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Solution.
     
    To learn how to fix your brain you are going to have to accept a radically new way of thinking about health—one that most doctors today still struggle to understand. The crux of it is embodied in a simple truth:

    Everything is connected.
     
    Your entire body and all of the core systems in it interact as a single sophisticated symphony. You are one whole person, and all the pieces of your biology and your unique genetic code interact with your environment (including the foods you eat) to determine how sick or well you are in this moment.

    This means your body-and-mind are connected as well.
     
    The body-and-mind are a single, dynamic bidirectional system. What you do to one has enormous impact on the other. What you do to your body you do to your brain. Heal your body and you heal your brain.

Change your body and you will fix your broken brain.

    Your thoughts, beliefs and attitudes, traumas, and life experiences directly influence your biology. We know that stress and other psychological factorscan have a major impact on your health. Now we understand that 95 percent of all illnesses are either caused by or worsened by stress. What you think can influence how sick or well you are. The mind influences the body.
     
    This is known as Mind-Body Medicine. It is an important contribution to the field of science and is researched by major institutions such as Harvard and Stanford.

    Sadly, most physicians do not apply this knowledge in their practices. They accept it. But rather than using the power of the mind to heal, they disdainfully say that people with psychological influences on their health have “psychosomatic illness,” or “somatize,” meaning that their “physical” symptoms are all in their head.
     
    Even worse,
somato-psychic
medicine (or how the body affects the mind) is hardly on the radar.

    The body directly and powerfully influences the brain. Nutritional status, hormonal imbalances, food allergies, toxins, and digestive, immune, and metabolic imbalances, primarily influence mood, behavior, attention, and attitude.
     
    You already know about this body-mind connection, even if you have never consciously considered it. Just take a moment to think about how your own body has affected your mind over your lifetime, and then extrapolate that to more serious conditions.

Have you ever felt anxious, irritable, jittery, fearful, or even had a panic attack only to have a can of cola or muffin and feel better right away? Why were you anxious? Because your blood sugar was plummeting, and when that happens your body is programmed to respond as though it is a life-threatening emergency.
Do you feel foggy and mentally sluggish after eating a large meal?
Have you ever felt stressed and anxious and then taken a long walk or ridden your bike a few miles only to feel calm and relaxed afterward? Why did this happen? Because you burned off the stress chemicals, adrenaline and cortisol, which made you feel anxious.
Have you ever felt angry and irritable because you have been deprived of sleep? Have you felt happier and that you had fewer problems after a great night’s sleep?
Have you ever had the flu and tried to focus and read a book orconcentrate on anything only to find it difficult, perhaps even impossible?
Have you ever hallucinated or been delirious with a high fever?
    These are basic examples of the body-mind connection that many of us have experienced. But there are so many other things that occur inside of you that affect your brain and mind of which you have no awareness.
     
    Did you know that premenstrual mood swings are the result of fluctuating hormone levels, or that your winter blues are the result of vitamin D deficiency, or that your lifelong melancholy may be the result of mercury poisoning from hundreds of tuna fish sandwiches you’ve eaten over your lifetime, or that your obsessive-compulsive disorder could be the result of a bacterial infection?

    These obvious and not so obvious