brain food – The Natural Nurse

[ONLINE] The Happy Healthy Brain 2025

Ellen Kamhi — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 14:30:00 +0000

3 CE Broker Credits are available for Licensed: Nurses, Midwives, Massage Therapists, Acupuncturists & Nutritionists

Register here: https://www.holisticlivingschool.org/product/the-happy-healthy-brain-with-ellen-kamhi-november-16-2025/

Modern life offers a multitude of factors that can challenge brain health.
These include ongoing stress, aging, environmental toxicity, a sedentary lifestyle and poor sleep habits and food choices.
By understanding the complex interconnected biochemical relationships between lifestyle, foods, nutrients and herbal constituents, we can make better choices to support healthy memory, mood, and cognitive processes as we move through life.
In this session, we will investigate:
• Endogenous opiates (endorphins)
• Neurotransmitters released during exercise, eating, sex, excitement and pain
• Nutritional Factors and Food Sources – Folic Acid, N-acetylcysteine, Amino acids, Magnesium, Omega 3 Fatty Acids
• The link between cortisol and appetite
• Relationship between Sugar and the Brain
• Amino acids from foods and supplements
• Herbs- Bacopa, Ginkgo, Saffron, Rosemary

Tuition: Early Bird tuition $25 until Nov 2, Regular Tuition is $35; for CEU credits add $15

Pick up the “Beets” for Your Health

Ellen Kamhi — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 06:20:41 +0000

By Lynn Allison (NewsMax Health) Monday, 28 December 2020

Beets are an excellent food for your brain, heart, eyes, and more. They are loaded with antioxidants such as fiber, potassium, and vitamin C. A mere half cup of beets provides 17% of your daily requirement of folate. According to Dr. Ellen Kamhi, author of The Natural Medicine Chest, beets in various colors — from red to gold to white — can help protect against heart disease, birth defects, and certain cancers, particularly colon cancer.

Here are 5 ways beets can boost your health:

Fight cancer. According to the American Institute for Cancer Research, beets inhibit the production of carcinogens and increase production of immune cells and body enzymes that help fight cancer development. Kamhi says it is the betacyanin, compound that gives this root vegetable their red color, that reduces the growth of cancer cells.
Boost your brain. Studies found that one cup of beet juice a day increases blood flow to the brain, keeping it sharp and building a line of defense against dementia associated with aging.

To read the rest of the benefits, please visit this page

You may also be interested in reading the benefits of other nutritious food such as papaya and sweet potato.