Diet and the brain

How nutrition, diet, food, vitamins, herbs affect brain function

Magic mushrooms and learning: a personal experience with Lion’s mane Taking mushrooms is called “shrooming”. This is the second article I am writing on Lion’s mane as a smart drug. I used this mushroom to try to increase cognative function after a brain lesion. The results were an improvement but I am not sure if [...]

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Lion’s mane mushroom for the brain Hericium Erinaceus in Latin, is a mushroom that grows on wood. I grew these a while back as I read Lion’s mane mushrooms should have a positive affect on your brain, and I had a brain lesion. Also I am always looking for ways to increase cognitive function as [...]

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Rosemary for memory I grew up in the New England countryside, which was settled in the 1600s. If you are a colonial history buff you know that the colonial departed were buried with rosemary.  Rosemary was used not as a preservative, which it is because of the antioxidants in rosemary, but rather for remembrance.  Even [...]

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Memory Onions have sulphur compunds that can improve memory Various anti-oxidants have chelating effects on toxins in the body, hence removing them. I beleive the amino acid L-cysteine is the main protien building block that does this. L-cysteine is a sulfur amino acid which is in the sulfhydryl group. Well, researchers at Hokkaido Tokai University [...]

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Dogs have better memory with antioxidants Two supplements have been shown to improve memory. The newest study was just published in FASEB Journal, produced by the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. Researchers also were from the University of Toronto, University of California at Berkeley, Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute, and Juvenon Inc. Supplements [...]

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Pomegranate and the brain I have written about this before and I have to say forget coffee, for better brain function try pomegranate.  I can see a marked improvement in my brain function and memory.  I test this out with my chess ranking for objectivity.  For me it works and I believe it has long [...]

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Baby food to learn a language Anyone at any age can learn a language. This is a fact. I teach languages and my students are all ages and all learn. The old sometimes better than the young, in fact many times. To learn a language it takes patience and interest. It has to be fun. [...]

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How to make your brain grow What if you could take a pill to make your brain grow and you would be a super genius language learner? Would it work? If and only if you practiced. The whole thing about the brain is not the number of neurons, but the rate at which the neurons [...]

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Students are studying less traditional European languages and more exotic languages What languages are hot now?  Chinese and Arabic.  These languages are growing in popularity. French and Latin not as much. The reasons are obvious, Chinese and Arabic is a manifestation of the geo-economic-political-demographics shifts. Also its fun to be different. If everyone around you [...]

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Omega- 3 and learning Clinical trial boosts omega-3′s ADHD benefit claims by Stephen Daniells – Omega-3 supplementation of children with learning and behavioural problems led to significant improvements, adding important data to this high profile subject. A number of studies have reported similar results and this led to calls by some for omega-3 supplementation of [...]

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