GPC (ClyceroPhosphoCholine) Mind-Body Power for Active Living and Healthy Aging - Softcover

Parris M. Kidd

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0979397901 ISBN 13: 9780979397905

Publisher: TotalHealth, 2007

Synopsis

The human mind and body together make a sophisticated survival tool, and this book is about a dietary substance that helps both stay sharp all through life. GPC (short for GlyceroPhosphoCholine) is a nutrient, a vital lipid that pulls mind and body together. Dr. Parris Kidd, a Berkeley-trained PhD expert on brain nutrients, has written a crystal-clear yet comprehensive presentation of this nutrient that contributes to our mental sharpness in many important ways. GPC is a small phospholipid molecule (pronounced fos-fo-lip-id) that has great importance to the whole body, not just to the brain. GPC is a powerful protective and healing nutrient, proven to boost healing following stroke or other brain injury. But GPC also boosts attention, memory, learning, and mood, even in the young healthy brain. All our cells, but especially the brain and kidney cells, use GPC to protect against toxic waste accumulation. GPC is a molecular starter for acetylcholine, a nerve transmitter central to the brain and all the other organs. GPC is a potent source of choline, a vitamin-like nutrient that provides methyl groups for epigenetic gene regulation. Being an orthomolecule, that is, a molecule orthodox to our cells, GPC can be safely managed by our cells and tissues. GPC reaches higher concentrations in our kidney cells than does any other nutrient. Taken daily as a dietary supplement, GPC benefits children, the middle aged, the brain injured, and the elderly. The author, part of a team that introduced GPC into North America, details the studies that successfully employed GPC on almost 3 thousand brain damaged patients; on GPC s head-to-head superiority over other nutrients for treating severe memory loss; even on GPC s potential to help autistic children. GPC is so vital to health, it is abundant in mother s milk. This book documents GPC s safety of use and its capacities to boost attention in young, healthy people; to support mental performance at midlife; to help stave off mental decline in old age. Taken along with other safe nutrients, such as the related vital lipid PS (PhosphatidylSerine), GPC serves the needs of the healthy, damaged, or declining brain. Objective comparisons from double-blind trials suggest GPC benefits the failing brain longer than does the most popular drug approved for this purpose. When utilized in a personal health fitness program, including attention to diet, lifestyle, and mental and physical exercise, GPC helps heal hurt brain circuits and protect against new damage. This is the story of a mind-body nutrient for active living and healthy aging.

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About the Author

Dr. Parris Kidd grew up in Jamaica and there earned his Bachelor of Science Degree in Zoology and Marine Biology, with Special First-Class Honors. He then received a coveted Jamaican Government scholarship to earn his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley in cell biology. He then received grants from the California Heart Association and the United States National Institutes of Health to study heart and blood vessel disease. In 1983 he decided to reorient his training to substances that improve our cell biology without hurting our cells. These are the orthomolecules, molecules orthodox to the body as defined by Nobel laureate Linus Pauling. Dr. Kidd has since written books and numerous articles on antioxidants, cell membrane molecules, enzyme cofactors, and all the other dietary substances that improve health and help prevent disease. His latest books , PS (PhosphatidylSerine), Nature s Brain Booster: A Vital Lipid for Memory, Mood and Stress ; and GPC (GlyceroPhosphoCholine), Mind-Body Nutrient for Active Living and Healthy Aging: A Vital Lipid for Survival detail for the layperson two of the most fascinating orthomolecules ever discovered.

Review

Brilliant work! Here is the definitive, comprehensive guide to GPC, the mind-body nutrient. A MUST READ for anyone who wants to heal their brain and maximize their overall health...... --Robert Crayhon, MS, CN

Several years ago I first heard about GPC at a lecture given by Dr. Parris Kidd. Since that time my wife Mary Anne RN, CCN and I have recommended GPC to a lot of patients. At the La Jolla Institute of Comprehensive Medicine, I have seen powerful benefits for patients with mild and serious memory impairment, as well as for patients with strokes and other traumatic brain injuries. GPC is a safe, effective orthomolecular compound and can easily be combined with Dr. Kidd s Total Health Management. With its very readable language, this book will be of benefit for both consumers and medical professionals. Dr Kidd gives detailed information of the studies showing GPC s benefits for memory, for cognitive functions in normal youth to demented seniors, for strokes, and for brain trauma. He includes the scientific reasons for why GPC works. He includes new information about GPC s other benefits as a systemic protectant, for supporting male fertility, and with potential benefits in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. For patients and practitioners who are looking for safe, effective, scientifically proven nutrients I strongly urge you to read about GPC in Dr. Parris Kidd s GPC: Mind-Body Power for Active Living and Healthy Aging..... --Neil Hirschenbein MD, PhD, CCN, CNS, Medical Director, La Jolla Institute of Comprehensive Medicine

Dr. Parris Kidd is the leading authority on nutrients for improving brain function. Dr. Kidd is the scientist that nutritionists and physicians consult, to learn what nutrients do for the brain. In this book, Dr. Kidd describes how to revitalize mental function and tune-up your brain with a simple dietary supplement, GPC. This is must reading for anyone with a brain!.... --Richard A. Passwater, PhD, Widely respected nutritional scientist and dietary supplement pioneer

About this edition

• Publisher: TotalHealth
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0979397901
• ISBN 13: 9780979397905
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 118