Abstract: Learn about the myth of "the mind-body connection" and how diet can powerfully impact mental health and cognitive performance, including a discussion of strategies for improving memory and cognitive function at any age using "Primal principles" and how to slow (maybe even reverse) the process of brain aging.
We'll also address common issues like chronic anxiety, depression and ADD/ADHD, what modern day mechanisms might be at play and how a Primal diet and certain added nutrients can better address mental, emotional and cognitive issues. Few individuals seem to make the connection between physical and mental health.
As long as one is able to find ones self above ground in the morning, get up out of bed and power through a work day it is commonly assumed that one is healthy. Being thin and active in most people's minds is tantamount to good health (or just not being "sick"), even while the same person may also suffer anxiety related issues, depression or have trouble mentally focusing at work or at school.
We all see the world through the lens that is our blood sugar (the extent to which one might be dependent on this), our hormones and neurotransmitters and yet forget that it is our diets that must entirely supply the raw nutrients needed for these critically influential physiological catalysts.
Mental health issues and cognitive challenges are nearly ubiquitous today. According to the work of respected nutritional pioneers such as Weston Price these same mental and brain health issues were nearly unheard of in many primitive and traditional societies consuming a diet consistent with that of our more distant evolutionary ancestors.
Modern research findings offer added understanding and a new layer to ancestral dietary principles that can lead us toward the promise of optimal brain functioning, emotional liberation and the cultivation of a potentially ageless mind. By applying many of these "Paleo" principles today and modifying them to our more modern circumstances we can re-cultivate and improve upon the healthy Primal Mind that is our birthright and the key to our future as a species.
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its makes an ass of u and me
Great talk lots of interesting facts and tid bits to take away
its makes an ass of u and me
Great talk lots of interesting facts and tid bits to take away
Truth is often resisted
on the path to becoming self-evident. I’ve notice an interesting pattern in the replies to the numerous diet & health articles SOTT publishes lately. The replies seem to be frivolous distractions, or are becoming more venomous in attacking two primary “theories”; that diet is the root cause of the state of one’s physical health, and that the state of one’s psychological health is directly related to the state of one’s physical health. Yet the amount of empirical and anecdotal evidence for just such truth is overwhelming.
Granted, while the data is available, it is not usually endorsed by main stream media and must be sought out, and some of it can be a bit intimidating for the layperson to understand, but anyone in search of better health of any kind owes it to themselves to educate themselves in the facts, instead of giving in to the same knee-jerk reactions which promote the same programmed responses that those who are most profiting from our ill health want us to have.
SOTT has done an immense amount of research on the topic of diet equals health, and as always the correlation between the intensity of the attacks against a SOTT area of focus appears to be directly related to the validity of SOTT’s position on the topic.
on the path to becoming self-evident. I’ve notice an interesting pattern in the replies to the numerous diet & health articles SOTT publishes lately. The replies seem to be frivolous distractions, or are becoming more venomous in attacking two primary “theories”; that diet is the root cause of the state of one’s physical health, and that the state of one’s psychological health is directly related to the state of one’s physical health. Yet the amount of empirical and anecdotal evidence for just such truth is overwhelming.
Granted, while the data is available, it is not usually endorsed by main stream media and must be sought out, and some of it can be a bit intimidating for the layperson to understand, but anyone in search of better health of any kind owes it to themselves to educate themselves in the facts, instead of giving in to the same knee-jerk reactions which promote the same programmed responses that those who are most profiting from our ill health want us to have.
SOTT has done an immense amount of research on the topic of diet equals health, and as always the correlation between the intensity of the attacks against a SOTT area of focus appears to be directly related to the validity of SOTT’s position on the topic.
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her sense of humor, and very interesting talk with a lot of vital information. Most definitely will buy her book!
her sense of humor, and very interesting talk with a lot of vital information. Most definitely will buy her book!
Brilliant
There's a link in there to the slides that she presented as well. 40 minutes is not enough for the quantity and quality of the knowledge she is trying to pass on to us. I want her book too!
There's a link in there to the slides that she presented as well. 40 minutes is not enough for the quantity and quality of the knowledge she is trying to pass on to us. I want her book too!
I apologise, the link to the slides are below, and video is 56 minutes, not 40
SLIDES: slideshare.net/ancestralhealth/ahs-slidesnora-gedgaudas
SLIDES: slideshare.net/ancestralhealth/ahs-slidesnora-gedgaudas
i also got a 404 from your link beetlemaniac, but your link definitely works Good Optics and thank you for sharing it because the slides put her talk in context. i just let the video play and put the slides on full screen and learned that way.
It is definitely a must for anyone interestend in their optimal functioning. i got her book and i am gonna start reading it.
It is definitely a must for anyone interestend in their optimal functioning. i got her book and i am gonna start reading it.
optimal brain function, emotional liberation of the Primal mind, does that mean I can drag a women by the hair to my cave?....