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lzheimer’s demonstrates the most extreme responses of the brain to the nutrients you provide. But getting smart about food applies to every aspect of your cognitive health whether you want to boost your memory beat depression or maintain your brainpower into old age.
Staying hydrated makes you smarter.
Your brain has the consistency of jelly. Made up of 80 percent water 11 percent fat 8 percent protein 3 percent vitamins and minerals and a pinch of carbs it floats inside your skull in a bath of cerebrospinal fluid.
The blood-brain barrier is your brain’s gatekeeper. It protects your body’s most vulnerable organ against inflammation and infections by blocking foreign substances like bacteria toxins and even some medications. Only a select few substances that the brain needs to function are allowed to cross the barrier.
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ne tends to treat symptoms with surgery or drugs over less-invasive preventative approaches. There are a lot of things you can do to help your neurons stay strong. Being physically and mentally active are among the most important. But what tops the list? Eating well.
Think about it. You might exercise a few times per week or take medications now and then. But you probably eat multiple times every single day. You’re continually exposed to food which makes diet the most influential element affecting your DNA. The interplay between food and genes is even the focus of a whole new discipline called nutrigenomics.
Of all the organs in your body your brain is most easily damaged by a poor diet. To function optimally it requires more than 45 nutrients most of which are obtained through the foods you eat. These are used to replenish your brain’s depleted storage and facilitate cellular reactions; they’re also incorporated into brain tissue. Your brain really is the product of what you eat.
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n you think about getting older do you worry about wrinkles? Well think again. Nothing compares to the scale of Alzheimer’s which 5.3 million people live with in the US alone. Around the world more than 46 million people have dementia. That number is estimated to climb to 132 million by 2050.
Luckily the cure is at our fingertips.
The key message here is: Food can be medicine – or it can be poison.
Alzheimer’s was historically thought of as an inevitable result of aging or bad genes. But it’s been shown that fewer than 1 percent of people actually develop Alzheimer’s on genetic grounds.
Instead most cases boil down to lifestyle choices. And this isn’t unique to Alzheimer’s – it’s estimated that 70 percent of all stroke cases 80 percent of heart attacks and 90 percent of type 2 diabetes cases in recent years have been due to an unhealthy lifestyle! In short your DNA is not your destiny.
So why aren’t doctors talking to us more about the power of personal choice? Well Western medici Open / Comment

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What’s in it for me? Science-backed magic to boost your brain health and mental clarity.
You are what you eat. You’ve heard the adage and you know that what you consume affects your body’s shape and fitness level. But do you ever think about the hungriest part of your body – your brain?
This complex organ which powers your entire existence has its own unique dietary requirements. And when it doesn’t get what it needs its suffering manifests as brain fog stress and even dementia.
Highlighting the connection between nutrition and brain health these blinks reveal the cutting-edge science behind neuro-nutrition. With recipes and specifics on what to eat and what to avoid they show how simple it can be to take control of your diet support your brain – and in the process get fit as a fiddle.In these blinks you’ll discover
why water is vital to your intelligence;
the ultimate brain food; and
that nutrient synergy means 1 1=3.
Food can be medicine – or it can be poison.
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Brain Food (2018) highlights the role nutrition plays in your brain’s health. It explores the incredible brain-gut connection and reveals exactly what to eat and drink to maximize your cognitive power and prevent stress dementia and memory loss. Open / Comment

2021-10-14 06:40:01 Radical Honesty
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our true selves – the being that lies within each of us. The only way out is by unflinchingly telling the truth even when it’s ridiculous or unreasonable. Only then can we truly be ourselves.
And here’s some more actionable advice:
Come clean on a secret.
Almost everyone holds something back about themselves. What’s the one thing you’ve never told your partner or your parents or your children? You might feel like withholding this information from them is in their best interests – but it could actually be doing you harm. So maybe it’s time to be radically honest. Pay them a visit. Sit them down. Take a deep breath and feel the weight lift off your shoulders.
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flicts.
Deep within most of us there’s a contradiction between our wishes and beliefs. On the one hand we resent something – the way people treat us our job whatever – but on the other hand we make apologies and excuses for why things are as they are. There are two voices inside us arguing opposite points.
This is the mind again messing with us. It wants hope and change in the future but it also wants the certainty of tradition.
What’s the way out from this paradox? The truth. It’s only by being unafraid to acknowledge this contradiction and accepting it within ourselves that we can resolve it.
It’s the same thing again – stop making moral judgments about whether things are right or wrong. Simply describe how you feel. Tell the truth. You’ll be amazed how far it’ll get you.
Final summary
The key message in these blinks is that:
Growing up means learning to lie to ourselves and to those around us too because we all become trapped in the world of moralism. This does damage to Open / Comment

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g a radically honest life take responsibility.
Your mental and physical selves are connected in more ways than you might imagine. That’s why the author starts his patients on body therapy. Physical disciplines such as yoga help people attune themselves to how they’re really feeling. The patient also has to promise to get into decent shape through exercise and healthy eating.
That’s partly because it’s vital that you take responsibility for yourself. The author is fond of an episode in John Steinbeck’s novel The Grapes of Wrath in which Tom Joad encounters a bitter and depressed mechanic with one eye. He complains about how badly people treat him on account of his appearance but Tom takes him to task pointing out that the mechanic hasn’t even cleaned himself up and covered his missing eye.
There’s a simple truth here. It’s all too common to blame the world around you when you haven’t yet done all you can for yourself. But the mechanic’s attitude also says something about internal con Open / Comment

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lly means.
Being in love with someone is a beautiful magical thing but it involves letting your own identity become part of something bigger. If you don’t let your whole self become part of it you’re not doing it right.
To free yourself from moralism and start living a radically honest life take responsibility.
The pace of life is quick these days and we’re surrounded by stimulation. Given that it’s no wonder that lots of us are stressed – our bodies just aren’t designed to be this busy all the time. And our commitment to moralism just makes things worse. 
So how can you get out of this stressful state free your mind and revert to a state where you can acknowledge your true being? Well dealing with the problem means learning to tell the truth. A psychotherapist can help people with this but that doesn’t always work. Ultimately it’s all about taking responsibility for yourself and putting plans into action.
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that they’re their own person with complex feelings of their own. If you’re saying “I-It ” it’s like you’re relating to an object rather than a conscious being.
That’s why the author recommends using clear declarative statements like “I resent you for” or “I appreciate you for.” These encourage people to see their partner as a being not a thing. When you’re communicating in “I-It” mode you’ll seldom end up doing anything other than fighting.
Being honest with your partner is a serious commitment and the author recommends taking steps to make sure you know everything you can about each other. So sit down and tell each other your life stories including your full sexual histories sparing no detail. The author also recommends being completely sexually honest by masturbating in front of each other. And once you’ve done all that take turns talking for half an hour with no interruptions about what you think of each other – the good and the bad. This is what being honest with each other rea Open / Comment