What Are The Affects of Sleep On Your Brain Health?

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What Are The Affects of Sleep On Your Brain Health?

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Category : Diseases , News , Sleep

If you are like many people; you may wake up maybe once or twice during the night, while this is common, these nighttime awakenings may have a detrimental effect on your brain health, specifically if you wrestle to fall back asleep. There have been studies highlighting the consequences of insufficient sleep and insomnia on the health of the brain. Swedish studies are investigating the possible link between sleep quality duration and the onset of dementia. This study was conducted over a
19.2-year span.

Those who had problems entering a sleep state, even if they maintained sleep or awoke early in the morning, were more likely to develop dementia. Comparatively, a short duration of sleep was linked to a heightened dementia risk. The analysis proposal was the symptoms of insomnia heightened the risk of dementia among those who get less than seven hours of nightly sleep.

The study group suggests that the symptoms of insomnia raised the risk of dementia in those who had a minimum of seven hours of sleep compared to those who did not have insomnia. So, the study was concluded that a short duration of sleep and insomnia both hike the risk of dementia among middle-aged and older adults. Unfortunately, this is beginning to affect the younger folks as well.

Stress and many environmental combinations can create and exasperate insomniac symptoms. These may have a toil on allowing the brain to relax its activity to relax enough to allow the body to sleep. Turning off your EMF’s two hours before bed.
Refrain from food and beverages at least 2-3 hours before retiring; so your body can relax and not digest.
Deep breathing into your gut throughout the day. Link for techniques:
http://frombirthuntilsunset.com/2022/08/proper-breathing-techniques/
Leaning to calm the body during the day can be a challenging task. It’s an important way to alleviate stress, but It will take effort and practice. Link to help:
http://frombirthuntilsunset.com/2021/10/sometimes-doing-nothing-often-leads-to-the-very-best-something/
Watch what you eat, and when; for example, caffeine, alcohol, sugars should be avoided or limited anywhere near bedtime. I suggest keeping a food diary and experiment, writing down what works and lets you sleep vs. what fails your body. Be diligent and you will get results. I have been on the pathway to retrain my body to sleep. I’m still on the journey.

mariexray@webtv.net
To keep informed.
Marie

Your Toothbrush Can Protect You From Alzheimer’s

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Scientists are very concerned with the increasing population of elderly that are becoming disabled with different brain disorders, especially Alzheimer’s. In fact, some studies are showing that Alzheimer’s in not just a disease of the elderly, because unfortunately it is progressing into the younger population. We all know someone who has developed this disease and we are desperate to know why.

It is a preventable disease, that is an important factor. There are a few factors to know and this is just one avenue that researchers have opened up and are pursuing its depths. This one has been overlooked by many, but founded as redeemably urgent.

More than 500 species of bacteria reside in the mouth, but there is one that can deem severe or even dangerous, corroding the gums and decaying the teeth. It is called Porphyromonas gingivitis.

What is even more devastating  is that this infection can travel from mouth to other parts of the body, including the liver and coronary arteries. So it is a known risk factor for heart and artery disease. But now it is found in the brain’s of Alzheimer’s patients.

P gingivalis also produces poisonous enzymes called  gingipains which have been linked to other Alzheimer’s-associated proteins called tau and ubiquitin. The amyloid and tau proteins are the effect of Alzheimer’s not the cause. It’s the result of the infection not the cause of dementia. There are conclusive results that the infection can be prevented. But once the disease microbe is established in the brain, it’s too late. No amount of good oral hygiene will help, so remember PREVENTION IS THE KEY. Some other oral health options to check into:
http://frombirthuntilsunset.com/2020/11/is-your-smile-keeping-you-healthy/

Loving and Caring,
Marie

Chronic Stress Shrinks Your Brain

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Now is the time to motivate yourself to make the necessary changes to reduce and possibly eliminate stress from your daily life. Stress does affect the memory and the emotions by reducing the activity in your hippocampus or “memory center” of the brain; and at the same time increasing the amygdala (the “fear center”). While this is occurring, the stress hormone cortisol stops the production of new brain cells. Thus leading to early onset dementia or Alzheimer’s. Stress also reduces the development of dopamine and serotonin which leads to depression.

Serotonin’s important role of the brain function has to do with your mood, learning, appetite, control, and sleep. A deficiency with the serotonin can lead to depression, anxiety, ADHD, and alcoholism.

Dopamine’s role is one of pleasure and reward centers of the brain. Lack of dopamine leads to lethargy, decreased memory recall, anxiety, brain fog, lack of motivation, depression.

GABA, a neurotransmitter within the brain, blocks the impulses between nerve cells in the brain.  Deficiency in the GABA levels may be linked to anxiety or mood disorders, chronic stress, depression, muscle pain, headaches, as well as sleep issues and memory problems.

Chronic stress, my dear friends shrinks your brain. The prefrontal cortex which controls decision making, and well as the controlling of impulse behavior shrinks with long term stress. The hippocampus also shrinks with chronic stress; affecting learning, emotional regulation and memory. Stress also affects the blood-brain-barrier, which is supposed to protect your brain from harmful.
If Our Body Isn’t Healing, It May Be Stuck in Stress Mode

I care for your healing,
Marie

Is Your Brain Being Plasticized?

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Category : BPA , Diseases , News , Sleep

Every year, companies in the US produce 100 billion pounds of plastic for the packaging of the food products The toxic substance–bisphenol A (BPA) is called the “plasticizer”,  is included in the plastic, making it flexible and less brittle. BPA is used in plastic bottles containing drinks, sodas, fruit juices and most frequently bottled waters, but also is found in many types of food containers. This chemical does make its way into the drink or food the container holds, and from there, into our bodies.

BPA has been a concern for those who worry about cancer risk; but it appears it may increase the risk of dementia as well. The bad new is, there is a steady stream of research showing that the BPA we are consuming makes problematic changes on the cellular level that can alter the brain operation. It’s best to avoid this chemical wherever possible. We are practically saturated by BPA because it is so widely used, lining the cans of soups, beer and soft drinks. It is also used in the receipts we receive at the grocery store checkout. Also, polycarbonate water pipes, some medical devices, eyeglasses, compact discs and dental sealants. The CDC says that more than 90 percent of us have BPA in our bodies. The highest level has been found in children. There are tests you can get to show what the levels are.

The chemical BPA shrinks the brain’s prefrontal cortex, creating damage to these neurons and synapses resulting in shorter attention span; making it harder to do mental work which constitutes switching one’s focus from one task to another. It also interferes with the communication and language areas of the brain, ruining spatial memory which affects the ability to remember where things are. Causing oxidative stress to the hippocampus, an important center for memory. Also expanding harmful brain inflammation by causing microglia immune cells to wander within the brain, which will harm neurons.Let’s not be deceived by the “BPA-Free” logo. Many companies will use BPS and BPF as substitutes, which researchers have found can be just as harmful to the body and brain–and maybe even worse.
mariexray@webtv.net Marie

Protect Your Brain From Cognitive Decline

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The brain is made of 60% fat. It actually is the fattiest organ of the body. The foods you eat DO affect how your brain will function ans well as repair itself from the body’s daily abuses and detoxing of it’s wastes.

Blood sugar does not have a good effect on the brain. (One does not have to be diabetic to have high blood sugar.)  Thus, high blood sugar triggers a reaction called “glycation”. Simply put, glycation is a biological process whereby the glucose, proteins, and certian fats bind together and causing the body’s tissues and cells including those in the brain to become stiff and hardened.  This process called AGEs or Advanced-Glycation-End-Products; which is a contributing factor to the aging process.

This protein stiffness has been linked to inflammation and chronic diseases; such as Alzheimer’s, diabetes, and cardiovascular disese. More importantly, these sugar molecules and brain proteins combine to create deadly new structures contributing more than any other factor to the degeneration of the brain and its functioning. The brain is extremely sensitive to the glycating devastating effects of glucose, because it is this glucose that can accelerate the damage. In other words, glycation can contribute to the shrinking of critical brain tissue.

If one is insulin resistant, this person’s body may not be able to break down a protein (amyloid) that forms plaques associated with brain disease. Also high blood sugar induces threatening biological reactions which injure the body by producing certian oxygen containg molecules; damaging cells and causing inflammation, thus, resulting in hardening and narrowing of the arteries in the brain as well as other areas in the body.  This condition (Atherosclerosis), leading to vascular dementia, which happens when blockages and strokes kill the brain tissue.

A most disturbing finding was made by Japanese researchers in 2011, when they looked at 1,000 men and women over 60 years of age, and found that “people with diabetes were twice as likely as the other study participants to develop Alzheimers’ disease within 15 years”.
Excerpt from Grain Brain, by  Dr. David Perlmutter…  Resources

Tapping Into Our Brain’s Hidden Resources

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Category : Diseases , News , References , Sleep

Hidden in the center of our brain just behind the thalamus, sits our pineal gland. The pineal gland regulates our body’s sleep-wake cycle and circadian regulation (our cycles of day and night) or hormone balance in each 24-hour period. It is triggered by darkness. Pineal activity is inhibited by light, which is detected by the eye’s retina and sent along a series of nerve connections to the gland.
This gland contains photoreceptors, just like your eyes, and is activated by the light that passes through your eyes. I found it quite interesting that the pineal cells in composition as well as in the presence of proteins, are not found anywhere else in the body! It is our light sensitive gland tucked deep within our brains. Darkness removes this inhibition, and the pineal then releases its sleep hormone, melatonin. Melatonin is produced by the gland in the first three hours of sleep. As the light decreases, the pineal secretes more melatonin, which carries out the responses of the cycles of sleep and wakefulness. The amount of circulating melatonin rises at night, in dark conditions, creating a daily rhythm of rising and falling hormone levels. This is why sleeping in a very dark room is best for your health. Our natural melatonin reservoirs decrease through the aging process! As there are other factors inhibiting the natural production of melatonin; NSAIDS, large doses of vitamin B-12 especially the shots, caffeine, steroid drugs and alcohol consumption and of course stress. All the hormones in the body work together to keep our body unified in health. Supplementation of melatonin? Sometimes people can initially have vivid and weird dreams or morning drowsiness so start low, go slow. The one I like is a video called the Pineal Gland Activator;
link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h2mJnvRbZ8&feature=related
Light and motion! Play with it, what works best: on the length of time watching it, time of day, (I find later in the day is best for me). But I figure if the production may be decreasing then I will help it to increase, and it helps.

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