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Stress, Anxiety Depression or Brain Fog! Do You SufferBy Dr.With a “Broken Brain�?

Greg Fors, DC Board-certified Neurologist (DIBCN)

There Is a Horrible Epidemic Sweeping Across Our Nation.

Possibly you are one of the hundred million, or one out of three Americans who struggle with a “broken brain�.

A disorder that is not caused by a medication deficiency or fixed by medication. A primary cause is a brain that is nutritionally deficient and inflamed. With this your brain is no longer able to perform the tasks it is meant to do.

This shows up as the all too common symptoms of being inattentive, unfocused with poor memory, many times referred to as brain fog or even ADD. Which at times can even threaten our jobs and careers. If this progresses far enough it becomes MCI or Minimal Cognitive Impairment and the next step is dementia.

A brain that is “broken� from nutritional deficiencies and inflammation can also manifest as feelings of hopelessness and being overwhelmed and anxious, as if our brains cannot keep up with our lives, leaving us depressed. At this point we may find that our brain no longer lets us fall asleep or sleep through the night!

The Name Game That Misses the Point When we label this malfunctioning “broken brain� as a named disease based on the primary symptoms experienced, we do nothing to identify the underlying causes. This leaves these causative factors to go unchecked, leading to greater deterioration in brain neuron function.

The names we give to our nutritionally starved and inflamed brains is endless, names such as depression, anxiety disorder, ADD and ADHD, for example.

We then start piling on the drugs based on the label we’ve been given. The latest study found one in six U.S. adults reported taking a psychiatric drug, such as an antidepressant or a sedative in 2013. The study, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, found that over 80% of those on medications use them long-term. Experts in the study say this is concerning, since most of the drugs are recommended for shorter use and carry a number of serious risks!

Do you have a healthy brain?

A brain that is healthy and flexible can bring about a focused and happy life. A healthy brain is one that can easily focus on a task and stick with it until completion.

Flexibility is a hallmark of a healthy brain, the mental dexterity to move in and out of new and changing situations without anxiety or rigidity. A healthy brain is a happy brain finding joy and beauty in living.

Why Is This Happening?

This “broken brain� is a side effect of our fastpaced, industrialized lifestyle filled with processed and nutritionally deficient foods. On top of this we are inundated with herbicides, pesticides, toxic chemicals and heavy metals. These insults from our diet and environment can lead to nutritional deficiencies, chronic inflammation and free radical damage in our tissues, especially in our brain.

Here’s a short scientific explanation of this process.

Chronic inflammation and free radicals in your body causes a sustained release of chemical messengers called cytokines which help regulate your immune system. Over time these cytokines can over stimulate specialized cells in the brain called microglia. The role of these microglia cells is to maintain brain health and function. These microglia cells have no off switch, so when overstimulated by these messengers of chronic inflammation they can cause brain

cell damage and decreased brain function. Eventually we start to experience the all too common symptoms of a “broken brain�.

Our muscles and joints have pain receptors, so they let us know when they’re being injured by inflammation and free radicals. However, our brain has no pain receptors so there are no direct signals that it’s being injured. When our brain is chronically inflamed it starts to lose ground in its ability to function properly. You then begin to experience indirect signals such as problems with focus, mental stamina, handling stress, memory, mood and sleep, daily things are brain does for us. An inflamed brain is in agitated brain! An even more compelling concern of chronic nutrient deficiency and brain inflammation is that it can lead to Parkinson’s, dementia and Alzheimer’s!

Now the Good News Chronic nutrient deficiency and brain inflammation is a condition that can be corrected. It can be accomplished if you address the underlying issues. Specific functional laboratory tests can identify the type of diet you need to eat and specific supplements to take to optimize your brain function. You are not going to find the help you need from your conventional health practitioner. You need a doctor who specializes in Functional Neurology.

By utilizing a natural Functional Medicine approach brain health issues can be conquered! By optimizing your diet and nutrient levels, eliminating toxins, correcting any leaky gut, and removing food allergies you will be able to overcome your chronic inflammation and heal your brain, improving your focus, mood and memory, unlocking the full potential of your life. Many patients have and so can you! All you need is the proper guidance.

This vital information to your health is covered in my How to Fix a Broken Brain! Workshops Monday, November 20th at 7 PM and Wednesday, November 29th at 7 PM at the Pain and Brain Healing Center 1400 131st Ave NE Blaine. Seating is limited 12 participants, call 763-8627100 to register or call for your free personal consultation with Dr. Fors.

Dr. Greg Fors, D.C. is a Board-certified Neurologist (IBCN), certified in Applied Herbal Sciences (NWHSU) and acupuncture. As the clinic director of the Pain and Brain Healing Center in Blaine Minnesota he specializes in a Functional Medicine approach to your health issues.

If you have any questions or comments regarding this article you can contact Dr. Fors at 763-862-7100. Dr. Fors is the author of the highly acclaimed book, “Why We Hurt� available through booksellers everywhere.

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► On Nov. 5, 1605, King James I of England learns that a plot to blow up the Parliament building with some 20 barrels of gunpowder was been foiled. Guy Fawkes was taken into custody and revealed that he was part of a conspiracy to annihilate England’s Protestant government.

Every year Fawkes is burned in effigy in remembrance of the plot.

► On Nov. 2, 1947, The Hughes Flying Boat -- the largest aircraft ever built -is piloted by designer Howard Hughes on its first and only flight. The wooden aircraft had a wingspan longer than a football field and was designed to carry more than 700 men into battle.

► On Nov. 1, 1959, Montreal Canadien Jacques Plante becomes the first NHL goaltender to wear a full facemask.

After four broken noses, a broken jaw, two broken cheekbones and 200 stitches, Plante wore the mask, against the coach’s ► On Nov. 4, 1922, King Tut’s 3,000- wishes. year-old tomb is discovered by British archaeologist Howard Carter in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. The tomb ► On Nov. 3, 1976, “Carrie,” a horror contained a stone sarcophagus with three film based on Stephen King’s 1974 bestnested coffins. Inside the final coffin, selling first novel, opens in theaters. made of solid gold, was the mummy of “Carrie” is considered one of the best big-screen adaptations of King’s work. the boy-king Tutankhamen. ► On Oct. 30, 1991, as a “perfect

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► On Nov. 7, 1944, Franklin Roosevelt is re-elected president of the United States for a record third time, defeating Thomas Dewey, the governor of New York, and becoming the only president in history to win a fourth term in office.

► On Nov. 11, 2000, a cable car taking skiers to a glacier in Austria catches fire as it passes through a mountain tunnel; 156 people die. Only 11 people survived the fire, which was caused by an illegal space heater in the driver’s cabin.

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TIDBITS CONSIDERS BIRDS (cont)’d) • Do you eat like a bird? Which bird? A vulture can eat up to a quarter of its body weight in a single sitting, making itself so heavy it cannot fly.

Hummingbirds must eat more than their body weight in high-energy nectar each day.

• The albatross can fly thousands of miles without ever landing, even sleeping on the wing. The bird can shut down half of its brain at a time, leaving the other half of the brain on autopilot.

• An ostrich will urinate on its legs to cool them down on hot days.

• European starlings line their nests with plants that inhibit the growth of bacteria and fungus as well as preventing lice, mites, and ticks from hatching.

• The eyeball of a human is round and can easily turn in the eye socket.

But the eyeball of an owl is tubular, and therefore cannot turn in the eye socket.

This is why owls need to be able to swivel their heads 270 degrees.

• Parrots have much bigger brains relative to body size than any other group of birds. In fact, the brain-to-body ratio of parrots is even larger than some primates.

• Cuckoos are famous for laying their eggs in other birds’ nests, forcing the adoptive parents to raise the imposter chicks. But a bird called the blackcap is able to tell a cuckoo’s egg from its own eggs, and consistently throws the intruding eggs out of the nest.

• Crows that see a grub in a hole often find a twig to use as a lever to extract the grub. If it’s a wide hole, they will choose a wide twig. If it’s a narrow hole, they’ll pick a skinny stick. If it’s a deep hole, they’ll find a long stick, and will get a short stick if it’s a shallow hole.

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• Vultures like to eat eggs of other bird species. If it’s a small egg, they will carry it in the air and drop it on the ground to break it open. But if it’s a large egg and too big to carry, they will instead grab stones and drop the rocks on the egg from a height until it cracks open.

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► On Nov. 8, 1895, in his lab in Germany, physicist Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen becomes the first person to observe X-rays while testing whether cathode rays could pass through glass.

Rontgen received numerous accolades for his work, including the first Nobel Prize in physics in 1901.

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storm” hits the North Atlantic coast, the fishing boat Andrea Gail and its sixmember crew are lost at sea. The disaster spawned the best-selling book “The Perfect Storm,” by Sebastian Junger, and a blockbuster Hollywood movie.

Service Prices include: Trip, labor & parts in the metro area during standard business hours • Crows like to eat nuts and clams but find them hard to open. Many crows have perfected the art of dropping these items on hard pavement to crack them open, with some going so far as to drop them on a busy roadway where the cars will roll over them. They then wait for the stoplight to change so they can retrieve it.

• Greenbacked herons will drop things on the surface of a calm pool to act as bait. Seeds, flowers, feathers, and dead flies float on the surface until a fish comes to investigate, whereupon the heron snatches it up.

• The rufous hummingbird visits hundreds of flowers in any given day without ever visiting the same flower twice until it has had a chance to refill with nectar.

• Roosters will often give a call indicating that they have found food, even when they have none. A hen will hurry over to see what kind of food he’s got, which gives the rooster an opportunity to try to mate with her.

• Two male Japanese quail will fight for the right to mate with a female Japanese quail. Surprisingly, the female prefers to mate with whoever loses the fight. This is because the winner tends to be a more aggressive bird who will often bully his mate.

• Although it is said that opposites attract, in nature that is not always true. For instance, pinyon jays that find a partner who is similar in weight and age produce more offspring than pinyon jays that are unequally matched.

Barnacle geese raise larger families if they are similar in size than if the couple is composed of one large and one small individual. Great tits are birds similar to a chickadee. They fall into two camps: those that like to explore, and those that like to stay home. The pairing

will be more successful if each partner has a similar desire to either explore or stay home.

• Black-tailed godwits mate for life, but the pair does not spend their entire life together. They raise their family over the summer months, and in the fall they set out to migrate south. However, they don’t migrate together. Each of them goes to a different place to spend the winter months. In the spring, they return to their mating grounds and somehow manage to find each other again, usually arriving within three days of each other in April.

• A female pigeon cannot lay eggs if she is alone; her ovaries will not function unless another pigeon is in view.

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• The kiwi, a New Zealand bird, lays an egg equal to a quarter of the mother’s weight.

• If a chicken has a white earlobe it will lay a white egg. If a chicken has a red earlobe, it will lay a brown egg.

• About 7% of zebra finches stutter, getting stuck on a portion of their song and repeating it until they finally continue the tune.

• When a male penguin starts

incubating a single egg for the two months required for it to hatch, he weighs around 88 lbs. (40 kg)When he finishes, he weighs half that.

• The mature yolk of an ostrich egg is the biggest single cell found in nature.

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• Caffeine is found naturally not only in coffee and tea but also in about 100 other plants. Caffeine acts as a natural insecticide. It can kill insects, stunt their growth, impair their coordination, or ruin their reproduction capabilities.

• A typical cup of dripbrewed coffee contains about 115 mg of caffeine. The same size cup of espresso delivers about 250 mg of caffeine. That's why espresso is served in such tiny cups. Percolated coffee has slightly less caffeine than drip coffee. Decaffeinated coffee does not mean the coffee is caffeinefree. Brewed decaf has about 5 mg of caffeine. A typical cup of truck stop coffee will usually contain more caffeine than an expensive cup of designer coffee. That's because the less expensive robusta beans, from which inexpensive coffee is made, are higher in caffeine than the more expensive arabica beans used in specialty coffee.

• Methylene chloride is the chemical used to remove caffeine from coffee beans. The chemical is poisonous when inhaled, but because it evaporates at 120°F (49°C), it dissipates when the beans are roasted at 400°F. (204°C). Any remnants still in the beans are rendered harmless by brewing the coffee at a temperature around 200°F. (93°C) • Caffeine increases alertness and enhances performance on certain tasks. Tests on drivers and typists prove that two cups of coffee can help. However, research shows it helps most if the drinker is bored or fatigued. It only boosts intellectual speed and not physical power. Furthermore, coffee seems to help extroverts more than it helps introverts. Studies show that people respond more to the caffeine they think they've consumed than they respond to the amount of caffeine that they've actually consumed.

HEALTH BENEFITS OF CAFFEINE • Those who regularly drink alcohol are 20% less likely to develop cirrhosis of the liver if they also drink one cup of coffee per day.

• People who consume caffeine are less likely to develop Parkinson's disease, and for those who have already developed Parkinson's, it may help them control their movement.

• Drinking two to four cups of coffee daily can reduce the risk of suicide by about 50%. The theoretical reason is because coffee acts as a mild antidepressant by aiding in the production of neurotransmitters like serotonin, dopamine and noradrenaline.

• Women who drink three or more cups of coffee a day are less likely to develop skin cancer than those who don't.

• People who drink four or more cups of coffee a day reduce their chances of developing type 2 diabetes by 50%.

• People older than 65 who had higher blood levels of caffeine developed Alzheimer's disease two to four years later than others with lower caffeine levels.

• According to a study, nothing else comes close to providing as many antioxidants as coffee. While fruits and vegetables also have lots of antioxidants, the human body seems to absorb the most from coffee.

HOWEVER… • Smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee at the same time raises the blood pressure. The combination of caffeine and nicotine also stops the effects of many high-blood pressure medications. This spells danger for those whose blood pressure is already too high.

• Birth defects are possible if a pregnant woman drinks more than eight cups a day during the pregnancy.

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• Parental divorce can be as traumatic as a death for many adults. It is in a sense a death- that ACOD’s family. ACODs go through the same grief stages of shock, anger, denial & sadness.

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•ACODs also lose their sense of home & security.

The security was always knowing that whatever happened in your life, you could always go home. This security can be particularly important to adults in their 20s who have recently begun life “on their own.�

However, home was Mom & Dad & a loving family, & that family is destroyed. ACODs tend to feel that they no longer have a home, or they have to drastically redefine what home means to them. •ACODs lose traditions they have enjoyed all their lives. They lose simple pleasures like having dinner with Mom & Dad. They lose life as they knew it, even if there aren’t many visible changes. As one ACOD said, while preparing to go to her birthday dinner with her parents after their (amicable) divorce, “It’s weird, because nothing’s really going to be different, except that I KNOW it’s different!â€?

By JoAnn Derson â– If your razor has seen better days, try running it over a pair of jeans. The material can sharpen and realign the blades to get a little more life out of your razor. â– The National Sleep Foundation says that exercise can contribute to better sleep.

Work out at least 4-5 hours before you expect to hit the hay, though, because exercise can keep the heart rate elevated and give you energy for hours after you are done. Afternoon workouts are the best, but morning sessions are great, too. ■Hand-held heat. Fill an old sock (no holes) with uncooked rice and knot at open end. Pop in the microwave for no more than 2 minutes for a long-lasting heaterupper. ■“Prevent outdoor padlocks from freezing up by covering the keyhole with a small piece of duct tape, and then put the whole lock in a sandwich-size baggie to seal.�

-- G.O. in New York ■Roll clothing to pack: For shirts, you can stack them all together, then fold over the sleeves before rolling. Pants are best rolled individually. Fold one leg onto the other, then roll tightly from ankle to waist, being sure to smooth wrinkles as you go. Stuff socks into shoes. Make use of all your space. ■Homemade ice pack: Mix 1 part rubbing alcohol to 3 parts water in a zipper-top bag; seal and place in the freezer. It gets really cold but never hardens, so you can manipulate it. Every athlete (or parent) should pin this. -- M.W. (Add food coloring so you can tell if it’s leaking, and label it properly!)

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• Many of us were brought up to believe that marriage is supposed to last forever. So when our parents decide to just give up on the marriage, what does that tell us? In a way it is like marital infidelity: our parents are turning their backs on the very principles they raised us with. Sometimes leaving an ACOD with no respect for the institution or wondering what their own future (relationship) holds. •If you are an ACOD, you may have seen yourself in this column. You are not alone. Hopefully you understand why there is a column for ACODs, & if you know an ACOD, what they might be going through. Parental divorce is a far more upsetting & difficult experience for adults than most people realize. But with support & understanding, it can be made easier. • Over one million children are affected by divorce each year, & as many as half of them will suffer longterm emotional problems.

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LIPSTICK Since November 11 is Red Lipstick Day, Tidbits is taking this opportunity to look up the facts on one of our favorite cosmetics.

• We’ve been coloring our lips since prehistoric times, when women used readily available natural resources, such as crushed berries and the juice of fruits and plants. Around 2600 BC, Sumerian Queen Shub-ad blended white lead and crushed red rocks to paint her lips. The fact that it was poisonous didn’t seem to deter her. Five thousand years ago, women in Mesopotamia ground precious gems into dust and applied it to their lips and eyelids.

• Ancient Egyptians made their lipstick out of dye extracted from seaweed, along with iodine and bromine mannite, which produced a deep purple shade.

Unfortunately, the bromine was a dangerous toxin which frequently led to death, resulting in the coining of the term the “kiss of death.” This steered the Egyptians to a new formula of red carmine dye from cochineal insects, beetles, and ants, along with red ochre, a natural earth pigment containing iron.

• Cleopatra of Egypt used lipstick regularly and especially favored red lipstick made of beeswax, crushed ants or carmine, with fish scales added for shine. The concoction not only colored her lips, it also protected them from the harsh Egyptian sun and desert wind.

• During the 1500s, English Queen Elizabeth I popularized the look of a stark white face and bright red lips. At a time when pastors were condemning lip painting as the “devil’s work,” the Queen regularly painted her lips with crushed insects, tree sap, egg white, and fig milk.

• First lady Martha Washington mixed beeswax, lard, sugar, almond oil, ground raisins, extract from the alkanet plant, and balsam to create her cherry-colored lips.

• Paris perfumers introduced the first modern lipstick in 1884, made of deer tallow, castor oil, and beeswax, and wrapped in silk paper and applied with a brush. The first metal cylinder containers were introduced in 1915, but the familiar swivel-up tube didn’t hit the stores until 1923, patented by Nashville inventor James Mason, Jr. • Film stars such as Greto Garbo, Joan Crawford, Elizabeth Taylor, and Marilyn Monroe boosted the popularity of red lipstick. By the 1930s, Vogue magazine

declared that lipstick was “the most important cosmetic for women.”

During World War II, lipstick colors became political, such as the popular Victory Red shade.

• New Jersey chemist Hazel Bishop created the first long-lasting, nonsmearing lipstick in her kitchen and it hit the stores in 1950, immediately becoming all the rage. The first flavored lipstick debuted in 1973, manufactured

by Bonne Bell and dubbed “Lip Smackers.”

• Today’s lipsticks contain a variety of ingredients, including beeswax, oil, emollients, Vitamin E, collagen, amino acids, aloe vera, and sunscreen. Fish scales are still an ingredient, which provide a shiny film that doesn’t smear easily.

• Ninety percent of women say wearing lipstick makes them feel better, and the average woman will use about 9 lbs. (4 kg) of lipstick in her lifetime. A poll shows that 40% of women own more than 20 tubes of lipstick. The average female applies lipstick anywhere from two to 14 times a day, and it’s estimated that most ingest up to 87 mg of lipstick every day, about four lbs.

(1.8 kg) over the average lifetime. Lipstick is the most commonly shoplifted item.

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► It may not come as a surprise that when scorpions mate, it’s a rather violent affair. When the act is completed, the female stings her partner to death, then eats him.

► If you look closely at the Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci’s famed masterwork, you might notice that the famously enigmatic subject is entirely lacking in eyebrows.

► In late 19-century America, parts of New England had a rather unusual Halloween tradition. Evidently, in many rural communities, boys would celebrate by throwing cabbage, corn and other rotten vegetables.

► Those who study such things say that many ancient Greeks carried coins in their mouths -- clothing of the time lacked pockets, you see.

► It was 20th-century American author and college professor David Foster Wallace who made the following sage observation: “There is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some diehard’s vote.”

► Buick is one of the oldest automobile brands in the world, so you might expect that the company’s founder did pretty well for himself. Unfortunately for David Dunbar Buick, who incorporated the company in 1903, that wasn’t the case. In less than a year, the company was sold. Buick stayed on as a manager and worked on engine development, but only for two more years. When he left his namesake company in 1906, he sold his one remaining share of Buick for $100,000. That was a rather hefty sum at the time, but he lost it all in a series of unsuccessful ventures. At the time of his death in early 1929, he was virtually penniless.

► Until Alfred Hitchcock’s iconic psychological horror film “Psycho” premiered in 1960, no American film had ever shown a toilet being flushed.

► Those who are experiencing money-related relationship issues might be interested to note the results of a survey conducted by TD Ameritrade. When asked who manages the household budget, 87 percent of women said they did, while 81 percent of men claimed that responsibility.

by: Samantha Weaver ► It was German dramatist, poet, philosopher and statesman Johann Wolfgang von Goethe who made the following sage observation: “Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.”

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