Pierce Howard

Nutrition: The Owner's Manual

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Cutting-edge, user-friendly, and comprehensive: the revolutionary guide to the brain, now fully revised and updated
At birth each of us is given the most powerful and complex tool of all time: the human brain. And yet, as we well know, it doesn't come with an owner's manual—until now. In this unsurpassed resource, Dr. Pierce J. Howard and his team distill the very latest research and clearly explain the practical, real-world applications to our daily lives. Drawing from the frontiers of psychology, neurobiology, and cognitive science, yet organized and written for maximum usability, The Owner's Manual for the Brain, Fourth Edition, is your comprehensive guide to optimum mental performance and well-being. It should be on every thinking person's bookshelf.
What are the ingredients of happiness? Which are the best remedies for headaches and migraines? How can we master creativity, focus, decision making, and willpower? What are the best brain foods? How is it possible to boost memory and intelligence? What is the secret to getting a good night's sleep? How can you positively manage depression, anxiety, addiction, and other disorders? What is the impact of nutrition, stress, and exercise on the brain? Is personality hard-wired or fluid? What are the best strategies when recovering from trauma and loss? How do moods and emotions interact? What is the ideal learning environment for children? How do love, humor, music, friendship, and nature contribute to well-being? Are there ways of reducing negative traits such as aggression, short-temperedness, or irritability? What is the recommended treatment for concussions? Can you delay or prevent Alzheimer's and dementia? What are the most important ingredients to a successful marriage and family? What do the world's most effective managers know about leadership, motivation, and persuasion? Plus 1,000s more topics!
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52 printed pages
Publication year
2014
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  • Soliloquios Literarioshas quoted5 years ago
    Leptin, secreted by fat cells, suppresses appetite. Leptin deficiency is associated with overeating in rats, but leptin supplements in humans have not led to the predicted appetite suppression. In a complex balance, the hypothalamus contains two opposing types of cells: NPY cells, which, when activated, stimulate appetite, and POMC cells, which suppress appetite. Both are constantly active, and the dominance of one or the other determines feeding urges. Leptin deficiency activates the NPY cells, which is why losing weight makes you hungry. This appears to be at least one aspect of the “set point” theory. The trick for researchers is to learn how to lose fat, and hence leptin, without in turn activating the NPY cells.
  • Soliloquios Literarioshas quoted5 years ago
    Food is more than physical nourishment—it forms the basis of bonding between mother and child and, according to recent research, between friends. Eating sets off two (at least) processes: oxytocin and cholecystokinin are released to the brain. We’ve known for a while that oxytocin was released during maternal nursing (and during sexual orgasm in both sexes, and in nest building, and in uterine contraction during childbirth, and in response to massage), thus helping to cement the bond between mother and child. But we now know that nursing and eating in general not only set off oxytocin, but also cholecystokinin, the latter of which sends a message from the intestine to the brain that says, “Food has now gotten where it needed to! Thanks, system, you’re working just fine.”
  • Soliloquios Literarioshas quoted5 years ago
    Chemical players that shut down appetite include enterostatin (produced by the stomach and pancreas in response to the ingestion of fat), serotonin, dopamine, cholecystokinin (CCK), and leptin (from the Greek leptos, “thin”), a protein produced by the newly discovered “obesity gene” on chromosome 6. After you’ve eaten, cholecystokinin is released in the intestines to tell the brain you’re full. Leptin tells the body whether to burn fat you’re eating or store it as fat.

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