The Shrinking Brain
Mental Health is affected by poor brain nutrition
2nd Edition
Published on 1. November 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
442 pages
978-1-915465-65-8 (ISBN)
Description
The Global Mental Health Crisis is a direct result of the fact that, over time, the actual size of our brains is getting smaller. This is an historical fact but is entirely reversible with better brain nutrition. This has now reached crisis proportions.
In 2023, The European Brain Council recognised that "Brain Health conditions have become a global health emergency". Back in 1972, Graham Rose wrote in the Sunday Times "Unless action is taken to care for the nutrition of the brain 'We will become a race of morons!'
Authors Michael A Crawford and David E Marsh have both devoted their lives to this vital area of research. This book is their legacy. In painstaking detail, they put the case of how to reverse the Global Mental Health Crisis. With greater awareness of the problem, it's cause and the solution required to make a change, their message could not be clearer. By reading this book you will not be able to say, "We didn't realise".
This book may contain complex research and the result of detailed research, but the message is simple. And so is the action we all need to take.
This book may contain complex research and the result of detailed research, but the message is simple. And so is the action we all need to take.
We also explain the role of the environment in the evolution of the brain, leading to early Homo sapiens with a brain capacity of over 1,600cc, and explaining why it is now only 1,366 cc and mental ill-health is escalating. The concepts in this book have been fifty-one years in the making. They can't wait any longer. There is no more time.
Presented with these incontrovertible facts, it does not need a rocket scientist to work out what will happen if these dumbing down trends continue! Fortunately, solutions are available which will lead to brighter and healthier children of the future.
In 2023, The European Brain Council recognised that "Brain Health conditions have become a global health emergency". Back in 1972, Graham Rose wrote in the Sunday Times "Unless action is taken to care for the nutrition of the brain 'We will become a race of morons!'
Authors Michael A Crawford and David E Marsh have both devoted their lives to this vital area of research. This book is their legacy. In painstaking detail, they put the case of how to reverse the Global Mental Health Crisis. With greater awareness of the problem, it's cause and the solution required to make a change, their message could not be clearer. By reading this book you will not be able to say, "We didn't realise".
This book may contain complex research and the result of detailed research, but the message is simple. And so is the action we all need to take.
This book may contain complex research and the result of detailed research, but the message is simple. And so is the action we all need to take.
We also explain the role of the environment in the evolution of the brain, leading to early Homo sapiens with a brain capacity of over 1,600cc, and explaining why it is now only 1,366 cc and mental ill-health is escalating. The concepts in this book have been fifty-one years in the making. They can't wait any longer. There is no more time.
Presented with these incontrovertible facts, it does not need a rocket scientist to work out what will happen if these dumbing down trends continue! Fortunately, solutions are available which will lead to brighter and healthier children of the future.
Reviews / Votes
Since 1950, the prevalence of mental ill health has been escalating and measures of intelligence falling. In addition, brain size has been shrinking. This trend cannot be allowed to continue. Our book explains why and what can be done to reverse the trend, so to ensure brighter children and progress for humanity.More details
Edition
2nd New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
black and white illustration
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
944 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-915465-65-8 (9781915465658)
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Previous edition
Michael A. Crawford | David E. Marsh
The Shrinking Brain
Book
06/2023
Filament Publishing Ltd
€39.70
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Persons
Michael A Crawford PhD, FRSB, FRCPath
Michael Crawford was born in Edinburgh and did national service with RCAF Winnipeg and RAF Oldenburg. In 1965 he obtained a doctorate at the Royal Post Graduate Medical School, Hammersmith, then established biochemical teaching at the Makerere College, Medical School in Kampala, Uganda. The UK had built a new teaching hospital in Mulago as a goodbye present for independence in 1962. With Sandy Rankin, he helped create the Muhimbili Medical School in Dar-es-Salam in 1963, returning to London in 1965. The experience in East Africa taught him the power of nutrition in health and non-communicable diseases which were in total contrast to those in the UK. At the Nuffield Institute of Comparative Medicine, he and Andrew Sinclair published the first evidence of the role of DHA and arachidonic acid in the evolution of the brain in 1971. This was followed by the first evidence of an omega 3 deficiency causing severe behavioural disorders in a primate in 1973. He then turned his attention to maternal nutrition during pregnancy, when most of the human brain cells divide. On retiring in 2010 he was invited to work at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital campus of Imperial College, London, as a visiting professor. The prime interest of the team under Professor Mark Johnson, head of obstetrics and gynaecology, is in preventing preterm birth and the neurodevelopmental disorders which handicap a child for life. He has won many international awards and was elected as a Freeman of the City of London in 2017. web:?www.imperial.ac.uk/people/michael.crawford
David E Marsh Dip Agric
David trained initially in agriculture (Shuttleworth College, Bedfordshire) with ten years experience farming in Bedfordshire. In the late 1970s and early 1980s David interviewed many medical doctors and scientists who had unusual ideas regarding the noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and began writing the storyboard for a television series... thus meeting Michael Crawford in 1981 whilst he was director of Nutritional Biochemistry at the Nuffield Foundation Laboratories at London Zoo, (ZSL)'
David then moved to human nutrition and co-authored The Driving Force; Food in Evolution & the Future (1989) - later Nutrition and Evolution (1995), with Professor Michael Crawford (Inst. Brain Chem. & Human Nutrition, Imperial College London). He has since written broadly (for Resurgence, Positive Health, Positive Health Online, Healthy Eating, Nutrition and Health amongst other publications) about nutrition, evolution, environment and integrated medicine, including a series in the Journal of Alternative & Complementary Medicine on energy or vibrational medicine. This book is of particular interest to the author as it brings his special interests in nutrition and food production together in full circle. The Origins of Diversity: Darwin's Conditions and Epigenetic Variations, (Nutrition & Health 2008) won him the presitigious Cleave Award from the McCarrison Society for Nutrition and Health in 2016.
David edited the McCarrison Society for Nutrition and Health Newsletter, together with many and various articles with it, and for the society's Journal Nutrition & Health; (see www. mccarrison.com). He lectures very occasionally on the history of evolution theories. David can be reached at davidmarsh.dip.ag@gmail.com www.davidmarsh.org.uk
Michael Crawford was born in Edinburgh and did national service with RCAF Winnipeg and RAF Oldenburg. In 1965 he obtained a doctorate at the Royal Post Graduate Medical School, Hammersmith, then established biochemical teaching at the Makerere College, Medical School in Kampala, Uganda. The UK had built a new teaching hospital in Mulago as a goodbye present for independence in 1962. With Sandy Rankin, he helped create the Muhimbili Medical School in Dar-es-Salam in 1963, returning to London in 1965. The experience in East Africa taught him the power of nutrition in health and non-communicable diseases which were in total contrast to those in the UK. At the Nuffield Institute of Comparative Medicine, he and Andrew Sinclair published the first evidence of the role of DHA and arachidonic acid in the evolution of the brain in 1971. This was followed by the first evidence of an omega 3 deficiency causing severe behavioural disorders in a primate in 1973. He then turned his attention to maternal nutrition during pregnancy, when most of the human brain cells divide. On retiring in 2010 he was invited to work at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital campus of Imperial College, London, as a visiting professor. The prime interest of the team under Professor Mark Johnson, head of obstetrics and gynaecology, is in preventing preterm birth and the neurodevelopmental disorders which handicap a child for life. He has won many international awards and was elected as a Freeman of the City of London in 2017. web:?www.imperial.ac.uk/people/michael.crawford
David E Marsh Dip Agric
David trained initially in agriculture (Shuttleworth College, Bedfordshire) with ten years experience farming in Bedfordshire. In the late 1970s and early 1980s David interviewed many medical doctors and scientists who had unusual ideas regarding the noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and began writing the storyboard for a television series... thus meeting Michael Crawford in 1981 whilst he was director of Nutritional Biochemistry at the Nuffield Foundation Laboratories at London Zoo, (ZSL)'
David then moved to human nutrition and co-authored The Driving Force; Food in Evolution & the Future (1989) - later Nutrition and Evolution (1995), with Professor Michael Crawford (Inst. Brain Chem. & Human Nutrition, Imperial College London). He has since written broadly (for Resurgence, Positive Health, Positive Health Online, Healthy Eating, Nutrition and Health amongst other publications) about nutrition, evolution, environment and integrated medicine, including a series in the Journal of Alternative & Complementary Medicine on energy or vibrational medicine. This book is of particular interest to the author as it brings his special interests in nutrition and food production together in full circle. The Origins of Diversity: Darwin's Conditions and Epigenetic Variations, (Nutrition & Health 2008) won him the presitigious Cleave Award from the McCarrison Society for Nutrition and Health in 2016.
David edited the McCarrison Society for Nutrition and Health Newsletter, together with many and various articles with it, and for the society's Journal Nutrition & Health; (see www. mccarrison.com). He lectures very occasionally on the history of evolution theories. David can be reached at davidmarsh.dip.ag@gmail.com www.davidmarsh.org.uk