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@TheSavBananas Ticket prices are absolutely absurd for Lawrenceville. How are families expected to pay $300 for lawn seats per ticket!?!

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Regarding recovery:

Do your brain a favor and celebrate the small wins. Your road to recovery may be arduous and seem insurmountable, but celebrating little wins each day sets the chemical and emotional stage for creating positive neuroplasticity.

Work, celebrate, repeat!

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Resistance training increases muscle strength by making your muscles work against a weight or force. They must be challenged. Your brain is also a muscle. If you want it to change, it takes repetitive effort and resistance. Things will not change overnight. Keep working hard!

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Our organs do not operate in isolation. People think of the intestines as isolated from their heart, etc. The conventional medical view of the body views it as a machine with parts that can be repaired without addressing the whole. The vagus nerve disrupts all of that!

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Just as you use your eyes to take in the world around you, your brain uses the vagus nerve to get a detailed sense of your body’s inner experience.

The vagus nerve impacts almost all of the bodily organs. It modulates hunger, manages stress and regulates the immune response.

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Move your body🏃

Move your brain! 🧠

Regarding brain health, there is no substitute for physical exercise. It does not have to be a crazy workout. Just moving your body a little bit every day can boost your brain health big time!

Bonus if you are outside in natural sunlight☀️

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The brain likes to be efficient. If you are engaging in new activities and exercises, you are building new connections. Simultaneously, other pathways and connections are weakening to make room for the new neural connections. This is how new habits form and old habits break!

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In today's world, it is easy to be overstimulated in under-stimulating ways. Junk food, junk drinks, junk TV, junk light, etc. set the stage for sedentary behaviors and promote "brain drain." Get outside, move your body, socialize and get creative. Your brain will thank you!

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An anxious or stressful event is not just psychological, but physiological as well. Trying to think you're way out of this event may not help immediately. One thing you can do is "meet your body where it is at" physically and move your body to override the psychological aspect.

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6 Simple Steps to Improve Your Life:

1. Sleep
2. Exercise
3. Don’t eat garbage
4. Talk to a friend
5. Be productive for a few hours
6. Repeat every day for years and years and you’re set

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The prefrontal cortex operates slowly and is logical and precise, while the limbic system works fast and is dominated by emotion and impulse. In many ways these two brain regions are complementary opposites, often in conflict but extremely effective when coordinated well.

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Stimulation of the vagus nerve activates an area of the brainstem responsible for the release of norepinephrine (NE). The release of NE facilitates cognitive functions, such as attention, emotion, decision-making, motivation, learning and memory.⚡️🧠⚡️

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Many of the neural pathways and connections damaged after a brain injury often impair functions that we do on an everyday basis. But, with consistent practice, you can make incredible improvements in your recovery, even after the initial stage.

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However mild or severe your brain injury may be, there is hope in restoring damaged functions with the help of neuroplasticity. The best way to boost neuroplasticity is through repetitive and consistent stimulation and exercise.

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Shinrin-yoku (森林浴)...which literally translates to “forest bath"...is the Japanese practice of “bathing” oneself in nature with the intention of receiving therapeutic benefits such as enhancing immunity, regulating mood and reducing anxiety and depression

🌳🌳🌳🧠🧠🌳🌳🌳

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In brain injury, the movement of the brain and brainstem inside the skull can cause severe shearing or possible tearing of the brain's long connecting nerve fibers (axons). This motion can disrupt communication between the brain, the vagal system and the body, altering vagal tone

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You can take control of your emotions by moving your body. Emotions are a physiological response within your body perceived by the brain. Moving your body has a positive impact on your physiology, which can help shift your emotions.

MOVE YOUR BODY

MOVE YOUR BRAIN

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Evidence suggests that stimulating the vagus nerve can help people with epilepsy, diabetes, treatment-resistant depression and post-traumatic stress disorder....as well as inflammatory autoimmune conditions like Crohn’s disease and rheumatoid arthritis.

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Neuroscience tip:

If you are feeling anxious or worried, walking in open spaces reduces amygdala activation and increases prefrontal cortex activation, signaling to the brain you are not in immediate danger or threat!

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Research has show that Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS) stimulates the release of neurotrophins such as Nerve Growth Factor (NGF) and Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF), which help your brain grow new cells and new connections improving learning, memory, and concentration.