Fasting is helpful to optimize brain health by protecting your neurons and glial cells. Intermittent fasting improves sleep, which helps to enhance clearance through the brain's lymphatic system.

Resveratrol is shown to reduce oxidative stress, excitotoxicity, and reduce inflammation.

Fish oil is a heavy duty anti-inflammatory and can interrupt the secondary injury cascade brought from a traumatic brain injury.

Oats, or Avena Sativa, is a nootropic herb. Nootropics are brain-specific verses a nervine that address the entire nervous system. The straw, seed, or milky stage are medicinally beneficial.

Valerian/Valeriana Officinalis benefits for insomnia & sleep disturbance was first prescribed during the Greek and Roman era. Valerian is best known as a sedative, nervine, antispasmodic, hypotensive, diuretic, and anticonvulsant. You can use it to soothe sleep disturbance, grief/loss, depression, neuralgic pain, dysmenorrhea, epilepsy, nervous headaches, and decreased cerebral circulation.

Lavender is a calming ally for an overtaxed nervous system. Lavender is a wonderful healer in each of her forms: essential oil, salve, tea, or tincture. Best used to relieve anxiety, insomnia, restlessness, indigestion, headaches, pre-menstrual cramps.

Crataegus Spp or Hawthorne is a powerful ally for the heart. It is often thought of as just a cardiovascular herb, but she is so much more than that. Hawthorne is available in multiple forms, tea from the leaves and flowers, tinctures, and extracts. The berries when eaten whole are a tangy-sweet snack. The berries and flowers provide anti-inflammatory and antioxidant activity and improve cross-linkage in the connective tissue of the blood vessels.

Passion Flower is useful in supporting insomnia and nervous system disorders. The leaves ingested as tea or tinctures address; insomnia, anxiety, seizures, Parkinson’s disease, neuralgia, shingles, and nervous palpitations or headache. External use can address hemorrhoids, burns, or inflammation, especially when used in a neutral sitz bath. Passion Flower fruit has a sweet and sour flavor and can be eaten whole. When eaten it acts as a sedative, anxiolytic, antispasmodic, hypotensive, and nervine. It has an affinity for the heart and liver according to the herbalist, Michael Terra. Passion Flower is also helpful in decreasing amphetamine-induced hypermotility, aggressiveness, and restlessness.