Oxygen
Oxygen clears the mind and keeps all the circuits functioning.
The brain needs large amount of oxygen to function effectively and the only way it can get it is through iron-packed red blood cells.
Children with iron deficiency anemia have short attention spans and troubles learning new materials.
Iron
Alertness and memory can suffer with low but nominal iron levels.
Iron influences brain chemicals and pathways.
WE know that iron is heavily concentrated in a part of the reticular activity system, the area of the brain that turns it on.
Iron plays an important role in awareness and alertness.
B Complex
The brain seems to have a special need for the B vitamins, Memory Loss, Disorientation, Hallucination, Depression, Lack of coordination, Can all occur with B Complex deficiency.
Thiamin (B1)
Thiamin may keep the brain thinking stricter and younger.
Pyridoxine and copper
Researchers found out that the dendrite that carries electrical impulse from biking cells to another to shrivel up and lie when deprived of B6 or Copper. American Journal of clinical Nutrition.
Even mild deficiencies of B12, C, Folate and Riboflavin can impede brain function.
Memory and problem-solving tests administered to 260 seniors. It turned out that the volunteers with the lower B12 and C levels secured worst on the memory test whiles those the lowest levels of B12, C, Folate and Riboflavin did worst on the problem-solving test.
Journal of the AMA.
Choline
Thiamin and B12 are needed to produce and use one of the brain’s major chemical messengers acetylcholine. But B vitamin choline is the real star. Researchers have found out that choline can help preserve the brain’s ability to reason, learn and remember.
BRAIN CELLS OF MICE FED WITH CHOLINE SHOWED FEWER SIGNS OF AGING. Normally, as the brain ages, its cells membrane becomes more rigid with fatty deposits and loose their ability to take in and release brain chemicals to relay messages. This causes memory loss and confuse thinking. But a lecithin-rich diet seems to repress or delay this membrane hardening. Lecithin-rich diet keeps nerve channels open to send and receive messages.
Acetylcholine
Acetylcholine defects have been associated with Alzheimer's disease, an insidious debilitating illness that strikes in midlife, causing memory loss, confusion and sterility.
Lecithin also shows some promise in boosting the mind power of normal healthy persons. Choline enhanced memory particularly in people who were forgetful. In a serial leasing test, subjects had to memorize in proper order in sequence of ten unmarked words. The list were read to each person and repeated as often as necessary until perfect recall was achieved and could be repeated twice in row.
Choline significantly enhanced serial recall of unrelated words as members by the number of trials required. Further, the enhancement was more pronounced in slower learners. Life Sciences.
Source Of Choline
Soybeans
Wheat gem
Cabbage
Nuts
Eggs
Legumes
Whole wheat
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