Re: Nutrient during pregnancy 'super-charges' brain

[Guest guest]

Choline is the B vitamn found in very high concentrations in the

brains of animals. Eating some of those brain recipes in NT would be

a super food plan for future moms and their babies. In NT it is noted

in many ethnic cultures of Europe, families fed small amounts of

chopped brain to babies to give their children good memories. I

wonder if it was raw?

However most pregnant women I know might have some difficuly eating

brain for the first time or even finding brain to feed to their

babies, so most fruit, turnips,many herbs,kelp, nuts, legumes, green

leafy vegies, snap beans, peas, cabbage, wheat germ and nutrtional

yeast also contain choline. This list is from a vegetarian cookbook

so animal sources, which are the richest, are not mentioned. I

thought more sources of choline for babies mental improvement might

be helpful, so I list them only as additional sources.

I found it interesting to learn in NT that choline is formed during

fermentation of vegetables. This should make all of us who eat Kim

Chee happy. In NT it is also stated that large quantities of choline

are formed in the fermentation of sauerkraut.(p.101)

NT also tells us the highest concentration of choline is found in egg

yolks.(p.436)Choline contains lecithin, a B vitamin necessary for

keeping cholesterol moving in the blood stream, sort of a de-cloggers

of the arteries. No wonder choline helps keep the mind sharp.

It was wonderful to see an article which promotes the nutritional

value of eating eggs and liver.

Choline also is essential for the health of the myelin sheaths of the

nerves. It helps with the transmissioin of nerve impluses. It also

helps regulate and improve liver and gallbladder function and the

prevention of gallstones.

So we adults can eat liver, brain (if you can find a source, Mike

might know where to buy it) and eggs freely, with a lot of sides of

Kim Chee, sauerkraut and other fermented foods. Love this NT way of

life!

I would caution anyone from taking huge amount of choline in

supplemental form. If too much is ingested in it's isolated form, a B

6 deficiency may be the result. The B vitamins need to be taken as a

complex, not isolated. Let you food be your source of choline. IMO

Sheila

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> http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994771

>

> Taking a nutrient called choline during pregnancy could " super-

charge "

> children's brains for life, suggests a study in rats.

>

> Choline, a member of the vitamin B family, is found in egg yolks,

liver

> and other meats - " exactly the kind of things people were told not

to eat "

> due to their high cholesterol content, says Swartzwelder.

>

> The implications of the study's findings are " potentially huge "

> Swartzwelder believes: " If it turns out that it's true in humans

and can

> make people smarter their whole lives and forestall age-related

memory

> decline - that's potentially a very exciting prospect. "

[Guest guest]

@@@@@ Sheila:

NT also tells us the highest concentration of choline is found in egg

yolks.(p.436)Choline contains lecithin, a B vitamin necessary for

keeping cholesterol moving in the blood stream, sort of a de-cloggers

of the arteries. No wonder choline helps keep the mind sharp.

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I don't the follow the logic in this paragraph. First, the

cartoonish " artery clogging " meme is best not further propagated...

Second, I don't see any connection between keeping the mind sharp and

anything else there...

@@@@ Sheila:

So we adults can eat liver, brain (if you can find a source, Mike

might know where to buy it) and eggs freely, with a lot of sides of

Kim Chee, sauerkraut and other fermented foods. Love this NT way of

life!

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I get my brains by asking my local farmers/butcher when they're

slaughtering 100% grass-fed cows and then I stop in with a pyrex dish

and do a little whacking with a large cleaver... Just aim straight

down the middle. And I recommend wearing " sensible shoes " . Of

course, I'm sure your local organic, grass-fed farmer/butcher friends

would accept a few dollars to do the work for you... And if you

don't have those kinds of friends, finding some or becoming such

people is of the highest priority in life!

Mike

SE Pennsylvania

[Guest guest]

Hi Mike,

Here is the direct statement from the NT Cookbook.

" Eggs also provide sulphur-containing proteins, necessary for the

integritiy of cell membranes. They are an excellent source of special

long-chain fatty acids call EPA and DHA, which play a vital role in

the developent of the nervous system in the infant and the

maintenance of mental acuity in the adult-no wonder Asians value eggs

as a brain food. Egg yolk is the most concentrated source known of

choline, a B vitamin found in lecithin that is necessary for keeping

the choleterol moving in the blood stream. "

Enig or Sally Fallon wrote the above lines under the egg

section of NT. As I read it they seem to imply to me that keeping the

chloesterol moving is a healthy thing to do. I suppose my reaction

smacks of what may be ungrounded fears of " clogged " arteries,(we have

had that line shoved into our minds for years, until it has perhaps

caused more clogging than cholesterol) and how that might effect our

brain function. I appreciate your catching my error.

I shouldn't have used the word de-cloggers. It makes it sound like

some sort of human Draino! Pretty silly, overly dramatic and too

close to the maddening fears surrounding the ever insistant talk of

cholesterol being good, bad or who knows what.

I do wonder what the exact significance of " keeping the cholesterol

moving " means to Sally and . More details would be interesting.

Do you know?

Thanks for the tips on brain sources.

Sheila

> @@@@@ Sheila:

> NT also tells us the highest concentration of choline is found in

egg

> yolks.(p.436)Choline contains lecithin, a B vitamin necessary for

> keeping cholesterol moving in the blood stream, sort of a de-

cloggers

> of the arteries. No wonder choline helps keep the mind sharp.

> @@@@@@

>

> I don't the follow the logic in this paragraph. First, the

> cartoonish " artery clogging " meme is best not further

propagated...

> Second, I don't see any connection between keeping the mind sharp

and

> anything else there...

>

> @@@@ Sheila:

> So we adults can eat liver, brain (if you can find a source, Mike

> might know where to buy it) and eggs freely, with a lot of sides of

> Kim Chee, sauerkraut and other fermented foods. Love this NT way of

> life!

> @@@@@@

>

> I get my brains by asking my local farmers/butcher when they're

> slaughtering 100% grass-fed cows and then I stop in with a pyrex

dish

> and do a little whacking with a large cleaver... Just aim straight

> down the middle. And I recommend wearing " sensible shoes " . Of

> course, I'm sure your local organic, grass-fed farmer/butcher

friends

> would accept a few dollars to do the work for you... And if you

> don't have those kinds of friends, finding some or becoming such

> people is of the highest priority in life!

>

> Mike

> SE Pennsylvania

[Guest guest]

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> I do wonder what the exact significance of " keeping the cholesterol

> moving " means to Sally and . More details would be

interesting.

> Do you know?

> Sheila

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I don't know much beyond the obvious thing about anything being

transported in bloodstream needs to move to... be transported :-)

It all seems part of " the way it is " or " business as usual " , and

lacking lecithin or whatever other normal human nutrient would be an

aberration... Or " give the body what it needs so it works the way

it's supposed to... " ; it's one of my main reasons for eating food :-

)

In other words, I don't think it's anything more than an item on a

laundry list of normal physiological processes linked to nutrients...

Mike

SE Pennsylvania

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