Health Tips For Your Brain & Liver
By Hoda Nassef
We should all learn to change our lifestyles, in order to live a little bit longer, God willing! With all the bad outside effects to our health, including the Black Cloud in Egypt, which is starting now earlier than in October and lasting till late December, having our homes also polluted, or our lifestyles, will surely damage our health to a bigger degree, one way or anather. So, let's at least do all what is humanly possible for our God-given health - for our children, parents, families, and ourselves.
Here are some tips I compiled for you, as well as for myself:-
(1) Some brain-damaging bad habits are:
1. No Breakfast.
People who do not take breakfast are going to have a lower blood sugar level. This leads to an insufficient supply of nutrients to the brain, causing brain degeneration.
2. Overeating.
This causes hardening of the brain arteries, leading to a decrease in mental power.
3. Smoking.
Smoking causes multiple brain shrinkage and may lead to Alzheimer’s disease.
4. High Sugar Consumption.
Too much sugar will interrupt the absorption of proteins and nutrients causing malnutrition and may interfere with brain development.
5. Air Pollution.
The brain is the largest oxygen consumer in our body. Inhaling polluted air decreases the supply of oxygen to the brain, bringing about a decrease in brain efficiency.
6. Sleep Deprivation.
Sleep allows our brain to rest. Long term deprivation from sleep will accelerate the death of brain cells.
7. Head Covered While Sleeping.
Sleeping with the head covered increases the concentration of carbon dioxide and decreases concentration of oxygen that may lead to brain damaging effects.
8. Working (Mental Work) During Illness.
Working hard or studying with sickness may lead to a decrease in effectiveness of the brain as well as damage the brain.
9. Lacking In Stimulalting Thoughts.
Thinking is the best way to train our brain; lacking in brain stimulation thoughts may cause brain shrinkage.
10. Talking Rarely.
Intellectual conversations will promote the efficiency of the brain. (See my article on Brain Power.)
(2) The main causes of liver damage are:
1. Sleeping too late and waking up too late are usually the main causes.
2. Not urinating in the morning.
3. Too much eating.
4. Skipping breakfast.
5. Consuming too much medication.
6. Consuming too much preservatives, additives, food colouring , and artificial sweeteners
7. Consuming unhealthy cooking oil. As much as possible reduce cooking oil use when frying, which includes even the best cooking oils like olive oil. Do not consume fried foods when you are tired, except if the body is very fit.
8. Consuming raw (overly done) foods also add to the burden of liver. Veggies should be eaten raw or cooked 3-5 parts. Fried veggies should be finished in one sitting, do not store. We should prevent this without necessarily spending more. We just have to adapt a good daily lifestyle and eating habits.
Maintaining good eating habits and time condition are very important for our bodies to absorb and get rid of unnecessary chemicals according to "schedule."
- Because: Evening at 9 -11 p.m: is the time for eliminating unnecessary / toxic chemicals (detoxification) from the antibody system (lymph nodes). This time duration should be spent by relaxing or listening to music. If during this time a housewife is still in a tense state such as washing the dishes or monitoring children doing their homework, this will have a negative impact on her health.
- Evening at 11 p.m - 1 a.m: is the detoxification process in the liver, and ideally should be done in a deep-sleep state.
- Early morning 1 - 3 a.m: detoxification process in the gall, also ideally done in a deep-sleep state.
- Early morning 1 - 3 a.m: detoxification process in the gall, also ideally done in a deep-sleep state.
- Early morning 3 - 5 a.m: detoxification in the lungs. Therefore there will sometimes be a severe cough for cough sufferers during this time. Since the detoxification process had reached the respiratory tract, there is no need to take cough medicine so as not to interfere with toxin removal process.
- Morning 5 - 7 a.m: detoxification in the colon; you should empty your bowel.
- Morning 7 - 9 a.m: absorption of nutrients in the small intestine, you should be having breakfast at this time.
- Breakfast should be earlier, before 6:30 am, for those who are sick. Breakfast before 7:30 a.m is very beneficial to those wanting to stay fit. Those who always skip breakfast, should change their habits, and it is still better to eat breakfast late until 9 - 10 a.m rather than no meal at all.
- Sleeping very late and waking up very late as well, will disrupt the process of removing unnecessary chemicals. Aside from that, midnight to 4:00 a.m is the time when the bone marrow produces blood.
Yes, it seems easy to follow, but usually we stick to our bad habits, no matter how much we know!!! Anyway, let's do it for our families...if not for ourselves.
H.N.
