The third and final section of The Edge Effect by Eric R. Braverman, MD, helps the reader to learn how to deal with specific illnesses or symptoms you may be experiencing, both in the brain and in the body. Braverman explains how your body ages and gives detailed instructions on what you can do to enhance brain function.
One of the most powerful concepts taught in this section is the “Rainbow Diet.” Up to this point he has clearly demonstrated through data and case studies just how powerful diet is – and just what foods you need to include to relieve specific symptoms and diseases from which you suffer. The striking fact is that you have such power and control of your brain and body health with diet alone.
The key to good brain and body health is to keep all four natures in balance:
“The basic nature diet strategy to remember is that dopamine is boosted by high-protein diet with fruit sugars; eggs, caviar, sardines, fish oils, and olive oil all raise acetylcholine. GABA is increased with vegetables, and serotonin is boosted by poultry and complex carbohydrates.”
Braverman’s Rainbow Diet incorporates all the different colors of the rainbow – red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet – into the meals that you consume.
“Foods with a variety of colors have different nutrients, and no one supplement is equal to all the great nutrients you can get from fresh foods.”
A rainbow has seven colors and not one of them is white, hence the advice to avoid foods made from white flour such as pasta, white rice, bread, salt, and sugar.
Braverman demonstrates a case study in which he placed a patient on the Rainbow Diet as well as a nutrient program consisting of fish oils, evening primrose oil, niacin, and the hypertension multivitamin that he sells. In three weeks his cholesterol fell from 234 to 130. His blood pressure normalized at 120/70. Six weeks later he had a cholesterol of 114, and his blood pressure dropped further. Pretty amazing results.
The remainder of the chapters in this final section address what to do for specific symptoms and disease processes, how to improve your memory, how to modify negative aspects of your nature, and how to “master the edge effect for lasting health.”
The overriding takeaway from Braveman’s work for me is the realization of how much power we each have from basic tools that we take for granted…diet, lifestyle, environment, and hormone balancing.
Back to the original complaint that led to the writing of this series of articles was the #1 complaint that bring women to Dr. Gabhart…a problem with memory cognition. Now we know there are simple tools we can employ to fix that problem for good. Thank you for helping all of us, Dr. Braverman.
