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The liver is a very important organ and it is critical to nearly all biological functions in the body. But factors including air pollution, toxins from food and skin care products and alcohol can disrupt its function.
Diabesity is a modern epidemic. It indicates the coexistence of both diabetes and obesity due to poor physical activity and a poor diet.
sleep
Invite Health Podcast, Episode hosted by Jerry Hickey. Ph
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Sleep is important for memory, learning, detoxifying the brain, and maintaining and healing the brain. You even create new memory cells in the deepest stages of sleep. On today’s episode of the InVite Health Podcast, we’re going to discuss the various things that sleep does for your brain and supplements that can help improve sleep.
Your hippocampus is your learning and memory inbox. If you look at the brain, the hippocampus is in the lower part of the brain in the middle. The hippocampus is very important for learning. When you learn something new that day, you keep it in your inbox, which is the hippocampus, but it’s vulnerable and it’s a short-term storage site. When you go into the deepest stages of sleep, you move that memory out of the hippocampus to a longer-term storage site. Otherwise, you do not remember what you learned that day.
A second thing that can happen is that learning gets jammed up. A poor night of sleep is related to a 40% drop in the ability to form new memories the next day, so it blocks learning. In other words, if you don’t go to sleep, the hippocampus doesn’t unload and shift the memories to the long-term storage sites and basically new memories will just bounce off of it. It gets jammed up.
Are Your Prescription Medications Causing Memory Loss? – InVite Health Podcast, Episode 274. Listen Now >>
In your deepest sleep, there are these big, powerful brain waves that have these spectacular bursts of energy at the tip of them that are kind of like fireworks. It’s a very powerful electrical activity known as a sleep spindle. These energetic spindles transfer the memories from what was stored in the hippocampus that day to a more permanent, longer-term memory storage site that’s not as vulnerable, so it’s very important to get sleep.
Learn more about how sleep impacts memory by tuning into the full podcast episode.
As you get older, it may become harder to fall into a deep sleep, which can also negatively impact your memory. There are some tricks to help boost your sleep, allowing you to detoxify your brain and protect your memory.
A very well-absorbed turmeric can help with the release of brain-derived neurotrophic factors. Normally it is used for back aches and shoulder pain, but if you get a really well-absorbed turmeric that’s rich in all of its powerful constituents, it will enter the brain and it’ll improve the release of brain-derived neurotrophic factors. There are five different human clinical trials showing that when you take turmeric during the daytime, it supports your memory for about six hours, but that night, you’re releasing more brain-derived neurotrophic factors and creating new memory cells, so you’re getting cognitive reserve. This can help you have good brain and memory function deep into old age. One way to get this turmeric is with Curcumin Complex, which is under our Dr. Pressman line, and then there’s bio-curcumin which is in our Bio-Curcumin 5-Loxin formula. It’s a great product for the brain.
Benfotiamine: The Vitamin That Supports Memory – InVite Health Podcast, Episode 270. Listen Now >>
There are a lot of tricks for a better night’s sleep. Don’t look at blue light on your cell phone, computer or TV late into the night. Blue light inhibits the release of melatonin in the brain. If you take melatonin as a supplement about a half hour before bed, it really improves how deeply you sleep, how long you sleep and how quickly you fall asleep.
Tune into the full podcast episode for more sleep-supporting tips.
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cognition
Invite Health Podcast, Episode hosted by Amanda Williams, MPH
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Have you ever set your keys down and then you can’t remember where you put them or walked into a grocery store and you’re standing there wondering what you went in there for? This is a common thing that happens with the aging brain. I want to talk in some detail today about what that actually means and if you experience things like this, is this actually a sign of cognitive decline or could this have been brought on by other things in your life. Let’s talk about different factors that really play a role into age-related cognitive decline and different nutrients that can be incredibly beneficial when it comes to supporting proper neuronal activity within the brain itself.†
We know that aging is associated with a gradual decline in cognitive function. It’s common for people who are getting older to find that certain tasks take longer to complete and that their memory and attention aren’t as sharp as they once used to be. This doesn’t mean that you have dementia or the start of Alzheimer’s disease. What we do know is that new neurons develop throughout our lives within our brain, but they actually reach their maximum size during our early 20s. Then, they begin to very slowly shrink and this can be exacerbated by many different things. Certainly stress can make it worse and, most importantly, poor diet. The correct healthy fatty acids, vitamins and minerals all make a difference to optimizing our brain’s functions.†
Are Your Prescription Medications Causing Memory Loss? – InVite Health Podcast, Episode 274. Listen Now >>
We know that there are tremendous differences among individuals when it comes to the way that the brain itself actually ages. There are different causes of memory problems and we know that there are common conditions that can actually exacerbate that decline in cognitive abilities. Certainly, we can look at things like stress, anxiety, depression, certain infections and many different medications. Nutrition plays a role. Emotional distresses, substance abuse and thyroid disorders would certainly play a role into why people would have declining cognitive capacity.†
For more information on declining cognitive abilities, tune into the full podcast episode.
When we look at what we can do with natural interventions, we know that there are many different things that have been widely studied when it comes to being beneficial for age-related cognitive decline. I’m going to highlight our Cognition Hx formulation because this is a combination of many of those widely-studied nutrients that have been shown to be very efficacious when it comes to supporting the health of the brain.†
The Cognition Hx formula contains phosphatidylserine, which is a very important and essential fatty acid that helps with the actual cellular membrane of the brain. It’s also a key player in the formation of a very important neurotransmitter known as acetylcholine that we consider to be our primary memory neurotransmitter. Having that phosphatidylserine helps to support proper production of that acetylcholine. This formula also contains acetyl-L-carnitine, which we know is incredibly important. Decreasing levels of acetyl-L-carnitine have been associated with a decline of cognitive function. There was a meta-analysis where they looked at over 20 different studies showing that supplementation with acetyl-L-carnitine could actually improve cognitive deficits in people who had been diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment or Alzheimer’s disease. Acetyl-L-carnitine is a modified amino acid and what it does is it helps to drive the fatty acids to the inside of the cell so they can be utilized for energy production. It’s a very important and critical amino acid.†
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This particular formulation also contains Huperzine A. Huperzine is a medicinal herb that has been shown to actually inhibit acetylcholinesterase, which is an enzyme that breaks down the very important neurotransmitter acetylcholine. We know that low acetylcholine levels is one of the main pathogenesis of cognitive decline in patients who have dementia and Alzheimer’s. The more we can bolster up acetylcholine, the better off we are.†
Tune into the full podcast episode to learn more about the beneficial nutrients found in our Cognition Hx formulation.
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