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Do you find yourself forgetting where you left your car keys… or just feel like your brain is in a fog sometimes?

Contrary to popular belief, forgetfulness is not just a normal part of growing older. As you age, your brain loses critical nutrients that it needs to fire on all cylinders.

If your mental spark plugs aren’t firing like they used to, don’t worry. I’ll show you how to get your brain’s engine back to running as smooth as a Rolls Royce. You just need to know what’s missing and how to get it.

Your brain uses chemicals called neurotransmitters to transmit messages in the brain. There are millions of these messages happening every second. Neurotransmitters are conductors of these messages, allowing them to fire from one part of your brain to another.

Taking care of your body is much easier than it’s made out to be.

A mechanic must perform separate maintenance on each system. His checklist is specific for the parts that he’s working on.

If there’s a problem with one part, that problem can usually be fixed without affecting any other parts.

But maintaining your body isn’t like maintaining a car or an airplane. That’s because your body is an intelligent, adaptive machine.

In Michael Crichton’s bestselling novel Jurassic Park, a fictional genetic engineering company named InGen develops the technology to clone dinosaurs, bringing the long past into the present day.

As Crichton was writing his book, a biotechnology company called Geron was founded in California. Today, Geron holds hundreds of patents on a technology that will take us from the present into the future.

It’s not often that you get a glimpse into the future.

That’s because people are really bad at predicting it.

“It’s the most important discovery in the history of the human race.”

I stopped scribbling notes and looked up from my pad. Surely he wasn’t serious.

But he was.

“It will change evolution. It will change how we think of what it means to be human.”

That’s big talk. At first I was skeptical. But then again, Dr. Sears knows what he’s talking about. In the short time I’ve known him, I’ve never heard him say anything that he hadn’t already given a lot of thought.

It’s an annual rite of spring.

Every year as the calendar thaws away the last of the winter chill and the crocuses come into bloom, exercisers emerge once again into the open air.

They run. They walk. They jog.

From the weight-loss walkers to the weekend warriors, everyone comes to chase down the elusive prospect of good health, one step at a time.

Last month’s Super Bowl featured the usual media frenzy, but in the week leading up to the game, one story dominated the headlines.

How was Dwight Freeney’s ankle?

The Indianapolis Colts’ star defensive end had suffered a third-degree ankle sprain a week earlier. It was uncertain whether he would be able to play. The outcome of the NFL championship game — not to mention of millions of dollars in wagers — hinged on his health.

And so the biggest story in the biggest game of the year was one of the smallest parts of the body.

Osteoporosis is a natural, inevitable consequence of aging. There’s really nothing you can do to prevent it. Fortunately, modern pharmaceuticals can help.

That’s what Big Pharma wants you to believe, anyway.

As with so many other health topics, there is a lot of misinformation floating around about osteoporosis.

Unfortunately, most people just don’t understand how bones really work. That means they can’t understand how osteoporosis really works. That, in turn, makes them vulnerable to the swill Big Pharma is selling.

The truth is that most osteoporosis treatments are unnecessary, and several are downright harmful. Osteoporosis is largely preventable through simple lifestyle changes that you should make anyway. Good bone health is simply a consequence of good health.

Bones have gotten a bad rap.

Admit it. Your only associations with bone health are negative. Fractures. Osteoporosis. Maybe cancer. And that’s probably about it.

The mainstream media is full of stories about good heart health, good brain health, even good skin health. But nobody ever talks about “good bone health.”

Even metaphorically, we never talk about bones for anything good. Think about it:

In ancient times, pain relief was often the province of mystical healers who communed with the gods. Early civilizations relied on a combination of herbal remedies and magical rituals to cure what ailed them.

For example, many native cultures tried to draw pain out of the body by sucking on specially made pipes that were placed against the skin. The Incas used to chew the leaves of the coca plant while they worked, giving them almost superhuman stamina and tolerance for pain. In ancient Egypt, healers would pull electric eels from the Nile and place them over a patient’s wounds. Even Hippocrates, the father of Western medicine, got in on the act. He used to prescribe willow leaves to take the edge off.

These methods probably sound a bit crazy. Are they? Perhaps. But no more so than mindlessly popping a pill that kills 16,500 people each year and puts another 76,000 in the hospital.^1,2

Pain happens. It’s an unfortunate fact of life. For as long as there have been people, there has been pain. And for as long as there has been pain, people have tried to ease it however they could. Relieving pain is an old pursuit.