Apr 21, 2018
SYNOPSIS:
010390: Fill-in host for the late David Brudnoy
Hour 1:
The late Vernon Mark MD, d. 2014: author “Brain Power” with son
Jeffrey Mark
-Alzheimer’s disease: aluminum toxicity?; over- diagnosed: confused
with depression.
Call: benign brain tumor.
Call: Xanax.
Call: sugar as brain food.
Call: safely stopping Xanax and other medications.
Call: recreational drug effect on memory via limbic system:
alcohol, cocaine.
Call: lightheadedness. Why helped by antihistamines: sedative
effect that slows breathing. Adverse drug interactions.
Call: brain development in under nourished children.
Subdural hematoma: great imitator.
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Hour 2:
Brain poisons: any drug that alters consciousness can be
problematic; bad batches of designer drugs produced Parkinson’s
disease.; excess anti- hypertensive drugs. Carbon monoxide. Emboli
clots.
Brain enhancers: writing, other activities with non- dominant
hand.
Call: generic Valium for seizures used for continuous seizures.
Call: cervical spine disease; arthritis pain effect on brain leads
to depression.
Call: Parkinson’s like disease; medication-induced. Call: cluster
headaches.
Foods that help brain power. Vitamins C, B vitamins, biotin.
Exercises for brain: disperse brain function by using non-dominant
brain.
Brain stimulation positive effect on other parts of body.
Wrap up.
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