{"id":592,"date":"2017-03-26T20:33:12","date_gmt":"2017-03-26T20:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthchicchatter.com\/?p=592"},"modified":"2021-04-25T21:59:12","modified_gmt":"2021-04-25T21:59:12","slug":"optimizing-brain-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/HealthChicChatter.com\/?p=592","title":{"rendered":"Optimizing Brain Health"},"content":{"rendered":"
Recent neuroscience studies have proven that what we eat and how we live\u00a0can have huge impacts on our brains. Neurogenesis, or the process of making new brain cells, is the topic of today\u2019s blog. This is fascinating stuff on so many levels! Old think was that we quit growing brain cells in our 20\u2019s and then we just went downhill from there. In the late \u201890\u2019s, scientists discovered we can actually make new brain cells our entire life. The rate of neurogenesis (brain cell development\/growth) is an important biomarker of brain health –which ultimately impacts the quality of our lives, as you can imagine!<\/span><\/div>\n
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It makes sense that a low rate of making new brain cells is associated with cognitive decline, anxiety, memory problems, stress\/depression and lower immunity. \u00a0While on the other hand, people with a high rate of new brain cell growth have cognitive enhancements, faster problem solving, protection against stress\/anxiety, etc. Even more interesting is that people can increase the rate of neurogenesis at least 5 times. Holy cow. Now you see how the rate of neurogenesis can have a big impact on the quality of your life? FIVE TIMES!! (Dayam Daniel!)<\/span><\/div>\n
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What can we do? Well, first of all, understand that the best results come from multiple ways to create a synergistic effect. An analogy Dr. Cortright<\/a>\u00a0uses is that if you want to build a beautiful house, you have to use high quality materials.\u00a0 Seems simple enough.\u00a0 In his book, \u201cThe Neurogenesis Diet & Lifestyle\u201d, Dr. Cortright tells us what mental activities we can do to increase neurogenesis, along with spiritual things we can do, active things we can do, and of course, DIETARY things we can do.\u00a0 In a nutshell, the dietary piece is twofold: we want to decrease the things that are neurotoxic<\/em> because they slow down the rate of brain cell development AND at the same time increase the things that enhance neurogenesis<\/em>.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Here are a few points made in his book:<\/span><\/div>\n

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