Preserving Brain Health In A Toxic Age - New Insights From Neuroscience, Integrative Medicine, An...

Preservingbrainhealthinatoxicage-arnoldr Eiser
English | 264 pages | epub | 1.24 MB

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Learn how to reduce the impact of environmental toxins on brain development, functioning, and health.
The human brain is a marvelously complex organ that has evolved great new capabilities over the past 250,000 years. During most of that period, daily life was vastly different from our lives today. Exercise was not optional – one literally had to run for one’s life, livelihood, and sustenance. The Stone Age diet was not a fad, but the only food available. Periods of fasting arose from food scarcity, and hence the earliest keto-diet was commonplace. Life changed greatly with the advent of agriculture and industry. Diseases that were previously unknown or uncommon began to surface as by-products of civilization’s advance.
Changes in our ways of living have altered the nature of illness as well as its diagnosis and treatment. From the 1970s to the present, tens of thousands of chemicals with applications in all aspects of our lives have grown more than…