TV show

[Guest guest]

You might do some research on myelin for the show. Myelin is the fatty

coating that insulates nerve fibers and is essential for proper brain

functioning. Picture it as kind of like the coating on an electrical wire.

I'd not am MS expert, but MS is somehow caused by losing that good myelin

around the nerve fibers. The talk show host probably needs more good fat in

his diet and should seek out a healer who understands myelin.

I work with kids and they are still developing the myelin sheath for newly

activated brain cells. It drives me crazy to hear about American kids being

obese, and the solution IS: skim milk with the french fries.

We are born with all the brain cells we will ever have, they remain inactive

without sensory stimulation. They physically become activated with the

development of myelin growth.

Before MRI's, physicians knew what part of the brain was activated by doing

autopsies on babies who died. At birth, the brain stem was activated, babies

used their reflexes. Physicians could tell because the brain stem was the

only part of the brain with myelin around the nerve fibers. As the baby was

loved and stimulated, nerve growth with the myelin coating grew to the pons,

then the midbrain. The six month old baby now crawls, creeps, smiles,

laughs, coos, because myelin has insulated that new brain growth. The

midbrain controls basic body/motor functions.

The year old baby becomes a toddler at some point, again, if you look at the

brain, the myelin growth is now in the cortex. The baby/toddler is making

word like sounds, beginning words. Pulling to stand or walking. Thumb and

fingers can oppose, unique to the human cortex. Eyes converge, and can hold

it, skill needed for reading later on. The cortex is the physical part of

the brain that makes us different from other mammals. The brain does not

develop without myelin.

Kathy