Many suffer with anxiety, depression, fatigue, Brain Fog, post-concussion brain injuries, or neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimers, Parkinson’s, and Multiple Sclerosis. Others suffer with attention deficit problems, hyperactivity, or autism symptoms.
Is there hope for improvements?
In our experience, the answer is usually “yes” as long as we work to “Solve the Puzzle” of why your brain is suffering.
The science of neuroplasticity tells us that our neurons (brain cells) can change (plasticity) more than we imagine. This means our brain can rewire even after a stroke or brain injury to take over the functions of the damaged areas in ways that can sometime seem miraculous. After years of abuse, neglect, and suffering, our brain has a remarkable ability to heal and change.
What does our brain need to rewire and heal?
E.S.E.
Energy – we need our mitochondria to work really well to power the rewiring miracle of neuroplasticity. We have tools like healing lasers, frequency specific microcurrent, pulsed magnetic field therapy and a host of nutraceutical supplements to recharge our neurons and body.
Stimulation – we need activation of critical brain control centers – especially the parasympathetic controls centers located in our brain stem to dial back our stress response and turn on:
Healing and Repair
Calm and Peaceful
Digestion and Detox
Reduced inflammation
Mitochondrial repair and regeneration
We use tools like unilateral spinal neurologic adjusting, Vagal stimulation therapies, and brain activation therapies.
Exercise – since neurons that fire together, wire together, we must use these new brain circuits we are creating or we lose them. Vagal stimulation exercises, Neuromodulation therapies, and sensory stimulation therapies can have especially powerful benefits.
In short, we need to “Solve the Puzzle” of why your brain is suffering to help create a “Happy Brain”
A consult or Foundation Visit is a great way to get started. Others who want learn even more about their brain start with a Brain Scan.
Call Renovare at (623) 776-0206 for more information
Renovare’s own Cassie Burton, founder of “Curiosity Junkie”, interviews founder and CEO of Renovare Wellness, Dr. Timothy Gerhart. This informative and empowering epidsode is based around Dr. Gerhart’s 5th and newest book “Creating an Invincible Immune System”. What does it take to stay healthy and happy? Listen and learn!!
What is an “Invincible Immune System”? It is an immune system that easily fends off viral (and other infectious) threats with potent antiviral/antimicrobial weapons. Then it quickly stops the attack to avoid damaging healthy tissue. It is vigilant and only responds when needed and maintains the complex balance between friendly microorganisms that live in and on us and the potential pathogens that could make us sick.
* What makes us sick is a weakened immune system combined with exposure to a “germ” trigger. Louis Pasteur, the famous microbiologist who discovered germs, is reported to have said that: “The germ is nothing, the terrain (immune system) is everything.”* Our wondrous, miraculous, incredible immune system is the difference. With the COVID-19 pandemic, over 25% (and rising with more testing) of those infected don’t get sick at all! Is now a great time to start creating a more “Invincible Immune System” so we stay in the “over 25%” group?* Let’s be real. Who has a “perfect” lifestyle to create an ideal “Invincible Immune System”? Likely no one. The good news is we don’t need perfect, we just need improvements to boost our immune balance while reducing our exposure to toxic stress, overwork, lack of sleep, toxins, and pathogens.
* Our medical disease care system appears stuck in the “wear a mask, wash your hands, keep your distance, and wait for a vaccine mode.” The question, “How do we boost our immune system to help us stay well regardless of the threat” is not being asked – or answered by the Centers for Disease control or the mainstream media.
* Join Dr. Gerhart and myself as we talk about what it takes to create an invincible immune system, to stay happy and healthy everyday.
* Taken from the Introduction of Dr. Timothy Gerhart’s book “Creating An Invincible Immune System” published in July 2020. To request a copy of “Creating An Invincible Immune System” contact: Http://BrainWellnessAZ.com Or call the Renovare Wellness By Design office @ 623-776-0206
There is a gift tucked away into many of the trials we are confronted with in life. During this unique time, it may be hard to push away the fear, frustration, anger. Television programs, social media posts, and emails all target the dark side of this pandemic we are living through.
Countless numbers of us are isolated in our homes with minimal face to face contact with others. We miss the simple touch of another human beings’ hand. Perhaps we have not had to confront ourselves in an exceptionally long time. Distractions in life may not allow us to hear our own thoughts or listen to our own breath. However, if we can manage to reign in our fear – calm our minds and center our spirit, we can discover something special for the taking.
So many have more still time in their life than ever experienced. Now is the moment to go within yourself to discover something new. What have you not unleashed in your spirit? What desires have you put on a back burner? Continue to move forward daily towards a desire or goal. It may be reading, writing, starting a new exercise routine, learning to meditate, deepening your prayer life, catching up with old friends. Whatever that desire is, step away from the things that may create negative thinking for you and move towards something that makes you feel alive and inspired.
Find that hidden gift. It may even inspire others and create much needed light and joy in our world.
From our previous 2 articles discussed the two strategies to support healthy blood sugar – the Short Chain Fatty acids and Insulin Signaling Pathway, we can see how we can improve. What we use to think was from our genetics – we now know is mostly from our lifestyle and we can change this.
Today we will be discussing the most exciting new pathway – the AMPK Pathway.
The SCFA Pathway
Insulin Signaling Pathway
AMPK Pathway
AMPK Pathway
AMPK is an signaling enzyme that acts as our “fat switch”. It determines whether we burn calories to make energy or store them as fat. If we are not making energy we are making fat and damaging free radicals.
Our lifestyle choices such as exercise and fasting activate this AMPK switch. Another powerful boost to this fat burning switch are supplements such as resveratrol, Alpha Lipoic Acid, burdock root, rose hips,short chain fatty acids, and berberine, can activate this AMPK switch.
What are the other benefits of activating our AMPK switch:
Reduces inflammation
Reduces pain
Improves energy
Reduces Sugar Cravings
Boosts fat burning and muscle building – key to successful weight loss
Below are a few of tissues and organs are impacted by this AMPK pathway.
It is really important to use professional grade supplements that actually work. It has been our experience that there are many inferior grade products on the market or products that have been stored in a warehouse for an undetermined amount of time. At Renovare, we carry only Pharmaceutical grade supplements.
Key Products we carry at Renovare that support the AMPK pathway:
Dementia is an epidemic in Arizona and America. Whether Alzheimer’s type dementia, vascular dementia, Parkinson’s Disease Dementia, Lewy Body dementia, mixed dementia or others, the result is the same. Loss of memory, declining mental function, loss of quality of life, and death. Neurodegenerative disease (most of which is Alzheimer’s or mixed type dementia) is the fastest growing cause of death in America. Dementia is the only major disease for which we have no effective drug treatment options.
Pfizer, a major American pharmaceutical giant, recently stated that they will be pulling out of Alzheimer’s treatment research. It has been 15 years since a new drug for Alzheimer’s was launched, reflecting one of the longest and most expensive losing streaks for Big Pharma. Now some in the industry are starting to question how long that commitment can last, after Pfizer announced it was pulling out of neuroscience research. Its decision means the race to find the first medicine to slow or halt Alzheimer’s type dementia must now proceed without one of the biggest forces in drug development.
John LaMattina, a former head of research and development at Pfizer, interprets the decision as a portent of things to come, and predicts other large drug makers will eventually follow suit.
What if the Solution was Not a Drug?
The FINGER study in Finland (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25771249) showed remarkable improvements in the high-risk older group studied through Lifestyle Change. Dr. Dale Bredesen, neuroscience researcher and former professor of medicine at UCLA wrote the ground-breaking book, “The End of Alzheimer’s” documenting the 30 years of research in his lab and others showing that Alzheimer’s type dementia is really many diseases. The research shows at least 36 documented root causes of the neurodegenerative disease process. We don’t “get” Alzheimer’s type dementia like we get the flu. We develop it over many years – usually decades – as a result of our lifestyle failing to fit our unique genetic and epigenetic needs.
It’s not just genetic. That’s right. Our genes do NOT determine our health. They influence our health. It is the interaction of our lifestyle choices, our environment, and our genes known as epigenetics that determines which genes turn on and which stay turned off. For the majority of human diseases, our lifestyle choices far outweigh our genes in determining our health and wellness. This is Great News!
Our understanding of the root causes of dementia and what we can do about it has expanded greatly. Yes, we can live with a healthy mind and body for a lifetime. In the areas of the world documented in the excellent book, Blue Zones (https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/04/150412-longevity-health-blue-zones-obesity-diet-ngbooktalk/), it is NORMAL to live to age 100 and beyond with high level Wellness of body and mind. This is done through lifestyle, not a drug.
Discover Magazine did an excellent summary article in December 2018 issue entitled: “Alzheimer’s Under Attack – Armed with big data, researchers turn to customized lifestyle changes to fight the disease”. Dr. Leroy Hood, biomedical pioneer & chief science officer for one of our nation’s largest non-profit health care systems, says, “Alzheimer’s is a really complex disease that has been utterly intractable.” He goes on to say, “Taking a systems approach reflects my own conviction that these complex diseases almost never respond to a single drug.”
It takes a systems approach process to solve the multiple pieces of the puzzle behind each person with dementia. More importantly, we need to solve the unique puzzle of each sufferer of brain decline since we are each different. This is not a “one size fits all” approach since, in my experience, there is no one size that fits all. Often medical research studies look for what single factor (usually a drug) creates a benefit in a large study group creating statistical significance for the study group – not individuals. This model fails to address the fact that each of us is unique with a dozen or more “root causes” behind our brain degeneration and dementia. This current double-blind placebo-controlled research model is ill-suited to complex, chronic neurodegenerative diseases like dementia. These complex diseases have multiple lifestyle-related causes different for each individual and multiple interventions are needed for synergistic therapeutic benefits. Medical studies typically study just one drug or intervention at a time which is just not enough to shift the direction of an unusually difficult, complex disease process like dementia.
Dr, Timothy C. Gerhart, D.C., DABCI, Dip. Ac., BCN is the author of 4 books on lifestyle approaches to brain and body Wellness and practices in Peoria, Arizona. His most recent book, “Living Free of Dementia – Solving the Puzzle to Prevent and Reverse Cognitive Decline” is scheduled for release in March 2019.
His other books are: “7 Secrets to Wellness, Change Your Brain, Transform Your Life, & Why Am I Not Right Since My Concussion”. Dr. Gerhart understands that the word “doctor” means “teacher” and is available to present to groups to teach the approaches he uses to prevent and reverse cognitive decline.
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There is a gift tucked away into many of the trials we are confronted with in life. During this unique time, it may be hard to push away the fear, frustration, anger. Television programs, social media posts, and emails all target the dark side of this pandemic we are living through.
Dementia is an epidemic in Arizona and America. Whether Alzheimer’s type dementia, vascular dementia, Parkinson’s Disease Dementia, Lewy Body dementia, mixed dementia or others, the result is the same. Loss of memory, declining mental function, loss of quality of life, and death. Neurodegenerative disease (most of which is Alzheimer’s or mixed type dementia) is the fastest growing cause of death in America. Dementia is the only major disease for which we have no effective drug treatment options.
Dr, Timothy C. Gerhart, D.C., DABCI, Dip. Ac., BCN is the author of 4 books on lifestyle approaches to brain and body Wellness and practices in Peoria, Arizona. His most recent book, “Living Free of Dementia – Solving the Puzzle to Prevent and Reverse Cognitive Decline” is scheduled for release in March 2019.