Top 10 Great Foods for Brain Health and Memory

Top 10 Great Foods for Brain Health and Memory

By W. Jean Dodds DVM

Posted on May 24, 2025

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Of the primary factors that help control aging and memory, balanced nutrition and modest amounts of exercise are the most important for ourselves and the pets with whom we share our lives.

Functional foods are those that provide optimal nutrition and body function and improve the memory and cognitive activity of aging. These include vitamins E and C, and resveratrol (acting as antioxidants) along with a mixture of fruits and vegetables to reduce free radical damage.   Also important are alpha-lipoic acid and L-carnitine as they are co-factors of the mitochondria of all cells. Mitochondria are responsible within cells for providing for their respiration and energy production.

Exercise in modest amounts should be given  along with tasks for the pet to learn and perform.

Omega-3 fatty acids are essential for dogs especially as they age because they help improve brain health and function and slow the loss of cognitive function associated with aging.

The requirement for essential nutrients increases not only during periods of rapid growth or reproduction but also  in geriatrics, because immune function and  bio-availability of nutrients generally wanes with aging.

Top 10 Great Foods for Brain Health and Memory

• Leafy greens (folate, vitamin B 9) – kale, spinach, collard and mustard greens
• Cruciferous vegetables (folate, carotenoids) – broccoli, cauliflower, bok choy, Brussel sprouts
• Beans/ legumes (choline)
• Whole grains (gluten-free = quinoa, millet, rice, soy, corn, flax, sorghum, TEFF, tapioca)
• Berries/cherries (anthocyanins, antioxidants, vitamins C and E)
• Omega 3 fatty acids (anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory)
• Yellow Squash, asparagus, tomatoes, carrots, beets (folate, vitamin A, iron)
• Nuts (omega fatty acids, vitamins E and B 6, folate, magnesium) CAUTION macadamia, and walnuts are unsafe for pets
• Seeds (zinc, choline, vitamin E)
• Spices (anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory)

Other Functional Superfoods

• Eggs – high in quality protein and choline for brain and memory
• Kiwis – antioxidant-rich, vitamins A, C and E, potassium, high in fiber
• Quinoa – high in protein and fiber, iron, zinc, vitamin. E, selenium
• Salmon – high omega-3 and iron, low calorie and low saturated fat
• Sweet Potatoes – high in vitamins A and C, calcium, potassium
• Mediterranean type diet – fish, nuts (for dogs: not macadamia, walnut or hickory nuts; brazil nuts and cashews are high in fat; pistachios, pecans, almonds can be moldy (aflatoxins); some dogs = peanut reactive); whole gluten-free grains; olive oil, fresh produce
• Avoid Trans Fats & Saturated Fats – less dairy, red meat, fried foods
• Heart-Healthy diet – also good for the brain
• Plenty of Omega-3 Fatty Acids – causes 26% less brain lesions
• Smaller meals throughout the day – helps digestion
• Eat Fruits, Vegetables, and Berries – of various colors
• Green Tea – enhances memory and alertness; anti-inflammatory; put on body sores, in foods

Canine Cognitive Dysfunction

Clinical Signs of Cognitive Dysfunction

• Incontinence
• Confusion/disorientation in familiar surroundings
• Increased sleeping/insomnia
• Loss of interest in people and events
• Forgetfulness of house-training habits
• Failure to recognize familiar people and animals
• Wandering aimlessly/pacing
• Loss of appetite/forgetting to eat
• Staring into space
• Decreased activity level
• Lack of response to name/commands
• Failure to pay attention

Nutrients of Genera Benefit for Cognitive Dysfunction

• Milk thistle and SAMe (S-adenosylmethionine)
• Phosphatidylserine
• Phosphatidylcholine
• Medium-chain triglycerides (MCTs)
• DHA and EPA omega-3 fatty acids
• Anthocyanins
• Avoid glutens
• Avoid carbohydrates with high glycemic index

Silibinin (milk thistle extract) prevents impairment of both short-term and recognition memory

• prevention for cancer as well
• works as antioxidant, protects brain from oxidative damage

SAMe (S-adenosyl methionine) improves neuron membrane fluidity

• increases serotonin and dopamine metabolites
• reduces effects of depression in people
• may help human Alzheimer’s patients

Phospholipid choline is critical for cell membrane structure and function

• increases production of acetylcholine
• helps reverse signs of cognitive and other neurological disorders of aging pets

Medium -Chain Triglycerides, like coconut oil, break down and absorb rapidly, unlike fats; quick source of non-carbohydrate energy

• readily cross blood-brain barrier, supplying 20% of brain energy requirement
• important for ketone production
• help body use omega-3 fatty acids more efficiently
• helps age-related cognitive decline by providing alternative source of brain energy

 Anthocyanins

• give berries their rich pigment; antioxidants; also benefit cognitive health of senior dogs
• most potent is aronia, the chokeberry. Greater antioxidant than all other berries; anti-cancer; anti-bacterial, anti-viral and even anti-diabetic; and anti-inflammatory

Avoid Glutens

• protect brain function in geriatrics and those with gluten intolerance by avoiding wheat, barley, rye, oats unless labeled gluten-free, kamut, spelt, farro, and couscous
• linked with impairment of brain function, including learning disabilities, attention-deficit-hyperactivity disorder, and memory problems
• gluten sensitivity may manifest exclusively as a neurological disease

Avoid Carbohydrates with a high glycemic index (GI)

• impaired glucose metabolism caused by sugary foods can promote brain starvation, leading to memory problems, like canine cognitive dysfunction
• foods with high GI can also lead to hunger-related behavioral problems
• simple carbohydrates digest and absorb quickly (hence rapid rise and fall in blood sugar concentrations), so pets feel hungry again quickly

W. Jean Dodds DVM

• https://www.biogal.com/sin-categoria/brain-health-memory-and-cognition/

Living Energy of Time

Living Energy of Time

The Blue Avians

Channel: Octavia Vasile

Posted on April 25, 2025

We return now to speak more clearly, more directly, about the energy of time, for many have forgotten its presence as a living force. Time is not a backdrop. It is not a ticking sequence. It is not separate from you. It is within you.

Time is energy.

Time is consciousness in motion.

Time is the breath of creation moving through memory, intention, and becoming.

Every thought you think imprints a ripple into the substance of time. Every emotion you feel colors the thread of your timeline. Every belief you hold is like a tuning fork, calling forth the harmonics of specific moments, possibilities, and outcomes.

Most humans have been taught to interact with time as if it were scarcity—as if there’s never enough, or as if they are victims to its speed. But time responds to relationship, not control. When you rush, time becomes sharp. When you resist the moment, time becomes heavy. When you enter presence, time softens, stretches, and expands to meet you.

You are not separate from the river—you are the one shaping the current by how you breathe, focus, and feel.

The energy of time flows through your body.

When you feel stuck, the river of time has thickened around an old belief.

When you feel déjà vu, you are brushing up against a parallel stream—another version of you, passing by.

When you lose track of time in joy or creation, you are slipping into harmonic coherence with the greater field.

What Kozyrev called torsion fields—spiral flows that carry information faster than light—are the language of time responding to intention. These fields are not just scientific curiosities. They are how your prayers travel, how healing is received across generations, how you can awaken memories of other lifetimes by simply asking.

We tell you now:

⟡ Time is a listener.

⟡ Time is a collaborator.

⟡ Time is a sacred intelligence that bends to presence, opens to love, and organizes itself around clarity.

This is why your daily intentions are not small things. A simple statement—“I am safe now”—sent clearly into the field of time can ripple backwards to soothe a wounded inner child, and forward to stabilize a future moment. You are already doing this. But now, we invite you to do it deliberately.

Here are three ways you can begin working with time as energy:

1. Speak to Time as a Being

Begin your day with a greeting:

“Sacred Time, walk with me today.

Let my steps be guided and my choices clear.

Help me remember what truly matters.”

You will feel the shift almost immediately. The pace around you may not change—but your presence within it will.

2. Breathe Light Into the Timeline

Visualize a line or spiral that represents your life. Inhale into your heart, then exhale along this spiral—seeing it fill with light. Do this especially when you feel overwhelmed. You are reattuning the path you walk.

3. Rewrite the Past with Love

Recall a moment you carry heaviness around. Say aloud:

“Time, I see this moment.

I send light to it now.

Let its weight be lifted. Let its lesson integrate. Let it evolve.”

Time does not resist revision. It waits for your conscious partnership.

Dear ones, you were never meant to be bound by time. You were meant to weave with it.

You are not small inside a linear frame. You are a multidimensional navigator, born to shape the spirals of destiny and return the energy of time to its rightful place: as a friend, a guide, a sacred pulse of becoming.

We walk with you. We watch with joy as you remember how to glide through time, not as captives—but as creators.

With wings of radiant blue and hearts attuned to your becoming,

We remain,

The Blue Avians

Octavia Vasile

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Setting the Purification Template for 2025

Setting the Purification Template for 2025

By Patricia Cota-Robles

Posted on January 8, 2025

This Invocation is being stated in the first person so that we will each experience it personally. Simultaneously, however, we KNOW that this awesome 5th-Dimensional Crystalline Solar Violet Flame is being invoked through the I AM Presence of every person on Earth in perfect alignment with each One’s Divine Plan and their highest good. This is possible because we are One and there is no separation. And we begin.

I AM my I AM Presence and I AM One with the I AM Presence of ALL Humanity. As One Voice, One Breath, One Heartbeat, and One Energy, Vibration, and Consciousness of Pure Divine Love I invoke the most intensified frequencies of the 5th-Dimensional Crystalline Solar Violet Flame that Cosmic Law will allow.

Beloved Saint Germain and all of your Legions of Violet Flame Archangels, I ask that you blaze, blaze, blaze this Violet Flame with the power and might of a thousand Suns in, through and around every thought, feeling, word, action, memory and belief that Humanity has ever expressed in any time frame or dimension both known and unknown that is reflecting anything less than Heaven on Earth.

Transmute this energy cause, core, effect, record and memory back into its original perfection and seal it in an invincible Forcefield of God’s Infinite Light.

I now invoke the Goddess of Liberty who takes her strategic position at the Cardinal point to the North of this Planet. I now invoke the Goddess of Divine Justice who takes her position at the Cardinal point to the East. Now I invoke the Goddess of Freedom who takes her position at the Cardinal point to the South, and I invoke the Goddess of Victory who takes her position at the Cardinal point to the West. Within the Sun of Even Pressure in the Center of the Earth is the Goddess of Glory, and in the atmosphere above the Earth are the Goddesses of Oneness and Transfiguration.

Joining these powerful Beings of Light are the Silent Watchers, the Mighty Guardians, the Elohim, the Directors of the Elements, our Indigenous Ancestors from all timeframes and dimensions, and ALL of the Beings of Light throughout the Cosmos who are assisting Mother Earth and All of her Life.

Blessed Ones, come now and expand, expand and expand the most powerful cleansing activity of the 5th-Dimensional Crystalline Solar Violet Flame of Cosmic Forgiveness that Humanity and the Earth are capable of receiving during this Cosmic Moment.

My I AM Presence now opens the Stargate of my Heart to full breadth. Instantaneously, I AM the Open Door for this unfathomable frequency of the Violet Flame of Cosmic Forgiveness. This exquisite Sacred Fire pulsates through my Heart Flame and blazes in, through and around all inharmonious actions, all lower human consciousness, and all obstructions of the Light that any person, place, condition or thing has ever placed in the pathway of Life’s perfection.

Through the Divine Power of Liberty, Justice, Freedom, Victory, Glory, Oneness and Transfiguration the Violet Flame of Cosmic Forgiveness Transmutes this discordant energy back into Light – cause, core, effect, record and memory – NOW and FOREVER.

With the influx of this unprecedented frequency of the Violet Flame the Silent Watchers over every country, state, city, town, village and hamlet on the Planet now reach out their great Loving arms of Light and raise up a limitless number of Lightworkers in every location who are willing to participate in the faithful use of this NEW 5th-Dimensional Crystalline Solar Violet Flame.

Each of these Lightworkers understands the full importance of this sacred Gift now being offered by our Father-Mother God to help FREE Humanity from all of our human miscreations.

The conscious use of this Sacred Fire from the Heart of God will cause to be established within every one of these locations great Forcefields of this NEW 5th-Dimensional Violet Flame, which will continually bathe every person, place, condition and thing  in each vicinity.

Now, through the Clarion Call of the I AM Presence of every person on Earth and the Legions of Light throughout infinity, this monumental Violet Flame of Cosmic Forgiveness begins to expand and expand.  It merges with the Immortal Victorious Threefold Flame in every person’s Heart and expands into a tremendous Starburst of Light with the power and might of 1,000  Suns.

Beloved Legions of Light who have assisted us throughout this unparalleled 40-Day purging process, we ask that you join with us now and expand our Invocations one thousand fold as we proceed.  Blessed Ones:

a) Blaze the Light of a thousand Suns through the thoughts, words, actions and feelings of every man, woman and child evolving on Earth until every person individually acknowledges and accepts the Divinity within ALL Life, and every expression made by Humanity is a Healing Benediction to every particle and wave of Life on this precious Planet.

 

b) Blaze the Light of a thousand Suns through all incoming babies, the children, their parents and guardians until ALL youth are raised up in energy, vibration and Consciousness to carry out the directives of their I AM Presence.

 

c) Blaze the Light of a thousand Suns through all youth centers and activities, all schools, colleges and universities, all leaders, teachers, instructors, and professors in every line of endeavor until the Flame of God Illumination and Enlightenment is manifest and eternally sustained within the Heart and mind of every person.

 

d) Blaze the Light of a thousand Suns through all religious and spiritual teachings, so that Divine Love, Truth, Tolerance, Oneness, and Universal Sisterhood and Brotherhood will become a manifest reality.

 

e) Blaze the Light of a thousand Suns through all doctors, nurses, healers, hospitals, insurance companies, pharmaceutical conglomerates and every institution associated with healing of any kind until Divine Mercy, Compassion and Healing are tangible realities for every evolving soul.

 

f) Blaze the Light of a thousand Suns through all banking and financial institutions, all economic systems, all money and the people associated with monetary interactions of any kind until every person on Earth is openly demonstrating true integrity, honesty, generosity, fairness, abundance and the God supply of all good things.

 

g) Blaze the Light of a thousand Suns through all places of incarceration and all employed there, through every correctional institution, every law enforcement officer, every judge, jury and court of law until Divine Justice is manifest and eternally sustained.

 

h) Blaze the Light of a thousand Suns through ALL of the Governments of the World and every person, place, condition and thing associated with the Governments of the World at national, state and local levels throughout the Planet. Intensify this Violet Flame until every Government is focusing on Oneness, Reverence for ALL Life and Cocreating the highest good for all concerned in every instance.

 

i) Blaze the Light of a thousand Suns through all space activities throughout the World until every nation unites in cooperative service, so that God’s Will may be manifest with our sisters and brothers throughout the Universe.

 

j) Blaze the Light of a thousand Suns through the physical, etheric, mental and emotional bodies of Humanity until all disease and human miscreation, its cause and core is dissolved and Transmuted into purity, vibrant health, eternal youth and physical perfection.

 

k) Blaze the Light of a thousand Suns through the food and water industries and through all of the food and water used for human consumption until every particle of food and every molecule of water is filled with Light. Empower this Elemental substance to raise the vibratory action of Humanity’s physical, etheric, mental and emotional bodies until physical perfection becomes a sustained manifest reality for every Human Being.

 

l) Blaze the Light of a thousand Suns in, through and around every remaining electron of precious Life energy until the Immaculate Concept of the New Earth is tangibly manifest.

 

I accept that this Activity of Light is being God Victoriously accomplished right here and right now, even as I Call. I also accept and KNOW that this 5th-Dimensional Violet Flame of Cosmic Forgiveness is increasing daily and hourly, moment by moment, with every Breath I take until this sweet Earth and ALL her Life have Ascended into the 5th-Dimensional  Crystalline Realms of Light on the  Solar New Earth, and the veil of illusion and the psychic astral realm no longer exist in any form associated with Mother Earth.

And so it is! Beloved I AM, Beloved I AM, Beloved I AM.

God Bless you Dear One. I look forward to being with you next week.

Patricia Cota-Robles

http://www.eraofpeace.org/

 

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