The Brain Body Diet: 40 Days to a Lean, Calm, Energized, and Happy Life | Book Review Part 1

Here is her list of symptoms that will help you know it this book could possibly help you.
1. Feeling over obligated and stressed. Like your churning and not making progress
2. Weight gain, thicker waistline or difficulty losing weight
3. Fluid retention, feeling puffy all over, dull skin color, sensitivity to chemicals.
4. Brain fog, sluggishness, trouble concentrating or thinking clearly, slow mental speed
5. Complacency, less empathy,social isolation or feeling the need to dominate or control
6. Leaky gut, which may appear as gas abdominal bloating and discomfort, acid reflux, constipation, loose stool.
7. Overwhelm, restlessness or anxiety
8. Difficulty sleeping restfully through the night
9. Burnout, depression, impulsivity, aggression
10. Sugar, alcohol, or dairy cravings that you just can’t ditch
11. Addictive tendencies for food, alcohol, exercise, shopping, social media, or your smart phone
12. “Resting bitch face”
13. Feeling a lack of sovereignty, freedom, or security about your health or future
14. Feeling that you’re short term memory is slipping

I love what she says in this paragraph “In personalized lifestyle medicine, when you don’t feel completely healthy, we start first with the gut/brain connection beginning with food (Mainstream medicine starts with drugs)A food first philosophy is the foundation of the robust healthy brain/body if you ignore your symptoms you raise your risk of serious cognitive decline and other brain body problems that could be in your future sooner than expected if you don’t take care of your brain body now.

She said something she learned was first, nerve cells, or neurons, are quite delicate, much less hearty than she assumed. They’re easy to break and damage with inflammation.
Second, she was chock-full of brain body toxins. Even though I was living clean, and had a hunch that detoxing once per quarter would keep me safe, there was still more to do when it came to the toxic load in my brain body. Toxins of all sorts are linked to vague brain symptoms related to memory, focus, impulse control, resilience, libido, weight gain, and mood.

She also said she realized that she may have never recovered her full brain function, post-pregnancy, and her last pregnancy was over a decade ago

Doctors me tell you, as they told me that anxiety, depression, and having troubles finding the word on the tip of your tongue are inevitable part of getting older weekend? Dr. shrug and tell us to eat less and exercise more even though most of these strategies don’t work you are just an unlucky person in the scheme of things. Really? So one and three women over the age of 40 is unlucky, and in need of a potentially dangerous prescription. That is why so many women are starting to try alternative medicine.

Here is what to expect in this book, the brain body diet will show you how to address the symptoms of an in balanced brain body. Specifically, I will provide you with tools to do the following.

1. Remove toxins, including those obesogens and dementogens that I mentioned earlier. They change your mind, generate negative habits and obsessions, make you hungrier and fatigued, and increase your risk of cognitive impairment and memory loss. Generally making you feel like not yourself.
2. Change the body weight setpoint in the brain that makes it so difficult to lose weight
3. Recover the gray matter (which is your brain cells responsible for processing and cognition) that has been lost during pregnancy and or through excess alcohol consumption
4. Improve strength, particularly leg strength, which is the best predicator of cognitive function years later
5. Regain and stabilize, mental health, and prevent burnout, depression, and anxiety
6. Add years to your life, by restoring health to mitochondria that may have been damaged from the combination of too much sugar and fat, oxidative damage, heavy metals, and xenobiotics
7. Deepen sleep, enhance the glymphatic System, and clear more amyloid beta~ which is the potential toxin that contributes to Alzheimer’s disease
8. Reclaim the balance in your gut flora that prevents inflammation, auto immunity, hormone problems, and weight gain
9. Prevent or reverse brain related neuoinflammation and degenerative disease, such as memory, loss, Alzheimer’s, and multiple sclerosis.
10. Create a greater sense of integrated wholeness, what I like to think of as neuospirituality