Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Plants enhance brain function; drugs destroy brain function. Plants are naturally compatible with human biology; drugs are naturally toxic to human biology. Plants need no slick marketing; drugs require slick marketing. Plants were put here by God and Mother Nature; drugs were put here by greedy, criminal-minded drug company personnel who profit from your disease.
Which would you rather trust with your life: Mother Nature, or Big Pharma?
Be sure to watch my satire video on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The agency was so thrilled by the performance of the drug that they not only approved it, they MANDATED its use on anyone with poor brain function. A massive shipment of the skin patches are now on their way to the U.S. Senate, House of Representatives and the White House where it is hoped that the drug-laced skin patches will either restore normal brain function or remove some politicians from office due to toxic side effects.
Branding patients like cattle, American style! |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 You can lose some of your brain function if you don't exercise sufficiently and eat properly," Dr. Convit concludes. "What our grandmothers and our mothers have been telling us for a long time is true—exercise, eat well, and don't get heavy. Couch potatoes may now have a new incentive to exercise and get their weight down."
A team of Canadian researchers from the University of Ottawa led by psychology professor Claude Messier, Ph.D., has made similar findings concerning the link between blood sugar and brain function. |
| But now we know that when glucose isn't processed normally, it has ramifications on brain function as well," he explains.
"You can lose some of your brain function if you don't exercise sufficiently and eat properly," Dr. Convit concludes. "What our grandmothers and our mothers have been telling us for a long time is true—exercise, eat well, and don't get heavy. Couch potatoes may now have a new incentive to exercise and get their weight down."
A team of Canadian researchers from the University of Ottawa led by psychology professor Claude Messier, Ph.D. |
Hyla Cass
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 The keys to your brain function are the chemical messengers of mind and mood called neurotransmitters. As they travel around your brain and nervous system, they help determine how you feel.
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Here's the important part: we can influence our brain function by supplying the right nutrients to make our brain cells and neurotransmitters work at their peak.
While there are hundreds of neurotransmitters, the following are the main players:
GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid) is the "cool" neurotransmitter, relaxing you and calming you down after stress. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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 Dietary acid-base balance can affect favorably or unfavorably the levels of hormones in the brain that work alone and together with vitamin D to direct brain development and brain function.
?Cheese and refined grains promote inflammation that may overwhelm brain protective mechanisms, causing degenerative neurological disease. Conversely, fresh green produce and lean meat that's high in omega-3 fats suppress inflammation and protect brain function.
Here's how a lack of vitamin D leads to development of certain diseases. |
Hyla Cass, M.D.
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| The keys to your brain function are the chemical messengers of mind and mood called neurotransmitters. As they travel around your brain and nervous system, they help determine how you feel.
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Here's the important part: we can influence our brain function by supplying the right nutrients to make our brain cells and neurotransmitters work at their peak.
While there are hundreds of neurotransmitters, the following are the main players:
• GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid) is the "cool" neurotransmitter, relaxing you and calming you down after stress. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Plants enhance brain function; drugs destroy brain function. Plants are naturally compatible with human biology; drugs are naturally toxic to human biology. Plants need no slick marketing; drugs require slick marketing. Plants were put here by God and Mother Nature; drugs were put here by greedy, criminal-minded drug company personnel who profit from your disease.
Which would you rather trust with your life: Mother Nature, or Big Pharma?
Be sure to watch my satire video on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It's interesting that people who eat beef skip all the parts of the animal that would enhance their own brain function, isn't it? A lack of dietary DHA promotes heart disease, Alzheimer's, dementia and poor cognitive function. Poor cognitive function (i.e. a poorly performing brain) causes people to make poor decisions about diet, such as eating more beef. And so the cycle continues. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Juice Feasting has given me more time, better health, greatly improved brain function and the confidence in knowing that I'm eating the very best diet I can possibly eat.
Some might call it a raw foods diet, or a raw food vegan diet. I think those terms can freak people out. I don't consider myself a vegan, since I sometimes eat cooked fish. And I don't consider myself a full-time raw foodist, since I eat one cooked meal a day. But I believe whole-heartedly in the benefits of raw, living foods, and I totally support the philosophy and practice of veganism. |
Andreas Moritz
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 The effect would be water intoxication, a potentially fatal disturbance in brain function that results when the normal balance of electrolytes in the body is pushed outside of safe limits by a very rapid intake of water. The transition from a state of severe dehydration to improved hydration should be very gradual and is best monitored by a health practitioner who knows the basics of water metabolism.
Guidelines for Gradual Rehydration
Add only about one glass of water per day to the amount of water you usually drink and check whether urination increases. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 This boosts brain function, immune function and even the circulation of lymph fluids throughout your body.
Laughter is powerful medicine. It is perhaps the best medicine of all for countering the effects of chronic stress (which is devastating to the immune system). Laughter literally alters your body's physical response to stress, including emotional stress and environmental stress. With enough laughter and the right nutrition, you can enhance your body's response to virtually any health challenge. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You show me somebody taking twelve prescription drugs, and I'll show you someone with a toxic liver, impaired brain function, stressed kidneys and unhealthy blood. Drugs don't make people healthy. And most drugs, by the way, actually deplete the body of essential nutrients.
Remember: The first thing that goes when you take pharmaceuticals is your mind, and with that you lose your ability to think clearly. |
Steven V. Joyal
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 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. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Processed sugar: Sugar greatly impacts the healthy functioning of the nervous system, and refined sugar is a lot like crack in the way it alters (and impairs) brain function. All refined sugars should be avoided, including high-fructose corn syrup (the sweetener in sodas), dextrose, sucrose and others. While you're at it, avoid white bread and refined grains, too, because they're very similar to sugars in the way they impact the nervous system.
Aspartame: This artificial chemical sweetener greatly impairs healthy nervous system function. |
Sue Palmer
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 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. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 This is the stuff that will really help you be a healthier person, a disease-free person, a happier person with a healthy nervous system and healthy brain function.
Wolfe: Yeah, I think what's happening to anybody who's reading this right now -- you are searching for real information because you know you have been sold a few lies. A big company that's running a $50 billion enterprise cannot suddenly say, "Hey, these pesticides we've been using for the past 50 years are causing cancer in mice, animals and people." They can't do it. The government's on their side, too. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In future articles, we'll examine these areas in more detail, discussing the best nutritional strategies for physical performance, fertility, brain function, stress adaptation, disease prevention, longevity and much more. We'll also look at the most common sources of the chemical contaminants and food additives that are causing the most damage to men's health right now. Coming up soon: How to stop poisoning your body with 100 synthetic chemicals every morning! |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Ultraviolet radiation from the sun, for example, helps support healthy moods, brain function, endocrine system function and sleep cycles. Sunlight photons also help us generate vitamin D, which prevents cancer, diabetes, depression and bone loss. Infrared radiation has been proven to speed recovery of wounds and injuries, and infrared LED devices are being tested by NASA to speed the growth of plants in space.
Electromagnetic energy affects every living system, and light is only one narrow band of the electromagnetic spectrum. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 This is important because it is further evidence for our belief that some people experience severe fatigue due to some aberrancy of brain function.
Because some of our patients undergoing deep fibromuscular massage said they felt better overall and had less pain, my colleague, an expert in physical medicine, hypothesized that the treatment might improve the balance of CFS and FM patients. So he and another colleague, who was an expert in clinical research, tested patients' balance before and after they completed their course of massage treatment. |
| If so, it may have led to improved brain function, and that may have brought about improvements both in balance and the patients' overall feeling u c
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group is currently working on an application for federal funding to allow a more formal study on the effect of Rolfing on fatigue and pain. |
Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews
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 In contrast, regular planned intake of fiber-rich, nutrient-rich foods balance your brain function and encourage the feelings of energy and control that ensure good food choices.
Obviously the emotional vulnerability that can result from less than optimum nutrient intake makes you far less likely to stick to your resolve and far more likely to munch a candy bar, down a coffee or grab any junk food that will instantly boost your blood sugar and "restore" your equilibrium. But the price of these "boosts" is increasing calories and increasing fat storage and ultimately a fatter body. |
| The precise mix of foods will help control your appetite and actually boost your brain function so you can stick with your goals. Your energy will improve.
You will lose inches, especially around your waist. 0 The appearance of your skin and hair will change within a week and you will look better than ever.
Wait a minute . . . look better than ever? How can you promise that?
Here's a story that may surprise you as much as it surprised us. |
John J. Ratey, MD
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 The concept of plasticity is fundamental to understanding how the brain works and how exercise optimizes brain function by fostering that quality. Everything we do and think and feel is governed by how our brain cells, or neurons, connect to one another. What most people think of as psychological makeup is rooted in the biology of these connections. Likewise, our thoughts and behavior and environment reflect back on our neurons, influencing the pattern of connections. Far from being hardwired, as scientists once envisioned it, the brain is constantly being rewired. |
| But the real reason we feel so good when we get our blood pumping is that it makes the brain function at its best, and in my view, this benefit of physical activity is far more important — and fascinating—than what it does for the body. Building muscles and conditioning the heart and lungs are essentially side effects. I often tell my patients that the point of exercise is to build and condition the brain.
In today's technology-driven, plasma-screened-in world, it's easy to forget that we are born movers — animals, in fact—because we've engineered movement right out of our lives. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Doctors talked up the "benefits" of smoking cigarettes, urging people to start smoking in order to improve brain function or even -- get this -- make their teeth stronger!
The truth is doctors are easily influenced by commercial interests and can be readily convinced to recommend practically any product, no matter how toxic, unhealthy or deadly to consumers. Just look at how many doctors wrote prescriptions for Vioxx, for example, after being visited by a Vioxx drug rep pushing it as a "miracle drug" for joint pain. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
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 In the book Smart Nutrients: Prevent and Treat Alzheimer's and Senility, Enhance brain function and Longevity, co-authored by Dr Abram Hoffer and Dr Morton Walker, these findings are elaborated and corroborated with additional clinical evidence showing the therapeutic effect of vitamin B-3 as an anti-aging agent.
Niacin is known to lower total cholesterol, LDL, and triglycerides, while elevating HDL. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 PS has been available as a supplement for decades and has been shown in well-documented studies to restore brain function. It helps improve learning and name recall, concentration, face recognition, the ability to remember telephone numbers, and the ability to find misplaced objects. One of its primary functions is to regulate the release of various neurotransmitters.
"Our brain health depends on ... phosphatidylserine for a number of important metabolic effects," Lombard says, "including making it possible for nutrients to move freely in and out of neurons. |
| There is currently no agreed-upon cure for autism, but there are a bunch of studies that show B6 can play a helpful role in reducing some of the symptoms, which suggests that our kids are probably also deficient in many nutrients that affect brain function. Some studies suggest that there is a subgroup of autistic children who actually do improve with vitamin B6 supplementation. The children in the studies usually took between 3.5 mg and almost 100 mg of B6 per day (for every 2.2 pounds of body weight). |
| Stress hormones wreak havoc with virtually every metabolic process, influencing everything from weight to brain function. And acupuncture really shines when it comes to reducing stress.
"If energy is stagnated or out of balance in certain meridians or organs it can result in stress and anxiety," Lawrence explains. Patients typically report an almost otherworldly, completely pleasant feeling of relaxation after a session. (For what it's worth, that's been my experience the dozen or so times I've tried acupuncture. |
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