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The science of adrenal fatigue & how to overcome it

Azriel ReShel
Upliftconnect.com
Wed, 16 Mar 2016 15:57 UTC
adrenal fatigue
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live. - Jim Rohn
Nearly every second person seems to be talking about adrenal fatigue today or is suffering extreme tiredness. Adrenal fatigue or Wired Tired is fast becoming a real thing. The "how are you" conversation seems to be peppered with the words "adrenal fatigue" or "my adrenals".

So are we all chronically fatigued with life, and the ways of the modern world? And do many of us suffer silently from this seemingly nebulous thing called "adrenal fatigue?" It's time we got a handle on what it really means to be adrenally fatigued, and how to heal it.

Comment: Additional helpful information about Adrenal Fatigue:
That old saying, "Big things come in small packages," can certainly refer to the adrenals, the endocrine glands located on top of the kidneys. These tiny powerhouses are responsible for a myriad of functions within the body, including the production of hormones, some of which are essential for survival. The adrenals are well-known for their function in how the body responds to stress, but their lesser known functions are also involved in the regulation of blood pressure, the secretion of sex hormones, and immune response. Understanding a little about how the adrenals work can bring a greater understanding of why these tiny glands can be at the root of seemingly unrelated health conditions such as allergies, asthma, and reproductive imbalances.


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Love hormone may enhance compassion of people suffering from PTSD


news-medical.net
Fri, 11 Mar 2016 22:05 UTC
oxytocin
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Oxytocin - "the love hormone" - may enhance compassion of people suffering from symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), according to new study conducted at the University of Haifa and Rambam Health Care Campus: "The fact that the present study found, that Oxytocin may improve compassion among patients with post-traumatic stress disorder toward women, provides new evidence that oxytocin may be able to improve the social behavior of these patients," said Professor Simone Shamay-Tsoory from the Department of Psychology at the University of Haifa, who led the study.

Compassion is pro-social motivation to help others who are in distress. It is an outcome of the emotion of empathy - the ability to recognize the feelings of others, and cognitive empathy - the ability to understand what another person feels and think. It is known from recent studies that compassion is mediated through different areas of the brain associated with both components of empathy.

Comment: For more information about Oxytocin - a hormone released by the pituitary gland that affects both the body and the brain, read the following articles:

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The great GMO coverup: FDA scientists' health warnings about GMOs have proven true and we are suffering as a result

Jeffery Smith
Institute for Responsible Technology
Tue, 01 Mar 2016 14:47 UTC
Anti GMO
© www.foodnavigator-usa.com
The Entire GMO Approval Process is based on Deception

According to extensive FDA memos made public through a lawsuit,[1]the overwhelming consensus of the agency's own scientists was that genetically engineered foods pose abnormal and unique risks including new toxins, allergens and nutritional problems. The scientists called for rigorous safety tests to protect our health. Tragically, a political appointee at the FDA covered up the warnings and allowed genetically modified organisms (GMOs) on the market without requiring any testing.[2] That official in charge of GMO policy was formerly an attorney representing the GMO giant, Monsanto. He later became Monsanto's Vice President and is now back at the FDA as the "US Food Czar."
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Doctor Selye the man who changed our understanding of stress

Lily Rothman
TIME
Mon, 14 Mar 2016 22:30 UTC
Stress
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Hans Selye's experiments with rats shed pioneering light on how stress affects health
Hans Selye pinned down a problem that had long baffled doctors

The release on Thursday of the American Psychological Association's annual Stress in America report represents nearly a decade of the organization tracking the extent and impact of stress in Americans' lives. The report is clear evidence that medicine takes stress seriously—as well it should—but, though human beings have always felt stress, it's actually been less than a century since the subject got the attention it deserved.

As TIME explained in a 1983 cover story, it used to be thought that "stress" was just a vague feeling, not a precise medical term. There was no firm definition or way of measuring it. Even so, it was clear that there was something going on. As early as the Civil War, a condition known as "soldier's heart" was noticed by doctors. "During World War I, the crippling anxiety called shell shock was at first attributed to the vibrations from heavy artillery, which was believed to damage blood vessels in the brain," as TIME put it. "This theory was abandoned by the time World War II came along, and the problem was renamed battle fatigue."

Comment: Read more about the extent and impact of stress:

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Many amazing benefits and uses for hydrogen peroxide

Andrea Harpe
Collective Evolution
Tue, 15 Mar 2016 00:00 UTC
peroxide
Hydrogen peroxide (3% solution) is the only germicidal agent composed only of water and oxygen. Like ozone, it kills disease organisms by oxidation! Hydrogen peroxide is considered the worlds safest all natural effective sanitizer. It kills microorganisms by oxidizing them, which can be best described as a controlled burning process. When Hydrogen peroxide reacts with organic material it breaks down into oxygen and water. Here are 25 amazing benefits and uses of hydrogen peroxide:

Note: always be sure to use proper doses and be careful not to over dose on hydrogen peroxide. Use 3% solution hydrogen peroxide that can be purchased at any drugstore.
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America: A deeply unhappy and drugged up nation

Michael Snyder
The Economic Collapse Blog
Mon, 14 Mar 2016 20:45 UTC
pills medicine
If Americans are so happy, then why do we consume 80 percent of the entire global supply of prescription painkillers? Less than 5 percent of the world's population lives in this country, and yet we buy four-fifths of these highly addictive drugs. In the United States today, approximately 4.7 million Americans are addicted to prescription pain relievers, and that represents about a 300 percent increase since 1999. If you personally know someone that is suffering from this addiction, then you probably already know how immensely destructive these drugs can be. Someone that was formally living a very healthy and normal life can be reduced to a total basket case within a matter of weeks.

And of course many don't make it back at all. According to the CDC, more than 28,000 Americans died from opioid overdoses in 2014. Incredibly, those deaths represented 60 percent of all drug overdose deaths in the United States for that year...

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Early heavy metal exposure can cause permanent changes to gut microbiome and cause a host of diseases

Dave Mihalovic
Prevent Disease
Tue, 15 Mar 2016 20:29 UTC
human guts
Exposure to heavy metals during fetal and newborn development change the gut microbiota makeup, contributing to a higher risk of disease in later life, researchers have determined.

Researchers have long suggested a link between the gut--brain axis and neuropsychiatric disorders such as autism, depression, and eating disorders. The gut contains microorganisms that share a structural similarity with the neuropeptides involved in regulating behavior, mood, and emotion--a phenomenon known as molecular mimicry. The body can't tell the difference between the structure of these mimics and its own cells, so antibodies could end up attacking both, potentially altering the physiology of the gut--brain axis.

Scientific evidence is mounting that the trillions of microbes that call the human body home can influence our gut-linked health, but more recently, researchers are discovering that gut microbes also may affect neurology--possibly impacting a person's cognition, emotions and mental health, said Knight, also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Early Career Scientist and an investigator at CU-Boulder's BioFrontiers Institute.

Comment: Just imagine the long-term ramifications of the current lead toxic environment of the US.

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Ladybug

A Discussion on Ecology Ethics with Joel Salatin and Mother Earth News


Mother Earth News
Mon, 30 Sep 2013 00:00 UTC
Joel Salatin

Joel Salatin
Bryan Welch, Publisher of Mother Earth News, sat down with Farmer/Philosopher Joel Salatin at the MOTHER EARTH NEWS Fair in Seven Springs, PA. Joel has written multiple books including Fields of Farmers, The Sheer Ecstasy of Being a Lunatic Farmer and Everything I Want to do is Illegal. He lives and works on his multi-generational farm, Polyface Farms, in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, where he and his family raise pastured meats and organic crops.
In this conversation we learn why at the end of the day it's much more satisfying to do physical labor rather than to "blink your existence into cyberspace" and the many ways we can be good stewards of the land.

Comment: See also: Joel Salatin's secrets to reconnecting with your food
  • Joel Salatin, Polyface Farms: 'Folks This Ain't Normal'

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SOTT Exclusive: Corruption of medical science - Least adequate person appointed as head of the FDA

Dr.Gaby
Sott.net
Mon, 14 Mar 2016 21:33 UTC
FDA whistle

Whatever credibility the FDA holds should be seriously questioned in the strongest possible terms by the international medical community.
In September 2015, Robert Califf was nominated by President Barack Obama to be the next Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, and he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in February 2016.

According to his biography, Robert Califf is an American cardiologist who was granted tenure as professor of cardiology at Duke University School of Medicine. He was the founding director of the Duke Clinical Research Institute, which is considered "the world's largest academic research organization", with 1000 employees and an annual budget of $320 million, 50-60% of which is funded from industry. His relationships with the pharmaceutical industry are described at length in his Wikipedia page.
Califf worked very closely with pharmaceutical companies at the Duke clinical trials center "convincing them to do large, expensive, and, for Duke, profitable clinical trials." He was a paid consultant for Merck Sharp & Dohme, Johnson & Johnson, GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca, and Eli Lilly per ProPublica from 2009 to 2013. The largest consulting payment was $87,500 by Johnson & Johnson in 2012, and "most of funds for travel or consulting under $5,000", which has been called "minimal for a physician of his stature". From 2013-2014 he was paid a total of $52,796, the highest amount was $6,450 from Merck Sharp & Dohme, followed by Amgen, F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG, Janssen Pharmaceutica, Daiichi Sankyo, Sanofi-Aventis, Bristol-Myers Squibb and AstraZeneca. He was the Director of Portola Pharmaceuticals, Inc. from July 2012 to January 26, 2015,[11] Advisor of Proventys, Inc., Chairman of the medical advisory board of Regado Biosciences, Inc. and has been member of the medical advisory board since June 2, 2009, and member of the clinical advisory board of Corgentech Inc. Forbes wrote that his close ties to the drug industry were the reason for him not being nominated for the FDA Commissioner position in 2009.
Dr. Califf held ties to the one pharmaceutical company who has the current record of the largest case of healthcare fraud in U.S. history:
Drug maker GlaxoSmithKline PLC agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges of illegally marketing drugs and withholding safety data from U.S. regulators, and to pay $3 billion to the government in what the Justice Department called the largest health-care fraud settlement in U.S. history.
Prosecutors said that "GlaxoSmithKline failed to give the U.S. Food and Drug Administration safety data about its diabetes drug Avandia, in violation of U.S. law." This was only one of the several criminal charges to which this pharmaceutical company agreed to plead guilty.
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Getting to the root: What is Maca?

Annie Hall
motherearthnews.com
Wed, 03 Sep 2014 18:09 UTC
Maca
© Whole World Botanicals
It enhances libido, balances hormones, and might even be a form of hormone replacement therapy, so say certain maca marketing materials, which appear to be based on rodent studies funded by those very same supplement marketers. But what do quality, independent studies on humans have to say? And what about traditional use and indigenous rights of the people who have been growing maca as their primary food source for millennia? Let's get to the root of maca.

For thousands of years, a radish-like root called maca has been persuaded out of the planet's worst farmland high in the plateaus of the Peruvian Andes: rocky soil blasted by high winds, intense sunlight, and high temperatures alternating with subfreezing temperatures. It is said that maca, Lepidium meyenii, an herbaceous perennial (grown as an annual) in the Brassicaceae (Cruciferae) family, is the world's most elevated cultivated food crop, growing at 12,500-14,500 feet above sea level. There are several varieties of maca including red, white, yellow, and black.

Comment: Additional benefits of Maca:

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