The coating on your nerves, like the black protection around electrical wires, is called myelin sheathing.  Deterioration of myelin sheathing causes a “leakage” of electrical energy out the sides of nerves, resulting in disrupted function.  This can cause shaking, poor balance, and/or a lack of coordination. It also causes easier fatigue from almost anything. A news study in healthy men clearly shows that loss of myelin sheathing begins at age 39, a slow decay of nerve function which also relates to memory. The initial sign is simply a loss of reflex speed.

The researchers explained “Studies have shown us that as we age, myelin breakdown and repair is continually occurring over the brain’s entire neural network. But in older age, we begin losing the repair battle. That means the average performance of the networks gradually declines with age at an accelerating rate…After middle age, we start to lose the battle to repair the myelin in our brain, and our motor and cognitive functions begin a long, slow downhill slide.”

Your myelin sheathing is made of phospholipids, which are in turn built from various nutrients. Providing nutritional support for myelin sheathing is important for a variety of reasons, especially if there are signs of slowing reflexes, balance or coordination issues, or easy fatigue from stress.

The top nutrients that support making the phospholipid structure of myelin sheathing are Calcium AEP, Phosphatidyl Serine, and Shark Liver Oil. Fat soluble antioxidants, such as the tocotrienol form of vitamin E, help protect the cell membranes of all cells, including the phospholipids-rich structures of the myelin sheathing.