Brain & Neurological Health

Never Let Your Brain Retain Any Waste; Try These Simple Tricks to Speed Up Cerebral Detoxification

Read about the brain’s self-detoxification mechanisms and learn five effective strategies to enhance brain health and protect against toxins.
Never Let Your Brain Retain Any Waste; Try These Simple Tricks to Speed Up Cerebral Detoxification
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Jingduan Yang
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The brain typically accounts for about 2 percent of a person’s weight but uses up about 20 percent of the body’s oxygen and calories. In other words, the brain needs a lot of energy to manage our thoughts, emotions, and all the physiological activities of the body. And all that metabolic activity creates waste. If that waste isn’t cleaned out, it can damage the brain and undermine its work. 
Jingduan Yang
Jingduan Yang
M.D.
Dr. Jingduan Yang is a board-certified psychiatrist and fifth-generation classical Chinese medicine physician whose work bridges Western psychiatry, functional medicine, and ancient healing traditions. He is the creator of the ACES Model of Health and Medicine—a four-dimensional framework spanning anatomy, chemistry, energy, and spirit—and the author of “Facing East” and “Clinical Acupuncture and Ancient Chinese Medicine.” As a principal founder of the Northern School of Medicine and Health Sciences, he advances whole-person care grounded in science, ethics, and humanity.