Fats The Brain Food

FATS - the BRAIN FOOD

Nelson Brunton

Fat is a nutrient crucial for normal body function and without it we could not live. Fat supply us with energy and  makes it possible for other nutrients to do their jobs. Fats consist of glycerol and fatty acids that are made up of carbon & hydrogen.

We know that a very large amount of our brain is omega fats. According to eastern medicine the extension of the brain is the bone marrow. Here the body makes the white & red blood cells and it plays a very important role in our body’s defences. The fat the makes up the brain also lines the bowels. Hence what happens in the brain effects our bowels and what effects the bowels in turn effects the brain in our cranium. According to Eastern Philosophy we have 2 brains. One in the head and the other brain is our bowels.

Everybody’s talking about their new,’ Low Fat diet’. Let me tell you, Fats should an essential part of our diet. Then we talk about the good Friendly Fats and  the unfriendly fats.

This misunderstanding almost cost me my life. Yet without the experience I would not have learnt what I now know. Many have not been as lucky as I have, to survive an Heart attack I had 20 years ago.

A low fat increases triglyceride and decrease HDL, without yielding additional decrease in LDL cholesterol levels.

For certain persons, i.e. those with hyper-triglyceridema or hyper-insulinemia, the elderly, or the very young, the potential for elevated triglycerides, decreased HDL cholesterol levels, or nutrient inadequacy must be considered.

Because very low fat diets represents a radical departure from current prudent dietary guidelines, such diets must be proved both advantageous and safe before national recommendations can be issued.  

There are many types of Fats: Saturated, Monounsaturated, Trans and Poly

Saturated fats: These fats are found mostly in animal products. Red meat, poultry, cheese, butter and other dairy products are the main sources. Some plant products like palm, coconut and palm kernel oil are also saturated. These fats are solid at room temperature and melt in your hand.

Polyunsaturated: These fats, which include the healthy omega-3 fatty acids, are also found in plant oils such as safflower, sunflower, corn, flaxseed and *canola oils, as well as in seafood. Polyunsaturated fats are either liquid or soft at room temperature. Essential

fatty acids - alpha-linolenic and linoleic acid - are also in the polyunsaturated group. These fats, which we need to get from the foods we eat, are necessary for the creation of cell walls and hormones in the body. * be aware that Conola is Rapeseed oil and was originally process as an engine oil. The omega-6 linoleic acid and the omega-3 alpha-linolenic acid "essential fatty acids" (EFA) and cite the EFA requirement as one to four percent of calories. Research suggests, however, that the omega-6 arachidonic acid (AA) and the omega-3 docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) are the only fatty acids that are truly essential.

Monounsaturated: These "good" fats are found mainly in plant sources, like nuts, avocados and olive, peanut and canola oils. They are liquid at room temperature.

Trans-: This type of fat is formed when unsaturated vegetable oils are hydrogenated (or partially hydrogenated) to form solid, more stable fats. Hydrogen atoms are actually added to the oils. Trans-fats include margarine and shortening and are found in everything from crackers, cookies, doughnuts, frozen pie crusts, deep-fried foods and foods with chocolate coatings

We refer to cholesterol as Good and Bad, but in reality there is no good or bad cholesterol. Our body needs all of them, as they assist the body in many ways. When you visit your Doctors surgery he will make checks on your HDL, LDL and Triglyceride and mark them as good one and bad ones.In reality body is incapable of making Hormones without them.  The realy bad fats are never mentioned and rearly measured. Its is VLDL. Very Low Density Lipids. Of the lipoprotein types, VLDL contains the highest amount of triglyceride. Because it contains a high level of triglyceride, having a high VLDL level means you may have an increased risk of coronary artery disease, which can lead to a heart attack or stroke. Higher amounts and large VLDL particles are also associated with an increased risk of high blood pressure and stroke. This fat comes not from eating fats, but surperisingly from refined carbs and sugars.

There is a debate on which is the best oil to cook with. Research has shown that amongst all the oils, the king of them all is extra virgin organic coconut butter or oil. Never cook with Olive oil, it is best used cold and as a Salad dressing.

According to Linus Pauling, Cholesterol

a compound that is an integral structural component of cell membranesand a precursor in the synthesis of steroid hormones. Dietary cholesterol is obtained from animal sources, but cholesterol is also synthesized by the liver. Cholesterol is carried in the blood bylipoproteins. In atherosclerosis, cholesterol accumulates in plaques on the walls of some arteries.

Margarine is one molecule away from plastic.  Itwas originally manufactured to fatten turkeys. When it killed the turkeys, the people who had put all the money into the research wanted a payback so they put their heads together to figure out what to do with this product to get their money back. It was a white substance with no food appeal so they added the yellow coloring and sold it to people to use in place of butter. How do you like it? They have come out with some clever new flavorings. 

Omega comes from oily Fish/ and fish oils, Polyunsaturated essential fat found in cold-water fish and purified fish oils. This oil is beneficial to the cardiovascular system because it promotes the production of ‘Good’ eicosanoids. They also aid in producing long-chain fatty acids like EPA.

Omega 6 comes from Vegetables, Seeds & Nuts. (It is recommended that the Cold Pressed or Extra Virgin oils are the best)  As a general rule Oils from Vegetables & Seeds are Polyunsaturated Fats, whereas oils from the Nut family is Monounsaturated Fats.

Omega 6 fatty acids found in the protein of most oils from seeds and nuts can produce both ‘Good’ & ‘Bad’ eicosanoids

Good eicosanoids are best produced by a combination of omega 3 & 6 oils on a 1:1 ratio. 

Here is an extract on Omega 3 made by Dr. Barry Sears.

Fish Oil & omega-3 Fatty Acids

  Dr. Sears is a research scientist and he created the world famous Zone Diet. His new ground breaking book is called "The Omega Rx Zone - The Miracle of the New High-Dose Fish Oil". It is the culmination of over 20 years of research on the benefits of long-chain omega-3 fatty acids contained in omega-3 fish oils. In fact, Dr. Sears pioneered the development of pharmaceutical grade fish oil using the brand name OmegaRx, a highly refined nutritional supplement rich in the omega-3 fatty acids DHA and EPA.  

 History has shown and scientists have found that the Eskimos of Greenland have suffered very little from coronary heart disease despite a diet very high in fat. The primary source of fat in their diet came from sea mammals, which contain large amounts of long-chain omega-3 fatty acids. Dr. Barry Sears OmegaRx Fish Oil contains these same essential omega-3 fatty acids.  

 The American Heart Association recommends healthy people eat omega-3 fatty acids from fish and plant sources to protect their heart.  

 The role of essential fatty acids in the body and mind has been extensively studied. The body of knowledge consists of thousands of scientific studies, including hundreds of clinical studies on omega-3 fatty acids.  

 OmegaRx Pharmaceutical Grade Fish Oil is Twice as Potent and 100's Times More Pure than Health Food Grade Fish Oil. As Dr. Sears explains, the fish oils doled out by our grandmothers and currently sold at health-food stores has never been pure enough to be used in the quantities it takes to feel its potential benefits. The new highly purified Omega Rx pharmaceutical grade fish oil is more concentrated, free of dangerous toxins, and has been clinically tested with encouraging results.

EICOSANOIDS come from the Greek language eicosa, which means 20. Eicosanoids are hormones derived from a 20-carbon atom, polyunsaturated fat. They are made in the cells of the body and are an autocrine hormone. The‘ Good’ eicosanoids generate the cycle AMP.

AMP cycle (Adenosine monophosphate)  is a second messenger that begins the biological response started by a hormone. Cycle AMP is used by many endocrine hormones as a second messenger.

Taken on a Ratio of 1:1 they cut fat and create Cholesterol HDL. (The Good Guys).

We need cholesterol for proper function of the body. The Liver produces 80% of the cholesterol. Why? If this is true then do you think that it is right for you to block this natural process?

When your hands get greasy you use soap to wash it away. Grease is Fat and so is soap made from Fat. One density lipids neutralising the other fat or lipid.

Similarly HDL washes away LDL & Tg. This is what happens in the body with the omega 3&6 oils.

These Omega Oils also counteract the effects of the carbohydrate and also create a more relaxed state within known as DILATORS.

When your body is tight and painful it is due to the constrictors. What you need to remedy this syndrome is the friendly Fats to produce the DILATORS.

EFA are Essential Fatty Acids, which the body cannot make and are therefore necessary to be taken regularly in the diet. EFA are the building blocks of eicosanoids. There are two groups Omega 3 and Omega 6 fatty acids.

Fats also produce good Eicosanoids and Glucagons. They are hormones the body needs to metabolise and deal with the fats and sugars.

The job of Insulin is to lower the body sugars. Glucagons raise them by releasing the stored Glycogen from the liver and the Eicosanoids.

Glucagons are a hormone from the pancreas that causes the release of stored carbohydrates in the liver to restore blood glucose levels. They use the second messenger cycle AMP, to exert its biological action. (Cyclic AMP is synthesized from ATP by the action of the enzyme adenylyl cyclase.)

There is enough research to indicate that Niacin or B3 100mg taken with each meal will reduce your blood cholesterol. The findings are that is works even better than the cholesterol lowering drugs e.g. Statin; but when taken alongside Co-enzyme Q10, the combination works even better

According to Linus Pauling,

Niacin is a water-soluble vitamin, which is also known as nicotinic acid or vitamin B3. Nicotinamide is the derivative of niacin and used by the body to form the coenzymes nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADP). The chemical structures of the various forms of niacin are shown in the diagram. None of the forms are related to the nicotine found in tobacco, although their names are similar(1).

Function

Oxidation-reduction (redox) reactions

Living organisms derive most of their energy from oxidation-reduction (redox) reactions, which are processes involving the transfer of electrons. As many as 200 enzymes require the niacin coenzymes, NAD and NADP, mainly to accept or donate electrons for redox reactions. NAD functions most often in energy producing reactions involving the degradation (catabolism) of carbohydrates, fats, proteins, and alcohol. NADP functions more often in biosynthetic (anabolic) reactions, such as in the synthesis of all macromolecules, including fatty acids and cholesterol (1, 2).

When you take Niacin you will experience a hot flush about 15-min later which can last for about 10-15min. This is indicating that the B3 is being metabolised by the liver and changing it to NIACINEMIDE. So don’t panic, rejoice and you are aware that the Niacin is working.

Glucagons

A hormone responsible for helping maintain proper sugar levels. When blood sugar levels go too low glucagons activate glucose production in the liver as well as regulate the release of glycogen from muscle cells. Eventually it may cause the catabolism of muscle cell protein for glucose. This is considered a catabolic hormone. It therefore acts somewhat similar to the carburettor in the engine in your car. When properly tuned it causes the engine to give you better performance and more miles per gallon. The same is true of the Glucagons in your body. It helps the release of stored glucose and delays the hunger feeling till it has used up all the fuel from the carbohydrates. This is what diabetics need greatly. Although we need carbohydrates to fuel the body we need very little of it to run its engines.

Diabetes: There are 4 Types of Diabetes. 1)Type 1 is insulin dependant,2) Type 2 Insulin resistant, 3) Diabetes Insipidus and  4) Alzheimer's.

Diabetes Type 1. which is insulin dependant. In this case the body does not produce enough or no insulin to process the sugars from our diet.

In Diabetes type 2: Insulin resistant. When the body senses sugar, insulin is produced in response, Insulin with the help of receptors carry the sugar from the blood into the cell. Too much insulin gets the cells to become insensitive to respond. To the insulin and sugar, resulting in elevated blood sugar. High levels of insulin is the cause of elevated sugar in the blood. The body responds to the excess sugar by producing more insulin. Keeping the elevated sugar in the blood this is known as hyper insulin anaemia. When you doctor prescribes insulin shots, it make it worse. Now the pancreas responds by shutting down its production of insulin to let the body cope it the sugar insulin increase. The body responds to this condition and wraps up the insulin and sugars in fat and stores it for a rainy day. So it carries on meal after meal, day after day, year after year until one day your metabolism finally breakdown resulting in Obesity, Heart attack, Stroke, Arthritis and Cancer.

 One way of dealing with the Blood Sugar is to burn it off through exercise. Life is not complete without exercise. In nature: Carbon dioxide + Water give birth to Life & Plants which supply us with Oxygen & Glucose. This gives us the food and energy. We need to perform Aerobic exercise to burn off the calories and return to nature, the Carbon dioxide + water, needed to complete the cycle.

Although we need oxygen to survive, like the carbohydrates we need little of it. As explained earlier, carbohydrates demand insulin for its digestion and produces Free Radicals & Constrictors in the process.  So to does Oxygen produces Free Radicals and accelerates ageing.

3)Diabetes insipidus (DI): Take from Wikipedia, Diabetes Insipidus, is a condition characterized by excessive thirst and excretion of large amounts of severely diluted urine, with reduction of fluid intake having no effect on the concentration of the urine. There are different types of DI, each with a different set of causes. The most common type in humans is the neurological form, called Central DI (CDI), which involves a deficiency of arginine vasopressin (AVP), also known as antidiuretic hormone (ADH). The second common type of DI is nephrogenic diabetes insipidus (NDI), which is due to kidney or nephron dysfunction caused by an insensitivity of the kidneys or nephrons to ADH. D.I can also be gestational, or present as an iatrogenic artifact of alcohol or some types of drug abuse.
Although they have a common name, diabetes mellitus and diabetes insipidus are two entirely separate conditions with unrelated mechanisms. Both cause large amounts of urine to be produced (polyuria), and the term "diabetes" is derived from the Greek word meaning siphon. However, diabetes insipidus is either a problem with the production of antidiuretic hormone (central diabetes insipidus) or kidney's response to antidiuretic hormone (nephrogenic diabetes insipidus), whereas diabetes mellitus causes polyuria via a process called osmotic diuresis, due to the high blood sugarleaking into the urine and taking excess water along with it.
4) Alzheimer's disease (AD): Taken from Wikipedia, Alzheimer's Disease is also known in medical literature as Alzheimer disease, is the most common form of dementia. There is no cure for the disease, which worsens as it progresses, and eventually leads to death. It was first described by German psychiatrist and neuropathologist Alois Alzheimer in 1906 and was named after him. Most often, AD is diagnosed in people over 65 years of age, although the less-prevalent early-onset Alzheimer's can occur much earlier. In 2006, there were 26.6 million sufferers worldwide. Alzheimer's is predicted to affect 1 in 85 people globally by 2050.  According to the Mayo Clinic, Diabetes and Alzheimer's are linked. Diabetes can cause several complications, such as damage to your blood vessels. Diabetes is considered a risk factor for vascular dementia. This type of dementia occurs due to brain damage that is often caused by reduced or blocked blood flow to your brain. Many people with diabetes have brain changes that are hallmarks of both Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia. Some researchers think that each condition fuels the damage caused by the other.
Ongoing research focuses on confirming the link between Alzheimer's and diabetes and understanding why it exists. The link between type 2 diabetes and Alzheimer's may occur as a result of the complex ways that type 2 diabetes affects the ability of the brain and other body tissues to use sugar (glucose) and respond to insulin.

Friendly Omega 3&6 produce Good Eicosanoids & Glucagons = Dilators  to  release Carbon Dioxide from the blood encouraging proper function of the body and Dilators. As everyone breathes at an average of 21600 rhythms in 24 hours- which is 900 an hour, 15 a minute and one breath every 4 seconds. This gives us a life span of 70 years (3 score years & 10).  Every breath saved goes to prolong  life. If you breathe slowly, deeply and rhythmically this is a recipe for long life.

The Air we breath is 20% oxygen & 80 % Nitrogen. Oxygen breaks up into its oxides, which produces the free radicals that destroy the nucleus of the Cell the DNA.

On the other hand nitrogen along with l-argnine, helps the breaking up into its oxides known as NITRIC OXIDE: In 1987 Dr. Ignarro, Nobel prize winner discovered Nitric oxide. It is one of the smallest molecule and is a free radical to boot. This reactive free radical provides the latest clue on the power of the diet to alter hormonal response.  It is the hormone that needs no receptor. It travels a short distance and is self destructed  a component of Air Pollution and cigarette smoke, it controls cardiovascular, immune and nervous system. It is also the key to erectile problems. Nitrogen free radical=nitric oxide.

Unlike oxygen free radicals nitric oxide is relatively stable. It is possible to maintain nitric oxide in a gaseous form for more than 40 years. Nitric oxide is an interesting carrier of information.

Breathe slowly and hold for a while, then breathe out and hold for a while. Try to prolong the hold comfortable for as long as possible.  The oxygen is used up and carbon dioxide is released to produce dilators. The nitrogen is then broken down into its oxides = nitric oxide which produces the same as end products as GTN or TNT. It is what is used when you suffer angina. L-argnine along with exercise helps the body to produce Nitric Oxide, which improves cardiac circulation because it is a vaco-dialator. so good is its action that it does the job better and safer than Viagra.

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