by Marie Harger |
One of the obvious health tips for optimal brain wellness and performance is to eat nutritious food. Eating a balanced diet, exercising and getting enough rest are all essential components to feeling good and living a healthy life. There is no doubt food affects the Brain, either to build and nourish [...]
by JoAnne Krumpe, PhD |
How smart do you think you are? Measuring intelligence has been the focus of educational psychologists, cognitive scientists and neurobiologists for over the past 30 years, and has been the province of philosophers for millennia. Most of us agree that mental quickness, ability to retain information and use it [...]
by Marie Harger |
The old school view of emotions is that of weakness. Boys were sissies if they cried and girls, well…just plain weak or over sensitive. Today scientists, such as Richard Lane at the University of Arizona have discovered the importance of the connection between emotions and the brain. In his lecture at UCLA, [...]
by Marie Harger |
About 70 percent of the human body is water and water is a superb conductor of electrical energy. The brain and nervous system electrical and chemical actions are dependent on the conductivity of electrical currents, which are facilitated by water. Brain tissue is 85-percent water, from which we can then conclude that, [...]
by Sara Piccola |
Breathing is one of the most overlooked actions; you don’t need to think about it, you’ll breathe anyway! It happens so unconsciously we rarely take time to stop and notice whether we are breathing effectively or not. In fact, most people do not breathe properly and only use a fraction of their [...]
Written by Michael Gerber, MD, HMD
Last month I gave some of the history of EDTA chelation therapy, an FDA approved therapy for removing lead and other heavy metals. It has been administered to an estimated one million people in the last 50 years with an 86 percent positive success rate in helping cardiovascular diseases.
EDTA chelation [...]
with mild Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (mHBOT)
Written by David Rovetti, DC
Autism cases have skyrocketed in the past decade and it is now the third most prominent development condition of children today. Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by impaired communication and social interaction. It may also be accompanied by cognitive impairment and sometimes epilepsy. Its cause [...]
Written by Michael Gerber, MD, HMD
In the series on brain fog I have stressed the two basic health principles of putting good things into our bodies and taking out the bad. A major category of “bad things” is called heavy metals. Lead, mercury, cadmium, arsenic, aluminum, uranium and other heavy metals are universally found in [...]
Medical Detox
Written by Michael Gerber, MD, HMD
It’s been my long time assertion that all of life’s ills can be resolved by putting in the good stuff and taking out the bad stuff in our body. I’ve been writing about the good stuff; supplements and healthy lifestyles, in our last three articles on Brain Fog and [...]
Part III – Brain Fog Lifters
Written by Michael Gerber, MD, HMD
Last month I reviewed several basic causes of brain fog and mentioned that we can help ourselves keep a fresh and youthful brain by taking special nutrients. Everybody strives to stay sharp in both the office workplace and the home environment. We all have lots [...]
The Sugar Connections
A story from Dr. Michael Gerber on why Diet and Toxicities cause Brain Fog
I didn’t learn about reactive hypoglycemia (low blood sugar induced by eating sugar or refined carbohydrates) until after medical school. On the way across Kansas City to KU Medical school in my junior year I remember every day drinking a [...]
By Michael Gerber, MD, HMD
Senior moments happen in children, teenagers, in men and women throughout all stages of life. Was it ADD or could it have been the waffles with syrup and jam for breakfast? Normal brain functioning can be impaired by life habits, toxic exposures and inherited or acquired hormonal imbalances. Fortunately, there are [...]
