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Hint # 6: Your Brain: Use It or Lose It
The brain can accomplish wonderfully complex tasks but it's a relatively simple organ. It's important to feed it well and protect it so it serves you well throughout your life. Like most body parts, the more exercise it gets, the healthier it is. How do you exercise the brain? Well, recent studies have shown that people who do crossword puzzles are less likely to suffer from Alzheimer's!
What good is it to live to be 100 years old if you don't know who you are or where you are? Let's point out some brain facts that will help you to "be there when you get there!" The brain is made up of a few basic constituents. Fat, water and aluminum are just a few of its major components. Fat is the densest source of energy and the brain uses plenty of it. An important fat in the brain is called DHA, a crucial supplement for memory, concentration and retention.
All of that fat also acts as a cushion to protect delicate functions. Water is critical to the brain as well because those brain functions are largely electrical. Energy plus electricity sounds like your brain has the potential to overheat! Water should always be around to keep you from literally becoming a "hot head". The brain needs lots of pure water as a coolant and to wash away toxic by products from all that thinking!
Aluminum is an interesting component of the brain. Since so much of brain function is electrical, it stands to reason that you need metal as a conductor. Why aluminum? Can you imagine how heavy your head would be if the metallic conductor was lead? Your neck would have to be the size of your waist just to hold your head up! Now let's not confuse the aluminum in your brain with the aluminum around that baked potato. One is organic, the other is not!
This highlights the fact that since the brain has an affinity for aluminum, any inorganic aluminum, from cooking foil, aluminum pots, even the aluminum in antiperspirants, would gravitate to the brain. Then just try to evict it. It's like a rent controlled building. You can't get it to leave!
Gotu Kola is an herb that is high in natural aluminum. Give the brain the good stuff and it kicks out the deadbeat, inorganic junk. A great combination is Ginkgo-Gotu Kola. It comes in concentrated form so one tablet is equal to 4 capsules of non-concentrate and the Ginkgo stimulates circulation to the brain so the Gotu Kola can get in. Like having a friend watching the door!
GABA is a neurotransmitter that calms down brain function. It's important to give the brain a chance to rest and rebuild. We like to think of it as Yoga for the brain! L-Glutamine is found in high amounts in both the gut and the brain! In fact, the body needs more of this essential amino acid than any other. When you just can't think, take one or two capsules and in 15 minutes you're cooking on all four burners again! (It also turns off food and alcohol cravings.)
Brain Protex with huperzine is a very complete brain supplement. Many studies have shown huperzine to have anti-aging effects on the brain. Focus Attention in powder or capsules can also help with attention and memory.
***** Menopausal and peri-menopausal women should definitely include Pro-G-Yam 500 to balance the short term memory challenges caused by estrogen dominance*****.
Then take your brain out for a walk around the block! Take a class, learn something new, maybe a language, figure out problems, read a book, or do that crossword puzzle. Your brain will remember to thank you for it!
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