DHA is absolutely essential to the function of a brain cell ; it is what keeps the inflammatory processes in the brain cell in check. Inflammation and oxidation are a side effect of being alive; we all have it going on.
If you have all of those things, then you can basically take a particular scan and make a model of that particular brain with your models of all the particular brain cell types. And if your models are good enough, your scan's good enough, the entire thing should have the same input/output behavior, i.e., you can hook it up with hands, eyes, ears, mouths, and talk
like, every thought drains from your head. You cannot summon a single brain cell to put together a word. So there's those panic moments.
different parts of the brain and the neurotransmitters are sort of the connectors, the chemicals that connect and communicate from one brain cell to the next; in fact from one cell in the central nervous system to every other cell in the central nervous system. But we're talking about mood, what goes on in the brain.
Because fat is so essential to the mass of the brain, 60 percent of the mass of the brain is fat, so you must have fat in your diet. Because the composition of a brain cell membrane so depends on DHA and on fat, if DHA isn't around it will replace DHA with another fat; that fat can function structurally but it is not a functional anti-inflammatory compound so that inflammation proceeds unchecked.
So the body just does not have the capacity to replace it. DHA is absolutely essential to the function of a brain cell ; it is what keeps the inflammatory processes in the brain cell in check.
We need to have the ability to take particular human brains and scan them in very fine spatial and chemical detail. And then we need to have models of how each type of brain cell works in terms of taking input signals, changing internal state, and sending output signals. If you have all of those things, then you can basically take a particular scan and make a model of that particular brain
And that's also an essential type of information because it tells each cell what type of cell it should be. Essentially all of our cells have the same genome, but what distinguishes a brain cell from a liver cell and what allows a fertilized egg to become a 26 billion composite of different cell types when it's born is the epigenome.
So the one thing that gets squeezed like Vise-Grips in the middle of the night is this thing called a normal eight-hour sleep period. And so the rat is running around the maze, and you just hear this brain cell firing as its coding the maze.
clean itself but it's 10 times more active when you go to sleep to get rid of all of the stuff that it's building up to make room for new cells also they've been found that there's a 60% decrease in your brain cell size so your brain cells literally shrink when you go to sleep to make more room for detoxification that's how important it
And if you are on a diet restricted in calories you may lose more lean tissue than you want rather than preferentially burning the fat. With the goal of raising the whole amount of fat that's available proportionately for the brain cell membrane and the entire central nervous system that is lined with fat, the brain will turn off fat burning.
but I would argue that the single best investment ever in history is education, right? So if you have one hour, or $1, or one brain cell to spend on something, if your primary concern is ROI that's scalable, education is the best investment. So the data for that are pretty overwhelming.
But one of the things that you can do is begin to enjoy the high performance fats that we must have in our diets. The data is now showing that these fats are so critically important, including fish oil, they are so critically important to the health of the brain and the brain cell that if you do not have adequate fats in the diet the brain will slow down fat metabolism, meaning