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Well the brain is an organ that is
very undeveloped at birth and it goes
tremendous range of changes and
nutrition is important for those early processes
to be well-established; the programming of how the brain is going to do it's work as you get older.
And so if you don't get that right
it has life-long implications. We're seeing that
today, both with problems in adolescents, problems with brain function in adults and in
the elderly. So there is a signature, there's an imprint
that's left for a lifetime.
Well in some ways we need to do what we already know. That basically the good
common sense of
a healthy diet and a healthy lifestyle. And we don't get that right.
Somethings we didn't know before. But a lot of what we could be doing
we've known for a long time. It's simply not really applied very well.
Giving them a healthy psychological environment. Trying to give them their
veggies and their fish and some exercise.
You know, in some ways it's really quite simple.
The biochemistry is complex, and how it actually works
is complex. But the basic rules, if you will, are pretty simple
If we can imagine my sets, two sets of my hands,
my fingers represent two neurons talking to each other, there's plenty of contact points.
That consumes a lot of fuel. It consumes a lot of energy.
So the two things you want is to make sure that the way they talk to each other
and how the surfaces interact, the receptors and the way the molecules
get transferred from one to the other, that's very dependent on the structure
of those called synapses, and the energy it takes.
And if you can supply both of those, I think you've got it made.
In simple terms,
it's energy - putting enough gas in the tank - and also keeping the car
engine tuned up enough. And that involves fish
and the nutrients in fish. And it's that combination.
The car can be tuned up, but if you don't put gas in it, it's not going to go very far.
The analogy is reasonable.