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"It is energetically linked to the dendrites, nerve cells, nerve axons, and the perineurium, which is a sheath of connective tissue that surrounds bundles of nerve fibers. In terms of cell maturation, this field links strongly with neuroblasts, which are embryonic nerve cells. Surprisingly, Peter's matching experiments did not show a strong correlation between the Nerve Driver field and structures in the brain, such as synapses. That may be because the NES system is working at the informational level of the body-field, not at the electrochemical level." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"Research shows that vitamin D, omega-3 fats, and magnesium can reduce the levels of inflammatory substances that nerve cells produce following brain injury, thereby limiting damage. Recent Alzheimer's research at Washington University in St. Louis found that 58 percent of eighty patients had vitamin D levels of 20 or lower. Participants' mood disturbances, depression, and understanding were studied, and those with vitamin D levels below 20 were eleven times more likely to have a mood disorder and three times more likely to have impaired understanding." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"Both bladder drugs have what doctors call anticholinergic effects, which means they block the action of acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter. nerve cells release neurotransmitters to send signals to neighboring cells. The anticholinergic medicines block some of these signals. Many drugs, including some used to treat allergies, anxiety, blood pressure, convulsions, depression, Parkinson's disease, and psychosis, have been found to have anticholinergic effects. So many medicines have anticholinergic effects that some people may be taking two or more of these drugs at the same time." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"There are 40,000 nerve cells in the heart as well as neurotransmitters such as noradrenaline and dopamine (known emotional mediators), that the heart synthesizes and releases. "With every beat of the heart, a burst of neural activity is relayed to the brain," Martin explains. "The heart senses hormonal, [heart] rate and pressure information, translates it into neurological impulses and processes this information." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.)

"Research at Cornell University shows that consuming quercetin (which is mostly contained in apple skin and just below the peel) may lower the risk of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease by defending nerve cells against free radical damage. In addition, previous studies have shown that quercetin helps the body fight off cancer. Is this proof that an apple a day keeps the doctor away? I think we're just beginning to understand the power of these phytochemicals and there will be nothing but good news ahead." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"We know that these little honeycomb structures act as tracks in transporting various products along cells, particularly in nerve cells, and they are vital for pulling apart chromosomes during cell division. We also know that most microtubules are constantly remaking themselves, assembling and disassembling, like an endless set of Lego. In his own experiments with the brains of small mammals, Hameroff found, like Fritz Popp, that living tissue was transmitting photons and that good penetration of 'light' occurred in certain areas of the brain." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

"PS is a crucial building block for the nerve cells that make up the networks in the brain. It works particularly well because it is part of the membranes, those thin ribbons of material that are wound back and forth within the body of the cell. These enclose the cell and work inside it as surfaces on which the enzymes function to carry out metabolism, which is energy conversion. So PS is involved in the synthesis, the transport, the recycling and the functional action of all the chemical transmitters of the brain." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "Very definitely, the human brain can renew itself. New nerve cells can be made, and existing cells can re-extend their networks and rebuild to full levels of cognitive function." Clinical trials have demonstrated the benefits. "PS was able to turn back the clock on memory loss by 12 years," Dr. Kidd says. "That is, in matching up names and faces. People were testing at about 64 years of age and at the end of the trial, they were testing 52 years of age. So it actually turned back the clock on a measurable aspect of memory loss." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "Remember," she says, "half of all the body's nerve cells are located in your head. Actually, a young baby has many more brain cells than an adult. 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." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"A new story has emerged that argues the nerve cell death occurring in a variety of degenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease and Huntington's disease, occurs because nerve cells are stimulated to death—shorted out—by an overabundance of glutamate-producing action. Memantine acts as a glutamate receptor antagonist that blocks the effects of glutamate. Thus, the companies that make memantine brand their product to make doctors believe that their drug slows the biological progression of the illness by preventing cell death." - 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.) "We still don't know exactly why these cholinergic nerve cells in the basal forebrain die, or how to prevent their death. So instead of addressing that problem, current treatments focus on inhibiting cholinesterase, the enzyme that breaks down acetylcholine in the brain. Because we are unable to stop the death of acetylcholine-producing cells, the rationale goes, we should preserve levels of the already-existing neurotransmitter. The family of FDA-approved cholinesterase inhibitors (ChEIs)—tacrine (Cognex), donepezil (Aricept), rivastigmine (Exelon), and galantamine (Razadyne)?" - 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 cortex, the outer layer of nerve cells believed to be the seat of thinking and of higher mental functions, became much thicker and unfathomably complex. The brains of humans (and of whales and dolphins) are, with no exaggeration, the most complex structures in the known Universe —many times more complex than the largest computers such brains have yet designed. This explosive development of the brain, occurring in just a few hundred thousand years, is one of the most dramatic and rapid changes in the whole of biological evolution. And on it rests the whole future of evolution." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"Additionally, the cholinergic basal forebrain, a cluster of nerve cells that I studied at Johns Hopkins which produces the transmitter acetylcholine, sends its axons to the hippocampus, and stimulates the structure with the neurotransmitter. When the cholinergic basal forebrain ceases to produce adequate levels of acetylcholine, it also affects the hippocampus and other brain regions, and thus our ability to learn and remember. Recollection. The process of recollecting memories involves us engaging the information we've managed to store, usually in response to a cue. Formally Figure 3." - 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 herpes virus becomes dormant in the nerve cells in most individuals after the initial infection. Other individuals, however, can experience recurrent outbreaks. Type I has a recurrence rate of 4 percent, while Type II has a 60 percent recurrence rate. Recurrent outbreaks may follow stress, sun exposure, minor infections, and trauma. The incubation period for this contagious virus is two to twelve days." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"During brain development, your body selectively turns off nerve cells to create a sensory or motor response, like carving away excess wood or chipping away excess stone to create a sculpture. When development is complete, you have a predictable motor or sensory function, such as walking or being able to recognize the taste of a specific food. Vitamin D and nutrients such as omega-3 fatty acids and magnesium, which are important in regulating gene expression, control this sculpting process. They select the cells that will remain to perform specific functions." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"Neurogenic bladder. When nerve cells in the bladder are damaged, the bladder is often prevented from emptying completely, which allows bacteria to grow in the bladder and kidneys, resulting in urinary tract infections. An inability to recognize when the bladder is full or to control the muscles that release urine are also possible results of nerve damage to the bladder. ?Reduced sexual response. Both men and women may experience a reduction in sexual function, although neuropathy does not change sex drive per se." - 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.) "Benfotiamine provides tremendous benefit by stopping the accumulation of sugar-derived compounds called triosephos-phates that gather in blood and nerve cells and damage them. Benfotiamine activates the enzyme transketolase, which in turn makes triosephosphates into harmless chemicals, inhibiting the damaging action of glycation. We strongly believe that benfotiamine supplementation is very beneficial for patients who have diabetic neuropathy, diabetic retinopathy, and kidney disease." - 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.) "As the nerve cells are destroyed, muscle weakness and wasting follow, and it can become difficult to lift your leg, climb stairs, or rise from a seated position. CARING FOR YOUR FEET ?Clean your feet every day using warm (not hot) water and mild soap. Dry your feet, especially between your toes. ?Inspect your feet daily for cuts, blisters, redness, swelling, or other problems. You can use a mirror to see the bottoms of your feet, or ask someone else to check them for you. ?Always protect your feet by wearing shoes or slippers. Wear seamless socks to avoid irritating your feet. ?" - 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.) "Disappearance of the pain can indicate that the nerve cells have been irreparably destroyed, and in this situation your extremity is insensitive to touch and pain. Although the lack of pain is a relief, it also leaves you with an increased risk of developing potentially deadly complications, including life-threatening infection. This is why people with diabetes must check their feet for scrapes, cuts, swelling, bleeding, and signs of infection every day if they have peripheral neuropathy." - 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.)

"Imagine this vast network of nerve cells as the telecommunications system of the body. It conveys information to other cells in remote parts of the body and receives critical details about function from other like organisms. It is classically taught that these nerve cells, called neurons, decline rapidly with age. It is also taught that brain cell death is permanent and that these neurons are incapable of regenerating. It is believed that the rate and number of decline are associated with degenerative diseases of aging, such as senility. In fact, this is merely a corresponding observation." - Richard, Dr. DiCenso, Beyond Medicine, exploring a new way of thinking (Get the book.)

"These substances are known to cause or aggravate cancer, cause genetic changes in cells, and affect nerve cells. > These toxic exposures can lead to school absenteeism, learning disabilities, asthma, and other chronic health problems. Remember that knowledge is your best defense against these very real threats to our children's health. Involved parents can make all the difference in bringing about the changes necessary to protect their children." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "Conventional cleaning chemicals can contain neurotoxins, highly toxic materials that affect the nerve cells and may impair a child's developmental and learning abilities. • A study published in the October 2003 edition of Environmental Health Perspectives found that teens showed a fourfold increased risk of illness from exposure to disinfectants than adults. • Several Seattle public schools found that the lead concentration in their water fountains exceeded the 20 parts per billion recommended by the EPA. • Many items containing mercury are found in schools." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Without enough glutathione, nerve cells, including brain cells, cannot effectively transmit messages from one cell to another. 4. Vulnerability to toxins in the brain. Low levels of glutathione in brain cells create heightened sensitivity to heavy metals, and to other toxicants. 5. Absorption of neurotoxic proteins. Low glutathione that results in leaky gut syndrome allows harmful peptides to enter the brain. 6. Increased autoimmunity and allergy." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"MS is an autoimmune disorder that destroys myelin, the fatty sheath around nerve cells. In animal studies, statins reversed paralysis in mice with MS and prevented a relapse of the disease. It's not known exactly how statins work in this regard. A large controlled trial is now under way • Statins may improve macular degeneration, an age-related disorder in which cholesterol accumulates in membranes of the eye. • Trials are now under way to clarify a potential role in cancer. So far results are mixed." - 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.)

"It contains approximately one hundred billion neurons?nerve cells that send the chemical messages that run our brains and influence our bodies. There are more neurons in our brain than there are stars in the universe. Some of these individual neurons make ten thousand or more individual connections with other neurons. These neurons and their connections are ignited by a couple of hundred different neurotransmitters, such as serotonin and dopamine. The neurotransmitters we know best we nonetheless know litde about; most of the others we know nothing about and haven't even as yet identified." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"As our research at Johns Hopkins in the 1980s revealed, the loss of cholinergic (meaning "producing-acetylcholine") nerve cells in a part of the brain called the cholinergic basal forebrain (also known as the substantia innominata or nucleus basalis of Meynert) is associated with the symptoms of dementia." - 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.)

"Conversely, it is one of only two structures in the brain that clearly produces its own new nerve cells. See also neurogenesis. HPA axis. A signaling route from the hypothalamus to the pituitary gland to the adrenal gland, which controls the stress response. It is important to such vital functions as fuel regulation and the immune system. See also adrenal glands, hypothalamus, and pituitary gland. human growth hormone (HGH)." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"You," your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules. As Lewis Carroll's Alice might have phrased it: "You're nothing but a pack of neurons." — francis crick, nobel laureate in biochemistry, I994?9 The ultimate indicator of our newfound faith in scientific psychiatry may be the mysteriously growing placebo effect." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) "The animation then morphs into two nerve cells with chemicals moving between them. The simultaneously soothing and authoritative voice continues: "Zoloft, a prescription medicine, can help. It works to correct chemical imbalances in the brain, which may be related to symptoms of depression." The face returns, now smiling, and bounces along after the fluttering butterfly. An appealing logo for Zoloft appears, and then the voice intones, "When you know more about what's wrong, you can help make it right." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Yang and coworkers, for example, found that nicotinamide could rescue viable but injured nerve cells within the ischemic area after experimental strokes in animals.15 Early injection of nicotinamide reduced the number of necrotic and apoptotic neurons. Later injections were not as effective. Yang and Adams concluded that "early administration of nicotinamide may be of therapeutic interest in preventing the development of stroke, by rescuing the still viable but injured nerve cells and partially preventing infarction." - Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD, Feel Better, Live Longer with Vitamin B-3 (Get the book.)

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