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Fish Oil For Brain Health – Enhance Your Brain Functions With Quality Omega 3 Fish Oil

Did you know that using fish oil for brain health is very effective? Yes it is, but how do you find quality brand that will give you the desired benefits? These are the issues this article is going to discuss; so read on to find out.

Research shows that using fish oil for brain health helps to prevent mental conditions like depression, ADHD, Autism and Alzheimer’s; those who already have these diseases but take omega 3 supplements regularly also report improvement in their conditions.

What makes fish oil for brain health effective is DHA; science tells us that the human brain consists of 30% DHA. This vital fatty acid helps the clear the neuron path-ways of obstructions, thereby enhancing transmission and communications between your brain and other parts of your body; it helps to improve moods, boost memory and enhance concentration and learning. However, studies show that shortage of DHA leads to mental problems.

Other benefits of omega 3 include helping to keep your heart healthy (it lowers bad cholesterol, triglycerides and high blood pressure, thereby lowering the risk of heart attack and stroke). It is also helpful for arthritis, type 2 diabetes and helps to improve vision.

Having said that, if want an effective fish oil for brain health, you need one that contains the right amount of dha; that is a minimum of 250mg per 1000mg capsule. Experts advise that the more amount of this fatty acid contained in the supplement, the more effective it will be.

You should also make sure that the supplement does not contain impurities; pollutions in the oceans contaminate fish with toxins like mercury, PCBs and other heavy metal. So, look for a brand that is molecularly distilled; molecular distillation ensures that the toxins are remove from the oil, thereby making it pure and safe for human consumption.

Now that you know that fish oil for brain health is effective and how you can choose a quality brand, it is time to boost your mental faculty with the right supplement; if you want to know about the premium brand I personally take, visit my website.

Brain Health – I’m a Big Baby, Why Aren’t You?

When it comes to keeping your brain fit and healthy you need to become a big baby. Now I don’t mean you become a sook… what I mean is that you can rewire your brain using the some of the techniques that babies use to build their brain. I don’t want to get into a ‘chicken or the egg’ type argument. It is recognised that in late-pregnancy there are already many billions of neurons in the baby’s brain and that baby can move and respond to sounds and bright lights.

Obviously, such attributes could not have come about without the existence of the neurons so the ‘egg’ wins out. What I am more concerned with is: how does baby develop its brain once it has been born. What sorts of actions does baby do to ensure its brain cells are kept healthy, organised and encouraged to develop new faculties and/or strengthen existing abilities.

The actions in which I’m interested are innate or pre-programmed – baby just knows they are important to its development – part of its genetic code, if you will.

So what does a baby do?

Well. They breathe using their abdomen – contrast we adults who have lapsed into shallow chest breathing, occasioned at least in part by stress. Abdominal breathing encourages the flow of oxygenated blood to the brain to nourish the brain cells.

Bottom-line: Practice abdominal breathing.

What else do they do?

They circulate sexual energy around their body. They know intuitively the healing and nurturing power it provides to the organs and glands (specialised organs). Babies often play with their genitals and I suspect they also know to put their tongue to the roof of their mouth to complete a circuit up their spine and down their front. Of course, we adults stop them touching their genitals as though it’s a dirty habit. Ironically, we later discover the joys of sex but because we have lost the ability to circulate our sexual energy to keep our organs healthy we simply squander it! So much for gaining wisdom with age.

Bottom-line: Relearn how to generate and circulate sexual energy.

What else do they do?

Babies are curious. They are fascinated by the unknown. They are fearless explorers. They are the quintessential “if all else fails read the instructions” beings. They ‘know’ that exploration will result in the development of new neural pathways in their brain. So they have an ‘unstoppable’ desire for challenge, novelty and to find out things for themselves… if only we’d let them!

But we don’t! Why? Because we adults have accumulated all that valuable(??) experience that enables us to filter our actions on the basis ‘we know this works (because it did last time)” which we use to curb baby’s enthusiasm often simply out of convenience. Sadly, we have become adept at saying don’t!

Bottom-line: Get back your curiosity through tackling the novel and the challenging and subjecting yourself to change.

What else do they do?

They love movement. In the first 3 months of pregnancy, babies start to move their fingers and limbs and even suck their thumbs. It’s not surprising then that babies soon learn to crawl and walk with great enthusiasm – they probably feel been waiting long enough! Have you noticed the sense of great achievement on their face when they make this breakthrough.

Bottom-line: Establish an exercise program that you enjoy doing and stick to it. Babies strive to walk – so should you.

Well, there you have it. When it comes to brain development babies know it all. So why not eat humble pie and BECOME A BIG BABY TOO?