This book is easy to read and understand. It will open your eyes to innovative ways to improve your overall health and wellness. From mental health to chronic pain, this book provides you a clear picture of the “why” behind the various systems within the body and how our nutritional lifestyle can greatly impact multiple parts of our body. You will learn of the trillions of connections between the cells in the body and understand how one set of cells’ irritation can impact separate systems within the body. In fact, this book, along with others, influenced my diet change, leading to a decrease in L5/S1 Pain. My gut pain decreased, resulting in less inflammation to the next-door neighbor, the back. The focus of this book is functional neuroscience. This is an approach to health and addressing the problems within the various systems without medication or surgery. It also highlights how many are misdiagnosed or receive treatment for symptoms but not the problem.
Key Take Aways
- Gaining an understanding of the body’s primary systems, their role, and relationships in ensuring proper bodily functioning.
- Choosing to stop the body‘s natural stress response will greatly improve physical and mental holistic health.
- Changing your diet will greatly decrease pain throughout your body.
- What we eat influences how well we will sleep.
- Pain is a conception of our mind and can be controlled through psychotherapy techniques.
- Medical providers tend to focus on the symptom rather than the root cause, further agitating recovery.
- Through a functional neurological approach, everyone can improve their health now without requiring surgery or medication.
We fill our bodies with foods that cause inflammation throughout our bodies. It’s difficult for the body to maintain normalcy when it’s dealing with constant inflammation. Many of the medical issues we deal with can be resolved; if we learn that what we eat, smell and exposure to stress impacts the body, how inflammation in one area can affect the body in other areas. This book will enable you to address medical issues that seem to be unresolved by your medical provider. How can removing all inflammatory foods from your life reduce your lower back pain? You will be amazed at how you can improve your quality of life by understanding the approaches described by Dr. John Hatch in the Basis of Brain Rehab. Understanding neurons’ role and how the electrical impulse occurring in one nerve can cause activity in multiple directions impacting multiple other neurons. This is one of many things you will learn when reading this book. Eating inflammatory food inflames the digestive system, which is next door to the lower back, influencing the lower back receptors and increasing pain.
Dr. Hatch provides a clear explanation of the brain and its operating network with the central nervous system, endocrine system, enteric system, limbic system, and immune system.
And PAIN! Understanding that pain is the body’s signal influencing us to react to a threat. There is no threat most of the time, yet our body is so busy dealing with other problems that it lacks the bandwidth to turn off the false pain signals being communicated from various receptors.
This 86 page book will teach you about the parasympathetic nervous system (rest and digest) and the sympathetic nervous system (fight or flight), along with various other systems within the body.
This book talks about neuroplasticity (molding and modifying the brain); you will learn of stimulus point of entry of stimulus (receptor-based approach) and understanding how neurons and their trillions of interconnections can result in the stimulation of various systems of the body. I bought this book without reading much into it as I researched brain injuries. At first, the title didn’t seem to match up with what can be found in this book. Yet when you learn of functional neuroscience’s crucial role in dealing with a brain injury, the title speaks for itself. Additionally, to make these changes in our brain, we need a good 3-5 months of change to influence brain plasticity. And this is how we rehab our brain for good.
