Summary of Bonnie J. Kaplan & Julia J. Rucklidge's The Better Brain

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 Many people find it hard to believe that just nutrition could solve mental health problems. But we know why these psychiatrists think this way. Like them, we were taught that nutrition was not relevant for mental health in school.
#2 There is no clear cause of mental illness. Science has found some clues, like our genetics, our childhood environment, exposure to traumas, poverty, and the effects of toxins on neural development.
#3 The rates of people on disability as a result of a mental disorder are on the rise. Insurance costs are on the rise. Treatment costs are catastrophic. The plague is no longer invisible, and it is getting worse.
#4 The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is a classification system prepared by committees that tries to come up with a consensus. The most familiar categories are anxiety disorders, depression, and eating disorders.

Sujets

• Santé et bien-être
• Diététique
• diététique
• Nutrition
• Fitness
• Health
• Diet

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 14 juin 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822533677
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Bonnie J. Kaplan & Julia J. Rucklidge's The Better Brain
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Many people find it hard to believe that just nutrition could solve mental health problems. But we know why these psychiatrists think this way. Like them, we were taught that nutrition was not relevant for mental health in school.

#2

There is no clear cause of mental illness. Science has found some clues, like our genetics, our childhood environment, exposure to traumas, poverty, and the effects of toxins on neural development.

#3

The rates of people on disability as a result of a mental disorder are on the rise. Insurance costs are on the rise. Treatment costs are catastrophic. The plague is no longer invisible, and it is getting worse.

#4

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is a classification system prepared by committees that tries to come up with a consensus. The most familiar categories are anxiety disorders, depression, and eating disorders.

#5

The talk was about her research that many of the people given extra minerals and vitamins showed a reduction in their mental symptoms. She has received thousands of phone calls, emails, and messages on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter from people telling her detailed, painful, and deeply personal stories.

#6

The author’s son, Andrew, was a ten-year-old boy who suffered from anxiety and symptoms of psychosis. He had spent six months in a children’s hospital, with no improvement whatsoever, when his mother telephoned Bonnie in desperation. Within ten months, his OCD symptoms had virtually disappeared.

#7

The idea that nutrition is relevant to health is not a new one. The father of modern medicine, Hippocrates, knew what he was talking about when he said, Let food be thy medicine and medicine thy food.

#8

The single-nutrient mindset is a result of the discovery of dramatic cures for single-nutrient deficiency diseases. But we now know that no single nutrient can successfully treat the complexity of brain and mental disorders.

#9

The clinical practice guidelines, which are written by committees with financial ties to pharmaceutical companies, rarely include nutrient treatment.

#10

The combination of psychiatrists as psychopharmacologists and the public being bombarded by ads for new miracle drugs has influenced people to believe that nutrients are useless for mental health.

#11

The pendulum has begun to swing in the other direction with regard to psychiatric medications, with both scientists and the public recognizing that they haven’t turned out to be as good as we had hoped.

#12

Some have questioned the short-term and long-term use of psychiatric medications, and have highlighted the significant harm they can cause, including increased aggression and suicidality in adults.

#13

The field of psychiatry is not interested in exploring the use of nutrients to help with drug withdrawal, as it goes against the narrative that antidepressants cause withdrawal symptoms.

#14

The state of your physical health is also important for your mental health. You can easily change how and what you eat, as well as other lifestyle factors, like the amount of exercise and sleep you get.

#15

The brain is much more complex than most people think, and it needs proper food to function properly. When you feed your brain what it needs, you can treat and even prevent many different mental health problems.

#16

The most important thing to know is that we need the full spectrum of minerals and vitamins every minute of every day to fully optimize our brain function, especially under stress.

#17

The brain requires many nutrients, and essential fatty acids in particular. The balance between omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids is important for brain development. The Western diet is very high in processed food and low in fish, which has an omega-6 to omega-3 ratio of around 15:1.

#18

Vitamins are organic compounds that we humans need daily for optimal growth and development. We cannot synthesize them ourselves, so we must consume them. Most are water soluble, so if we consume more than we need, we excrete the excess.

#19

The most metabolically active organ in your body is your brain, and it is constantly and disproportionately demanding oxygen and nutrients. You must feed your brain with the proper nutrients to provide it with the building blocks it requires for good functioning.

#20

Serotonin is a well-known neurotransmitter that plays a significant role in mood. SSRIs, or selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, are a category of psychiatric medication that increase the availability of serotonin in the spaces between brain cells by blocking the reabsorption and metabolism of serotonin.

#21

The brain needs all the minerals and vitamins to be available to it all the time, and these nutrients cannot be found in packaged, ultra-processed food.

#22

The mitochondria are the energy factories that enable us to live. They take in nutrients and then go through several steps using those nutrients to produce ATP, the energy molecule that is essential for life.

#23

The role of nutrients in our health is not limited to helping us heal from diseases. They also play a role in how our genes are expressed. The process of transferring methyl groups to our DNA is called the methylation cycle, and it is vital for our health.

#24

The two categories of epigenetic variables that are most studied are nutrition and environmental toxins. If you eat a diet of only cookies and chips, your genes probably will not be getting adequate nutrients for methylation to occur optimally.

#25

The Stringam family was able to illustrate what Linus Pauling had predicted fifty years ago: a genetic predisposition to mental illness was likely caused by a need for more than the usual amount of cofactors to make the ideal amount of brain chemicals for those individuals.

#26

The search for the specific genes that influence mental health has been unsuccessful, and scientists have moved away from candidate genes to studying the additive effects of many gene sites, called genome-wide association studies.

#27

The honeybee example shows the power of epigenetics. The colony selects a single larva to be fed a diet high in royal jelly, and that one lucky bee develops ovaries and becomes the queen. Larvae destined to be worker bees are largely fed pollen and nectar, while queen bees are fed royal jelly.

#28

The team found that multinutrient supplementation did influence DNA methylation, though the magnitude of change is likely quite small. The team concluded that the therapeutic effects of multinutrients are probably not resulting from changes in DNA methylation, but the magnitude of the observed changes might increase over time.

#29

Inflammation is not always bad, but it is often excessive inflammation that is bad for you. The body has homeostatic mechanisms to maintain your levels of inflammation within a certain range, and your mitochondria play a role in this.

#30

There are some links being reported between environmental pollutants and the epidemic of mental health problems.