The brain controls a person's feelings, senses, and thinking, and is equivalent to a person's headquarters. The weight of the brain accounts for only 2% of the body weight, but its blood supply demand is 20% of the total blood supply of the whole body. Brain cells must rely on sufficient blood supply to maintain normal operation so that people can make judgments and normal thinking activities.
The brain has tens of billions of nerve cells working together, and each nerve cell has hundreds of synapses, and each synapse has thousands to hundreds of proteins. Each cell is equivalent to a computer, and a synapse is like a chip in a computer.
Everyone knows the importance of the brain, but the concept of "brain health" seems to have never been taken seriously. The health of the brain is related to all aspects of the body. Cerebrovascular disease is the number one disabling disease worldwide.
Some people believe that only brain disease can prove that the brain is in an unhealthy state, which is only half right. There are two main types of unhealthy brains: one is that the brain has symptoms. The other is that the brain is in a "sub-healthy" state.
The "sub-health" of the brain is due to the long-term accumulation of mental stress and the long-term overload of the brain, which hinders the timely replenishment of oxygen and nutrition to brain cells, causing endocrine dysfunction, resulting in brain fatigue, causing "sub-health" symptoms and even illness. The brain is in a "sub-healthy" state for a long time and is prone to cerebrovascular diseases.
Three manifestations of "sub-health" in the brain
- Memory loss and endocrine disorders; memory, thinking and attention loss; lack of interest in surrounding things, reduced work ability; some people will have short-term memory loss.
- Poor sleep quality The nervous system's regulation of endocrine is disordered, and people are prone to fatigue, fatigue, and insomnia. The main manifestations are difficulty falling asleep within 30 minutes, discontinuous sleep process, early awakening, etc.
- Love sweating and often panic: The root cause is the fluctuation of hormone levels, which causes autonomic dysfunction in the brain, affects the heat regulation function and vasoconstriction, and leads to hot flashes, sweating, and symptoms. The milder ones are only slightly uncomfortable, while the severe ones are accompanied by symptoms such as panic and shortness of breath.
Nutrients to protect brain health
1. Impact on the nervous system and retina.
DHA can directly affect the fluidity of cell membranes, signal conduction speed, synaptic generation and plasticity, thereby assisting the development of the brain's learning, cognitive and memory abilities, and by protecting cells to slow down their apoptosis rate, alleviate the decline in learning and memory functions caused by aging, and reduce the occurrence of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases in the elderly;
DHA plays an important role in the development of synapses in infants' visual nerve cells, and is crucial in the early fetal brain development process. It can also reduce or inhibit age-related eye diseases in the elderly.
2. Impact on cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
DHA can inhibit thrombosis and prevent cardiovascular diseases;
3. Impact on the body's immune function and inflammatory response.
DHA can regulate the proliferation of immune cells and the activation of natural killer cells, affect the production of cellular immune factors, and thus inhibit inflammation.
GABA, the most important inhibitory neurotransmitter in the brain
1. Neuroregulatory effect.
GABA plays an important role in improving stress and mood disorders. Intake of GABA can promote brain energy metabolism, increase cerebral blood flow and oxygen supply, and improve nerve function, thereby improving sleep and irritability. Many drugs also improve sleep by affecting the GABA pathway.
2. Blood pressure regulation.
GABA has the biological effects of relaxing blood vessels and lowering blood pressure. In addition, GABA can prevent diabetes, increase plasma growth hormone concentration and brain protein synthesis rate.
As people's stress increases and age increases, the content of GABA in the human body decreases day by day. When the body lacks GABA, symptoms such as anxiety, restlessness, fatigue, and insomnia occur. Generally, people who are in a high-pressure competitive environment for a long time are very likely to lack it and need to be supplemented in time to relieve stress.
N-acetylneuraminic acid, a very precious derivative of neuraminic acid, is also known as bird's nest acid
1. N-acetylneuraminic acid is responsible for the transmission of information between brain cells, and plays a key role in brain development, improving and maintaining memory, and enhancing learning ability. Supplementing N-acetylneuraminic acid in the elderly can prevent Alzheimer's disease in the elderly.
2. The presence of N-acetylneuraminic acid ensures the concentration of calcium, potassium, and sodium ions in the brain to meet physiological needs, allowing brain cells to have life activity.
3. It can improve the intestinal absorption of minerals and vitamins; it is conducive to the colonization and growth of beneficial intestinal bacteria in the intestine.
4. It plays a variety of roles in human immunity, including regulating the various response activities of the immune system, maintaining normal vitality of immune cells, protecting cell surfaces, and removing pathogens.
EPA, an important component of neuronal lipid membrane
EPA, or eicosapentaenoic acid, is a member of the n-3 unsaturated fatty acid family like DHA. The human body cannot synthesize it by itself and is mainly obtained from marine fish and algae.
Because EPA has multiple physiological activities such as improving immunity, protecting eyesight, reducing cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases and preventing neurodegenerative diseases, it is known as an important bioactive nutrient.
Its effects on the human body are mainly reflected in:
1. As an important component of neuronal lipid membrane, EPA not only improves membrane fluidity, but also participates in the regulation of the expression of multiple neurotransmitters, and is one of the factors that ensure the stability of the physiological function of central neurons.
2. Antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. EPA can prevent lipid peroxidation and block cholesterol domains, and at the same time prevent free radicals from passing through the cell membrane phospholipid bilayer. EPA has a certain effect in inhibiting the body's inflammatory response.
Curcumin that increases the level of brain-derived neurotrophic factor
1. Curcumin is a lipophilic polyphenol that easily passes through the blood-brain barrier and increases the level of brain-derived neurotrophic factor.
2. Curcumin can inhibit the synthesis and accumulation of β-amyloid protein, regulate the insulin signaling pathway, and improve the spatial learning and memory ability of patients with Alzheimer's disease.
3. It has anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective effects such as reducing vasogenic cerebral edema.
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