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• Stabilize your blood sugar, by eating hearty food (protein and fat) more often.
• Reduce refined carbs and increase fats and proteins.
• B-complex vitamin supplements can give you an immediate boost in alertness and mental clarity.
• Soak in an Epsom salt bath - might even help you get enough energy to exercise the next day.
• Drink more water than you usually do to help compensate.
• Exercise is the single best way to “take out the trash” in your body, and after staying up more hours than you should.

• When we have coffee, it gets absorbed in our gut as well as in our bloodstream. As the chemical is soluble in water and fat both, it can easily enter the brain.
• Adenosine, a molecule present in our brain which is remarkably similar to caffeine, is responsible for a feeling of tiredness.
• Caffeine acts like a doppelganger and is able to fit in the receptors that adenosine fits, preventing any tiredness to occur for a few hours.
• The surplus adenosine now floating in the brain signals that adrenal gland to produce and secrete adrenaline, which is also a stimulant.

The chemistry of the brain changes when a person takes a regular intake of caffeine, as it grows more adenosine receptors.

Eventually, it takes more caffeine to feel the effects, and as there are now more receptors, not having a stimulant results in ‘caffeine withdrawal headache’ and other symptoms due to the original molecule connecting to the increased number of receptors in the brain.

Mistakes are really a demand for order and continuity. But the world and everything in it is constantly changing. 

It is better to continually bend into this reality rather than fight every change we experience. Fighting it can cause us to make more mistakes. 

• Mistakes point us to something we did not know
• Help us see what matters and what does not
• Inform us more about our values
• Teach us more about others
• Keep us connected to what works and what doesn’t work
• Remind us of our humanity
• Spur us to want to better work which helps us all
• Promote compassion for ourselves and others
• Help us to pace ourselves better
• Invite us to better choices
• Can suggest new options we had not considered
• Prompt us to learn more about ourselves
• Make us more humble
• Expose our true feelings
• Point us in a more creative direction
• Can hasten change
• Reveal our blind spots

Abraham Lincoln is most celebrated for his role in keeping the nation together during the Civil War and signing the Emancipation Proclamation, which helped to end slavery in the United States.

His leadership exemplified determination and is a reminder that great leaders must remain persistent, even when others do not believe in their vision.

“In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, it is necessary that the path to leadership be visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity.”

Sandra Day O’Connor

They are generally well regulated by the body, but there are a few diet and lifestyle changes you can make to boost your levels naturally:

• Eat lots of protein
• Eat less saturated fat
• Consume probiotics
• Exercise often
• Get enough sleep
• Listen to music
• Meditate
• Get enough sunlight

1. Neurons are the nervous system cells transmitting electromagnetic signals using action potentials and neurotransmitters.
2. Glia is the non-neuronal system cell keeping the neurons healthy and working.
3. Cerebrospinal Fluid or CSF is the fluid that our brain lives in.
4. Arteries are the blood vessels that carry blood to an organ.
5. Veins are the blood vessels carrying blood from the organ.

Complex cycles and systems operate in the brain. The Glymphatic (or Glial Lymphatic) system, discovered recently, takes care of the brain waste much like a complex sewer system.

The system is only active when one is asleep, and it clears our brain of all neurotoxic substances that have collected during the day.

Our brain weighs just 2% of our body weight, yet consumes 20% of our energy requirements. Even when not active, it will burn roughly 400 calories every day.

The most efficient brains burn the least calories. Efficient brains can save a task quickly and then go into a kind of standby mode.

Our vestibular system is responsible for balance. A gel is located inside our ears and tells our brain if we are going right or left.

When we spin in a circle, the gel keeps moving when we stop, resulting in disorientation. When the loss of balance is severe, the brain interprets it as poisoning. That is why the loss of balance can result in nausea.

1. Learners proficient in fast-paced games are significantly faster at performing new cognitive tasks.
2. By pretending you are teaching something to someone using simple language, you understand it better.
3. Bilingual people may have a leg up when it comes to understanding new things and processing information, regardless of the learned language.
4. Learning new material right before sleeping provides a significant retention advantage.
5. Establishing as many connections as possible is an effective way to learn, and the best way to do that is to relate new information to known information. 
6. The brain processes visual information faster than text. Include relevant visuals (charts, symbols, diagrams…) with learning materials to improve retention.

Is the idea that we learn unconsciously through our senses in a self-regulated way, without requiring external reinforcement. 

More simply, you can learn to intuitively identify different situations or images through directly experiencing them in a fast-paced manner.

Sweet foods can be more addictive than cocaine, one study found.

Over time, greater amounts of the substance are required to reach the same level of reward.

Even a single occasion of increased glucose levels in the blood can harm your brain. It can impair your memory and attention.

High sugar consumption causes inflammation in the brain. But, it can be reversed by following a low-sugar, low-GI diet.

There are more than 90 types of essential oils, claiming varying health benefits. It is important to note that many of their claims are still not accepted by the scientific authorities. The ten most popular ones are:

• Peppermint: for increased energy and improved digestion.
• Lavender: to relieve stress.
• Sandalwood: helps with focus and calming of nerves.
• Bergamot: for skin and for reducing stress.
• Rose: for reducing anxiety
• Chamomile: to improve mood and inducing relaxation
• Ylang-Ylang: for treating headache, nausea and skin problems.
• Tea Tree: increasing immunity and fighting infections.
• Jasmine: helps with depression and libido.
• Lemon: for headaches and to aid digestion.

Essential Oils are widely used to treat certain health conditions and problems. Some claim that these oils can help with:

• Stress and anxiety
• Headaches and migraines
• Insomnia
• Inflammation

Essential oils also have antibiotic and antimicrobial properties, can freshen up our surroundings, have a variety of cosmetic uses, and are a safe and environmentally friendly alternative to toxic mosquito repellents.