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Meditation, exercise could prevent colds according to a new research

Kerry Grens
Reuters
Thu, 19 Jul 2012 14:14 UTC
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Meditating or exercising could drastically cut the number of days people feel sick and miss work due to respiratory illnesses like colds and the flu, according to new research.

The findings are based on a small study and need to be confirmed. "But if our results turn out to be true... that's monumental," said Dr. Bruce Barrett of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who led the work.

That's because there are few ways people can avoid catching a cold - an illness that, despite being mild, costs society billions every year.

"The only preventive things that we have at our disposal right now (for colds) are hand washing and avoiding sick contacts," Barrett told Reuters Health.

Previous work has suggested that people who exercise or have low stress levels are less likely to get sick. To test whether exercise and positive thinking could actually prevent illnesses, Barrett and his colleagues studied 149 people randomly assigned to one of three groups.

Comment: Light exercise, breathing techniques and meditation are all included in the Éiriú Eolas stress-control, healing, detoxing and rejuvenation program.

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Bulb

Research Shows Vagus Nerve Stimulation Can Help Reorganize Brain


University of Texas, Dallas
Thu, 19 Jul 2012 13:59 UTC
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Dr. Michael Kilgard helped lead a team that paired vagus nerve stimulation with physical movement to improve brain function.
UT Dallas researchers recently demonstrated how nerve stimulation paired with specific experiences, such as movements or sounds, can reorganize the brain. This technology could lead to new treatments for stroke, tinnitus, autism and other disorders.

In a related paper, UT Dallas neuroscientists showed that they could alter the speed at which the brain works in laboratory animals by pairing stimulation of the vagus nerve with fast or slow sounds.

A team led by Dr. Robert Rennaker and Dr. Michael Kilgard looked at whether repeatedly pairing vagus nerve stimulation with a specific movement would change neural activity within the laboratory rats' primary motor cortex. To test the hypothesis, they paired the vagus nerve stimulation with movements of the forelimb in two groups of rats. The results were published in a recent issue of Cerebral Cortex.

Comment: To accrue the benefits of vagus nerve stimulation, try out the exercises of the Éiriú Eolas breathing and meditation program.

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Footprints

Cognitive Decline Indicated by Walking Patterns

Pam Belluck
New York Times
Mon, 16 Jul 2012 09:18 UTC
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The way people walk appears to speak volumes about the way they think, so much so that changes in an older person's gait appear to be an early indicator of cognitive impairment, including Alzheimer's disease.

Five studies presented at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference in Vancouver this month provide striking evidence that when a person's walk gets slower or becomes more variable or less controlled, his cognitive function is also suffering.

Thinking skills like memory, planning activities or processing information decline almost in parallel with the ability to walk fluidly, these studies show.

In other words, the more trouble people have walking, the more trouble they have thinking.
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Smoking

Nicotine Analog Shows Promise For Alzheimer's Treatment

John Gever
MedPage Today
Wed, 18 Jul 2012 08:54 UTC
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An investigational drug targeting nicotinic receptors not only preserved cognitive function in Alzheimer's disease patients for 6 months, it showed signs of increasing it, a researcher said here.

Patients taking the highest dose of EVP-6124, a selective partial agonist of alpha-7 nicotinic receptors, in the 24-week trial showed a mean increase of 1.6 points from baseline in the 13-item cognition part of the Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale (ADAS-Cog-13), said Dana Hilt, MD, of EnVivo Pharmaceuticals in Watertown, Mass., which is developing the product.

The mean change from baseline at week 24 in a placebo group was -0.4 points (P=0.0189), Hilt reported at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference.

Speaking at a press briefing held before his formal presentation, Hilt said the scale of this effect was substantially greater than has been seen with existing drugs that boost cognition without altering the underlying Alzheimer's disease pathology.
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Target

The Many Ways Cancer Becomes the Ultimate Soft-Kill Operation

Paul Adams, J.D.
Activist Post
Tue, 17 Jul 2012 19:12 UTC
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In earlier times it was easier to control a million people than physically to kill a million people. Today it is infinitely easier to kill a million people then to control a million people. - Zbigniew Brzezinski (Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission, Bilderberg Group, Carter/Obama Advisor).
The cancer epidemic is a soft-kill operation and a move by the world's so-called elites to cull the human population. It is well documented that the Club of Rome, Bill Gates, Ted Turner, the Rockefellers, Warren Buffet and many other globalists plan to dominate and decimate humanity with their population reduction agenda.

As we will see, the globalists first cause the cancer and then provide us with their ineffective treatments (not cures) for profit. This method is known as Problem - Reaction - Solution.

According to the American Cancer Society, 1,638,910 new cancer cases will arise in the United States during 2012. Approximately 577,190 American cancer patients are expected to die from their cancer this year as well. One in every two men will suffer from cancer (one in four will die) as will one in every three women (one in five will die). According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cancer is the second leading cause of death, closely trailing heart disease.

In 1971, President Nixon and Congress declared war on cancer. Since then, the federal government has spent well over $105 billion to battle cancer. In 2010 alone, the National Cancer Institute had a budget of $6.4 billion. As of March 2011, the Susan B. Komen Foundation, allegedly leading the fight against breast cancer, had $439,451,449 in "total public support and revenue." Pharmaceutical giant Merck alone had a 2010 research and development budget of 8.12 billion.

Why all the death and suffering despite billions, if not trillions, in government and private cancer research? Why have cancer treatments remained almost unchanged since the 1950s: toxic radiation, toxic chemotherapy, and surgery?

The answer is simple: treating cancer is profitable; curing it is not. Cancer also furthers the globalist goal of massive depopulation.
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Wheat Addiction Explained

John Briffa
marksdailyapple.com
Wed, 18 Jul 2012 16:22 UTC
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Within the Primal/paleo community and elsewhere, it's often stated offhandedly that wheat is addictive. And absolutely, wheat for many people feels like something they could never give up. I hear it all the time: "I couldn't live without bread." "What would I do without cereal, dinner rolls, toast, {insert your favorite grain-based food item here}." And wheat is often the main culprit in the sugar/insulin rollercoaster that drives sugar-burners' need to eat (more wheat) every few waking hours. But is wheat addictive in a different sense - as an opiate like heroin and other drugs? Today I take a look at the research and attempt to separate fact from fiction. What do we really know about wheat as an opiate? Let's find out...

Comment: For more information on how wheat is detrimental to health, see these Sott articles:

Gluten - The Hidden Killer

Gluten: What You Don't Know Might Kill You

Facts you might not know about gluten

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Health

Are Cardiac Risk Factors Linked to Less Blood Flow to the Brain?


ScienceDaily
Wed, 18 Jul 2012 17:12 UTC
Metabolic syndrome, a term used to describe a combination of risk factors that often lead to heart disease and type 2 diabetes, seems to be linked to lower blood flow to the brain, according to research by the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.

Dr. Barbara Bendlin, researcher for the Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center and an assistant professor of medicine (geriatrics) at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health, said study participants with multiple risk factors connected to metabolic syndrome, including abdominal obesity, high blood pressure, high blood sugar and high cholesterol averaged 15 percent less blood flow to the brain than those in a control group, according to results of brain scans to measure cerebral blood flow.

"We thought the cerebral blood flow measurements of the metabolic syndrome group would be lower, but it was striking how much lower it was," said Bendlin.
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Fish

Flashback EERC Research Finds Mercury Levels in Freshwater and Ocean Fish Not as Harmful as Previously Thought


EERC University of North Dakota
Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:09 UTC
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Current fish consumption advisories should be revised

The Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC) at the University of North Dakota announced today that after years of extensive research, results of environmental, laboratory, and human studies show that mercury levels in freshwater and ocean fish are not as harmful as previously thought. Current fish advisories may be misleading and should be revised, taking the benefits of selenium into account.

The findings come from two major reports released in the journals Environmental Science & Technology and EcoHealth, both indicating that failure to consider selenium in relation to mercury levels in freshwater and ocean fish will result in critical mistakes in interpretation that generate unreliable and potentially inaccurate advice regarding fish consumption and is deterring people from eating a nutritious product. Both reports state that the effects of mercury exposure are entirely dependent on the amount of selenium present in the diet.
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Fish

Is eating fish safe?

Chris Kresser L. Ac
chriskresser.com
Wed, 19 May 2010 11:40 UTC
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This is going to be a long article and I know not everyone will have time to read it. So I'm going to summarize the key points right up front because I think this information is so important:

Overview
  • Selenium protects against mercury toxicity, and 16 of the 25 highest dietary sources of selenium are ocean fish
  • If a fish contains higher levels of selenium than mercury, it is safe to eat
  • Most species of commonly eaten fish in the U.S. have more selenium than mercury
  • Fish are not significant sources of PCBs and dioxins when compared to meat, dairy or vegetables
  • The benefits of eating fish regularly far outweigh the potential risks, which are neglible
  • Pregnant mothers and young children should eat 2-3 servings of oily ocean fish each week
These days a lot of people are scared to eat fish. They've been told that fish are full of contaminants like mercury, PCBs and dioxins that cause neurological problems and may increase the risk of cancer. Pregnant women have been especially warned due to the supposed risk of these toxins to the developing fetus.
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Health

Stress reduction also reduces new Multiple Sclerosis brain lesions


Medical News Today
Tue, 17 Jul 2012 02:03 UTC
Research conducted by Jesus Lovera, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurology at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, and colleagues has shown that stress management treatment significantly reduced the formation of new brain lesions in people with multiple sclerosis (MS) over the course of treatment. These lesions are markers of disease activity used to objectively measure disease status. The work is published ahead of print and is now available online in Neurology.

"Our research found that 77% of the patients undergoing stress management therapy remained free of lesions while they were in treatment compared to 55% of those in the control group," notes Dr. Jesus Lovera, an LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans board certified neurologist whose research and practice focus on multiple sclerosis.

Comment: The Éiriú Eolas program is an excellent stress management tool that has helped thousands of people to regain their sanity in this insane world.

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