The research from Dr. Datis Kharrazian was mentioned shortly in several parts of the forum. I recently started to hear the audio version of his book "Why Isn't My Brain Working?: A Revolutionary Understanding of Brain Decline and Effective Strategies to Recover Your Brain's Health" and realized that what he uncovers there is very profound, highly interesting and resourceful, especially in connection with what we have learned about diet so far. So I ordered it as a hard copy. It is indeed revolutionary, I think.
His research is on the cutting edge on how the brain works biochemically in conjunction with the gut and intestines and visa versa. He brings up many interesting case studies and results of his methods, both from his own work with patients and clinical practitioners, that work with his method.
Here is a short summary of the book:
What he describes there deserves our close attention I think, since he makes it very clear that a good diet alone is by far not enough to ensure a healthy brain and its functions. Could it be that most of the symptoms many people today experience, are directly related to the physical degeneration and inflammation of the brain?
Dr. Datis Kharrazian makes it pretty clear that exactly that is the case, with many if not all brains today, do to the stressfull live we are exposed to (and all parts that cause this stress in our society). He brings up case after case and study after study, that clearly show that our brains are under major attack nowadays.
The very interesting part is the fact, that due to the sheer knowledge he is gathering every day, about how the human brains works in conjunction with the rest of the body, he is able to recover many many conditions with fairly simple methods of training, diet and the right nutrients and even very severe cases of brain degeneration, that would be normally labeled as "normal", "uncurable" or "age related".
His knowledge in that area is so deep, that he has developed very effective methods that improve even very severe cases, simply by knowing what fuel, training and nutrients each part of the brain and gut needs. The results he thus achieves, are just amazing.
What also becomes clear again, is that everybody is different (which he emphasizes es well) and that it has to be carefully tested what works for each one and what not. There are several parts in his research and book, that put another spin on how we here think about diet, brain health and certain steps like chelation.
I think the informations he presents oblige us strongly to maybe rethink how we approach certain things like diet and detoxification and brain health etc. For example, he makes it very clear that chelation, especially of heavy metals, can be very dangerous for the brain and body when the blood brain barrier is not tight, which often seems to be the case even with people who have a good diet.
And from what I can see, just because we have a good diet, it is by far not enough nowadays to save your brain functions. After reading his book and delving in some of his research, I would suggest that even a lot of people here on the forum, who hold a strict diet, are still effected by degeneration of the brain. That's a quite scary thought, I know! But I'm fairly certain that all of our brains are still under severe attack even with a straight diet after listening to Kharrazian. It almost seems like certain forces work very hard on destroying directly our brain health.
In fact, Kharrazian illustrates that pretty clearly I think, if you connect the dots.
Interesting is also that in terms of diet advise, he comes very close to our approach (in fact closer then anybody else I've read so far). On his website in the section "resources", he recommends a pretty strict Paleo lifestyle that is very similar to our approach:
https://drknews.com/resources/
In his book, as well as in the following video, he explains how many conditions like cronic anxiety, depression, brainfog etc. are in fact directly connected to physical degeneration and changes of certain parts of the brain:
https://youtu.be/4_fPoAYF5cE
He has dissected and looked at many brains, by the way...
He has worked with very strict paleo diets with his patients for years now. He and his team are also constantly keeping up with the latest research in that department and the biochemistry of the brain and body in general. They also are constantly testing and publishing studies related to it.
So he is probably one of the best researchers in that department out there. Interestingly, new studies they are currently working on about the paleo diet, suggest that even parts of that diet can be quite problematic, especially for people with autoimmune disorders. So even the Paleo diet can apparently be quite problematic.
In this podcast he talks about it at some point and also about the " Dangers of Chelation and Mercury Amalgam Removal" at 36:57:
http://www.phoenixhelix.com/2015/06/19/episode-21-autoimmune-qa-with-dr-datis-kharrazian/
I couldn't find him mentioning the keto diet anywhere though. So I think we should keep that in mind.
Another very interesting aspect he talks about, is the vagus nerve and how it must be trained in order to probably interact with the rest of the body. He makes it clear that this is quite essential as well, for certain parts of the brain that get dengenerated otherwise.
Here is an interview with him where he brings up a lot of that stuff (highly recommended!):
https://youtu.be/kOrprBWqnWE
He also makes clear that a lot of problems in the rest of the body, including the gut (leaky gut for example) often originate directly from malfunctions of the brain. So if the brain is not working, do to degenerations of certain parts, things like leaky gut get triggered. That means that even if you follow a good diet things like leaky good and leaky blood brain barrier can and do develop from an unhealthy brain! And most if not all of the brains nowadays are in severely degeneration mode and most do not even realize it. Our brains are suspected to generating negative plasticity nowadays, more then ever before it seems.
He also talks about how positive plasticity works in the brain and specific steps to activate it.
Here is a short portion of the video above:
https://youtu.be/-8nh1WAac34
He has also developed a specific rescue plan for our brains:
https://youtu.be/baMQL3niZvE
So I think a lot of the problems people here on the forum exhibit, even though a good diet is followed, can be directly traced to what Dr. Datis Kharrazian talks about. So there is hope!
He is teaching practitioners around the world. I think it would be highly educational and important for those of us here, that are working in those fields to maybe learn it. That would be of great benefit to the network here as well I think, if we would have somebody that is doing that course.
Here it is:
https://functionalneurologyseminars.com/pre-course-materials-2016/
Dr. Datis Kharrazians Websites:
https://drknews.com/
http://brainhealthbook.com/
Dr. Datis Kharrazians on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/datiskharrazianpage/?fref=ts
His research is on the cutting edge on how the brain works biochemically in conjunction with the gut and intestines and visa versa. He brings up many interesting case studies and results of his methods, both from his own work with patients and clinical practitioners, that work with his method.
Here is a short summary of the book:
What he describes there deserves our close attention I think, since he makes it very clear that a good diet alone is by far not enough to ensure a healthy brain and its functions. Could it be that most of the symptoms many people today experience, are directly related to the physical degeneration and inflammation of the brain?
Dr. Datis Kharrazian makes it pretty clear that exactly that is the case, with many if not all brains today, do to the stressfull live we are exposed to (and all parts that cause this stress in our society). He brings up case after case and study after study, that clearly show that our brains are under major attack nowadays.
The very interesting part is the fact, that due to the sheer knowledge he is gathering every day, about how the human brains works in conjunction with the rest of the body, he is able to recover many many conditions with fairly simple methods of training, diet and the right nutrients and even very severe cases of brain degeneration, that would be normally labeled as "normal", "uncurable" or "age related".
His knowledge in that area is so deep, that he has developed very effective methods that improve even very severe cases, simply by knowing what fuel, training and nutrients each part of the brain and gut needs. The results he thus achieves, are just amazing.
What also becomes clear again, is that everybody is different (which he emphasizes es well) and that it has to be carefully tested what works for each one and what not. There are several parts in his research and book, that put another spin on how we here think about diet, brain health and certain steps like chelation.
I think the informations he presents oblige us strongly to maybe rethink how we approach certain things like diet and detoxification and brain health etc. For example, he makes it very clear that chelation, especially of heavy metals, can be very dangerous for the brain and body when the blood brain barrier is not tight, which often seems to be the case even with people who have a good diet.
And from what I can see, just because we have a good diet, it is by far not enough nowadays to save your brain functions. After reading his book and delving in some of his research, I would suggest that even a lot of people here on the forum, who hold a strict diet, are still effected by degeneration of the brain. That's a quite scary thought, I know! But I'm fairly certain that all of our brains are still under severe attack even with a straight diet after listening to Kharrazian. It almost seems like certain forces work very hard on destroying directly our brain health.
In fact, Kharrazian illustrates that pretty clearly I think, if you connect the dots.
Interesting is also that in terms of diet advise, he comes very close to our approach (in fact closer then anybody else I've read so far). On his website in the section "resources", he recommends a pretty strict Paleo lifestyle that is very similar to our approach:
https://drknews.com/resources/
In his book, as well as in the following video, he explains how many conditions like cronic anxiety, depression, brainfog etc. are in fact directly connected to physical degeneration and changes of certain parts of the brain:
https://youtu.be/4_fPoAYF5cE
He has dissected and looked at many brains, by the way...
He has worked with very strict paleo diets with his patients for years now. He and his team are also constantly keeping up with the latest research in that department and the biochemistry of the brain and body in general. They also are constantly testing and publishing studies related to it.
So he is probably one of the best researchers in that department out there. Interestingly, new studies they are currently working on about the paleo diet, suggest that even parts of that diet can be quite problematic, especially for people with autoimmune disorders. So even the Paleo diet can apparently be quite problematic.
In this podcast he talks about it at some point and also about the " Dangers of Chelation and Mercury Amalgam Removal" at 36:57:
http://www.phoenixhelix.com/2015/06/19/episode-21-autoimmune-qa-with-dr-datis-kharrazian/
I couldn't find him mentioning the keto diet anywhere though. So I think we should keep that in mind.
Another very interesting aspect he talks about, is the vagus nerve and how it must be trained in order to probably interact with the rest of the body. He makes it clear that this is quite essential as well, for certain parts of the brain that get dengenerated otherwise.
Here is an interview with him where he brings up a lot of that stuff (highly recommended!):
https://youtu.be/kOrprBWqnWE
He also makes clear that a lot of problems in the rest of the body, including the gut (leaky gut for example) often originate directly from malfunctions of the brain. So if the brain is not working, do to degenerations of certain parts, things like leaky gut get triggered. That means that even if you follow a good diet things like leaky good and leaky blood brain barrier can and do develop from an unhealthy brain! And most if not all of the brains nowadays are in severely degeneration mode and most do not even realize it. Our brains are suspected to generating negative plasticity nowadays, more then ever before it seems.
He also talks about how positive plasticity works in the brain and specific steps to activate it.
Here is a short portion of the video above:
https://youtu.be/-8nh1WAac34
He has also developed a specific rescue plan for our brains:
https://youtu.be/baMQL3niZvE
So I think a lot of the problems people here on the forum exhibit, even though a good diet is followed, can be directly traced to what Dr. Datis Kharrazian talks about. So there is hope!
He is teaching practitioners around the world. I think it would be highly educational and important for those of us here, that are working in those fields to maybe learn it. That would be of great benefit to the network here as well I think, if we would have somebody that is doing that course.
Here it is:
https://functionalneurologyseminars.com/pre-course-materials-2016/
Dr. Datis Kharrazians Websites:
https://drknews.com/
http://brainhealthbook.com/
Dr. Datis Kharrazians on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/datiskharrazianpage/?fref=ts
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