Recovery from Flu Shot after Naturopathic Treatments

10. November 2009 by HealingMindN.

Of the few times that I get to report happy news, I would like to reiterate the reports on Desiree Jennings, the former Washington Redskins Cheerleader who was diagnosed with Dystonia by Johns Hopkins and Fairfax Physicians due to the flu shot. After Dr. Rashid Buttar’s detoxification treatments, she is almost completely normal now.

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The following exerpts are from Health Freedom Alliance:

..Jennings was misdiagnosed multiple times with a variety of diagnoses since receiving the influenza shot, which she thought would protect her from illness. She has since been diagnosed by her treating physician, Dr. Rashid A. Buttar (of the Center for Advanced Medicine), with a number of conditions including but not limited to Acute, Viral Post Immunization Encephalopathy and Mercury Toxicity with secondary respiratory and neurological deficits.

Since then her story has made headlines here and abroad, with videos explaining her disorder garnering millions of hits on YouTube. The responses she has received have been overwhelmingly supportive, encouraging.and informative. Celebrity couple Jenny McCarthy and Jim Carey helped point Desiree in the right direction through Generation Rescue, a non-profit organization dedicated to preventing and reversing autism.

The treatments with Dr. Buttar at the Center for Advanced Medicine and Clinical Research in Charlotte, NC are working, and the results are nothing short of amazing. Jennings can now walk and talk normally throughout the vast majority of the day and the seizures/convulsions have significantly decreased. Although her full recovery will take an undetermined amount of time, her family is now for the first time, convinced she will make a complete recovery. She is now more than ever, driven by a desire to educate others to be informed of the potential side effects caused by vaccines and prevent others from suffering a similar fate…

The link to the post by Health Freedom Alliance has an audio interview on Health Talk Radio with Dr. Buttar on how heavy metals regularly used in conventional medicine causes neurological problems like dystonia and how these ailments can be reversed through natural detox treatments.

Thanks for your time, Healing Thoughts,

Randolph

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Brain (B) Vitamin Increases Mental Acuity

17. June 2009 by HealingMindN.

Cognizin® May Improve Brain Health

06/15/2009

Are you finding it harder to remember things these days? If so, our Cognizin Citicoline can help.

Deborah Yurgelun-Todd, Ph.D., director of the Cognitive Neuroimaging and Neuropsychology Laboratories at the McLean Hospital Brain Imaging Center and associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School presented “Oral Cognizin® Citicoline Supplementation Increases Brain Cellular Bioenergetics” at the International Society of Sports Nutrition Annual Conference in New Orleans on Tuesday, June 16.

Cognizin brand Citicoline is a natural water-soluble compound that enhances communication between neurons in the brain to support visual function and protect neural structures from free radical damage. New research from Harvard shows Citicoline increases energy (ATP) levels in the brain, increasing one’s ability to focus, concentrate and generally be more productive.

A nutritional breakthrough for staving off age-related cognitive decline, Cognizin is a patented, proprietary form of the B vitamin citicoline with targeted action for increasing the synthesis of phospholipids that make up brain cell membranes and for enhancing production of vital neurotransmitters in the central nervous system, including acetylcholine, noradrenaline and dopamine.

A revolutionary alternative to phosphatidylcholine, Cognizin Citicoline has been shown to improve memory and verbal learning abilities in numerous studies conducted at some of the world’s most prestigious research institutions, including Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

The most recent trial studied the effect of Cognizin on healthy middle-aged adults. Using the latest brain scanning technology, Yurgelun-Todd and her team of researchers at the Harvard-associated Brain Imaging Center at McLean Hospital in Boston, observed increases in brain activity among people who had taken Cognizin brand Citicoline for six weeks, particularly when individuals performed tasks that required sustained attention or memory (University Students Rejoice!).

Because Cognizin helps make more energy available to brain cells they are better able to perform their daily tasks. Cell membranes are synthesized and maintained. Vital brain nutrients are produced and electrical impulses are generated.

Make Cognizin Citicoline part of your daily nutritional regimen and give your brain the fuel it needs for peak performance.

Healing Thoughts, HealingMindN

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Modafinil and Higher Learning Don’t Mix

18. January 2009 by HealingMindN.

I know what you’re going to say, “Everybody does it… If you don’t do it, you’re not with it… Everyone needs a pick me up…” on and on and on. Why don’t you admit it? You’re taking drugs to keep you on track because this is all you know. Drugs is all your peers know. And your so-called teachers don’t really care how you keep up with your studies, just “Keep it up, or FAIL!”

Here’s a little article on modafinil that alerts us to the harsh realities of “higher learning:”

Students and academics turn to drugs

More people use cognitive-enhancing drugs to cope with busy lives, says journal study

With the ever increasing pace of everyday life, more people are turning to cognitive enhancing drugs to stay on top, according to a report in a scientific journal.

The controversial report, published in Nature last month, spoke of the widening use of drugs such as Ritalin, Adderal and Modafinil amongst sportsmen, students and academics.

In an informal survey, Barbara Sahakian, professor of neuropsychology at Cambridge and author of the report, found a number of colleagues to be using Modafinil as a means of fighting off jet lag, improving their academic performance and aiding their social ease at parties.

Modafinil is generally prescribed to counter the symptoms of Narcolepsy. When taken by otherwise healthy people, it is also found to stave off fatigue and improve concentration and short-term memory.

The drug is only available on prescription, though it can be bought online. Its use without a prescription is illegal.
It has become the favourite of academics because the side effects are relatively mild when compared with other “smart” drugs.

Side effects include the occasional headache, the odd bout of diarrhoea, a touch of nausea perhaps; not particularly ailments you want to get at a party, but nonetheless gentle compared with the potential heart problems, strokes or tumours that can occur from drugs like Ritalin.

As a relatively new drug, approved in the UK in 2002, the long-term effects of Modafinil are still unknown. The drug is stocked by the army to keep combat troops alert.

One Robinson student, who wished to remain anonymous, told Varsity: “I’ve tried Modafinil a couple of times. With the Cambridge workload I frequently have to stay up until the early hours to reach deadlines.

“It definitely made me focus on what I was doing but I don’t think my essay was any the better for it.”

The report has sparked a debate as to whether the drug should be made available over-the-counter.

The director of the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation at the University of Manchester, John Harris, has said that the government should “seriously consider” making such drugs available to students without a prescription.

By Rachel Stratton

Posted on Friday 16 January 2009 at Varsity, independent Cambridge Student Newspaper.

Can I take a moment with you? I want to tell you how disappointed I am that this entire system of higher learning is suffering from scientific cretinism. Are we so backwards as a race that these officials of higher learning want to get generations of people hooked on drugs?

What are the alternatives? What are the alternatives? OK. Since you’re here, you obviously want to learn. If school counselors really cared about kids’ health and well being, they would recommend natural alternatives to increase attention, focus, and learning capabilities. They would not recommend drugs that cause the odd bout of diarrhoea, nausea, potential heart problems, strokes, tumours, or any other side effects.

Please have a look at the Nutrition Spectrum Site. Here, you will find articles on brain solutions - 11 steps to a better brain and Ear Solutions because it turns out that these solutions also work to increase the capacity of the brain. All the solutions at Nutrition Spectrum are essential nutrients with no side effects. There are more energetic solutions available through Bioenergetic Spectrum, but the essential nutrients are most practical for students since they tend to be strapped for cash.

There are also other solutions like acupressure which you can apply to yourself any time. One in particular that can be used is pericardium 8 on either hand which I discuss at Keys to Qigong. You can also see me in the video below where I utilise pericardium 8 to help induce focus in my audience:

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Yet another energy exercise that I remember from Stewart Swerdlow’s Healer’s Handbook is to form a cone with all the fingers one hand, then hold the point of this “cone” against the base of your skull with deep breaths. This exercise helps balance and focus energies at your optical cortex to help you focus and stay awake.

I hope this helps you and your friends to stay away from drugs. I don’t want to see us turn into a THX1138 society.

Healing Thoughts, HealingMindN,

Randolph

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Poison Alert on Working Environment: Dangers of Lead

14. January 2009 by HealingMindN.

Lead Triggers Cognitive Impairment in Later Life

By Rick Nauert, Ph.D.
Senior News Editor
Reviewed by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on January 13, 2009

Tuesday, Jan 13 (Psych Central) — A new study finds that the aging brain can suffer from cumulative lead exposure. Researchers have known for years that the developing brain is suspect to lead exposure; the new findings suggest a buildup of lead from earlier exposure may be enough to result in greater cognitive problems after age 55.

Study authors from the Graduate School of Public Health and the School of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh report that cognitive problems were linked to cumulative exposure.

The researchers followed up on the 1982 Lead Occupational Study, which assessed the cognitive abilities of 288 lead-exposed and 181 non-exposed male workers in eastern Pennsylvania. The lead-exposed workers came from three lead battery plants; the unexposed control workers made truck chassis at a nearby location.

At both points in time, all the workers were given the Pittsburgh Occupational Exposures Test battery, which includes measures of five primary cognitive domains: psychomotor speed, spatial function, executive function, general intelligence, and learning and memory.

In 1982, lead-exposed workers were found to have an average blood lead level of 40 micrograms per deciliter (ug/dL), well above normal. Pennsylvania workers found to have 25 ug/dL or more must be taken off the job. In 1982, the unexposed workers had an average blood level of 7.2, within normal limits.

In 2004, the current study followed up with 83 of the original lead-exposed workers and 51 of the original non-exposed workers.

Researchers measured current lead levels in their blood and cumulative lead levels through special X-rays of the tibia, or lower leg bone (bone is the final repository of circulating blood lead, where it has a half life of about 30 years).

Researchers also re-administered the test battery to assess cognitive performance relative to both measures of lead.

Among the lead-exposed workers, men with higher cumulative lead had significantly lower cognitive scores. The clearest inverse relationships – when one went up, the other went down – emerged between cumulative lead and spatial ability, learning and memory, and overall cognitive score.

This linkage was more significant in the older lead-exposed men, of at least age 55. Their cognitive scores were significantly different from those of younger lead-exposed men even when the researchers controlled for current blood levels of lead. In other words, even when men no longer worked at the battery plants, their earlier prolonged exposure was enough to matter.

The mild deficits, although not clinically significant, were consistent with other studies that show previous exposure to lead is, according to the authors, “particularly detrimental to the aging brain and that specific cognitive domains may be particularly vulnerable.”

Scientists have been investigating how lead damages the brain, especially the hippocampus and frontal cortex, seats of memory and learning. Lead exposure also puts people at greater risk for high blood pressure, which itself weakens cognition — one possible pathway by which lead can cause problems.

The men who built lead batteries were exposed to it in the air and through their skin. Other occupations, including semiconductor fabrication, ceramics, welding and soldering, and some construction work, also may expose workers.

The authors wrote that, “Increased prevention measures in work environments will be necessary to reduce [lead exposure] to zero and decrease risk of cognitive decline.”

The full report appears in the January issue of Neuropsychology, which is published by the American Psychological Association.

Source: American Psychological Association

Related site: Poison Spectrum

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Synthesis and Catabolism of {gamma}-Hydroxybutyrate in SH-SY5Y Human Neuroblastoma Cells

28. February 2008 by HealingMindN.

ROLE OF THE ALDO-KETO REDUCTASE AKR7A2^*

Robert C. Lyon¹, Stuart M. Johnston, David G. Watson, Gail McGarvie, and Elizabeth M. Ellis² From the Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, Univesity of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1XW and the School of Science and Technology, Bell College, Hamilton, ML3 0JB Scotland, United Kingdom

-Hydroxybutyrate (GHB) is an endogenous metabolite synthesized in the brain. There is strong evidence to suggest that GHB has an important role as a neurotransmitter or neuromodulator.

The human aldo-keto reductase AKR7A2 has been proposed previously to catalyze the NADPH-dependent reduction of succinic semialdehyde (SSA) to GHB in human brain. In this study we have used RNA interference to evaluate the role of AKR7A2 in GHB biosynthesis in human neuroblastoma SH-SY5Y cells. Quantitative reverse transcription-PCR analysis and immunoblotting revealed that short interfering RNA molecules directed against AKR7A2 led to a significant reduction in both AKR7A2 transcript and protein levels 72 h post-transfection.

We have shown that reduced expression of AKR7A2 results in a 90% decrease in SSA reductase activity of cell extracts. Furthermore, we have shown using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry that a decrease in the level of AKR7A2 was paralleled with a significant reduction in intracellular GHB concentration. This provides conclusive evidence that AKR7A2 is the major SSA reductase in these cells.

In contrast, short interfering RNA-dependent reduction in AKR7A2 levels had no effect on the GHB dehydrogenase activity of the extracts, and inhibitor studies suggest that another enzyme characteristic of an NAD-dependent alcohol dehydrogenase may be responsible for catalyzing this reverse reaction.

Together these findings delineate pathways for GHB metabolism in the brain and will enable a better understanding of the relationship between GHB biosynthesis and catabolism in disease states and in drug overdose.

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^* The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked “advertisement” in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.

¹ Supported by a Bell College Research Fund studentship.

² To whom correspondence should be addressed: Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Strathclyde, 204 George St., Glasgow G1 1XW, Scotland, UK. Tel.: 44-141-548-2122; Fax: 44-141-553-4124

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