Foggy, Mushy Brain-HELP!

Hello Katiejane,

I hope these links may be of some help with your situation. I actually really enjoyed reading the first link, and bookmarked it.

The Human Brain - Nourish - Micronutrients - Maintaining the Oxygen Balance in Your Brain

http://www.fi.edu/learn/brain/micro.html

The Top Six Reasons Your Brain Needs Magnesium

#1 Your brain needs magnesium to build the protective myelin sheaths that insulate the nerve fibers which network your nervous system.

#2 Magnesium activates a key enzyme in cell membranes that controls the balance of sodium and potassium. This is absolutely essential to the electrical activity of nerve cells, as well as to the very existence of a cell. If its sodium-potassium ratio got too far out of balance, the cell would burst.

#3 Magnesium activates glutamine synthetase, an enzyme responsible for converting waste ammonia - an extremely toxic by-product of normal protein metabolism - into urea for proper disposal. The ability to focus and pay attention can be compromised by even small increases in brain ammonia.

#4 Magnesium activates almost all the key enzymes needed for your neurons to produce energy from glucose, in the form of ATP molecules. Magnesium is also necessary for the stable storage of ATP, so it won't spontaneously break down and waste its energy as heat.

#5 Of the 300+ different enzymes in the human body that require magnesium to function, a great many are crucial to cerebral metabolism and cognitive function. In the cerebrospinal fluid that bathes the brain and spinal cord, magnesium is present in higher concentrations than in the blood plasma.

#6 Magnesium is needed to activate the enzyme (D6D) that converts dietary fatty acids into DHA, the most abundant fatty acid in brain cell membranes. Deficiencies in DHA have been associated with numerous neurological disorders - from attention-deficits to Alzheimer's disease.

Nutrition for Brain Health

http://www.askdrrobert.dr-robert.com/nutrition%20for%20brain%20health.html

Take care...x

Victoria