Nutrition and Neurogenesis
Romain Meeusen Nutrition has a specific role in providing energy and building material for the body. The ability of nutrients to prevent and protect against diseases is starting to be recognized. Physical activity has also been associated with the reduction of a number of physical and mental disorders. Therefore, both nutrition and exercise are used […]
What Does Water Do For the Brain?
Heights Water plays a vital role in every function of your body. And the following groundbreaking research pinpoints exactly how powerful hydration is for optimal brain health. If you want to experience clearer thinking, better memory and even enhanced focus and concentration, these cognitive benefits are just a sip of water away.
Impact of Dietary Fats on Brain Functions
Rosanna Chianese et al. Adequate dietary intake and nutritional status have important effects on brain functions and on brain health. Energy intake and specific nutrients excess or deficiency from diet differently affect cognitive processes, emotions, behaviour, neuroendocrine functions and synaptic plasticity with possible protective or detrimental effects on neuronal physiology. Lipids, in particular, play structural […]
Ketogenic Diet and Epilepsy: What We Know So Far
Isabella D’Andrea Meira et al. The Ketogenic Diet (KD) is a modality of treatment used since the 1920s as a treatment for intractable epilepsy. It has been proposed as a dietary treatment that would produce similar benefits to fasting, which is already recorded in the Hippocratic collection. The KD has a high fat content (90%) […]
The Brain Needs Animal Fat
Georgia Ede Fat is not just for insulation and energy storage; it’s also for nutrient absorption, cell signaling, and other critical processes. DHA is a fatty acid that humans can’t function without, but the fewer animal foods a person eats, the lower their DHA levels tend to be. The easiest way to obtain DHA is […]
The Future of Livestock Vaccines: A Part of the LRIC White Paper Series
Mike McMorris and Chloe Neudorf The livestock sector in Ontario is a key driver of Ontario’s economy, generating about $4 billion invalue annually (Statistical Summary of Ontario Agriculture, 2016). The health of the herd and flockplays a huge role in the profitability of production but also in the environmental footprint and in foodsafety. Good health […]
The Missing Puzzle Piece Is Bioavailable Copper – Not More Iron
Lucy Crisetig Copper and its master protein, ceruloplasmin, are instrumental for mitochondrial function. Ceruloplasmin is what drives copper into the mitochondria, and each mitochondrion needs about 50,000 atoms of copper to do its work. In a study it appears, when rats were denied copper, six genes (and subsequent proteins) are down-regulated or turned off, while […]
Intestinal Individuality and Probiotic Supplements
David Osborn The whole of Greek Medicine is based upon the constitutional precepts of humor and temperament, and constitutional bodymind types, as embodied in the Four Temperaments, which are Choleric, Sanguine, Melancholic and Phlegmatic. Each of these four basic constitutional types is characterized by a predominance of a certain pairing of the Four Basic Qualities, […]
