All of us experience constant, sudden, subtle, mild, or intense forms of brain-related symptoms such as brain fog, dizziness, headaches, and so much more. Knowing the root of these symptoms can be confusing. Not only can these, seemingly irreversible symptoms, be reversed, but making your brain and mental health better can be accomplished with a mix of specific lifestyle choices, meaningful nutrition, and “Needs-Based” foundational supplements from Cyrene Labs.

Inflammation, Red Blood Cell Health and Our Modern World
A red blood cell does one thing, it delivers oxygen. Every single one of the cells in your body needs this oxygen in order to survive. The most sensitive organ to this intake of oxygen is the brain and central nervous system. That’s right, your brain is 2% of your body weight but it can use up to 30% of your oxygen. If the ingredients to make a healthy red blood cell are insufficient or underutilized, oxygen delivery to your central nervous system will be compromised resulting in possibly a dozen different symptoms like fatigue, brain fog, pain, depression and anxiety, and more.

Inflammation can also be a very serious contributor to the symptoms that you may be facing. When inflammation is acute and in response to an injury or infection, it’s life-saving and part of the healthy healing process. When inflammation is chronic, it degenerates tissues like muscles, joints, blood vessels, and the brain. Chronic inflammation is central to every chronic disease. Inflammation is not local, it travels and deposits everywhere it goes causing distress and dysfunction.

In a modern world, computers, smartphones, television, etc., guarantees we drive certain brain pathways more while we neglect others. Neglected brain tissue will result in atrophy of related areas. All brain regions are connected and depend on the activity of other brain regions. While sitting here at your laptop, you are activating the part of your cerebellum that is involved in using your fingers on the keyboard, accuracy, timing, and pressure. That is the lateral most portion of the cerebellum. However, you are neglecting the central or midline portion of this very important part of the brain. The midline cerebellum is extremely important in driving focus, attention, and executive function and helps to decrease anxiety and depression while improving attention. Neglecting this part of the brain is all too common.

Vestibular Imbalance
The symptoms that you are feeling could also be attributed to a disturbance within your vestibular system, a group of structures in your body, head, and brain that work together to tell us where we are in space and where things in our space are related to us. These types of imbalances are usually common among senior citizens and injured athletes.

In this case, you will commonly have symptoms of dizziness which can be described as:

• I feel I am spinning
• I feel the room is spinning
• I feel lightheaded
• I feel wobbly or off-balance
• I feel like I am drunk
• I feel like I am veering to one side
• Motion sickness

Anxiety is the inevitable result of chronic vestibular mismatch. The loss of integration at this part of the nervous system leads to anxiety, nausea, headaches, and a different set of symptoms that may not be attributed to the initial problem. If these symptoms describe you, you may have one of the three parts of the vestibular system off:

1. Eye muscle control.
2. Information coming from our muscles and joints triggered by gravity and movement, mostly the neck portion of the spine.
3. The fluid in our inner ear that tells us we are moving forward, backward, left, right, up, and down.

Impacted by Biochemistry:
Another reason you may be impacted by these symptoms could be the result of abnormalities or deficiencies. These could come from a variety of different causes including blood chemistry changes, exposure to toxins, blood delivery, or trauma.

Blood chemistry changes

• Nutritional insufficiency
• Anemia
• Abnormal blood sugar control
• Poor detoxification mechanisms

Toxicity

• Environmental toxins including mold and heavy metals.
• Medications including antibiotics, cardiac medications, and anxiety medications. There is a long list of medications that are considered ototoxic (toxic to the inner ear mechanism) or vestibulo-toxic (affecting the chemistry of all of the areas of the central mechanism).

Blood delivery

• The smallest blood vessels in the body are in the brain, brainstem, and cerebellum and thus are subject to blood vessel changes resulting in ischemia, clots, and bleeding.
• Blood pressure changes, either high or low, can alter how oxygen and glucose (fuel) are delivered to these very sensitive areas.

Trauma

• Acute concussion
• Motor vehicle accidents
• Chronic effects of repetitive concussion

What supplements could help?
Depending on history, symptoms, exam findings, and what may show up in bloodwork, you may need to take one or a combination of the following supplements from Cyrene Labs:

• Fast Fuel: Immune, Detox, Heart
• NAC Plus: Detox, Immune, Wellness
• Mg+ Replete: Muscle, Brain, Digestion
• Integral-D: Immune, Bone, Brain
• Heme-FX: Brain, Red Blood Cell, Oxygen
• Methyl-FX: Detox, Red Blood Cell, Heart
• B12-FX: Red Blood Cell, Energy, Nervous System

Ask your doctor if they utilize products from Cyrene Labs or your “Needs-Based” nutritional supplementation. Your doctor can learn more at Providers.