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Improve your coding skills via a way you've never thought of before

Improve your coding skills via a way you've never thought of before

As a developer, we're always looking for tools and coding tricks to improve our developing phase but the one that everybody seems to ignore is health.

If I hired you to build a house would you choose to use old weak timbers, hammers and nails and a shovel and piece together a house, or would you rather get new lumber, construction vehicles and nail guns.  Obviously when you have the proper materials, you can build a better house (brain).

Another thing to note is that there are many things in your food and environment that are toxic to your brain/nerve cells and these things are (please note the urls I am providing are not how I did my research, I own a collection of respectable health books):

Aluminum (it's most likely in your deodorant, in any liquid based antacid medicine like Mylanta and this also includes the metal in your soda cans as it does leak into your drink and as well as aluminum cookware.  It's also in all table salt which premade foods too that contain salt).

MSG (Monosodium Glutamate, it's in most flavored potatoe chips and most other flavored junk foods, it was infamous a couple years ago in American-Chinese food but most eaters have very little to no MSG in their food now).

Aspartame (in most "sugar free" candy/foods.  This stuff is so toxic that you can open a packet on an ant trail and they will take it back to their army and it will kill their entire population.  In all seriousness I would rather smoke a cigarette than drink a diet soda or chew aspartame based gum)


You can eat the following things to cleanse & counteract these toxins (but realize the damage you've gotten already is mostly permanent):

Garlic (fresh garlic, not aged or dried.  Garlic oil in a capsule will work well too)

Wheat grass or Barley Grass (You can buy it in liquid form at health food stores and some trendy coffee shops/smooth shops or in powder form.  It works really well in spaghetti sauce as you won't taste it at all and can use it in many dishes.)

Seaweed (aka Algin... I would get a BlueGreen Algae pill from your vitamin section)

Miso (I have no experience with this one but it has scientific backing)


Foods and supplements you can use that aid in building nerves and brain cells (somewhat in order of effectiveness):

Omega 3 Fatty Acids (found in Fish Oil from Salmon, Flax Seeds and Chia Seeds) ...
Blueberry Juice and/or Pomegranate Juice ... Zinc ... Various Amino Acids (you will probably find these in the muscle building section sold as a mix): L-Tryptophan, L-Carnitine, L-Taurine, L-Tyrosine, L-Glutamine ... Vitamin B-Complex ... Vitamin C and E ... Hypercium (aka Saint John's wort)

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About 2yrs ago I made sure that I never bought deodorants that contain Aluminum (it's used as an anti-perspirant which is in 99% of female deodorants).  I stopped taking Mylanta whenever I have acid reflux (I'm using more cabbage and DGL to keep my ulcer in check, mentioned it a previous post a few weeks ago) and I no longer drink anything that comes from a can.

I also buy sea salt as it never contains aluminum, and I never eat anything thats "sugar free" as I don't want NutraSweet's liquid death (watch all the scientific evidence proved correct when we se a massive surge of brain tumors and Alzheimer disease in the next 10-20 yrs).  I also currently take pretty much every supplement I just listed.

Give yourself the mental advantage, feed your brain, the difference can be measure in IQ tests!

posted on Thursday, October 07, 2004 7:18 PM by travisowens

# @ Thursday, February 12, 2004 2:17 PM

Just bumping this post up the rating scale as I feel it's important health info people should be aware of.

travisowens

# @ Thursday, February 12, 2004 3:44 PM

I agree that health is an issue to which many segments of this particular society pay little attention. But . . . I would start with the basics. It's hard to get people who eat no vegetables or fruits, and whose idea of exercise is a bad parking space, to be too concerned about aluminum and aspartame. Drinking all your regular cola in a glass bottle isn't going to make you healthy. And the argument for nutrients from Actual Foods as opposed to supplements is classic, and well-researched.

epiNole


 
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