Are you one of the 100 million, or one-in-three, Americans struggling through life with a “broken brain?”

It doesn’t have to be that way. Today, I’m going to share with you the key to good mental and emotional health -- to an “UltraMind” … one that’s calm, confident, and happy.

But first, ask yourself these questions:

• Do you fear losing your job because you’re tired, unfocused, and inattentive, and your memory is failing, so you can’t properly perform your tasks at work?

• Do you feel depressed, hopeless, disconnected, and disengaged from your life?

• Do you see your relationships breaking down because you are mentally and emotionally absent or numb?

• Do you forget to meet friends or go to appointments, and then can’t figure out how in the world you forgot?

If you answered “yes” to any of the questions above, you are not alone.

Right now in America, there is a rising tide of “broken brains.” And conventional medicine cannot cure it.

Recently, I spoke on a panel for PBS TV at the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) convention in Boston.  The topic was dementia.

There was a woman with mild cognitive impairment on the panel. Her condition is sort of like pre-Alzheimer's disease.

Everyone on the panel -- including the Harvard neurologist -- agreed that memory loss is NOT a normal part of aging.

The sad part was that the panel didn't have much to offer people in the way of prevention. Their only solution was just a very bad and pretty ineffective selection of drugs with lots of side effects.

But there is another way to think about brain aging.

The brain responds to all the same insults as the rest of the body -- stress, poor diet, toxins, lack of exercise or sleep, nutritional deficiencies, and more.

So all we have to do is give the brain a tune-up and we can see miracles. 

In a minute, I will tell you about a few miracles in my practice. 

In last week's blog, I reviewed UltraWellness Key #6 how important energy is for life and for UltraWellness.

You learned why we lose it and how to make it.

But in this final week of our journey, I'd like to talk about an equally important factor in health - UltraWellness Key #7.

It's one that causes or worsens some 95 percent of all illnesses.

And it's something that, once you get it under control, is more important than cholesterol, blood sugar, blood pressure, and any other risk factor in determining whether you will live a long and healthy life.

What is this crucial factor?

It is your attitude, social network, community, and spiritual beliefs.

In fact, one of the biggest predictors of longevity is psychological resiliency -- being able to roll with the punches life throws at you.

After my last blog, I'm sure that many of you are depressed and discouraged about mercury and its toxic effects.

The bad news is, I am going to review more of these effects and the things I learned at the medical conference on mercury.

But the good news is, I will leave you with a clear plan on how to help your body detoxify from mercury and recover your health.

I have done this successfully and safely with hundreds and hundreds of patients over the last 10 years -- and with myself!

Now, let's get back to the presentations from the conference.

==>  Mercury and Autism, Part One

Last week, I talked a little bit about the link between mercury fillings and autism.

Now I'd like to discuss mercury's effects on this condition in greater detail.

Are you heavy?

It could be making you sick and tired and age prematurely.

And I don't mean heavy with fat.

I mean heavy with heavy metals -- like mercury!

Unfortunately, toxic mercury problems are common.

Along with polar bears, beluga whales, ducks, otters, panthers, and all river fish as well as most large ocean fish, we humans are poisoning ourselves with mercury at ever increasing rates.

There's no doubt about it.

Mercury is the most alarming, disease-causing source of environmental toxicity that I see daily in my practice.

So many of patients have toxic levels of mercury -- and they're not alone.