The Bible Cure for Memory Loss by Don Colbert

Author:Don Colbert [Colbert, Donald]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
ISBN: 9781599796581
Amazon: B001NPE9P8
Publisher: Charisma House
Published: 2001-02-27T00:00:00+00:00

To understand free radicals, consider the process of oxidation. Burn wood in a fireplace, and smoke is a by-product. Likewise, when you metabolize food into energy, oxygen oxidizes (or burns) the food to produce energy. This process does not create smoke, but it does produce dangerous by-products known as free radicals. These are molecules with unpaired electrons that cause damage to other cells.

Free radicals can create cellular havoc in your brain, damaging many of the brain’s functions we’ve looked at thus far. One of the primary reasons is that the brain is a fatty organ, as we have already seen. Fat is a major target for free radicals. When the fat in the brain cell membranes becomes oxidized, it can eventually lead to conditions such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease.

Oxidized fat becomes rancid in the cell membranes, which drastically changes the way they function. Receptors and neurotransmitters are tremendously altered, as is the way in which glucose is transported and received in the brain. Free radicals can also cripple the brain’s ability to produce energy as well.

Your Busy Brain That Never Sleeps

Another reason that the brain forms large amounts of free radicals is because the brain never stops working. Brain cells need a constant supply of both blood and oxygen. Therefore, significant amounts of free radicals are produced continually.

In addition, when brain cell membranes become rancid, cells can no longer move calcium out and glucose into the cells. This means that calcium levels can rise to toxic levels, which increases free-radical damage even more. This can actually lead to the death of brain cells.

A Patriot Missile Defense System

Like molecular Patriot missiles, antioxidants stop free radicals in their tracts before they can damage your body. But the brain appears to have a somewhat deficient natural supply of these defense weapons compared to the rest of the body, according to Dr. James Joseph, chief of neuroscience at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University.1 This is why taking the right supplements is vital to arresting and reversing memory loss.

A man shall be commended according to his wisdom.

—PROVERBS 12:8, KJV

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