A plan which is neuroprotective

The nutri­tional steps here can pro­tect the brain, but are also good for all cells in the body.

D alpha toco­pherol suc­ci­nate, 500 IU orally daily, with mixed toco­pherols (The pure D alpha form needs another sub­stance to deal with the gen­er­ated vit­a­min E free rad­i­cals. (E.g. mixed toco­pherols, gamma toco­pherol, tocotrienols, vit­a­min C, R alpha lipoic acid, and Co Q10 could each carry out this func­tion.) (See below
Co enzyme Q10 100–300 mgm daily (paper in coenzymeQ10 con­fer­ence, Boston1998) (enhances mito­chon­dr­ial ener­get­ics and mito­chon­dr­ial DNA repair, and mops up oxi­dized vit­a­min E)
A good buy in Aus­tralia is now Bio­ceu­ti­cals CoE Q10 with 150 mg/caps (also fish and flaxseed oil and Vit­a­min E are in this prod­uct)
Pro Health and Life Exten­sion foun­da­tions make ubiquinol, an even bet­ter form of CoEQ10

Plant flavonoids from many coloured veg­eta­bles, sal­ads and fruits (espe­cially ben­e­fi­cial) e.g.

mixed carotenes (car­rots),
lycopenes (toma­toes)
quercetin (onions, ginkgo biloba)
antho­cyano­sides (bilberry)

proan­tho­cyani­dins (grape seed and pine bark)
Pos­si­bly bil­berry is more likely to pro­tect the eye but all dark berries are good.
I always rec­om­mend Vit­a­min C to make up for what we destroy in cook­ing.
I do not take it by itself, as it needs other plant antiox­i­dants to pro­tect it
Mag­ne­sium supplements
Any leak­ing of cal­cium from its extra­cel­lu­lar loca­tion into cells could increase injury, and I use mag­ne­sium sup­ple­ments to help pro­tect this,

(I dis­tin­guish a pro­tec­tive func­tion of mag­ne­sium from the above phys­i­o­log­i­cal actions of cal­cium influx in glial cells)
Glu­tathione
The glu­tathione comes from whey pro­tein. I use Bio­ceu­ti­cal­sIsowhey.
Adeno­sine
There may be some dis­eases where adeno­sine sup­ple­ments make sense.

Methyl donors are needed in MTHFR dis­or­ders where homo­cys­teine is ele­vated.
These are folic or folinic acid, methyl cobal­amin and trimethyl­glycine.
Keep­ing vit­a­min 25 D3 over 80 nmol/L and hav­ing ade­quate vit­a­min K1 and K2 are impor­tant.
If the evi­dence sup­ports exer­cise, lis­ten­ing to appro­pri­ate music such as Mozart’s music, and tak­ing up mind-body exer­cises, which we enjoy then why not, go for it?
Pos­i­tive think­ing and act­ing for care of self are part of this protection.

John Graham

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