Hey aggressive fat loss lovers,
I have an electric brain that runs on salt, zinc, and magnesium. You do too.
In fact, I feel like I neglected minerals when it came down to brain performance for a very long time.
Here’s a few things to keep in mind for boosting your brain.
In fact, I feel like I neglected minerals when it came down to brain performance for a very long time.
Here’s a few things to keep in mind for boosting your brain.
1) Magnesium Makes Your Brain Relaxed… and Relaxed… is FAST
We want to have a brain that is not hyperactive between regions. It’s like a bunch of static that the brain cannot really process.
Magnesium, if you ask me, is probably the most important mineral you could add into your lifestyle for having a calmer, faster brain. I usually use magnesium threonate because it can cross the blood brain barrier better.
Magnesium sits on what is called the NMDA receptor, which acts sort of like a bouncer for the party that is your brain. Magnesium kicks out extra excitatory transmissions like those from glutamate and helps ensure that the brain doesn’t have too many intruders coming in.
When we’re deficient in magnesium, well, do the math. Less bouncers means more bad people coming to the party.
I usually recommend someone take 3-400mg per day of good quality magnesium either from food, or a trusted supplement.
Anxiety and depression are also mediated by altered glutamatergic neurotransmission (NMDA). There are several studies that show a correlation between depression/anxiety and low magnesium levels.
Interestingly, it was shown in Medical Hypotheses that restoring the balance of magnesium using supplementation can have an anti-anxiety and anti-depressive effect.
2) SALT – Please, don’t neglect it!
There is something called Long-Term-Potentiation. This is essentially the longer term building stronger synapses between neurons.
If you think about a thought pattern and how hard it is to form in the beginning, that is because you don’t have LONG term potentiation doing the trick yet. It takes time to carve those new channels and make those neural connections.
Turns out that chronic states of being low on salt can actually trigger this LTP to weaken over time.
A study from the American Society of Nephrology found some interesting stuff.
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They looked at the effects of LTP in the hippocampal CA1, CA2 and CA3 regions, which are vital for certain types of memory.
Indeed, the low sodium levels caused LTP to decrease at the synapses of neurons in the hippocampal CA1, CA2 and CA3 regions, which could explain why memory was affected.
I guess if we are working hard towards trying to learn things and develop deeper synapses, then paying attention to sodium and hydration would be important. Very important.
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3) Zinc – Super Underrated!
So zinc plays a bunch of roles in the brain, especially as we are starting to look at more anxiety and depression links.
It performs a similar role to magnesium in attaching to NMDA to modulate excitatory signalling and regulate synaptic activity.
Zinc is also responsible for the DNA-binding ability of many transcription factors to regulate gene expression in the brain. This means that it can help our brain change for the better (and possibly for the worse if deficient).
There have also been studies that have establish both correlation and causation with regards to a zinc deficiency and depression/anxiety.
There was a study in the American Journal of Medical Nutrition that took a look at kids ages 1-4, whereby zinc supplementation and a placebo were administered.
Interestingly, the zinc supplementation did not increase serum zinc levels between children.
However, they did find that serum zinc concentrations were inversely associated with depressive symptoms. Meaning that it requires a deficiency in serum zinc to correlate with depression.
So, we don’t know the full picture there, but being deficient in zinc could be playing a part as to why we develop depressive symptoms. Again, it’s correlational, but then when you look at some of the pharmaceutical intervention studies where zinc is used in adjunct to medication, it’s really powerful.
I caution people from taking too much zinc though. It can deplete copper stores, so always find a zinc that also has copper in it to balance it out, or better yet, just eat pumpkin seeds and even better, shellfish! It doesn’t take much to restore zinc levels, but it doesn’t take much to deplete them either!
An honorable mention is calcium as it is so important for brain function, but that opens up Pandora’s box when it comes to getting it nutritionally (not supplements) and making sure your Vitamin D levels are adequate so that calcium is sequestered properly.
I hope that this helps shed some light on why you might be feeling a bit foggy!
See you tomorrow!
Aggressive Fat Loss
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