Courses

Welcome to this course on Brain Detoxification & Resilience. Your brain is one of the most powerful and complex organs in your body, but it is also one of the most vulnerable. Every day, it faces hidden threats—environmental toxins, chronic stress, poor sleep, and inflammatory foods—that can silently disrupt its function. The result? Brain fog, memory issues, mood swings, fatigue, and even long-term neurological decline.

This course is designed to cut through the noise of fad “detox” programs and instead provide you with science-backed, practical strategies to protect and restore your brain. Together, we’ll explore:
• Your Brain’s Defenses: How the blood-brain barrier, glymphatic system, and gut-brain axis work to keep your brain safe and clear of toxins.
• Modern Threats to Brain Health: From heavy metals and mold to processed foods and chronic inflammation.
• Practical Solutions: Evidence-based lifestyle habits, nutrition, supplements, and mind-body practices to strengthen your brain’s resilience.
• Personalized Protocols: How to build a sustainable, step-by-step brain detox plan tailored to your needs.

By the end of this course, you’ll have a clear understanding of how to support your brain’s natural detoxification systems, reduce hidden triggers of inflammation, and build daily habits that sharpen your focus, restore your energy, and protect your long-term brain health.

This isn’t about short-term fixes—it’s about creating a lifestyle that empowers you to take control of your brain health for life.

This module builds a practical, science-grounded blueprint for restoring autonomic balance and gut–brain health by focusing on the brainstem “command center,” the vagus nerve, and the habits that strengthen them. You’ll learn how sympathetic overdrive and upper-cervical tension can disrupt digestion, sleep, and mood—and how to reverse this with gentle alignment strategies, daily vagal-tone practices (gargling, diaphragmatic breathing, humming, cold exposure), and pre-meal rituals that re-engage “rest and digest.” The module explains methylation’s role in neurotransmitter production and vascular protection (with B-vitamin support and homocysteine tracking), flags autoimmune triggers that can affect brainstem function (e.g., gluten cross-reactivity, infections, toxins, leaky gut), and teaches you to monitor recovery using heart rate variability. You’ll also get step-by-step sleep hygiene and stress-resilience protocols, then integrate everything into a personalized, progressive daily plan—complete with checklists, assessments, and templates—to build durable nervous-system flexibility, better digestion, deeper sleep, and calmer focus.

This course explores how the nervous system acts as the body’s master communication network, with lessons showing how sensory processing, spinal health, and the vagus nerve influence our ability to adapt and thrive. It explains how subluxations create “neurological traffic jams” that disrupt brain–body communication, leading to stress overload, sensory dysregulation, and difficulty regulating emotions. Through neurologically based chiropractic care, students learn how gentle spinal adjustments restore clear signaling, support the body’s innate ability to heal, and improve focus, sleep, and emotional balance. The program emphasizes a holistic approach that combines chiropractic with nutrition, exercise, stress management, and sensory-rich activities to optimize nervous system function and overall well-being, equipping individuals and families with the knowledge to take charge of their health.

This course explains how to strengthen memory and executive function by combining brain science, nutrition, stress management, and body alignment.

Hippocampus → forms and retrieves memories.

Prefrontal cortex → brain’s CEO for planning, focus, decisions.

Acetylcholine → neurotransmitter linking memory and executive function.

Nutrition → choline and B vitamins build neurotransmitters; advanced aids include Alpha-GPC, Huperzine A, Bacopa.

Stress → chronic cortisol shrinks hippocampus and weakens executive control; managed with breathing, exercise, downtime.

Spine–brain connection → posture, mobility, and chiropractic adjustments keep signals clear.

Practical tools and habits ensure lasting brain health and performance.

Memory training → Memory Palace, active recall, multi-sensory learning.

Executive training → Rule of Three, Pomodoro technique, mindful decisions, learning new skills.

Lifestyle pillars → consistent sleep, hormone balance, stress control, movement.

Personalized protocol → morning fuel and stretching, focused work cycles, stress resets, evening memory practice and quality sleep.

Long-term health → sustained by lifelong learning, social connection, and consistent brain–body care.

This module explores the vital connection between the brain, nervous system, and movement. The spine acts as the superhighway of the nervous system, allowing the brain to coordinate every action, from simple gestures to complex motor tasks. When this system breaks down, movement becomes impaired — sometimes slowed and rigid, sometimes restless and uncontrolled. This course empowers learners with knowledge and practical strategies to support smooth, well-coordinated movement by balancing the brain’s “accelerator” (dopamine-driven pathways) and “brakes” (GABA-driven pathways).

Key Learning Themes

Movement Control Systems

Basal ganglia circuits, direct (dopamine) and indirect (GABA) pathways.

Dopaminergic and GABAergic dysfunctions linked to hypokinetic (slow) or hyperkinetic (excessive) movement disorders.

Neurotransmitter Synthesis

Dopamine production from amino acid precursors (phenylalanine, tyrosine, L-DOPA) with cofactors like B6, iron, folate, and vitamin C.

GABA production through the glutamate-GABA pathway, supported by B6, magnesium, zinc, and manganese.

Neuroinflammation & Movement

How microglial overactivation damages dopamine and GABA neurons.

Triggers: processed foods, gut dysfunction, toxins, chronic stress.

Nutritional & Supplement Support

Dopamine boosters: Mucuna pruriens (L-DOPA), N-Acetyl L-Tyrosine, DL-Phenylalanine, PEA, blueberry extract.

GABA enhancers: Magnesium glycinate, L-Theanine, taurine, valerian root, passionflower.

Shared protectors: Omega-3s, NAC, alpha-lipoic acid, antioxidants.

Gut-Brain Axis

Repairing gut health to reduce neuroinflammation and enhance neurotransmitter production.

Protocol: remove triggers, repair intestinal barrier, restore microbiome.

Targeted Protocols for Movement Disorders

Hypokinetic (Parkinson’s-like): Dopamine support with L-DOPA precursors, antioxidants, and movement rehabilitation.

Hyperkinetic (tics, RLS, compulsions): GABA enhancement, behavioral training, iron optimization.

Lifestyle & Therapeutic Approaches

Exercise as “medicine”: intensity-specific benefits for BDNF, growth hormone, and circulation.

Sleep optimization: consistent routines, magnesium, calming botanicals.

Environmental detox: reduce heavy metals and support glutathione pathways with NAC, ALA, selenium.

Assessment & Protocol Design

Individualized plans based on movement patterns (hypokinetic, hyperkinetic, mixed).

Foundation phase (anti-inflammatory diet, sleep, stress management).

Enhancement phase (targeted neurotransmitter support, advanced gut healing, stronger exercise protocols).

Long-Term Maintenance

Sustainable routines of movement, diet, sleep, supplements, and stress management.

Crisis planning for flare-ups.

Lifelong focus on optimizing brain health, not just managing symptoms.

Outcome

By the end of this module, learners will understand how the brain chemically and structurally controls movement, recognize the role of dopamine and GABA in motor balance, and apply personalized strategies — from nutrition and supplementation to exercise, sleep, and detoxification — to restore and maintain movement health over the long term.