Health & Nutrition Blogs
Brain Blog: Where Can You Find Essential Fatty Acids for Your Brain?Where do the essential fatty acids come from?It is not widely known that our brain needs fat. This is part of our confusing history with fat. We’ve heard for far too many years that fat is bad. This morphed into the maturing realization that certain fats are good, especially specific unsaturated fatty acids. The truth is, we cannot survive without the proper type and the proper amount of fat. In fact, our brains are nearly 60 percent fat, with a great need for saturated fat, polyunsaturated fat, cholesterol, and other fats.
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Brain Blog: What happens to Your Brain Without Fatty Acids?Brain health is profoundly affected by your fatty-acid intakeIn one of my books, Brain Building Nutrition, I cited the remarkable case of a young girl who suffered a bullet wound to the abdomen. Because of extensive damage, she required extensive surgery that caused her to lose parts of her small and large intestines. This meant many months of intravenous feeding to nurture her back to health.
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Health Blog: How Bacteria Use our Own Stress MoleculesBacteria, stress molecules can gang up against usIt is now common knowledge that stress can negatively impact immunity. But it is not widely known that bacteria may actually use our own stress molecules to take advantage of us. When we are under stress, the level of stress compounds such as norepinephrine (a form of adrenaline) increase in our bodies. |
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Health Blog: How Too Little Sleep Weakens Immunity We may have underestimated the impact of sleep on our immune defenses. A growing body of research suggests that sleep deprivation may weaken our barrier defenses – the first line of defense against bacteria. |
Brain Blog: Toward an Extraordinary LifeHow brain research will change our futureOur expanding knowledge of the brain’s ability to change, adapt, and grow more complex is one of the most exciting frontiers in science. This capacity to transform and adapt, called neuroplasticity, means that new opportunities to solve an array of stubborn brain disorders is on the horizon. It also gives us new confidence as we now develop tools to unlock human potential that are beyond what we would have imagined only 10 years ago.
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