotman Research Institute at the University of Toronto attempted to replicate the work of the Princeton PEAR lab using random-event generators, but with one important twist: they had enlisted several patients with frontal-lobe damage. The patients who had suffered right-frontal-lobe damage, which probably affected their ability to focus and maintain attention, had no effect on the machines." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.) "Nevertheless, the site soon became a beacon for healing; when a baby who'd sustained brain damage was chosen as the Intention of the Week, four healers, including a Hawaiian Kahuna healer, wrote in to his parents to offer special healing during our intention. Just the thought of becoming an Intention of the Week, even before he'd been posted on our site, seemed to have helped one man sail through surgery with better-than-anticipated results." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"One might argue, however, that Gottesman and Bertelsen should have removed Morten and Karl and their offspring from their study due to the possibility that Morten's "schizophrenia" was the result of organic brain damage caused by his fall, or, as geneticists like to say, his brain damage could have resulted in a "nongenetic phenocopy" of schizophrenia." - Jay Joseph, The Missing Gene: Psychiatry, Heredity, and the Fruitless Search for Genes (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.)

"A 2006 study of eighty-nine octogenarians demonstrated that participants with larger social networks showed negligible effects of age-associated brain damage on cognitive tests, while those with small social networks declined significantly. Differences between the two groups were significant even after researchers adjusted for the possibility that mental decline caused the loss of social connections rather than vice versa. Social relationships offer a multitude of psychosocial benefits, including: ?Availability of emotional support ?A source of information, guidance, and advice ?" - 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.)

"Protective effect of epigallocatechin gallate on brain damage after transient middle cerebral artery occlusion in rats. Brain Res. 1019, 47-54. 192. Matsuoka, Y., Hasegawa, H, Okuda, S., Muraki, T., Uruno, T., and Kubota, K. (1995). Ameliorative effects of tea catechins on active oxygen-related nerve cell injuries. J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther. 274, 602-608. 193. Suzuki, M., Tabuchi, M., Ikeda, M., Umegaki, K., and Tomita, T. (2004). Protective effects of green tea catechins on cerebral ischemic damage. Med. Sci. Monit. 10, BR166-BR174. 194. Sutherland, B. A., Shaw, O. M., Clarkson, A. N." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Since a blood sugar of 50 mg/dL is quite low, any additional decline results in hypoglycemia (abnormally low blood sugar levels) and can lead to brain damage, seizures, and/or death. HYPOGLYCEMIA UNAWARENESS: LITTLE DISCUSSED BUT POTENTIALLY DEADLY The treatment for low blood sugar is simple—eat some carbohydrate. However, a potentially deadly complication of long-term diabetes is hypoglycemia unawareness, a condition whereby patients are unable to sense the typical symptoms of low blood sugar—nausea, tremors, lightheadedness, dizziness, anxiety, and heart palpitations." - 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.)

"But we also learned that at lower levels lead is also toxic, that it can cause brain damage, that it can reduce children's IQ, that it can mess up their behavior, that it can shorten their attention span, can increase the risk that they're going to drop out of high school, increase the risk that they're going to end up in prison. And all of those lessons that we learned from lead, we've now applied to a whole series of other substances." Given these horrifying "lessons," we might assume that lead is a "solved issue," as Dr. Landrigan put it. Unfortunately, that's far from being the case. " - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"High blood pressure leads to cardiovascular disaster: heart attack, heart failure, stroke, brain damage, and kidney disease. Uncontrolled hypertension, in fact, ranks as the leading risk factor for heart attack and stroke, with women even more vulnerable to its ravages than men. In 90 percent of cases, known as essential hypertension, the cause remains unknown. Among the causal factors are age, body weight, diet, heredity, ethnicity (high blood pressure affects more blacks than whites), kidney infection, and stress. High blood pressure conspires with all the other risk factors?" - 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.)

"An eloquent 2007 article in Endocrine Review summarizes its many beneficial effects, such as its ability to reduce brain damage, limit stroke, and prevent Parkinson's disease, seizures, depression, memory loss, and even alcohol addiction. Here are some highlights from this and other scientific journals: • Natural progesterone is made in a woman's brain throughout her lifetime. In menopause, even though blood levels of progesterone fall to very low levels, brain levels fall by only 50 percent." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"Fortunately, the use of microwaves in cooking, cell phones and other wireless devices is now increasingly being recognized to cause cancer and brain damage, among other serious side effects. (See Cell Phones and Other Wireless Devices below.) Health agencies set up by the government to keep people out of harm's way have their own sinister agendas in allowing deadly drugs and technologies to be marketed on a massive scale. How many people are questioning the FDA as to why it allowed genetically engineered canola oil to sweep the American food and restaurant industry without prior testing?" - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "Numerous studies have found that soy products • increase the risk of breast cancer in women, brain damage in both men and women, and abnormalities in infants • contribute to thyroid disorders, especially in women • promote kidney stones (because of excessively high levels of oxalates which combine with calcium in the kidneys) • weaken the immune system • cause severe, potentially fatal food allergies • accelerates brain weight loss in aging users Soy products contain; • Phytoestrogens (isoflavones) genistein and daidzein, which mimic and sometimes block the hormone estrogen." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"In my clinical experience, few clinical challenges are more difficult and hazardous than removing a patient from antipsychotic drugs after years of exposure. The brain damage and dysfunction unmasked during withdrawal are often emotionally unendurable and the distressed behaviors are too often dangerous. The victim remains locked for their lifetime into taking these very uncomfortable, often agonizing, generally stupefying, potentially disabling, sometimes lethal, and very brain-damaging chemical agents." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.) "For example, most patients given antipsychotic drugs for many years will endure permanent brain damage in the form of tardive dyskinesia and tardive dementia.19 We've also seen that antidepressants and stimulants can produce persistent and probably permanent abnormalities in the brain. These risks afflict children as well as adults. For example, although there are fewer studies of children, they probably share the same astronomically high rates for TD as studies have found in adults." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"Two patients in human trials were said to have suffered brain damage when they moved during the procedure, and one died five weeks following the procedure. amyloid vaccine: the other great hope In addition to nerve cell replacement therapies like stem cells and NGF fibroblasts, most companies that study AD are focusing on dissolving beta-amyloid as the best hope, and contend that advances in genetic research will open up limitless possibilities for the development of new personalized drugs to treat AD." - 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.)

"Iodine deficiency can cause brain damage, especially when it occurs in the fetuses of pregnant women after the first trimester and in children of up to three years of age. Iodine is critical for the growth and development of the brain and central nervous system. Stunted growth, mental retardation, and cretinism can affect the children of pregnant women with inadequate iodine intake. Pregnant and breastfeeding women can ensure adequate iodine by taking a daily prenatal supplement providing 150 meg of iodine. Pregnant women sometimes suffer from water retention." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"Animal studies show that when leptin is depressed by stimulants, brain damage to dopamine nerve structures occurs. Mice that have no leptin are highly susceptible to brain damage from chemicals. Leptin also acts as a significant brain antioxidant. By abnormally depressing leptin levels in the developing nervous system, nerves are conditioned to improperly respond to appetite signals and are more sensitive to chemical toxicity." - Byron J. Richards, The Leptin Diet: How Fit Is Your Fat? (Get the book.)

"According to researchers at the University of Prince Edward Island in Atlantic Canada, rats fed diets containing wild blueberries for six weeks experienced decreased stroke-induced brain damage. Tips on Using Blueberries SELECTION AND STORAGE: • Fresh blueberries should be deep blue and covered with a chalky white "bloom." • Check for damp, moldy, or decayed berries. • Frozen blueberries should move freely in the bag. If they are frozen in one clump, most likely they have been thawed and refrozen. • Blueberries will last for seven to ten days if refrigerated." - 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.) "Feeding rats diets enriched in lowbush blueberries for six weeks decreases ischemia-induced brain damage. Nutri Neuroscience. 2002 Dec; 5(6): 427-431. United States National Institute of Health, National Institute on Aging. Available at: www.alzheimers.org/nianews23.html. Accessed on May 2, 2006. Broccoli www.answers.com/topic/broccoli Fahey JW et al. Sulforaphane inhibits extracellular, intracellular, and antibiotic-resistant strains of Helicobacter pylori and prevents benzo[a]pyrene-induced stomach tumors.ProcNatlAcad Sci USA. 2002 May 28;99(11):7610-7615. Fahey JW, Zhang Y, Talalay P." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.) "Dietary supplementation with blueberries, spinach, or spirulina reduces ischemic brain damage. Experimental Neurology. 2005 May;193(l):75-84. Strawberries www.calstrawberry.com; www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/strawberries/ Hannum SM. Potential impact of strawberries on human health: a review of the science. Cn't Rev Food Sci Nutr. 2004;44( 1): 1-17. McDougall GJ, Stewart D. The inhibitory effects of berry polyphenols on digestive enzymes. Biofactors. 2005;23(4):189-195. Naemura A et al. Anti-thrombotic effect of strawberries. Blood Coagul Fibrinolysis. 2005 Oct;16(7):501-509." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

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