When seeking foods that stimulate the brain. THINK PROTEIN. Neurotransmitters such as epinephrine and norepinephrine, are made from the amino acids, phenylalanine and tyrosine. Melatonin and serotonin are made from the amino acid, tryptophan. Eating complete amino acid proteins will produce brain food for your body.
It is true that a fatty meal impedes thinking for a while. But fat is not bad for you if your system can metabolize it. The myelin sheaths that protect nerve tissue from damage are made of fat, yes, unpopular cholesterol and the hormones that keep us young have one precursor: cholesterol. The human brain is composed mostly of fat. Do you really want to eliminate ALL fat, fat soluble vitamins, fat soluble anti-oxidants, essential fatty acids, and a variety of other fat soluble nutrients, that we are JUST NOW identifying, from your body?
I think not. Not when FAT creates the myelin links that make you think? It is also delightfully true that amino acid foods make the brain synapses leap faster. The whole electrical apparatus in the brain hums when aminos are there in bloodstream. The thing that impedes them is FAT. Put fat in bloodstream the whole machine cranks to a stop for a while. So eat the fats when you are going to sleep. BEDTIME. Eat the proteins all day! You could start a new fad with this one as proteins are thinkers' foods.
Now, if you're on a low fat diet, or vegan, New Age researcher, writer, healer broadcaster, documentary maker GARY NULL (his website is huge,) TELLS his radio listeners that our brains can be twice as smart and the DISEASE ALZHEIMERS CAN BE REVERSED, even if it's just plain old garden variety senility -- by supplementing phosphatidylserine ( a kind of nourishing, pure, non clogging fat found in soy bean lecithin,) which can be found both at the drug store. (Longs Drugs has the Radiance Vitamin line it's there called PS.) Healthfood stores and mail order offer dozens of formulas built around this miracle brain awakener which is also found in certain foods. One of my 70 yr old gal pals, painting up a storm, her tenth career in one lifetime, and profitably prolific in real estate as well, told me that PHOSPHATIDYLSERINE changed her from a chronic fatigue basket case cretin to a lively, mental woman acting a third her age.
She caused me to research this brain youthening vitamin and I collected a few URLS, then sent a PHOSPHATIDYLSERINE article with these online, internet URLS discussing brain aging, sending this package to different pals who were telling me they were too foggy and old to study the thing they most love painting or screenwriting or cockatil breeding and start a second career in life, a moonlighting career to bring in retirement bucks: I sent it with this little poem to prod 'em.
"I worry for the future
of one who hasn't got
but one career in life
a measly little pop!
I worry that they are not upon
the diet that might suit' em
and that one should eat salad
or I should come tofu 'em!
BUt knowing I cannot leave the cats
to come to where you are living
I'm sending you a single word
to make rust, dust and time forgiving.
It is phosphatidylserine my aging
dear
or something along those lines
--
and I hear that it will zap and
cheer
soul body brain and mind.
So google up the word or find it
at LONGS drugs.
on the shelf where Radiance Inc
puts vits that knock out nasty bugs.
They call it neuro-ps lacking space
upon the label to write out PLENTY STUPID
so buy yourself a 28$ bottle, two
months upon your table. Only kidding. It makes you PLENTY SMART!
http://www.garynull.com/Documents/spectrum/i_forgot_to_remember.htm
GARY NULL sez is sharpens the brain!
http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/ds-ltr36.html
http://www.vitacost.com/store/products/ProductDescription.cfm?SKUNumber=0115
a cheaper formula
http://intelegen.com/nutrients/brainnutrients.htm
Yep, chow down on these aminos which are THINKERS' FOODS!! Sleeper's foods. And if you're vegan, be sure to get your PHOS-PHAT-IDY-L-SERINE.
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