Show 087 Amala Hopeline, Microglia and Food for Sleep

You do not want chest pains. You do not want to have the shakes, the vomiting, the visceral fear that can come with a panic attack. Nobody does. One of the things you can do is to take care of your brain. Making sure you get enough sleep is very important.

What you put in your body is equally important for brain health and anxiety symptom control. In this episode, Mice, sleep and foods that nourish the brain.




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Resources Mentioned:

• The Amala Hopeline for young Muslim Americans who need to talk to somebody. The telephone number is 855-95-AMALA or you can reach them via Twitter at @amalahopeline
• Vice article on How to Not Cure Your Panic Attacks  which is really about how to work with and not against your panic attack. 
• Robby Berman's write up on Big Think about sleep, brains and cell damage.
• The actual name of the study is Sleep Loss Promotes Astrocytic Phagocytosis and Microglial Activation in Mouse Cerebral Cortexs
• Khan Academy video on what Microglia actually do, they are the clean-up crew, they are soldiers, they are those rough riders on wheels looking for some action. 
• Sleep Foundation of America on how much sleep you actually need.
• BBC Good Food with examples of food that is good for your brain.
• PDF from the Cleveland Clinic on Food for Brain Health with reasons why you need to dial down the sugar and avoiding the five food felons 
• Stop Breathe and Think allows you to dial in your current mood, how you feel and then it will offer you meditations that https://app.stopbreathethink.org/

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