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"Over the years, your brain accumulates memories and injuries. brain injuries include emotional traumas, head traumas, damage from high blood pressure, and damage from the ravages of unhealthy living. In this situation, the brain's capacity to protect and repair cannot keep up with all of these stresses and you begin to lose brain function. This is called dementia. Alzheimer's disease is a deterioration of understanding, memory, and processing memories for problem solving." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"They provide speech rehabilitation to patients who have speech disorders or who have had strokes or brain injuries. THE MAIN BODY OF EVIDENCE Your Torso and Extremities The body says what words cannot. —MARTHA GRAHAM, DANCER AND CHOREOGRAPHER f hen we hear the word body, what's likely to spring to mind is the torso, not the head. Indeed, the mind is useless without the torso to carry out its wishes and whims. The body is the "temple of the soul," according to yoga philosophy." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"Use of DMSO within a few hours of brain injuries and within one hour of injury to the spinal cord, has prevented death and paralysis that often ensues. No other therapy is better at reducing increased intra-cranial pressure. When head or spinal cord trauma occurs because there is bone surrounding these two structures, the fluid from the inflammatory reaction greatly increases damage to the brain and cord. A recent study in Turkey was very interesting. Ten patients with bad head injuries were given DMSO intravenously." - James A. Howenstine, A Physician's Guide to Natural Health Products That Work (Get the book.)

"Indeed, a variety of conditions that damage the brain are associated with difficulties in attention and heightened activity levels, such as fetal alcohol syndrome or lead poisoning, but there is no meaningful correlation between known brain injuries or diseases in children and the inability to pay attention, sit still, or regulate one's impulses." - Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D. and Craig Hovey, The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal Children (Get the book.)

"As you know by now, one of the central processes in brain injuries and degeneration is the formation of free radicals. For example, in Down's syndrome there is a fourfold increase in these destructive particles.36 A recent study found that exposure of brain neurons (caudate, hippocampus, cerebellum, and frontal cortex) to as little as 1 -5 uM of methylmercury significantly increased free-radical generation in all of the cells.37 Amicromole is one-millionth of a mole weight, an infinitesimally small amount of mercury." - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Health and Nutrition Secrets (Get the book.) "As a neurosurgery resident in training, one of my responsibilities was to care for patients suffering from serious brain injuries. Having been interested in surgical nutrition, even as an intern, it amazed me to see these patients literally subsist on an intravenous infusion of water, salt, and glucose for weeks, with no other form of nutritional supplementation. These patients would come to us robust and healthy, and within three weeks to a month they would look like POWs in a communist gulag. It never dawned on anyone that the patients were literally starving, often to the point of death." - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Health and Nutrition Secrets (Get the book.)

"Syntonic optometry has been useful in treating pain, inflammation, headaches, and traumatic brain injuries. • Ultraviolet light therapy. Ultraviolet light therapies are used to treat illnesses such as asthma and cancer, as well as conditions like high cholesterol and premenstrual syndrome. The sun's ultraviolet-A (UVA) rays, which have longer wavelengths than ultraviolet-B (UVB) and ultraviolet-C (UVC) rays, are considered the least harmful. There are a variety of ultraviolet light therapies. • UVA-1 therapy isolates a portion of the UVA wavelength." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

"That explains why, in certain rare cases, brain injuries will trigger extraordinary leaps in sensory ability. By a perverse coincidence, such lesions short-circuit The Squelcher and allow in more perception. A neurochemical imbalance called Addison's disease, for example, has been known to heighten the sense of taste by as much as 150 times.2 What happens to subtle perceptions when they are squelched? Contrary to common sense, they are neither lost nor destroyed. In fact, the latest evidence suggests that human memory approaches 100 percent retention. We remember potentially everything." - Win Wenger, Ph.D. and Richard Poe, The Einstein Factor: A Proven New Method for Increasing Your Intelligence (Get the book.)

"Several small studies have shown that music therapy can improve speech among those with traumatic brain injuries. Researchers at the University of California at Irvine produced evidence that listening to Mozart produced short-term enhancement of spatial-temporal reasoning abilities in college students. Current government-supported initiatives in music therapy include a focus on patients with brain injuries and on the aged. In 1992, Congress passed an act that provided $1 million in annual funding for music therapy research and education with elderly patients." - Barrie R Cassileth, Ph.D., The Alternative Medicine Handbook: The Complete Reference Guide to Alternative and Complementary Therapies (Get the book.)

"Laibow and fellow researchers, neurotherapy was shown to provide a wide range of benefits for patients with brain injuries. The study involved 27 patients who suffered from brain injuries and exhibited a list of 48 clinical symptoms. After receiving neurotherapy sessions, the conditions of 25 of the patients improved by 61% to 100%, while the remaining two patients, whose injuries were related to vascular accidents, also achieved some improvement." - Larry Trivieri, Jr., Alternative Medicine the Definitive Guide, Second Edition (Get the book.)

"Such inflammation may be the result of serious brain injuries earlier in life. During the inflammatory reaction to injury, the body produces large numbers of free radicals, which stimulate the formation of beta-amyloid protein in the brain. What You Can Do Vitamin E Several studies have found that high intake of vitamin E, in either foods or supplements, can reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease. The vitamin helps neutralize free radicals, has mild antiinflammatory properties, and also protects brain cells from beta-amyloid protein. Martha Clare Morris, Sc.D." - Jack Challem, Feed Your Genes Right: Eat to Turn Off Disease-Causing Genes and Slow Down Aging (Get the book.)

"If this chemical damages the brains of animals, is it possibly also causing brain injuries in children? Could exposure to this common chemical be just one more unsuspected factor related to the inordinate increase in learning, behavioral and developmental problems in children, as well as the increased incidence of brain-damaged children? These topics are more fully discussed in Chapter 4 of this book and in the companion book entitled Can Chemicals Cause Epidemics?* Some of the effects from chemicals have been documented on the video entitled Chemical Reactions in Children and Adults. (800.787." - Doris J. Rapp, M.D., Our Toxic World: A Wake Up Call (Get the book.)

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