Why Isn't My Brain Working? Quotes

“No food is a more powerful trigger of neurological issues and autoimmunity than gluten, the protein found in wheat.”
― Datis Kharrazian, Why Isn't My Brain Working?: A revolutionary understanding of brain decline and effective strategies to recover your brain’s health

“Basically, playing video games that cause you to respond quickly to attacks increases the negative plastic development of your limbic system.”
― Datis Kharrazian, Why Isn't My Brain Working?: A revolutionary understanding of brain decline and effective strategies to recover your brain’s health

“While Sudoku or crossword puzzles are good brain food, doing them while eating a frosted pastry and slurping down an extra-large caramel latte with whipped cream works against you. All that sugar will upset glucose levels in the brain and create conditions that ultimately deprive the brain of energy.”
― Datis Kharrazian, Why Isn't My Brain Working?: A revolutionary understanding of brain decline and effective strategies to recover your brain’s health

“that annoying ringing in the ears, can sometimes be caused by the auditory neurons being too close to threshold. In other words, they are so weak and unstable due to poor health that they fire too easily and perceive noise that isn’t even there, hence the ringing. The way some people restore function to those neurons is not to completely isolate them from sound, but rather to use a hearing aid that gently stimulates them with small amounts of more sound so that they rebuild strength and”
― Datis Kharrazian, Why Isn't My Brain Working?: A revolutionary understanding of brain decline and effective strategies to recover your brain’s health

“I first met this young client when he was eight years old. He was very shy with a calm disposition. He had been diagnosed with a sensory processing disorder and his parents had hired a special tutor. His mother and father were already clients of mine, and his mother was very conscientious with his diet. She was most concerned about his extreme fatigue, how difficult it was to get him up in the morning, and how difficult it was for him to fall asleep. He was also falling asleep at school. In addition, she was concerned he was having difficulty remembering his schoolwork. With sensory processing disorder, children may have difficulty concentrating, planning and organizing, and responding appropriately to external stimuli. It is considered to be a learning disorder that fits into the autism spectrum of disorders. To target his diet and nutritional supplementation, I recommended a comprehensive blood panel, an adrenal profile, a food sensitivity panel, and an organic acids profile to determine vitamin, mineral, and energy deficiency status. His blood panel indicated low thyroid function, iron deficiency, and autoimmune thyroid. His adrenal profile indicated adrenal fatigue. His organic acids test indicated low B vitamins and zinc, low detoxification capacity, and low levels of energy nutrients, particularly magnesium. He was also low in omega-3 fatty acids and sensitive to gluten, dairy, eggs, and corn. Armed with all of that information, he and I worked together to develop a diet based on his test results. I like to involve children in the designing of their diet. That way they get to include the foods they like, learn how to make healthy substitutions for foods they love but can no longer eat, and learn how to improve their overall food choices. He also learned he needed to include protein at all meals, have snacks throughout the day, and what constitutes a healthy snack. I recommended he start with a gut restoration protocol along with iron support; food sensitivities often go hand in hand with leaky gut issues. This would also impact brain function. In the second phase of his program, I added inositol and serotonin support for sleep, thyroid support, DHA, glutathione support (to help regulate autoimmunity), a vitamin and mineral complex, fish oils, B-12, licorice extract for his adrenals, and dopamine and acetylcholine support to improve his concentration, energy, and memory. Within a month, his parents reported that he was falling asleep easily and would wake up with energy in the morning. His concentration improved, as did his ability to remember what he had learned at school. He started to play sports in the afternoon and took the initiative to let his mom know what foods not to include in his diet. He is still on his program three years later, and the improvements”
― Datis Kharrazian, Why Isn't My Brain Working?: A revolutionary understanding of brain decline and effective strategies to recover your brain’s health

“Development of brain growth, timing, and coordination in childhood are critical to proper function throughout life. If there is developmental delay in brain function in childhood, such as ADHD, autism, Tourette’s Syndrome, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), anxiety, tics, dyslexia, learning or processing disorders, or even more subtle symptoms, it is best to aggressively rehabilitate function before adulthood. Unfortunately, the current model of health care tells parents to wait for the child to grow out of it. However, many children do not grow out of it and miss key windows of time for ideal brain development. Unrelated to developmental delays, early symptoms of brain degeneration such as poor mental endurance, poor memory, and inability to learn new things are also serious issues when timing matters. The longer a person waits to manage their brain degeneration or developmental delay the less potential they have to make a difference. Datis Kharrazian, DHSc, DC, MS”
― Datis Kharrazian, Why Isn't My Brain Working?: A revolutionary understanding of brain decline and effective strategies to recover your brain’s health

“Three of the more common outcomes of brain degeneration problems are fatigue, depression, and gastrointestinal problems, though they are rarely treated as such.”
― Datis Kharrazian, Why Isn't My Brain Working?: A revolutionary understanding of brain decline and effective strategies to recover your brain’s health

“From a neurological standpoint, depression is simply decreased firing of the frontal lobe, the area at the front of the brain that gives us motivation and a sense of well-being.”
― Datis Kharrazian, Why Isn't My Brain Working?: A revolutionary understanding of brain decline and effective strategies to recover your brain’s health