Powerful Herbs and Practices for Improving Your Brain Function

HJ: Your brain is like a muscle, it gets stronger the more you use it.  And just like your muscles, certain foods, herbs and nutrients can boost there function significantly.

– Truth

Herbs and Foods to Improve Brain Function

By Brigitte Mars

Brains will sprout new connections between cells as long as the environment challenges or stimulates. The saying, “Use it or you lose it” applies to brain power as well as other aspects of our lives. Neurotransmitters are chemical messengers the brain uses to communicate. Transmission of signals across the synapses is regulated by some thirty brain chemicals. The best known are acetylcholine, epinephrine and serotonin, all made from amino acids. In Oriental Medicine the brain is referred to as the “seat of marrow” and nourished by the Kidney System.