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That’s one of the conclusions from a mother with an environmental science background with an interest in brain chemistry exploring the contributing factors to ADD, attention deficit disorder.  In a blog on her website, Born to Explore, The Other Side of ADD, Teresa Gallagher details a plan to create balance with hormones that affect brain chemistry. 

Our ears perked up when she got to serotonin levels.

Serotonin is a hormone that is found naturally in the human brain. Serotonin can be considered a “happy” hormone, as it greatly influences an overall sense of well-being. It also helps to regulate moods, temper, anxiety, and relieve depression. It is also credited with being a natural sleep aid.

Gallagher lists stress, modern food processing, lack of exercise & sleep, poor nutrition, and deionized air as principal causes of  reduced serotonin levels.

21st century lifestyles take their toll even as they make life easier with all the eletronics that fill every possible crook and nanny (uh, that would be nook and cranny if I were paying attention) of our lives. Gallagher ticks off a top ten plus one list of proactive, non-medicating, more organic steps to take to create more balance in your brain’s lab.

Tips 1 through 10, you can incorporate some healthy new lifestyle habits right now, like more sleep and exercise, improve your diet, meditate or do yoga, keep cool, add in B vitamins, look for ways to relieve stress every day.

Tip No. 11?

“Buy an air ionizer. Yes, it sounds weird, but air with negatively charged particles appears to help out serotonin in the brain. Pollution and the modern world have nearly eliminated naturally charged air in urban areas. You can feel the pleasant effect of negative ions wherever there is running water, like an ocean beach or near a waterfall. The opposite – positive ions – are generated by warm winds moving over dry land, like the Santa Ana winds of California, which are known to increase irritability…”

Tip #11. Got that covered. Plug into Ionic Lifestyle. 

Negative ion generators that emit 2,000,000 negative ions (also known as anions) per cubic centimeter counter the energy-draining effects of positive ions emitted by electronics, household materials, and other trappings of modern living. In your car, at your computer, in front of your big-screen tv – wherever you are bombarded by positive ions, you can plug in an Ionic Lifestyle unit  from Purely Products, a leader in negative ion technology, and naturally charge the air, increasing “feel good” serotonin levels and improving oxygen flow to the brain. 

Check out this mom’s recommendations to engage the help of this hard working “happiness molecule.”  Can you see integrating any of these changes into your life to see the difference they could make?

In March, she reviewed and ran a fun giveway for Purely Products handheld UV light germ killer, Pocket Purifier. She’s at it again – talking clean and healthy living. Survey Junkie (how can you not love that name?) is smack dab in the middle of her Purely Products Ionic Lifestyle  giveaway.  Win either the Purely negative ion generator for your home or for your car. (Ends May 12, 2010 at 9pm est.)

Want to know how negative ions create positive vibes? Find out why they are called “vitamins of the air”   to improve mood, enhance clarity and help allergies. Want a first hand account of what Ionic Lifestyle can do for the good humor and well being of your household … When I received this negative ion generator for home I didn’t tell anyone and I plugged it in to the outlet in the living room where everyone spends a good portion of time and I watched and waited ….read Survey Junkie’s review.

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