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Your Brain-Healthy Diet Eating for Improved Mental Health... 

Step One is your first line of defense against depression, the techniques to which you turn when you re in the throes of a depressive episode and need immediate help. It s based on the understanding that just as the heart patient needs a heart-healthy lifestyle, so do depressed patients need a brain-healthy program that includes diet, exercise, and a healthy relationship to natural cycles—the ultradian, circadian, and seasonal rhythms that affect us more than we think. 

I know there s a lot of confusing information out there about diet and health. But what you eat can have such a revolutionary impact on how you feel that I strongly urge you to give the following brain-healthy... 

Enjoy your eggs. This nearly perfect food once had a bad rap as a dangerous source of cholesterol, but nutritionists now understand that eggs are actually good for your heart and circulation, especially if you get them from farm-raised free-range chickens, and even more so if you eat eggs from flax-fed chickens, which inserts some brain-healthy Omega-3 into your diet. 

Your Brain-Healthy Vata Diet How Air Types Need to Eat... 

Relatively Httie is known about the bioavailabiUty of pantothenic acid in human beings, and only approximately 50% of pantothenic acid present in the diet is actually absorbed (10). Liver, adrenal glands, kidneys, brain, and testes contain high concentrations of pantothenic acid. In healthy adults, the total amount of pantothenic acid present in whole blood is estimated to be 1 mg/L. A significant (2—7 mg/d) difference is observed among different age-group individuals with respect to pantothenic acid intake and urinary excretion, indicating differences in the rate of metaboHsm of pantothenic acid. 

The production of dopamine and norepinephrine in your brain begins with the amino acid tyrosine, which is obtained from your diet. Tyrosine is converted to the amino acid levodopa, or L-DOPA, by the en2yme tyrosine hydroxylase. One very important cofactor is iron. Without iron, tyrosine hydroxylase fails to function normally. People with anemia have reduced body levels of iron and, as consequently, may have reduced tyrosine hydroxylase activity and thus reduced production of norepinephrine and dopamine. The decreased brain levels of these important neurotransmitters may lead to a slight depression, although most likely only in people with severe anemia. Generally, in a normal healthy person, the production of these two neurotransmitters is not easily affected by the contents of the diet. 

Lecithin is another food constituent which has been shown to cause neurobehavioral teratogenic effects in rats. It is added to foods as an emulsifier, but it is also present in soy lecithin preparations which are consumed as healthy food supplements. Soy lecithin preparations contain various phospholipids which can be incorporated into the brain as membrane constituents or acetylcholine, and conceivably may affect brain development if available in high levels. Pregnant dams were fed a lecithin-enriched diet (prepared by adding a commercial soy lecithin preparation) from gestational day 7 until weaning. Subsequently, the pups were also fed this diet. Treated pups showed faster rightening responses on postnatal days 1 and 2 and slower... 

In sum, the damage observed in the brain tissue of AD patients that is enhanced by the fibril structures may be minimized with a healthy daily diet, exercise, and... 

You should eat to boost your serotonin levels, as described above—but with one modification. Given the excessive amounts of dopamine and/or norepinephrine in your brain, you would do well to eat very small amounts of protein, at least until things calm down. Get plenty of healthy carbs and essential fatty acids into your diet, and avoid highly concentrated protein sources, especially meat and seafood. In fact. I d suggest a good old-fashioned vegetarian diet, in which you eat a combination of beans and whole grains as your protein source, at least until you recover. 

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