Louis Roney: The right stuff

All of us good little people, plus our good little girls and boys, are busy cramming smarts into our brains from morning to night.

We think about our weight, our posture, our skin, our teeth, our sexual prowess, and even our attitudes. But how much time do we spend thinking about the well-being of that great computer in our head — namely, our brain?

Dr. Russell L. Blaylock is a medical maverick. He doesn’t regurgitate carbon-copies of medical journals, that are overflowing with what advertisements loudly proclaim. He’s a well-known board-certified neurosurgeon and health practitioner. He has nearly three decades of medical practice. He’s had 26 years of experience in neurosurgery. He’s edited the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons and Journal of the American Nutraceutical Association.

So what else is new?

Well, just this:

In NewsMax’s The Blaylock Wellness Report, he says that too many people aren’t getting the best advice for preventing and dealing with cancer, heart disease, diabetes, brain diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, and dozens of health problems now plaguing the American people.

Dr. Blaylock states that he gets no funding from the pharmaceutical industry, and has no health products to sell. He says he is dispensing cutting-edge science that can help people improve their health and possibly even live longer. The thing that grabbed me by the cerebellum was Blaylock’s identification of specific toxins that may be responsible for some of my stupid thinking.

In his Wellness Report, Dr. Blaylock says the No. 1 reason for the explosion of brain diseases today is a bunch of avoidable toxins.

He believes that the massive amounts of toxins in foods, water and our natural environment (even if put there with good intentions) ravage our brains and bodies.

Some toxins that Dr. Blaylock points his finger at are:

Fluoride: a highly toxic substance in water and toothpaste

MSG: an exceptionally toxic flavor enhancer that wears many masks you won’t be able to find it on most food labels though many prepared foods use it

Aluminum: you get this toxin from cookware and foods and it has strong links to Alzheimer’s

Mercury: extremely toxic, but this ingredient is found in dental fillings and even in vaccinations given to children and adults

Pesticides: these toxic substances are ingested by eating unwashed foods or are breathed in from the landscaping chemicals so prevalent today

Aspartame: is very dangerous, argues Dr. Blaylock — (it’s also called NutraSweet)

These toxins over time can cause serious damage to the brain and body.

Dr. Blaylock explains, “The synergies of these toxins which many Americans consume regularly will do powerful damage to your health.”

People with degenerative neurological diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s have chronic deficiencies of nutrients, Dr. Blaylock says. He declares that flu vaccines make Alzheimer’s disease 10 times more likely.

Note: My expertise is not medicine or giving medical advice. So I’m not recommending what the good doctor believes.

Just to keep things squeaky clean and above-board, I want to admit that I do a lot of the “verboten” things that Dr. Blaylock says may damage my brain.

For example, I brush my teeth with fluoride toothpaste recommended by a very fine dentist. As for MSG, one of my favorite restaurants is that Chinese place up the street. As for mercury, I’m not scared of canned tuna salad, and swordfish steak is a real treat to me.

The aluminum cookware set I got right after World War II has always served me well. As to pesticides, I avoid them — except for those that keep roaches, ants, and moths out of our house, and the chemicals that keep termites from eating us out of house and home.

Still, this brain doctor could be right about some things. I think I may order his report if I can remember where I put the stamps — and my checkbook — and, damn it! — my pen!

Oh, the hell with it!

Right now, I need a cup of coffee with — you know the stuff!

• “In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will now and then peek out and show itself.” — Benjamin Franklin