Neurotoxicity is toxicity in which a biological, chemical or physical agent adversely affects your nervous system. In simple terms, when you experience stress in any form. Researchers have shown that neurotoxicity has three paths. Excitotoxicity, oxidative stress, and neuroinflammation. Sorry for the complex words, I promise to simplify soon. Excitotoxicity
Food has a powerful effect on our body, something I have said for over a decade. How powerful is a lesson I continue to discover. To illustrate, let us look at the effect of glutamate on our body. Glutamate is an excitatory neurotransmitter. Neurotransmitter means something that transmits signals through
Is your personality fixed or malleable?
I’m unsure of your age. Regardless, age creeps up faster than you expect. What is the best way to bullet-proof yourself from old age? Obviously, eat well, exercise, sleep. But the thing that constantly surprises me is the value of staying busy. Staying busy has many connotations. My grandfather
Popular literature refers to dopamine as the pleasure molecule. It is the hormone released when you are happy. But did you know it plays a vital role in memory and cognition? In fact, the very action of giving pleasure helps you learn and recall. Let us understand how. Each time
Life is a blessing
how does your body adapt to stress
The role of beta blockers in managing blood pressure
Align your coping strategy to the problem at hand
Your fascia is the largest tissue in your body
Why would you not want to eat?
Your body comprises DNA, your genetic code. Your genes replicate, carrying with them all the information required to form the new cell. A single gene, replicating from end to end, would take between 550-800 hours. Genes, therefore, use multiple strategies to replicate in a matter of hours. Sometimes the replication