Nutritional Healing + Brain Chemistry Balancing For Eating Disorders

I'll be speaking on Brain Chemistry Balancing through Target Nutrition Therapy® at the International Conference on Nutrition & Food Sciences, Valencia, Spain 23-24th of Sept 2014. Complete Speaker program will be up here.

 

Raw Cocoa is nature's most potent tool to lengthen telomeres.

Natural Sleep Aids.

The typical alpha male struggles with insomnia 

not only due to work place stress, 

but this type often shows severe depletion 

in their calming neurotransmitters

- namely serotonin and GABA.

Massage is one way of quickly creating a boost in serotonin.

The key, however, is to change your dietary strategies,

 so they support your chemical imbalances,

 and thus enables you to live the life you really want.

Sleep is one of the most important pillars to good health - during sleep is when your brain recharges, most of your fatburning takes place and collagen and cell renewal. Yet, most of us find it increasingly difficult to sleep without either numbing ourselves out with afterwork drinks or rx sleep medication (highly addictive and you do NOT enter those deep layers of REM sleep btw. - that's why you continue to feel groggy!).

Insomnia is just about always associated with an imbalance in your serotonergic neurotransmitter system; and this is something you can rebalance with the right nutritional therapy within 6 months time completely - depending on severity.

A couple of no side-effects natural strategies that I use initially, depending on the client's genetic make-up, are based on Ayurvedic principles on how to calm down an overexcited central nervous system - some work better on certain people than others.
I will use one or more while rebalancing their neurotransmitter system, depending on their unique genotype.

You can incorporate herbs with sedative properties into your daily routine similar to as most of us have gotten used to our coffee fix - change routines, and repeat it until it becomes a natural no-frills habit.

- A warm herbal bath with drops of essential oils of lavender, chamomile, neroli or rose before going to bed works wonders to loosen tense muscles and quiet an overactive mind.

- Stuffed herb pillows with catnip, lavender, lemon balm, or orange blossoms, have been used traditionally to aid sleep.

- Warm milk (preferably goat's or casein a2) with ground almonds and a piece of nutmeg or cardamom helps digestion and nerve system.

- Herbal teas or tinctures of some of the following herbs support proper sleep pattern: lavender, hops, passionflower, chamomile, skullcap, lemon balm, valerian root and kava. These can be used in combinations or alone as suggested by your practitioner.

- A powerful herb for cultivating balance in the central nervous system is ashwagandha. This well-known Ayurvedic herb is helpful in nourishing a depleted and worn out nervous system.

Do remember that which strategies and dosages that will enable you to finally sleep sound, all depends on your genetic make-up and how your brain is wired - that's why custom natural medicine works and generalized advice is hit and miss.

Foods Designed to Kill: Why You MUST Avoid These 8 GM Foods.

There are many reasons to buy organic. One being that genetically modified foods and derivatives thereof have become widespread the last decade. We have yet to truly understand the neurological damage that these foods may have long-term, however, common sense tells us that these foods are to be avoided, as they have shown in animal studies to increase pesticides within the body - pesticides act like neurotoxins and disrupt your endocrine system. Children are most vulnerable to the devastating effects of neurological damage, as their brains are still developing. And in many cases, once neurological damage is done - well, it is done.

Genetically modified foods are engineered to produce their own built-in pesticide in every cell. When bugs bite the plant, the poison splits open their stomach and kills them. Biotech companies claim that the pesticide, called Bt—produced from soil bacteria Bacillus thuringiensis—has a history of safe use, since organic farmers and others use Bt bacteria spray for natural insect control. Genetic engineers insert Bt genes into corn and cotton, so the plants do the killing.
The Bt-toxin produced in GM plants, however, is thousands of times more concentrated than natural Bt spray, is designed to be more toxic, has properties of an allergen, and unlike the spray, cannot be washed off the plant.

AAEM states, “Multiple animal studies show significant immune dysregulation,” including increase in cytokines, which are “associated with asthma, allergy, and inflammation”—all on the rise in the US.

Applying this knowledge into your everyday life means that you need to avoid following 8 GM foods, or make sure that they are 100% USDA organic:

Corn and derivatives is used in just about every shelf product
- and if it's not organic it's GMO. In short: it is designed to kill you from within.
Yes, the pesticides it produces within does not differ
whether you are an insect or human being - it's still a food designed to kill.

• Soy
• Corn
• Cottonseed
• Canola
• Sugar from sugar beets
• Hawaiian papaya
• Crookneck squash
• Zucchini

If you have been eating these foods, then you need a customized detoxification program geared at ridding your body of pesticides in order to prevent permanent neurological damage.
Contact us for more information.

References:

M. Green, et al., “Public health implications of the microbial pesticide Bacillus thuringiensis: An epidemiological study, Oregon, 1985-86,” Amer. J. Public Health 80, no. 7(1990): 848–852.

Ashish Gupta et. al., “Impact of Bt Cotton on Farmers’ Health (in Barwani and Dhar District of Madhya Pradesh),” Investigation Report, Oct–Dec 2005.Identification of a Brazil-nut allergen in transgenic soybeans (New England Journal of Medicine, Vol 334, No 11, pp 688-692, 1996)

Effect of diets containing genetically modified potatoes expressing Galanthus nivalis lectin on rat small intestine (Lancet, Vol 354, No 9187, pp 1353-1354, Oct 1999)

Safety of genetically modified food questioned: Interview with gene scientist, Dr Arpad Pusztai(http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/jun1999/gmo-j03.shtml )

Eating GREENS can change YOUR GENES!

An international team of scientists led by researchers at McMaster and McGill universities in Canada have found that consuming generous amounts of especially leafy greens modified a gene designated 9p21, the strongest marker for heart disease!

In one of the largest gene-diet interaction studies ever conducted related to heart disease, the researchers analyzed more than 27,000 individuals from 5 ethnicities: Latin American, European, Chinese, South Asian and Arab, and compared to their diet and gene expression. They discovered that man and women with high-risk genotype who consumed the most raw leafy greens had similar risk (low insignificant) to those individuals carrying the low-risk genotype!

STOP choosing to be a victim and blaming your genes for your health! You just need to know your genotype so you can prevent what will trigger the EXPRESSION of your vulnerabilities!


Only if you engage in behaviors that go against your genotype do they express themselves! 


And now there is more clear-cut proof of how we can actually alter our genes!
But you still need to know your type, otherwise you won't know what will trigger it! No diet is right for all!

The Nutrition Doctor will end of August 2012 be launching an online health provider service including analysis of blood labs, genetic testing and a brain chemistry assessment here.

Reference:
Ron Do et al. The Effect of Chromosome 9p21 Variants on Cardiovascular Disease May Be Modified by Dietary Intake: Evidence from a Case/Control and a Prospective Study. PLoS Medicine, 2011; 9 (10)