Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
See book keywords and concepts |  The Amen Clinics are dedicated to optimizing brain health and using the latest medical advances in the treatment of psychiatric diseases.
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Natural Strategies for Cancer Patients by Russell Blaylock, M.D.
Blaylock is a neurosurgeon, professor of medicine, and an outstanding nutritionist. This book is well researched and very thorough. Covers foods, supplements, and much more.
Beating Cancer with Nutrition by Patrick Quillin, Ph.D., R.D., C.N.S., and Noreen Quillin.
This is a classic by a Ph.D. nutritionist who specializes in nutritional protocols for cancer. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
See book keywords and concepts |  Best Source of Omega-3S on the Planet
Omega-3 s are helpful for heart health and brain health as well as for inflammation, circulation, memory, thought, and blood sugar control. And we know that salmon is one of the best sources of these omega-3s on the planet. So it should be a slam dunk: Eat more salmon. Who cares if the salmon comes wild, direct from the ocean, or from a salmon farm?
You should. At least if you want to get your 16 omega-3s.
Here's why: Just like every other creature on earth, the salmon conforms to the mantra "you are what you eat. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Maybe they've got a little hole in their slice of heart health, and a few little holes in their slice of brain health, and a medium-sized hole in their slice of chromosome health. Nothing major lets you see through the stack.
As aging takes effect, however, those holes can get a little bigger, or the cheese can get a little thinner. When big holes from one slice perfectly align with big holes from another slice, then, in effect, you've got big problems. |
Bottom Line Health
See book keywords and concepts | | Other studies have shown that any mental activity—work or play—is associated with better brain health. How to put mental activities to work for you...
•Cross-train your brain. Mental activities should involve workouts for both the left and right side of your brain.
In right-handed people, left-brain functions include logical analysis, language and speech, reading, writing and math, as well as symbol recognition.
Right-brain functions cover spatial tasks such as reading maps, artistic and musical activities, emotional perception and a sense of humor. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
See book keywords and concepts | | 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."
In one large trial, over the course of three months, 142 subjects aged forty to eighty were given 200 mg of PS a day or a placebo. On the scales normally used to assess Alzheimer's, those treated with the PS showed a small but statistically significant benefit. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Center for brain health at New York University School of Medicine, and researcher at the NYU-affiliated Nathan Kline Institute.
"In fact, the brain is a virtual glucose hog, gobbling more than two-thirds of the circulating carbohydrates in the bloodstream while you are at rest," points out biotechnology pioneer Barry Sears, Ph.D., in his bestselling book Enter the Zone.
Where do we get this necessary glucose? We get it from carbohydrates. They provide our main and most easily accessible source of glucose, although it also can be manufactured, though not as easily, from proteins and fats. |
John J. Ratey, MD
See book keywords and concepts |  At the time, if you'd asked what variable might underlie overall brain health, most scientists would have said neurotrophic factors because they were "kind of the in thing," says Cotman, and everyone knew that BDNF helped neurons in culture survive. It was a bit of a leap, but if Cotman could tie exercise to BDNF, bed at least have a plausible explanation for why it turned up in the aging study.
He set up an experiment to measure the levels of BDNF in the brains of mice that exercise. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
See book keywords and concepts | | He is the author of one of my favorite books on brain health, Brain Longevity, as well as the international best sellers Meditation as Medicine and Food as Medicine. He generously contributed a number of recipes, many taken from Food and Medicine. His radio show The Healing Zone can be heard on HayHouseRadio.com and he can be reached at www.drdharma.com.
1. Kiwifruit: Very high in vitamin C and vitamin E, helps boost your immune system, and protects your DNA integrity.
2. Blueberries: The best brain food! |
John J. Ratey, MD
See book keywords and concepts | | Approximately 75 percent of women experience some form of premenstrual
Hormonal Changes
The Impact on Women's brain health distress, physical or emotional or both, and Patty is among the subset for whom the symptoms can be severe enough to disrupt their lives (14 percent miss school or work at some point because of PMS). Every month since she was about sixteen, if she doesn't exercise Patty gets tired, irritable, itchy, anxious, agitated, and aggressive in the days leading up to her period. She has difficulty focusing; she tosses and turns at night; and she craves carbohydrates. |
Bottom Line Health
See book keywords and concepts | | GET AND STAY FIT
Exercise is vital to well-being, including brain health. Everyone should have a regular htness program. Key elements...
•Start an aerobic activity. Anything that gets your heart rate up for a sustained period, such as brisk walking, jogging and swimming, markedly improves the brain's frontal lobe function. This is the brain's "executive control," which handles complex reasoning, planning and memory. Such exercise also lowers the risk for Alzheimer's disease. Exercise at least 30 minutes, three times a week.
•Build a complete program. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
See book keywords and concepts | | Clearly omega-3 fatty acids are essential to good brain health," says my friend Daniel Amen, M.D., professor of psychiatry at University of California-Irvine and the author of Healing ADD and Change Your Brain, Change Your Life.
One More Benefit
Another one of the many benefits of omega-3s is that they are anti-inflammatory. The full importance of inflammation as a factor in disease is only just now beginning to be fully appreciated. Time magazine recently ran a cover story aptly named "Inflammation: The Silent Killer. |
Steven V. Joyal
See book keywords and concepts |  For example, a recent study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, showed that supplementing with lipoic acid and acetyl-L-carnitine (a form of carnitine particularly good for brain health) reversed energy deficits in the brains of experimental animals. A 2006 study, published in Biogerontology, showed that carnitine and lipoic acid dramatically improved heart muscle energy production. Yet another recent experimental study, published in Mechanisms of Ageing and Development, showed that carnitine decreased age-induced dysfunction in aging heart muscle. |
Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews
See book keywords and concepts |  Of course, if
Compelling recent research has revealed that exercise can actually help boost brain health. We've seen some evidence in the past that those who exercise do better on memory tests, but now evidence gathered with the use of MRIs shows that exercise can actually stimulate the growth of new cells in the area of the brain associated with memory and what researchers refer to as cognitive aging. And through stimulating • these new cells to form in the brain, exercise may even help restore some memory that has been lost as a result of ¦ stroke! |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  This goes into great detail about the ingredients you need to avoid to be healthy, not only in terms of brain health, but also cardiovascular health, immune system function and so on.
Now, let's look at the things you can do to enhance your brain health. First, of course, there's physical exercise. With physical exercise there's a lot of oxygen that gets moved around your body, and your brain needs oxygen to function well. Without adequate oxygen, you're not going to have good brain function no matter what your nutrition. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  However, the vitamin D being there is half the reason it is as effective as it is, in regards to brain health and [other areas].
Mike: Heavy metals are not a concern with the distillation process you use?
Benoit: No. We use a molecular distillation process for our cod liver oil, but we keep the integrity of the oil and the naturally occurring levels of EPA -- which is the eicosapentaenoic acid that helps with inflammation -- and the DHA -- which is the docosahexaenoic acid that helps nervous system, brain health and synaptic firing. At their natural levels, they will be the most effective. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  But that's only because I eat a lot of avocados, and they're good for brain health.
My overall view of Whole Foods? Two thumbs up. Way up. This store rocks. Especially if you own shares of the corporation and get a cut of the profit on those avocados.
(Disclaimer: I own no shares in the Whole Foods company, but given how much money I spend there, I'm pretty sure that NOT owning shares is about the dumbest financial decision I ever made. Hopefully, YOU own shares in Whole Foods, and you're earning some dividends off my repeat purchase of fresh produce priced like gold. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Everybody knows, for example, that DHA is an important oil for the brain health of infants and children. Those who eat more DHA have been clinically proven to be smarter in adulthood. And guess what's found in cow brains? DHA.
In fact, some of the best animal sources of DHA are the retina, the brain and another bodily fluid that's too gross to mention here as a food source. 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? |
John J. Ratey, MD
See book keywords and concepts | | The constant shifting affects every woman differently, and this must be factored in to any discussion of brain health. Exercise is particularly important for women because it tones down the negative consequences of hormonal changes that some experience, and for others, it enhances the positive. Overall, exercise balances the system, on a monthly basis as well as during each stage of life, including pregnancy and menopause.
The average woman has four hundred to five hundred menstrual cycles in her lifetime, each one lasting four to seven days. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
See book keywords and concepts |  Additional Supplements for
Impacting Brain Trauma_
The following chart summarizes the supplements I recommend adding to the protocol for overall brain health. This protocol is designed for individuals who suffer from, or are specifically concerned about, brain trauma. If you are concerned about additional brain conditions discussed in other chapters, consult with a health professional about how you can safely impact multiple conditions.
If you are taking medications—whether prescription or over-the-counter? |
Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Acetyl-L-carnitine, which is taken up more widely by the brain, is the best studied of all the carnitines for brain health and fitness.
But for our discussion, I want to focus on L-carnitine. It's the most widely available and least expensive of all forms of carnitines, so it's probably the one you'll be thinking of taking. What is it about carnitine that makes it a critical adjunct to the proper functioning of the human heart, especially in the clinical setting of angina? |
Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George
See book keywords and concepts |  Once again, initial studies of people with memory problems provided evidence that such nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) as ibuprofen, naproxen, and indomethacin might be helpful for brain health, but these early studies were not replicated. Taking these drugs can cause serious side effects like bleeding in the gastrointestinal system. the excitatory cell death hypothesis
Other studies have implicated the mechanism of excitatory cell death (ECD) in AD. In the ECD theory, neurons are thought to die through excess stimulation by excitatory amino acid neurotransmitters. | | Because African-Americans are disproportionately represented in lower socioeconomic classes, they are more susceptible to suffering from the effects of poor nutrition, being exposed to neurotoxins such as mercury, lead, and arsenic in drinking water, acquiring less cumulative education relative to those in higher financial classes, holding less cognitively stimulating jobs, having less free time to exercise—all factors that have a bearing on brain health through the course of one's life. Genetic predisposition is only a small part of the story of a person's health. | | Although most readers probably have heard this ad nauseam throughout their lives, most epidemiological studies demonstrate the importance of fruit and vegetable intake in maintaining brain health. Recently, a six-year study on nearly two thousand Chicago-area men and women showed that on measures of mental sharpness, older people who ate more than two servings of vegetables daily appeared about five years younger at the end of the six-year study than those who ate few or no vegetables. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
See book keywords and concepts | | Additional Supplements for Impacting Insomnia_
The following chart summarizes the supplements I recommend adding to the protocol for overall brain health. This protocol is designed for individuals who suffer from, or are specifically concerned about, insomnia. If you are concerned about additional brain conditions discussed in other chapters, consult with a health professional about how you can safely impact multiple conditions.
If you are taking medications—whether prescription or over-the-counter? | | The plan that follows is intended to promote brain health and protect your brain. When recommending protocols for specific conditions, as I do later in this chapter, I am assuming that you are already following the supplement program in the chart that follows.
Do not combine this protocol with more than one additional protocol from this book. If you are taking medications, or have any food restrictions, you should consult with your doctor before beginning this or any supplement program. Supplement overdoses are rare, but possible, and certain combinations may affect individuals adversely. | | Additional Supplements for Impacting Mental Fatigue_
The following chart summarizes the supplements I recommend adding to the protocol for overall brain health. This protocol is designed for individuals who suffer from, or are specifically concerned about, mental fatigue. If you are concerned about additional brain conditions discussed in other chapters, consult with a health professional about how you can safely impact multiple conditions.
If you are taking medications—whether prescription or over-the-counter? | | Additional Supplements for Impacting Brain Allergies
The following chart summarizes the supplements I recommend adding to the protocol for overall brain health. This protocol is designed for individuals who suffer from, or are specifically concerned about, brain allergies. If you are concerned about additional brain conditions discussed in other chapters, consult with a health professional about how you can safely impact multiple conditions.
If you are taking medications—whether prescription or over-the-counter? |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Antonio Convit of the Center for brain health at New York University School of Medicine amplifies: "You need more insulin to do the same work, as your tissues basically become resistant to your own insulin. That's what happens first. That can start very, very inconspicuously. But after you've been doing this for a while and don't exercise more or lose weight, and you have the genetic predisposition, you can get more insulin resistance or impaired glucose tolerance (which is the same thing as prediabetes)."
Dr. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
See book keywords and concepts | | Additional Supplements for Impacting Senile Dementia
The following chart summarizes the supplements I recommend adding to the protocol for overall brain health. This protocol is designed for individuals who suffer from, or are specifically concerned about, senile dementia. If you are concerned about additional brain conditions discussed in other chapters, consult with a health professional about how you can safely impact multiple conditions.
If you are taking medications—whether prescription or over-the-counter? |
Ray D. Strand
See book keywords and concepts |  I believe the cellular nutrition program that I present in Chapter 17 will help the individual who is healthy accomplish his goals for brain health and preservation. If you are already concerned about a decline in your ability to remember things or have a strong history of Alzheimer's in your family, you may want to add some additional nutrients that I call optimizers. These are those antioxidants that are known to cross over this blood brain barrier readily, such as grape-seed extract. See Chapter 17 for more details, or, if you are especially concerned, consult me at my website, www. |
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