As we each age, all parts of our bodies begin to deteriorate. In fact, this is the whole idea of aging, your body starts to slowly shut down. Even looking older is caused by the decline in the amount of elastin in the skin, so the skin’s loss of function.

Some of the hardest times in aging is watching and struggling with the deterioration of your brain. It is a serious concern with the increase of diagnosis of dementia and Alzheimer’s in the past decades.

It is a scary prospect, our brains are aging everyday losing the ability to make new connections, learn new skills, make new memories, or recall old ones.

All the way through until the prospect of your brain losing its ability to recall who you are becomes a real possibility. Why does this happen? Continue reading →

We are coming to realize that food can do so much more than just fuel your body. Food can dictate how we perform in daily activities, predict our future health, and help defend us against the health factors we have no control over like genetics.

There are certain vital nutrients each part of the body needs and several nutrients end up on more than just one of these lists.

The brain is our most important organ, simply put nothing else works without it. So here are 6 key nutrients to fuel your brain now and protect it in the future.

1 – Vitamin B Complex

The large subset of vitamins referred to as B vitamins are closely related and largely responsible for metabolic processes in the body. The brain is a disproportionately large consumer of metabolic energy at 20%. Continue reading →