The relationship between the Brain, the Autonomic Nervous System, and the Heart is basically the 3 legged stool of stress. Anything that affects any of these things will in turn increase or decrease stress and in turn affect the healing in your body, including the...
The next thing you need to take during a brain injury is probiotics to optimize your gut bacteria. Whether you get them from pills or food or both, it doesn’t matter. Bacteria in food can affect brain function. Your bacterial environment in the gut can affect brain...
Nootropics, a Greek word meaning ‘Towards the Mind’, are compounds that directly or indirectly enhances cognitive potential. In the brain, there are neurotransmitters called acetylcholine that bind to cholinergic receptors. The cholinergic theory of brain injuries is...
Creatine is important for cognitive and neuronal health and affects the expression of over 250 genes in the body. Creatine is a naturally-occurring organic acid (protein building block) that’s found in meat, eggs and fish. It is made by the human body in the liver,...
Whenever we hear the clashing of two heads, that “clud” and “thunk” sound, we as humans (and animals) elicit a visceral reflex. Unconsciously, a visceral feeling instantly occurs in our stomach, and then our minds follow immediately with thoughts of “ouch, that had to...
