But it’s very likely there’s one item missing. An item that’s so important it can literally rob you of enjoyment of your other assets, could completely bankrupt your estate and in the worst case – end your life. Yet few people have a strategy in place to protect this asset – and it’s no good asking your lawyer.
The missing item is your health. In particular, the health of your brain. Its value is priceless. Your whole financial and physical well-being depends on preservation of this single asset.
Think about this… We protect the value of our house and car with regular maintenance, we protect our savings by securing the highest interest rate, we protect our stocks by monitoring performance and so on. In fact, we protect the value of virtually all our other assets. Yet, amazingly, we leave our most precious asset to take care of itself. It seems we fail to see the parallels between the need to protect our ‘possessions’ and our brain.
But the bottom line is that just as you are responsible for the ‘health’ of your wealth so too are you solely responsible for the health of your mind.
So what can you do to protect your brain? Plenty and, unlike other asset protection strategies, it won’t cost you a single cent. In fact, you can protect your brain and keep as sharp as a tack without drugs, hormones, stimulants, mood enhancers or anything like that simply by doing what comes naturally - regardless of your age. ‘
This is because we all have the potential for lifetime good health and an alert mind. What is not well-known is that what is good for the body also benefits the brain. Just as you need to exercise throughout your life to keep your body healthy, so too should your brain receive a daily workout to keep it healthy and vital.
Here’s a sampling of the some factors you need to consider when developing a strategy to keep your brain healthy:
Physical exercise Physical exercise can encourage a healthy brain to function optimally in ways that are not widely known or their value appreciated. For example, exercise can help the brain by promoting the production of new neurons (brain cells) and strengthening the connections between neurons.
Reduce stress levels. Stress plays havoc with the functioning of the brain and the body systems it controls. In particular, the sustained presence of stress hormones in the bloodstream can damage brain cells.
Encourage the flow of oxygenated blood to the brain. Increasing blood flow and oxygen can help support the survival of new neurons and foster neuron ‘firing’. In simple terms, ‘firing’ means a neuron connecting with its neighbours.
Promote the generation and circulation of sexual energy around the body and in particular to the head. Movement of chemicals called neurotransmitters achieves communication of information between neurons. For example, the neurotransmitter serotonin is associated with sexual behaviour and arousal and is involved in a number of functions including mood and alertness.
Control the breathing rate. Another important factor in optimising brain health is the practice of slowing down the breathing rate as that can enhance the performance of the hypothalamus and the pituitary and pineal glands and possibly other parts of the brain
Challenge the brain with a variety of ‘new’ experiences – walking backwards is a simple example. By experiencing such unusual patterns of behaviour the brain is stimulated and there is some evidence that the brain can actually increase in size.
Stimulate the senses.
The bottom line here is that you should take every opportunity to engage your eyes and smell sensors by continually sampling your surroundings – consciously keep your eyes moving so you present your brain with new information to analyse and process while you ‘sniff’ the environment in search of smells and odours for your brain to identify.
All the above elements can have a marked positive influence on brain health in their own right. However, it is the synergistic impact of using them in combination that is likely to provide the most powerful benefits.
Hopefully you can appreciate, from the nature of the strategy outlined above, that prevention programs can be enjoyable and completely natural and that by incorporating such factors in your daily routine you will be helping your brain to help itself and keep your mind as sharp as a tack for life.
Can T Help Lovin Man
If you disagree with drugging America’s children for almost anything that seems wrong with them, you’re not alone. Millions of parents are fighting back at the indiscriminate use of mind-altering and addictive pharmaceuticals on kids. But nothing much has changed in the last 100 years. We’ve been drugging our kids since the late 1800s, long before the term "drug rehab" was even invented.
For example, no parent today would give their infants and children ‘Dr. Tucker’s Asthma Specific’, a patent medicine from the early 1900s which contained large amounts of cocaine? Or how about ‘Dr. Fahrney’s Teething Syrup’ made with morphine, or ‘Dr. James’ Soothing Syrup’ made with heroin, or ‘Dr. Moffett’s Teething Powder’ made from opium? And of course, most patent medicines of the day were heavily laced with alcohol.
We don’t want to turn our kids into drug addicts who need drug detox and drug rehab before they even start grade school!
Or do we?
Until recently, children could be denied education because their parents refused to put them on narcotics, antidepressants, stimulants and other drugs - drugs that we now know cause violent behavior and increased risk of suicide, according to the FDA, the same kind of drugs that have sent thousands of teens and adults into drug rehab while earning Big Pharma billions.
More than 10 million children in the United States are still being prescribed addictive stimulants, antidepressants and other mind-altering pharmaceuticals for educational and behavioral problems - more billions for Big Pharma, and more fodder for drug detox and drug rehab programs later on, provided the kids survive long enough.
And talk about needing drug detox and drug rehab to avoid drug-related disasters - psychoactive mind-altering and addictive pharmaceuticals have been implicated in 8 out of 13 cases of student school shootings.
Today, children 5 years old and younger are the fastest-growing segment of the non-adult population prescribed antidepressants in the US. Kids as young as 4 have attempted suicide while influenced by such drugs. And 5-year-olds have actually committed suicide. Millions of kids are still forced to take stimulants, mostly prescribed for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and a whole list other childhood ‘disorders’, none of which are based on any real science. These children are going to need drug detox at the very least, and possibly drug rehab if their drug use accelerates into addiction later in their lives.
Stimulants like Ritalin, says the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), have the same potential for abuse as morphine, opium and cocaine. Studies show that Ritalin is more potent than cocaine, and affects the brain in exactly the same way. Its side-effects include anorexia, heart irregularities, weight loss and psychosis - and hundreds of related deaths over the past decade. And many thousands of teenagers who should be in drug rehab are stealing, selling and even trading lunches and concert tickets for Ritalin just to get high.
If it’s true that we don’t want our kids winding up in drug rehab before they even leave high school, then why in the world do we allow it to continue?
Well, did you notice that every one of those addictive poisons from the last century had the term “Dr." in the name of it? Could it be that now, just as in the early 1900s when doctors handed out morphine, heroin, opium and cocaine for babies, that we still think “doctors can’t be wrong"?
Hey, reality check, people. Doctors can be just as wrong as the rest of us. The total number of deaths from medical mistakes of all kinds in this country is more than heart disease or cancer. In fact, the American medical system is the leading cause of death and injury in the US, and misadventures surrounding Big Pharma’s products are near the top of the list. And let’s not forget that some of the first clients for drug rehab were doctors who had ‘self-medicated’ and got hooked.
Parents have the right to protect their children and themselves from the irresponsible, profit-driven self interests of the biggest drug pushers in the world, Big Pharma, and their street-level dealers the psychiatrists, and some general practitioners, who continue to promote and prescribe these drugs even though they know perfectly well the risks of side-effects, addiction and drug rehab.
Americans need to wake up, speak up, and demand some changes, or we will continue to be a nation needing drug detox and a drug rehab program from the cradle to the grave.
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