th antibiotics, the meat artificially colored orange, raised in crowded pens and fed a diet of low-grade chow that salmon were not designed to eat. Wild-caught salmon and other fish are a far better source of omega 3 essential fatty acids and high quality protein than farm-raised.

Wild-caught salmon, walnuts, grass fed beef and dairy, and pasture raised fowl are great sources of omega 3 essential fatty acids. Omega 3’s are an important nutrient for maintaining cell membrane strength and integrity. Most peoples’ diets are far too weighted towards omega 6 essential fatty acids. This has been implicated in cancer and other serious conditions.

Raw aged cheeses like Emmenthaler, Gruyere, and Swiss from Switzerland - contain calcium, magnesium, and the vitamins A and D to help absorb the minerals. Calcium and m

In this article, I will be describing the best foods for supporting the health of the nervous system. The next article, Nutritional Relief for Depression and Anxiety: Tips on Healing the Nervous System, Part II will give detailed tips on nutritional supplements that can reduce depression and heal the nerves, as well as having many other health benefits.

Compromised nervous system health is often seen in fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, and many other conditions. Depression, anxiety, difficulty sleeping, and emotional instability are often reported. These problems can be helped by augmenting the diet with nutrition that enhances nervous system health. Foods that heal and maintain the nervous system have many additional benefits, as well.

First, A Few Basic Suggestions
You may know this already, but if you don’t, you should. There is no way around having a vision of your health goals, being clear in your intention to achieve them, and taking action to implement your goals. This should all come from desire, not making yourself feel like you are in boot camp. Healthy food can be savory, exercise enjoyable and satisfying. Be patient with yourself, and willing to stretch your limits.

Most important is reducing or eliminating foods that rob your body of nutrients. ‘Empty calorie foods’ such as white sugar, alcoholic beverages, soft drinks, products made with white flour, and all manner of candy and processed foods are in this category. These so-called ‘foods’ are so bereft of nutrition that in order to process them, your body has to deplete its own nutritional resources. For example, sugar and soda pop will pull minerals out of your bones. Alcohol robs the body of vitamin C, B vitamins, often dangerously lowers magnesium levels, and damages brain cells and other nerve tissues. Is that what you really want?

Eat more fresh, raw foods. Unheated foods contain enzymes, which are needed for every process that takes place in the body, including nerve transmission. Our enzyme potential is limited, because enzymes are depleted when they are used for various functions in the body, including digestion. To improve and maintain good health, a constant supply of enzymes must be supplied through our diet.This becomes more important as we grow older, since our bodies’capacity for enzyme production tends to diminish with age.

Enzymes are destroyed when heated to 118 degrees farenheit. Therefore, cooked foods contain no enzymes. Cooked foods require a tremendous output of enzymes from our bodies in order to be digested and absorbed. If we eat a lot of cooked foods, enzyme potential that could be devoted toward producing metabolic enzymes which heal and repair the body, is instead used up to digest dead foods. By eating a wealth of raw, enzyme-rich foods, we add to our enzyme ‘bank account’ and have a lot more enzymes available for healing and repair.

Enhance Nervous System Health With these Foods:

Deep sea cold water fish is the best source of DHA. DHA (an omega 3 essential fatty acid) is essential for proper brain, nervous system, and visual function. The brain is highly dependent on DHA. It helps increase serotonin in the brain. Maintaining high DHA levels can help prevent depression, memory loss, and Alzheimer’s disease.

Salmon is one of the best choices. Make sure to buy wild-caught salmon if at all possible. Farm-raised salmon is dosed with antibiotics, the meat artificially colored orange, raised in crowded pens and fed a diet of low-grade chow that salmon were not designed to eat. Wild-caught salmon and other fish are a far better source of omega 3 essential fatty acids and high quality protein than farm-raised.

Wild-caught salmon, walnuts, grass fed beef and dairy, and pasture raised fowl are great sources of omega 3 essential fatty acids. Omega 3’s are an important nutrient for maintaining cell membrane strength and integrity. Most peoples’ diets are far too weighted towards omega 6 essential fatty acids. This has been implicated in cancer and other serious conditions.

Raw aged cheeses like Emmenthaler, Gruyere, and Swiss from Switzerland - contain calcium, magnesium, and the vitamins A and D to help absorb the minerals. Calcium and ma

o way around having a vision of your health goals, being clear in your intention to achieve them, and taking action to implement your goals. This should all come from desire, not making yourself feel like you are in boot camp. Healthy food can be savory, exercise enjoyable and satisfying. Be patient with yourself, and willing to stretch your limits.

Most important is reducing or eliminating foods that rob your body of nutrients. ‘Empty calorie foods’ such as white sugar, alcoholic beverages, soft drinks, products made with white flour, and all manner of candy and processed foods are in this category. These so-called ‘foods’ are so bereft of nutrition that in order to process them, your body has to deplete its own nutritional resources. For example, sugar and soda pop will pull minerals out of your bones. Alcohol robs the body of vitamin C, B vitamins, often dangerously lowers magnesium levels, and damages brain cells and other nerve tissues. Is that what you really want?

Eat more fresh, raw foods. Unheated foods contain enzymes, which are needed for every process that takes place in the body, including nerve transmission. Our enzyme potential is limited, because enzymes are depleted when they are used for various functions in the body, including digestion. To improve and maintain good health, a constant supply of enzymes must be supplied through our diet.This becomes more important as we grow older, since our bodies’capacity for enzyme production tends to diminish with age.

Enzymes are destroyed when heated to 118 degrees farenheit. Therefore, cooked foods contain no enzymes. Cooked foods require a tremendous output of enzymes from our bodies in order to be digested and absorbed. If we eat a lot of cooked foods, enzyme potential that could be devoted toward producing metabolic enzymes which heal and repair the body, is instead used up to digest dead foods. By eating a wealth of raw, enzyme-rich foods, we add to our enzyme ‘bank account’ and have a lot more enzymes available for healing and repair.

Enhance Nervous System Health With these Foods:

Deep sea cold water fish is the best source of DHA. DHA (an omega 3 essential fatty acid) is essential for proper brain, nervous system, and visual function. The brain is highly dependent on DHA. It helps increase serotonin in the brain. Maintaining high DHA levels can help prevent depression, memory loss, and Alzheimer’s disease.

Salmon is one of the best choices. Make sure to buy wild-caught salmon if at all possible. Farm-raised salmon is dosed with antibiotics, the meat artificially colored orange, raised in crowded pens and fed a diet of low-grade chow that salmon were not designed to eat. Wild-caught salmon and other fish are a far better source of omega 3 essential fatty acids and high quality protein than farm-raised.

Wild-caught salmon, walnuts, grass fed beef and dairy, and pasture raised fowl are great sources of omega 3 essential fatty acids. Omega 3’s are an important nutrient for maintaining cell membrane strength and integrity. Most peoples’ diets are far too weighted towards omega 6 essential fatty acids. This has been implicated in cancer and other serious conditions.

Raw aged cheeses like Emmenthaler, Gruyere, and Swiss from Switzerland - contain calcium, magnesium, and the vitamins A and D to help absorb the minerals. Calcium and m

en dangerously lowers magnesium levels, and damages brain cells and other nerve tissues. Is that what you really want?

Eat more fresh, raw foods. Unheated foods contain enzymes, which are needed for every process that takes place in the body, including nerve transmission. Our enzyme potential is limited, because enzymes are depleted when they are used for various functions in the body, including digestion. To improve and maintain good health, a constant supply of enzymes must be supplied through our diet.This becomes more important as we grow older, since our bodies’capacity for enzyme production tends to diminish with age.

Enzymes are destroyed when heated to 118 degrees farenheit. Therefore, cooked foods contain no enzymes. Cooked foods require a tremendous output of enzymes from our bodies in order to be digested and absorbed. If we eat a lot of cooked foods, enzyme potential that could be devoted toward producing metabolic enzymes which heal and repair the body, is instead used up to digest dead foods. By eating a wealth of raw, enzyme-rich foods, we add to our enzyme ‘bank account’ and have a lot more enzymes available for healing and repair.

Enhance Nervous System Health With these Foods:

Deep sea cold water fish is the best source of DHA. DHA (an omega 3 essential fatty acid) is essential for proper brain, nervous system, and visual function. The brain is highly dependent on DHA. It helps increase serotonin in the brain. Maintaining high DHA levels can help prevent depression, memory loss, and Alzheimer’s disease.

Salmon is one of the best choices. Make sure to buy wild-caught salmon if at all possible. Farm-raised salmon is dosed with antibiotics, the meat artificially colored orange, raised in crowded pens and fed a diet of low-grade chow that salmon were not designed to eat. Wild-caught salmon and other fish are a far better source of omega 3 essential fatty acids and high quality protein than farm-raised.

Wild-caught salmon, walnuts, grass fed beef and dairy, and pasture raised fowl are great sources of omega 3 essential fatty acids. Omega 3’s are an important nutrient for maintaining cell membrane strength and integrity. Most peoples’ diets are far too weighted towards omega 6 essential fatty acids. This has been implicated in cancer and other serious conditions.

Raw aged cheeses like Emmenthaler, Gruyere, and Swiss from Switzerland - contain calcium, magnesium, and the vitamins A and D to help absorb the minerals. Calcium and m

we eat a lot of cooked foods, enzyme potential that could be devoted toward producing metabolic enzymes which heal and repair the body, is instead used up to digest dead foods. By eating a wealth of raw, enzyme-rich foods, we add to our enzyme ‘bank account’ and have a lot more enzymes available for healing and repair.

Enhance Nervous System Health With these Foods:

Deep sea cold water fish is the best source of DHA. DHA (an omega 3 essential fatty acid) is essential for proper brain, nervous system, and visual function. The brain is highly dependent on DHA. It helps increase serotonin in the brain. Maintaining high DHA levels can help prevent depression, memory loss, and Alzheimer’s disease.

Salmon is one of the best choices. Make sure to buy wild-caught salmon if at all possible. Farm-raised salmon is dosed with antibiotics, the meat artificially colored orange, raised in crowded pens and fed a diet of low-grade chow that salmon were not designed to eat. Wild-caught salmon and other fish are a far better source of omega 3 essential fatty acids and high quality protein than farm-raised.

Wild-caught salmon, walnuts, grass fed beef and dairy, and pasture raised fowl are great sources of omega 3 essential fatty acids. Omega 3’s are an important nutrient for maintaining cell membrane strength and integrity. Most peoples’ diets are far too weighted towards omega 6 essential fatty acids. This has been implicated in cancer and other serious conditions.

Raw aged cheeses like Emmenthaler, Gruyere, and Swiss from Switzerland - contain calcium, magnesium, and the vitamins A and D to help absorb the minerals. Calcium and m

th antibiotics, the meat artificially colored orange, raised in crowded pens and fed a diet of low-grade chow that salmon were not designed to eat. Wild-caught salmon and other fish are a far better source of omega 3 essential fatty acids and high quality protein than farm-raised.

Wild-caught salmon, walnuts, grass fed beef and dairy, and pasture raised fowl are great sources of omega 3 essential fatty acids. Omega 3’s are an important nutrient for maintaining cell membrane strength and integrity. Most peoples’ diets are far too weighted towards omega 6 essential fatty acids. This has been implicated in cancer and other serious conditions.

Raw aged cheeses like Emmenthaler, Gruyere, and Swiss from Switzerland - contain calcium, magnesium, and the vitamins A and D to help absorb the minerals. Calcium and magnesium are vital to nerve transmission, muscle contraction/ relaxation. Canned salmon or sardines are also good sources of these minerals, since they contain soft, chewable bones.

Dark chocolate is a great source of magnesium. When you buy chocolate, look for the kind with the least sugar (usually the darker chocolate).

Rare steak, uncooked egg yolks (can get in Caeser salad dressing), raw almonds, walnuts, and cashews are excellent sources of B-vitamins, which support healthy nerve function.

Egg yolks from naturally-raised chickens (w/o hormones and antibiotics) are one of the best sources of choline and inositol. The brain and nervous system benefits greatly from a diet rich in choline and inositol. Inositol has been shown to improve cognition in Alzheimer’s patients, to help relieve diabetic neuropathy, and to relieve depression and improve mood.

If you have adopted the erroneous belief that fat and cholesterol is bad and should be severely limited in the diet, you may think you should not eat many of the foods I have suggested here. After three decades of research, personal experimentation, and coaching many people, it is clear to me that most people feel better on a diet that includes some of the above foods. Very low-fat diets are dangerous for reasons I don’t have space to go into here. High quality protein and fats are important, especially for the function of the nervous system, and the immune system as well.

By optimizing your nutritional program and including foods that support nervous system healing and maintenance, it is possible to relieve the depression, anxiety, and the emotional instability that often accompanies compromised health. Be patient and consistent to achieve lasting results.