Your Healthy and Active Brain

When we think of metabolism, we do not often think of the brain as being a metabolic organ, but that is exactly what it is. It consumes more energy than any other organ in your body. In fact, it consumes up to twenty percent more. This is why when you begin to have problems with your metabolism, you also sometimes begin to feel foggy or memory problems.

Your Brain Uses a Lot of Glucose

A Neuron in the Brain

If your metabolic system is not producing glucose properly then you are definitely going to find yourself feeling unwell physically. This is because even though the brain comprises only two percent of the entire human body, it needs to use fifteen percent of the energy that your heart produces as it pounds each beat, twenty percent of your total oxygen intake and twenty-five percent of all of the glucose that your body can produce.  That is a whopping one-quarter of all of your metabolized energy for use in just one part of the body.

Insomnia, clumsiness, loss of balance, nervousness and mood swings are symptoms to watch for if you expect disruptions in the way your body metabolizes glucose.

Understanding Organ Dominance and Weakness

Even though the brain is the dominant consumer of metabolic energy in your body there are other organs that come into play and may need more support in the form of fuel just simply because genetically or physiologically they are weaker.

For instance, you might have heard the phrases “that person was born with weak kidneys” or “born with a strong heart.” These are references to what is we know to be a genetic truth about every human being. For instance, if you were born with a genetic predisposition towards diabetes, it means that you might have a pancreas that is weaker than most. This in turn would necessitate the prescription of a diet that was friendlier towards supporting the long-term health of the pancreas over a long period of time. This means that it uses more energy than other organs and the more energy the weak organ uses, the more it is deprived from other areas in your body, especially the brain.

This is where the beauty of the HAP analysis of your metabolic type and blood work really come into play as diet and lifestyle changes that support the individual health of each of the dominant organs such as the liver, kidneys, lungs, heart, pancreas and the brain. This integrated approach toward treating the patient works as a form of prevention for developing serious diseases as well as a way to optimize the entire health profile of the individual.

For more information about the Healthy & Active Program please visit our website at www.healthy-active.com. You may also call us in Toronto at (41) 440-2217 and ask for Adrienne Wright Bulow or Dr. Michael Rahman or email us at adrienne@healthy-active.com.