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Glendale, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles County, In-Person

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Formats

All BOI courses are presented in a group format or in the one on one, flip learning format.

Online group classes are held via BOI's Webinar Platform.  Students living in Los Angeles County are welcome to come in-person to our broadcast studio in Woodland Hills.

One on one classes are offered on Skype, phone, and in person.
 In-person classes are presented in Glendale, Los Angeles, CA

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Time Commitment

Group Format: 3-hour live classes will be braodcast from Woodland Hills every other Saturday 9 AM to 1 PM, beginning May 10th 2014. There will be a summer break in July, so July 19th will be skipped.

One on One, Flip Learning Format: each video class is also three hours long, followed by a one on one 1-hour coaching session with the teacher in-person, phone or Skype. Then, the total minimum commitment required is four hours per class, every two weeks.

Homework for Group and One-on-One, Flip Learning Formats: Both formats require a commitment of about six to ten hours per month. The student can do more homework based on their time availability and enthusiasm. 

Homework Consists of...

1- Completing a true / false quiz after each class (not graded but mandated to become certified)
2- Reading books and written material (optional)
3- Watching movies and documentaries (optional)

All courses at BOI have for goal helping the student to improve his or her life, so that later they know how to help others do likewise. Intellectual knowledge has value, but is definitely not enough.

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Final Paper

At the end of this course a four pages paper is required to obtain the final certification. The student can choose any subject they found interesting or
valuable during the course.

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Easy Enrollment Process to Participate in Up-Coming 3-Hour Tuition Free Class
Saturday, May 10th 2014

This will be the first class of the 10-Month Certification Course
Enrollment takes only 3-min to complete.

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Tuition and Fees

10-Month Certification Course in Brain Nutrition Counseling™
Group Format and One-on-One Flip Learning Format

Group Format:

Payment Options:

Option 1: 5-Month Program (classes every week) -- $500.00 at the enrollment and $500.00 per month, until the tuition price is paid.

Option 2 : 10-Month Program (classes every other week) -- $250.00 at the enrollment and $250.00 per month, until the tuition price is paid.

Option 3 : Upfront payment. A $250 discount may or may not be available.
Please check with us.


Total Tuition: $2,500.00,

-- No upfront or hidden fees or request for donations of any kind --

Scholarships: Scholarships are available under precise, predetermined conditions, like low income students living in India, China, Russia and third world countries in general. Please check with us.

Mentoring Program Format

There is no extra charge for participating in BOI's
One-on-One Flip-Learning Program.
Participation in this program is subjected to teacher's time availability;
please contact us.

-- No upfront or hidden fees or request for donations of any kind --

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Curriculum Summary

1st Class -- The Foundation of Brain Nutrition Counseling™

1- Understanding the ongoing revolution of Orthomolecular Medicine and Orthomolecular Psychiatry.
2- The Brain Optimization Institute's origin and mission.
3- Connection between Brain Nutrition and mental health, and between Brain Nutrition and physical health.
4- How Brain Nutrition helps immensely to attain success in life. Using brain nutrition to move from Victim to Victor.
5- The connection between Brain Nutrition and happiness -- personal and Transpersonal.
6- The teachers' struggle and eventual success. The 1st breakthrough at balancing his metabolism and the 2nd one at balancing his brain neurotransmitters. When your diet works and when it is insufficient; when supplements work and when they fail.
7- Understanding the present legal issues and the ethical responsibilities in the nutritional counseling profession. The Brain Optimization™ model.
8- How you can use Brain Nutrition and the BOI Certification Course to heal yourself and others.
9- Dramatic case stories and what we can learn from them.
10- The fundamental issue of compliance with nutritional treatment. Behavioral modification. Overcoming resistance to taking pills and supplements.
11- Supplements safety vs. drugs safety - based on mainstream statistics!
12- The power of suggestion; when it comes to taking a pill, and how it should be used intelligently by every practitioner, including doctors.
13- A supplement program for life? Pros and cons. Is it for you? How you can implement it? Will it help you age gracefully and healthy?
14- How to organize your supplement program.
15- Taking supplements with or without meals -- pros and cons
16- Swallowing techniques. Storing your supplements safely.
17- Can supplements produce undesirable interactions when taken together? Can supplements produce side effects? What to do if that happens to you?
18- The importance of practicing nutrition on oneself. My mentor's "sad" experience in Oriental Medicine school.
19- How you can save thousands of dollars by getting the best supplements for the least money.
20- How and why selling supplements to your client can help you immensely to consolidate your private practice. The invaluable blessing of having your own business.
21- What will you learn during the 10-Month Certification Course in Brain Nutrition Counseling™?


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2nd CLass -- Proteins; The Dance of Life and Death


1- Protein and the great drama of life in this planet; and perhaps in others.
2- Everybody is eating everybody -- why life in the ocean may not be us fun as we imagine.
3- The protein we chose can sustain life or take life -- it is up to us. Case story of a deadly high protein weight reduction diet.
4- A deadly tabu in the arctic circle
5- What happens when university students visit a slaughter house
6- Vegetarianism may be a humane answer to the horrors of slaughter houses, but there are many perils involved...
7- Proteins and aminoacids
8- Complete vs incomplete proteins -- essential aminoacids vs non-essential aminoacids
9- Aminoacid deficiencies and their impact on the brain's neurotransmitters
10 Why "isms" may not be useful in nutritional counseling
11- A selective approach to protein compared with a dogmatic approach
12- Is it true that every protein -- vegetarian or not -- can be consumed safely if we choose the best quality and in the right quantity?
13- Is fish the greatest protein ever? Are we about to lose it?
14- Why there is mercury in my fish and how to remove it -- "the semen of Shiva." One part per million xan kill the neurons! Dramatic University research proving this fact. The safest fish species may not be safe for much longer -- unless we change the definition of safe :)
15- Any radioactivity in my fish? -- concerns about Fukushima. Fifty nuclear reactors in tsunami country, What are they doing there?  Why ocean health and human health may be connected.
16- The aquaculture industry -- volume, growth and main players, future of the industry seems brilliant! Feed conversion rate cannot be better!
17- Risky and very competitive business lead to dangerous measures. What are the measures? How they affect you?
18- Wild vs farmed fish -- antibiotics, hormones, fat content, muscle content, GMO corn, dye, pro-inflammatory Omega-6, mercury, small vs big fish, nitrosamines.
19- What can we do to protect ourselves?
20- Ecological considerations in regard to the ocean and fish -- what percentage of the fish is already gone?  Acidification of the oceans; does it have any impact on fish?
21-A fascinating experiment in sustainability that you can do in your apartment! Could pescovegetarianism be the answer? Could this diet allow us to feed 10 billion people, hungry for protein?.


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3rd CLass -- Where Is the Beef? What is in my thanksgiving turkey and in my morning eggs? Is Yyoghurt, "as healthy as a yoghurt?" Are these foods dangerous or invaluable?

1- Is industrially farmed beef a dangerous food?
2- Flying at 9,000 feet; why this place smells worse than rotten fish?
3- What is in my industrial beef really?
4- Any antibiotics? Hormones? High fat content and little muscle i.e. soft meat? Any GMO corn? Pro-inflammatory Omega-6? Arachidonic acid? What about tranquilizers? Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy or mad-cow disease, Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease in humans? Nitrosamines? Cholesterol? What can you do about these little "problems?"
5- Ecological considerations for industrialized farmed beef
6- Total cattle population, demand on land, grain, gasoline, worst FCR ever and its ecological consequences.
6- What is in my Free Range Grass Fed Beef? Any difference?
7- Antibiotics? Hormones? High fat content and little muscle i.e. soft meat? Any GMO corn? Pro-inflammatory Omega-6? Arachidonic acid? What about tranquilizers? Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy or mad-cow disease, Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease in humans? Nitrosamines? Cholesterol? Can folate help? How much? -- What can we do about all this?
8- Ecological Considerations for Organic, Free Range, Grass Fed Beef
9- Horrendous LCR, Disastrous FDR
10- Is Industrialized Farmed Poultry a Dangerous Food for You?
11- Any antibiotics? Hormones? High fat content and little muscle i.e. soft meat? Any GMO corn? Pro-inflammatory Omega-6? Arachidonic acid? What about tranquilizers? Nitrosamines? Cholesterol? -- What can we do about all this?
12- Is Organic, Free Range, "Grass" Fed, Poultry a Good Food for You?
13- Any antibiotics? Hormones? High fat content and little muscle i.e. soft meat? Any GMO corn? Pro-inflammatory Omega-6? Arachidonic acid? What about tranquilizers? Nitrosamines? Cholesterol? -- What can we do about all this?
14- Ecological considerations for Organic, Free Range, "Grass Fed" Poultry
15- FCR 2. What would be the impact on global warming if we all stop eating beef and eat paultry instead?
16- Is Industrialized Farmed Eggs a Dangerous Food for You?
17- Any antibiotics? Hormones? Any GMO corn? Pro-inflammatory Omega-6? Arachidonic acid? What about tranquilizers? Nitrosamines? Cholesterol?  E-Coli? -- What can we do about all this?
18- Is Organic, Free Range Eggs a Healthy Food for You?
19- Any antibiotics? Hormones? Any GMO corn? Pro-inflammatory Omega-6? Arachidonic acid? What about tranquilizers? Nitrosamines? Cholesterol? E-Coli? -- What can you do about all this?
20- Is Industrialized Dairy Products a Dangerous Food for You? Any antibiotics? Hormones? Any GMO corn? Pro-inflammatory Omega-6? Arachidonic acid? What about tranquilizers? Nitrosamines? Cholesterol? What can we do about all this?"
21- Is Organic, Free Range, Grass Fed Dairy Products a Good Food for You? Any antibiotics? Hormones? Any GMO corn? Pro-inflammatory Omega-6? Arachidonic acid? What about tranquilizers? Nitrosamines? Cholesterol? What can we do about all this?


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4th CLass -- Best Dairy Products. Are Really that Great? Are Legumes and Grains the Perfect Protein? Are Power Bars the Answer to a Humanity Hungry for Protein? What about nuts and seeds?


1- The best dairy products -- Cow Milk vs Goat Milk, Cow Cheese, Cow Milk Yoghurt, Goat Cheese, Goat Milk Yoghurt, Aged Cheese vs Fresh Cheese, Raw Cow Milk, Raw Goat Milk.
2- More about Dairy Products: A powerful source of protein. Mucus forming? Serious allergy detonator? Inflammation? How to attain a cholesterol of 600 and get three heart attacks before you turn 60. Are we humans or cow calfs?
3- Plant Protein
4- Significance of Dr Ernest Geiger's experiments in rats with corn and amino acid supplementation. Were his results accurate? USC 1940s.
5- Best way to overcome the limitations of the plant protein.
6- Complete protein vs, imperfect amino-acid distribution
7- Legumes with Grains -- Organic Beans and Organic Brown Rice, Organic Lentils and Organic Brown Rice, Organic Corn and Beans, Couscous and Garbanzo Beans.
8- Gas is a real limitation for some. Can this be solved?
9- Grains: Organic Brown Rice, Quinoa, Millet, Couscous. Is quinoa the king of the grains?
10- A poison in my organic grains and legumes? What can be done about it.
11- Power bars -- a dream that started 35 year ago
12- Soy protein, a dream come true or a nightmare on the making?
13- Some serious issues: GMO, trypsin inhibitors, phyto-estrogens, isoflavones are endocrine disrupters, allergenic for some people, hypothyroidism and lectins.
14- Soy and the ovo-lacteo vegetarian movement of the 70s and 80s
15- Can these issues be overcome? What would be the result?
16- Fermented soy products: organic miso, soy yogurt, tempe, natto
17- Non-Fermented: organic soy milk, tofu, textured protein, organic soy protein powder (hard to find)
18- Extreme moderation and only fermented? Not necessarily
19- Nuts and seeds -- Nuts: walnuts, pecans, macadamia nuts, cashew nuts, hazel nuts, pine nuts, (peanuts), (Goji Berries)
20- Seed: almonds, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds
21- Issues: rancidity, aflotoxin, allergies, when low blood pressure becomes a problem, excess vs. moderation, incomplete proteins that can be completed with grains and legumes - chinese wisdom.


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5th CLass -- The two most healing diets and their proper clinical applications. Intelligent transitioning to a vegan diet. Is it worth? The devil is in the details. Will I help my cardiovascular system? Will I reduce my risk of cancer? Will I decrease inflammation? What about fishy-veganism? The Paleolithic Diet. Will it save your brain and neurological system?

1- How to become a vegan safely - Is it for everyone? Is it for you? The devil is in the details.
2- If this are the most fundamental benefits of a vegan diet: a) adding ten extra years to your life, or more, b) no cancer, c) no cardiovascular disease, d) no arthritis, e) no osteoporosis, f) no inlfammation, g) no diabetes, h) no Alzheimer's disease, and i) no obesity; would you become a vegan? Are these scientific facts or wishful thinking?
3- What are the most fundamental issues to consider and to compensate for?
4- Incomplete proteins, pleasure, digestibility and gas, GMO and pesticides, lectins, B12, L-Carnitine, Omega-3 fish oils, D3, rancidity and aflotoxin, indulgence in simple carbohydrates, chewing.
5- Protein in vegetable juices?
6- Pure plant protein products
7- The best milk ever -- Viviana's recipe
8- What about supplementing with very small amounts of animal protein? What about honey? Is this a religion? Not necessarily, but it can easily become...
9- An example from nature -- monkeys that supplement with animal protein?
10- What about veganism combined with fish?
11- The Paloelithic Diet -- origins, very popular among some researchers,
12- Dos and don'ts
13- The Paleolithic Diet Plus -- serious initial limitations: no salt, only wild vegetables, no processed oils, no dairy products, no grains, no legumes, no honey.  How to relax the dogma and get out of religion?
14- Which organ seems to benefit the most? What type of individuals may benefit the most?
15- What type of diseases will likely be avoided by practicing the PD?
16- Any scientific study? The significance of the studies and the value of the diet have been minimized or denied by....?
17- Does the Paleolithic Diet meets the 3 Golden Rules of Nutrition? Is it a low calorie diet?
18- How much weight you can expect to loose in the Paleolithic Diet?
19- Addressing the many "cons"
20- The Paleolitic Diet Plus Menu.  Will the PD also come and go as many others?
21- An interesting case: about cooking meats at home -- offensive to the senses? Fight your genes, who do you think will win? Is being sick an option?


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6th CLass -- Fats, Oils and the Brain

1- When it comes to select carbos is it OK to trust nature? When it comes to select protein is it OK to trust nature? When it comes to select fats should we trust nature?
2- Does eating too much fat lead to cardiovascular disease and cancer? Really?
3- Does eating too littles fat lead to Alzheimer disease? Why?
4- Triglycerides and Cholesterol? What are they really? Friends or foe?
5- What are the fatty acids, and why we need to understand the Fatty Acid Chains?
6- Saturated, monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fatty acid molecules
7- Their impact on health and happiness
8- The 5 wonder oils
9- Root cause for sixty different type of diseases, and primary cause for aging
10- Why and under what conditions polyunsaturated oils may not be your best friends.
11- Causes and assessment for rancidity in oils
12- Why some oils are more susceptible to rancidity and what we can do about it
12- Industrial oils refining process, and its implications to human health - what you can do about it.
13- The history of the trans fat oils and their impact on health -- estimated premature deaths.
14- The FDA responsibility. What was the end of the story?
15- The oil that could change everything!
16- The 5 wonder oils -- review
17- The essential Omega-3 fatty acids -- their multiple impacts on health. 
18- How to secure them in your diet.
19- What about Omega-6 Fatty Acids?
20- How the Omega-3 and Omega-6 are similar, and how they are different. Their ratio's impact on health. The present situation in the US and what can we do about it.
21- Attaining cellular flexibility and its impact on health, youth and life extension. Impact on the brain.


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7th CLass -- BOI 21 Scientific and Common Sense Principles. These principles regulate and lead to optimum nutrition for body, brain, mind and soul. Significant violation of these principles lead to disease, imbalances, lack of concentration, inability to reach our goals, inharmonious relationships and unhappiness.

1- "First Golden Rule of Nutrition"
2- "Second Golden Rule of Nutrition"
3- "Third Golden Rule of Nutrition"
4- "The 20-20-20 Principle"
5- "High Quality Principle"
5- "Prioritization Principle"
6- "Low Calorie Principle"
7- "The Listening Principle"
8- "Pleasure Principle"
9- "Rotation Principle"
10- "Simplicity and Repetition Principle" -- Example
11- "The Oily Principle"
12- "Chewing and Savoring Principle"
13- "Wise Cooking Principle"
14- "The Supermarket Principle"
15- "Glucometer Principle"
16- "Physical Exercise Principle"
17- "The Supplementation Principle"
18- "The Knowledge Principle"
19- "Local Food Principle"
21- "Food-Positive Thinking Principle."


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8th CLass -- Introduction to Orthomolecular Medicine and Orthomolecular Psychiatry

1- Founding fathers of Orthomolecular Medicine. What does it mean that they were "geniuses"
2- Safety record of Orthomolecular Medicine -- mortality due to supplements vs drugs.
3- How to age only two years in a period of twenty years -- implications
4- Can we reverse the aging process?
5- Why the 21 st century medicine -- Orthomolecular Medicine -- is here to stay
6- Youth and Good Health extension vs. Life Extension -- The Chinese curse
7- More on patient's compliance -- the greatest challenge in clinical work
8- Practical ways to increase compliance with treatment -- a behavioral modification issue.
9- The most practical system to take supplements and its impact on compliance and personal wellbeing
10- When there is a strong resistance to taking pills.
11- Swallowing technique -- how to safely swallow 30 capsules in one gulp
12- Any negative interaction between supplements? Any positive one?
13- A supplement program for life -- what for?
14- Can my supplement program replace my doctor? What about replacing my health insurance?
15- How to heal physical and mental imbalances as they arise?
16- The promise of Orthomolecular Medicine to the United States, and how it will impact our economy
17- How to store supplements safely
18- The value of practicing Orthomolecular Medicine on oneself  -- my mentor's story.
19- Why bringing down inmediately unrealistic expectations in your client -- beginings of a business model for your private practice
20- Orthomolecular Healing vs Orthomolecular Medicine. Could Orthomolecular Healing be the most powerful, effective healing art method ever? Why?
21- A multivitamin multimineral is a good place to start -- why? Why it is also completely insufficient. Best multivitamin multiminerals in the market today.


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9th Class -- The greatest and simplest system to Brain Optimization™, Part 1

1- When you visit the shrink what do they check first? -- from serotonin to melatonin.
2- The greatest and simplest system to optimum brain health and Brain Optimizatio™ -- how I learned about it, and why it is still the most practical and effective method.
3- The fundamental architecture of the brain. The "Four Breath of God."
4- What are the neurotransmitters really?
5- The four main neurotransmitters and their significance in Orthodox Psychiatry and in Orthomolecular Medicine
6- Do you have a Western brain or an Eastern brain?
7- The three "brakes of the brain"
8- The "one at a time" principle of Orthodox Psychiatry. The wholistic approach of Orthomolecular Psychiatry -- safer and more effective.
9- The new pharmaceuticals may be more dangerous than the old ones? Our student's story
10- $400 per month to $15 per month?
11- Feeling edgy?
12- Why each brain is different and how to figure out the uniqueness of yours.
13- How to find out your neurotransmitter's deficiencies without paying one penny, for doctors or lab tests.
14- The eighth "magic" numbers and how to obtain them
15- Does it really work? One month to recovery from pathological ADD -- 6/2004 to 7/2006 -- 10,10,13,11 to 03,04,09,04
16- Four lessons on simplicity
17- What are the mental disorders that you can expect from specific deficiencies
18- Impact on personality. Example, "The Cook."-- 18, 40, 34, 24
19- Can we change our personality?
20- The three main dosages necessary for clinical work.
21- What if you really learn this methodology? Could you make a living and give a great service to your clients just with this method alone?


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10th CLass -- The greatest and simplest system to Brain Optimization, Part 2

Working with the student's brain numbers.


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11th CLass -- The greatest and simplest system to Brain Optimization, Part 3

Working with the student's brain numbers.


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12th CLass -- The greatest and simplest system to Brain Optimization, Part 4

1- General Supplement Program Chart
2- Brain Nutrition Supplement Decision Chart
3- Example using student's numbers, or: 29, 31, 21, 24 -- 16, 17, 24, 07
4- Why applying the system to oneself. A fundamental principle of the healing arts: "Healer Heal Thyself."
5- Two fundamental an significant advantages over the present psychiatric approach:
a) No life threatening side effects
b) All neurotransmitters can be treated at the same time
6- The most powerful neurotransmitter pathway -- (picture)
7- Intervening at different stages in the pathway for healing and optimization purposes.
8- Adaptogenic herbs and substances -- what are they, how they work, examples, best literature.
9- "Walking in the Tibetan mountains"
10- From Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Website
11- Taking a deeper look at the power behind a well energized brain
a) A revolution in the making?, or "nothing happened"
b) Are you enjoying your high? The dramatic testimonial of a nurse -- read it from page 27.
c) May be I'm becoming uncomfortably angry. Can just 200 mg be responsible for my anger?
d) Why this precursor?
12- Parkinson's Disease -- what is it really? An interesting success story.
13- Taking a deeper look into the power behind a creative brain
a) "Should I eat more egg yolks?"
b) "If it was so good for the monkeys, why not for me?"
c) "Ancestral does not mean effective, but..."
d) "Looks like a conifer but it isn't..."
14- Taking a deeper look into the power behind a calm brain.
a) "It might cross the brain barrier after all!"
b) "Too little to be effective?"
c) From a humble aminoacid to panspermia. Too little to produce results vs trusting the doctor?
d) When a calming herb is concentrated 6 to 1. It was already 1/5 of a benzodiazepine. Quite a success story with six capsules per day.
14- Taking a deeper look into the power behind a playful brain.
a) Do B vitamins have any impact on depression
b) From the thanksgiving turkey to the brain there is only one step in between
c) And in Chile it grows on the side of the roads
15- Should I ad anything else?
16- Multivitamin multiminerals and IQ. Multivitamin multimineral and behavior
17- When salmon is not enough. Studies of salmon consumption and depression
18- Borderline pellagra?
19- Borderline scurvy?
20- "Now and then the sun rises," but in the Arctic....
21- What is the most powerful natural antioxidant that I can safely take for myself and give to my clients?


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13th CLass -- Into the Mysterious Realms of Orthomolecular Medicine, Part 1


1- "There is no other single substance or formula that can produce such remarkable properties, in terms of efficacy, long term safety and economy."
2- The man behind the work -- the calibration of the genius
3- A must to read! -- why? Finally a solution to schizophrenia? -- yes and no.
4- A gift with many names. May be smoking is not that bad after all?
5- And the market is offering it in three different forms -- do all three work the same?
6- Was BW another genius? No wander they didn't understand! A fantastic story!
7- LSD, to reduce what?
8- The evolutionary hypothesis
9- What is used for? Digestive system, skin, nerves, to obtain energy from carbohydrates, to manufacture sex hormones and to repair the DNA.
10- The three diseases that shaped medicine
11- The missing molecule behind the nightmare
12- What are the symptoms? Dermatitis, gastrointestinal disorders, and mental disturbances -- neurosis and psychosis.  "We see this a lot in neurotic individuals -- dermatitis and gastrointestinal disorders." Isn't it?
13- The food that feeds the monster
14- The secret behind tortillas...
15- The four Ds
16- Way before death, they just lose it to schizophrenia. 25% of mental hospitals' admissions were not mental patients -- but the symptoms were the same!
17- Was a scientific decision or a business decision?  Every disease not treatable with nutrition is a billionaire business for the pharmaceutical industry. What was the immediate consequence?
18- An alternative conclusion could have saved millions from untold suffering. Why? Who is right?
19- Larry's case. But what about neurosis? Impact on millions. Impact on big pharma. What about ADHD?
20- Multiple causes make it easy to cut the head of the snake. Will it grow another one?
21- The best lipid regulator ever. Minimum therapeutic dosage. Anxiety, depression, ADHD, alcoholism, schizophrenia, arthritis, multiple sclerosis, allergies, diabetes, stress, gastrointestinal disorders, leukoplakia, lupus erythematosus, senility, vascular disorders, hyperlipidemia.


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14th CLass -- Into the Mysterious Realms of Orthomolecular Medicine, Part 2

1- A new form of Russian Roulette. Alzheimer's -- 4th cause of death in America -- affect 10 % of the population at 65 years of age! Survival: 2 to 20 years. Average survival in mental hell: eight years. Do you want to play? If there is a an inexpensive supplement that removes the bullets form the barrel would you take it?
2- Russian Roulette # 2. May be you want to play this one. Alzheimer's affect 40% of the population at 80 years of age!
3- Other substances are known to decrease the chances significantly. Would you take them?
4- 40% less plaque in Alzheimer's brain with another inexpensive supplement! Would you take it for the rest of your life?
5- November 2011 a research team ads an inexpensive supplement to the water in Alzheimer's rats. After four months they were cognitively cured.  And then?
6- When 20,000 mg are still safe. How much are you willing to take?
7- Possible side effects and how to handle them.
8- We could create a PHD program just on this one substance alone -- Vitamin C
9- The hidden purpose of this class... :)
10- The man behind the research -- another genius with two nobel prices and 1,000 scientific papers.
11- If the mind is an extension of the food we eat, would you be interested in learning what he was eating? How much vitamin C was he taking?
12- The molecule that saves lives is quite small and reactive
13- Why the primordial soup of life has the key to extraordinary health
14- Fluoxetine -- Prozac.  Something is wrong here?
15- How much a goat weights? Between 5 to 200 pounds. Why is she so full of energy and life?
16- What happened to your own production of Vitamin C -- the gene is gone!
17- Scurvy in its grotesque forms has practically disappeared, but are we still paying a high price? Scurvy has killed more sailors than...How scurvy looks like?
18- If you go to a doctor today complaining about the three main scurvy symptoms what medication will they likely give you?
19- But what is Vitamin C good for?  I'm taking several grams a day and there is no change in my symptoms.
20- Does Vitamin C deficiency compromises the immune system? How many grams would I need to correct the problem? Why it is dangerous not to supplement with vitamin C during a cold or any infectious disease?
21- What is the FDA recommended daily allowance for Vitamin C? 100 mg! Remember the goat?
Can you rely on official government information to make your decisions in regard to eating, supplementing your diet and how to stay healthy in general?  Do you see who is in charge of the official governmental information? An extraordinary case story in regard to the Vitamin C Protocol.


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15th CLass -- Into the Mysterious Realms of Orthomolecular Medicine, Part 3


1- This vitamin is less effective -- just do not buy it
2- This one is quite effective but it is not a vitamin!
3- Now the sun can rise, but the fish is really fishy
4- When life becomes a half life, disease becomes the norm and vibrant health a fantasy of some "crazy" nutritionists and scientists.
5- Do you need your immune system first line of defense, or the rest is enough for you?
6- Then Vitamin C is not necessary?
7- When infectious diseases can come in through the front door
8- The most controversial vitamin ever?  How rigidity and stubbornness killed millions. Apologies do not raise the dead from the grave, but yes, it is a first step towards redemption.
9- How much do I take then? How much did you produce?
10- And if I am under the wether?
11 The most scarce vitamin in Nature -- essential to life? Tolerance for low subclinical levels.
12- I come with my whole family, would you still accept me at home?
13- If you do not take me in, you will have no children of your own
14- I can help you with: fatty liver, atherosclerosis, thrombosis, phlebitis, endocrine disruption, muscle pain, peripheral vascular disorders, claudication, and also premature death. Can I come in?
15- Synthetic here may be dangerous and decrease life span. A silent killer
16- LEF was right all along
17- Linus Pauling recommendations. Hoffer's recommendations. What is the teacher doing?
18- How do I make my trick?
a) I reduce your oxygen requirement
b) I gradually melt fresh clots, and prevent embolism
c) I improve your collateral circulation
d) I prevent scars
e) I decrease your insulin requirements
f) I increase your muscle power
g) I preserve your capillary walls. How successful would be a drug capable of doing all this?
h) It is a powerful antioxidant, much more powerful than Vit C and is useful for skin lotion.
19- Tolerable upper limit according to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences
20- How much have you been getting in your diet?
21- Why should you consider practicing Orthomolecular Medicine.


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16th CLass -- What is killing the body? Is it anything that could give you physical immortality?

1-What are Free Radicals really, and how they are killing your dear body.
2- Antioxidants come to your help, but are they strong enough to save you?
3- Team players -- even the best soccer team requires 11 players or will likely lose the match
4- Definition: (ORAC Units) Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity
5- The BOI Antioxidant Intervention
6- What can you expect if you take massive amounts of antioxidants?
7- Two necessary conditions to perform it successfully
8- The US statistics vs the USDA recommendations. Where these ORAC Units come from?
9- Our Western civilization technology impact on free radicals is due to specific factors.
10- The champions
11- The numbers are quite revealing!
12- Color has something to do with the equation
13- We may be scratching the surface
14- Exogenous vs. endogenous
15- And it can kill cancer cells!  Chemotherapy and antioxidants -- the mainstream position and the holistic position
16- What about physical pain?
17- A powerful case story
18- What about inflammation in the brain?
19- How much daily antioxidant power takes the teacher?
20- Is it safe? Safety considerations
21- Youth and Life Extension -- a path to physical immortality.


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17th CLass -- The Safest Bioidentical Hormones

1- Bioidentical hormones vs. pharmaceuticals.
2- Why pharmaceutical hormones are dangerous and why the business lacks integrity
3- The genius that revolutionized this field
4- When you need or don't need a doctor involved
5- Inexpensive, high quality hormone panels for yourself and clients
6- What happens when "the mother is absent" -- how the children behave?
7- What are the benefits that the research is proving over and over?
8- What could be the downside? Impact in men; prostate, testosterone and estrogen levels
9- Impact in women, testosterone and estrogen levels
10- Impact on the brain
11- When is the time to start?
12- When weaker is better
13- The three fundamental estrogens
14- Cancer risk is not increased by using the right bio-identical estrogen
15- Does weaker means less effective? -- not necessarily
16- Bone density, heart health, multiple sclerosis and postmenopausal urinary tract health
17- An anti-estrogen estrogen!
17- Legal considerations and protection of your consumer's rights: www.homecoalition.org
18- When "the mother becomes pregnant" - Clinical conclusions of the progesterone genius.
19- Estrogen dominance: what is really, how to solve it. Can the benefits be so many?! Where can I get it? How much? How to control it?
20- Progestins -- healing substances or a form of legal/organized crime? Shocking mandated disclosure by the State of California.
21- Why losing your masculinity or your masculine side is dangerous and what to do about it.


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18th CLass -- Minerals; the body's most fundamental building blocks are, of course, fundamental to good health. Minerals supplementation impact on youth and life extension, agriculture and civilization.

1- The twelve arbitrary essential minerals
2- Potassium -- when supplementation becomes quite a challenge
3- Sodium -- salts that are poison for your body and salts that we will make it sing.
4- Magnesium -- when supplementation becomes even more challenging
5- Calcium -- friend or foe?
6- Zinc -- quite helpful, but to what extent?
7- Copper -- worst enemy? Are you sure?
8- Iodine -- Can I take THAT much?
9- Selenium -- is it THAT powerful?
10- Iron -- Do you want me to age prematurely and die, or to be well oxygenated?
11- Manganese -- Its name comes from "magic."
12- Phosphorous -- 60 mg in your coke, is it good for you?
13- Chlorine -- where do we get it?
14- The seven arbitrary non-essential minerals
15- Sulphur -- Is it worth supplementing with it? Applications
16- Chromium -- the clever mineral
17- Cobalt -- yes, your brain may shrink!
18- Nickel -- friend or foe?
19- Fluorine -- a blessing for your teeth or an effective way to decrease the population? What about prozac -- fluoxetine.
20 - Fascinating Strontium
21- Molybdenum. Micro-minerals. Sea water. Mineralization and youth/life extension. The fascinating use of sea water in agriculture. How to produce a super body based on mineral abundance.


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19th CLass -- Inner Ecology. Brain and guts connection. Natural antibiotics that are safe, effective, inexpensive, bugs cannot generate resistance to them, and of extraordinary wide spectrum -- including hundreds or bacteria species, fungus and viruses!  Some you can even take them everyday to stay "bug free."

1- Why the pharmaceutical industry does not want you to know this information, and what they are doing to make sure you don't get it.
2- If that fails, what they are doing to make sure that you can't get access to these substances, and why they will fail regardless of their efforts.
3- Are pharmaceuticals antibiotics worthless then? Not necessarily.
4- Hydrochloric Acid Therapy -- why it works and what are the limitations
5- Enzymatic therapy -- why it works and what are the limitations.
6- Raw food and rawism. Could it be for you? Why so many fail after about three years? Is it some scientific truth here that I can put to good use? The art of raw cooking. Raw cooking classes offered by Viviana.
7- The probiotics promise
8- The e-coli challenge. A near death experience.
9- What we can do if we get e-coli infection and how to prevent it in the first place
10- Combusha and other fermented foods that could be great for you. Are they that great?
11- When the Scientific American finally agreed with holistic medicine, did it give it any credit?
12- What are this new mainstream "discoveries" about? They are awesome in fact!
13- Acid reflux is curable? Or you better keep taking your anti-acids?
14- When the inner ecology has gone South, what do you do? What about heading South too? The Mexican clinics not only treat cancer, they also treat Candidiasis -- which can be as painful as cancer.
15- Why the regular nutritional approach to candidiasis is impractical, and what can be done about it. Are you treating candidiasis or something else? Does it matter?
16- Including antibiotics in your everyday supplement program. If the veterinary gives daily antibiotics to the cows, can you also take them daily?  May be!
17- Candidiasis messes up with your brain and also with your glucose control system.
18- IBS and the brain. IBS and your intestinal flora.
19- Bacteria in your mouth. Is that good?
20- How to wash your teeth safely for a lifetime of good dental health
21- The standard of care in dentistry is quite convenient as a business model but, does it really work for you? Do you have any alternative?


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20th CLass -- Antiaging Made Simple; Part 1. How you can apply sound antiaging scientific principles that will have a wonderful impact in your health, happiness, youth, life span, and also in the level of success you experience in life.


1- Quick test to assess your biological age
2- How monkeys helped us discover the power of supplements to extend youth and life.
3- What Linus Pauling and Abram Hoffer had to say about the subject?
4- Is aging a mental program?
5- Is the body naturally capable of regenerating itself over and over indefinitely?
6- How to protect your body from deadly family genes?
7- How to protect body and brain from the natural decline in cell energy production
8- Excess weight produces disease and shortens life span -- what can you do about it
9- Gradually moving towards a plant based diet? Does it makes sense? According to solid research, animal protein may not be the best choice to extend youth and life -- revisiting the subject
10- Physical exercise as an antiaging strategy -- does it really make a difference?
11- Practical ways to increase your levels of growth hormone
12- Nobel prize awarded to a scientist specialized in anti-aging
13- This antiaging supplement costs $8,000 per year! Would you buy it?
14- How it was discovered? How it was patented? Is it worth the money? Can you get it?
16- How can you get similar results without spending the money?
17- Would you like to live 1,000 years? -- it might be possible according to experts.
18- Life extension's impact on social security :) Does our dear government want us to live that long? Is it fair to live so long? Would it create social chaos?  Really?
19- Decreasing external indications of aging. Is it important?
20- Hair loss.
21- Skin care.


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21st CLass -- Antiaging Made Simple, Part 2

1- Vision and hearing
2- Optimizing Thyroid Function -- why it is so valuable
3- Radioactivity and the thyroid. Iodine and the thyroid. Expression and the thyroid. From supplements to drugs; never vice-versa
4- Sexuality and life extension -- viagra vs arginine and other supplements that help
5- Keeping the body internally clean is fundamental to youth and life extension. However...
6- Easy and safe ways to control constipation
7- Chelation of heavy metals and radiation
8- Keeping your bones strong and healthy
9- Keeping your joints strong, healthy and free of pain
10- Cleaning the plaque from your arteries -- is atherosclerosis reversible then?
11- Protecting the body from alcohol consumption without quitting your wine or beer
12- Protecting the body from oxidation -- revisiting the subject from a different perspective.
13- The importance of keeping your memory intact
14- Keeping your hormones at youthful levels -- how youthful?
15- Can Chinese medicine come to our help?
16- Does Ormus work?
17- Does Navapashanam work?
18- Does Navapashanamized Ormus work?
19- How to create a private practice as a nutritionist or as an orthomolecular practitioner
20- Fundamental ethical principles: do no harm, keep your integrity, honor the truth, educate your client.
21- And from here, is it anything else that the Brain Optimization Institute can do for you? Yes, much more in fact.

This curriculum is subject to change at anytime at discretion
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The Brain Optimization™ Institute offers classes information, courses with certifications and counseling on drug free solutions to ADD, ADHD, depression, anxiety, chronic pain, substance abuse and other forms of brain/mental disorders. Certifications include Brain Nutrition Counseling™, Wellnes/Lifes Coaching with Emphasis in Cognitive Psychology, and Psychology of Consciousness. The Brain Optimization Institute also offers a Certification in Holistic Life Mastery
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