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If I were to have standard medical laboratory work done, presumably blood work, what would it tell me about my brain and what to do about it? I think the hardest part is to teach our body emotionally, what the future will feel like ahead of the actual experience. So what does that mean? You can’t wait for your success to feel empowered. You can’t wait for your wealth to feel abundant. You can’t wait for your great new relationship to feel love or you’re healing to feel holy. That’s the old model of reality of cause and effect. In a post last November, I explained the fascinating science of coffee drinking. From the time you wake up until you lay down to sleep, neurons in your brain produce a curious chemical called adenosine. As adenosine is produced, it binds with adenosine receptors in the brain, causing you to feel tired and eventually fall asleep.
No one knows more about the connection between your brain, your body, and your life than Daniel Amen. This new, updated edition of his classic book is even better than the original, and it belongs in every health library. Highly recommended!” —Jonny Bowden, PhD, CNS aka “The Nutrition Myth Buster”, author of The Great Cholesterol Myth and Smart Fat: Eat More Fat, Lose More Weight, Get Healthy Now It’s obvious that playing sports gets your muscles in shape. Less well known is the interesting effect it has on the brain. Just hopping on a stationary bike and pedaling for 30 minutes three times a week for three consecutive months is enough to increase hippocampal volume by between 12% and 16% and improve the memory, as one can read in a study in Archives of General Psychiatry. Another recent experiment revealed that if we undergo a vocabulary test after 3 minutes of sprinting, we learn words 20% faster than if we use that time to rest or make a long low-intensity aerobic test. Among other reasons, this is because after exercise we increase our levels of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), a molecule essential for the survival of neurons and learning. Chronic painIn Change Your Brain, Change Your Life,renowned neuropsychiatrist Daniel Amen, M.D., includes new, cutting-edge research gleaned from more than 100,000 SPECT brain scans over the last quarter century and scientific evidence that your anxiety, depression, anger, obsessiveness, or impulsiveness could be related to how specific structures work in your brain. Dr. Amen’s “brain prescriptions” will help you: Most people when they have a thought they just think that that’s the truth. I think one of the greatest realisations in my own journey was just because you have a thought doesn’t necessarily mean it’s true. So if you think 60 to 70,000 thoughts in one day and 90% of those thoughts are the same thoughts as the day before and you believe that your thoughts have something to do with your destiny. Your life’s not going to change very much because the same thought leads to the same choice, the same choices lead to the same behaviour, the same behaviour creates the same experience and the same experience produces the same emotion. To sum it up, coffee (really, caffeine) literally changes your brain chemistry, providing you with that boost of energy and focus you need in the morning. But as with anything, it’s best in moderation. (Though, it is somewhat comforting to know it would take dozens of cups of coffee in a very short period of time to kill you.) 5. Reading Gregory Bratman, a graduate student at Stanford University, designed a study that looked at the blood flow to the subgenual prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain associated with brooding. As Gretchen Reynolds explained in a New York Times article on the subject: Likewise, living a brain healthy life will increase your brain’s reserve and your ability to deal with the inevitable stresses that come your way. The rest of these prescriptions will be geared toward increasing your brain’s reserve.
I was going to give this book 2 stars (or MAYBE 2.5) but eventually I had to call it at 1. Let me explain.Overconsumption of sugar may impair neurological functioning, according to a study on rats done by researchers at UCLA. As the Carolyn Gregoire of the Huffington Post reported:
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