Food - The Fortress against stress
Neurotoxicity is toxicity in which a biological, chemical or physical agent adversely affects your nervous system.
In simple terms, when you experience stress in any form.
Researchers have shown that neurotoxicity has three paths. Excitotoxicity, oxidative stress, and neuroinflammation. Sorry for the complex words, I promise to simplify soon.
Excitotoxicity occurs when your nerves get damaged or die. Oxidative stress occurs when your cells get damaged and your body cannot repair it.
Neuroinflammation is the inflammation of your nervous system caused by injury or an autoimmune response.
Together, experts know these three forms of neurotoxicity as the triad or the three ways in which your body manifests stress.
If you are alive, the chances that you will encounter a stressful event are high. By stress, I don’t mean life and death situations alone. I was speaking at a conference last week before an audience of over three hundred people.
A huge state, with multi-layers, I slipped from one layer to another without realizing it. Think of the stress of almost falling while speaking to an audience.
Stress is inevitable. In fact, stress can lead to growth.
So let me explain the role of food in managing the various ways in which stress will manifest in your body in a specific way.
For today, let us focus on B2, also known as riboflavin. It is a vitamin that helps your body produce gluthathione. Gluthathione is one of the most powerful antioxidants in your body, made by the liver.
It helps covert food, carbohydrates, fats and protein into energy. Energy is essential when your body is stressed.
By producing enough energy, it helps regulate your nervous system, which is out of balance.
It helps your body produce cortisol. I know cortisol has become popular as the hormone you want to avoid, but in reality your body needs it to cope with the stress. At least in the begining.
Quality food is the bulwark against a life that is hard.
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