The brain’s main function is to track desirable molecules in the environment and cause them to flow through the body. Since the brain is the organ of the mind, molecular influences on the brain are manifest as mental influences. If a person's brain gets the right signals from ingested chemicals, then he or she will remain on a stable, adaptive course. If the wrong signals are received, then he or she ends-up unstable and maladaptive. 

Most theories of brain and mental disorders ignore food and environmental chemicals that effect brain function. An integrated view of body/mind does not draw artificial boundaries among different events. Psyche and Soma are one interacting whole system. Behavioral adaptation to environment interacts with molecular adaptation. This means that mind and body interact with environment as a single integrated unit. Molecular events are as likely to determine mind/body events as mental or behavioral events are likely to determine molecular events. 

For many years, I cared for patients who had food-related symptoms and at the same time symptoms suggestive of one or more of the major neurological diseases. There is little argument that diseased arteries that carry blood to the brain cause the most prevalent and the most devastating loss of brain function. High blood pressure and diseased arteries work together to produce strokes. Other brain diseases are not so obvious.

A reasonable assumption is that bad environments and problems in the food supply disturb brain function in entire populations. Bad chemicals are more powerful than good intentions and good ideas unless the good idea is to remove the bad chemicals from the environment. When a fish in an aquarium displays psychotic behavior, you do not call a fish psychiatrist; you check the oxygen concentration, temperature, and pH of the water.  You have to clean the tank and change the fish diet.

My experience with food-related diseases suggests that modern diets are probably responsible for most strokes, all diabetic neuropathies, some learning and behavioral problems in children, some epilepsy, some mental illness, most depressions, most dementias and some neurological disease of unknown origin. The mechanisms are of these disorders are multiple and complex. The solution is complete diet revision using the Alpha Nutrition Program.

This discussion is continued in the Book of Brain.

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