"Action Potential: Sparking the Change in Health Care" - Andrea Nakayama at SWSW LIVE! SF

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Excerpt: "I wanted to understand the mechanisms that feed cancer growth. I wanted to understand the functioning of the nervous system and I wanted to know what the hell this thing was in his brain called a blood brain barrier that was keeping the medicine from getting to the tumor. I mean fuck the odds, damn the statistics, this was my man, my match and I was going to do whatever I could to keep him alive. And I did, if only I knew then what I know now. I could have done so much more. I look back at the journals we kept. We called them the Isamu books and I think "damn girlfriend you were doing a good job," but I didn't know then what I know now. Now that I've studied the sciences and I've had the opportunity to work with hundreds of people around the world on their health and nutrition during their healing journeys. What I know now that I didn't know then was that the key to nutritional healing has two parts.There's the key which is the food we eat and there's the lock which is our physiology and it's the biochemistry between the two that truly allows for a deeper level of healing. This is where food is medicine. I always like to say that we are not actually what we eat. You are not what you eat. You are what your body can do with what you eat. And let me give you an example of this. Let's talk about the brain. So the brain has two kinds of cells in it. There are glial cells and there are neurons. And the glial cells pack around the neurons. They protect them. They provide food and nutrition for those neurons. The glial cells are also the cells that developed cancers like gliomas and glioblastoma multiformes. The neurons are these crazy looking cells. They've got things sprouting out all over them and they have these long arms called an axon. Every neuron has one axon and the purpose of this axon is transmission. It does the telling for the rest of the body. And on this axon, there's something that happens; electricity. And that electricity is an action potential. So let's look at this in practical terms. If we take someone who has multiple sclerosis, what's happening is that their immune system is attacking the axon in the neuron in the nervous system. So what can we do for that person?"

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