The movie “Concussion” and various past/present NFL stars suffering from repeated collisions have helped raise greater public awareness regarding the serious impact of repetitive sports injuries leading to potential traumatic brain injuries (TBIs). Impact sports such...
June is Brain Awareness Month, which is a wonderful opportunity to discuss or have a national conversation about our brain health, the part of us which makes us distinctly human. In my recent book Awaken Your Godly Brain, [1], I stressed that 1/6th of our human brain,...
The health of our brain, our beautifully designed master control center, is under attack from many modern environmental issues. Alarmingly, we're seeing increased cognitive impairment from young to old - Autism to Alzheimer's, anxiety, depression, neuro-degenerative...
How to Awaken your Godly Brain If I suggested that you invest in the stock market, and no matter how hard you worked and applied your creative abilities, that you would always fail- how interested would you be in investing? The business of healing can be like that,...
A quote from the Gene Environment Interaction Fact Sheet [1] from the Centers for Disease Control states that virtually all human… “…diseases result from the interaction of genetic susceptibility factors and modifiable environmental factors, broadly defined to include...
Sadly, opioid abuse and painkiller addiction are rising dramatically and are now exceeding the mortality rates of auto accidents and gunshot wounds combined. Restoring Natural Opioids to the Brain The new healthcare budget may pump 45 billion dollars into opioid abuse...
Dementia is a broad category of brain diseases associated with long term, irreversible, gradual decrease in the ability to think and remember which is great enough to affect a person’s daily functioning and which is worse than would be expected with normal aging. For decades, scientists have studied brain tissue samples of Alzheimer’s Disease victims, the largest dementia subcategory, (>50%), and have found distinctive pathological changes in the brain such as “plaque” and “neurofibrillary tangles” that are thought to somehow be causative of the disease. The new sciences of Omics sheds new light on Dementia and is challenging long held views about its causes and treatments.
The Brain Detoxes at Night New research has recently revealed that the brain is protected via nightly cleansing. During deep sleep the brain shrinks about 40-50% to flush out toxins which would otherwise accumulate in the brain. Altering this brain shrinkage results...
Exercise and Brain Health There is a key connection between exercise and brain health. Brain health is an issue and we now see more depression, anxiety, mental and addiction disorders, both in adults and teens. Our children’s brains are under attack. Take a look at...
Boost Brain Health for Concentration, Creativity and Cognition How can we boost brain health for children so that they can be calm and learn? Now that our kids are back in school, they’ll need all the brain power they can get. Our brain function is so vitally...
Depression may be helped with a functional medicine approach that can replenish what is needed in the brain. There can be a medical condition, neurotransmitter imbalance or nutritional deficiency which may contribute to depression, anxiety or mental health issues. Dr....