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 This image, by connecting to your brain through your eyes, will cause your brain to instantly generate enormous amounts of positive brain chemistry. If you had to buy this chemistry from a pharmaceutical company, it might cost you $50,000. But you can generate it for free, right now, by simply clicking this link: http://www.newstarget.com/gallery/articles/Hilarious_Dance.gif
(It's true. This image is worth at least $50,000 in happy brain chemicals. Don't believe me? Click it yourself and see...)
It's perfectly safe to click the link above. I promise. |
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 In fact, some of the best animal sources of DHA are the retina, the brain and another bodily fluid that's too gross to mention here as a food source. It's interesting that people who eat beef skip all the parts of the animal that would enhance their own brain function, isn't it? A lack of dietary DHA promotes heart disease, Alzheimer's, dementia and poor cognitive function. Poor cognitive function (i.e. a poorly performing brain) causes people to make poor decisions about diet, such as eating more beef. And so the cycle continues. |
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 REPPED: (NewsTarget Satire) On the heels of the RIAA's recent decision to criminalize consumers who rip songs from albums they've purchased to their computers (or iPods), the association has now gone one step further and declared that "remembering songs" using your brain is criminal copyright infringement. "The brain is a recording device," explained RIAA president Cary Sherman. "The act of listening is an unauthorized act of copying music to that recording device, and the act of recalling or remembering a song is unauthorized playback. |
| Permission is granted to make copies of this story, redistribute it, post it and e-mail it (please provide proper credit and URL) as long as you do not actually remember it because copying to your brain is now strictly prohibited. Any attempts to circumvent the memory-based copyright restrictions on this article will result in your brain imploding, causing such an extreme loss of cognitive function that your only hope for any future career will be running for public office. |
| REPPED: (NewsTarget Satire) On the heels of the RIAA's recent decision to criminalize consumers who rip songs from albums they've purchased to their computers (or iPods), the association has now gone one step further and declared that "remembering songs" using your brain is criminal copyright infringement. "The brain is a recording device," explained RIAA president Cary Sherman. "The act of listening is an unauthorized act of copying music to that recording device, and the act of recalling or remembering a song is unauthorized playback. |
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| I promise. Your brain can't wait to find out how fun this image is going to be! Go ahead, click it now. Why wait?
Note that this image will also increase the oxygenation of your body by causing you to rapidly inhale and exhale during the process of laughter. This boosts brain function, immune function and even the circulation of lymph fluids throughout your body.
Laughter is powerful medicine. It is perhaps the best medicine of all for countering the effects of chronic stress (which is devastating to the immune system). |
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| I don't think it is ethical to eat any part of a cow, but my challenge to those people who do consume cows is, if you're eating the ribs, the rump, the shoulder and the spinal fluid squeezed out of the carcass, why is it that you think it's gross to eat the brain of a cow? The brain is one of the healthiest organs in that animal in terms of providing essential fatty acids for human consumption.
My hope in asking you to consider that question is that you will realize how irrational your beliefs are about foods, especially about meat. |
| It's interesting that people who eat beef skip all the parts of the animal that would enhance their own brain function, isn't it? A lack of dietary DHA promotes heart disease, Alzheimer's, dementia and poor cognitive function. Poor cognitive function (i.e. a poorly performing brain) causes people to make poor decisions about diet, such as eating more beef. And so the cycle continues. |
| The "pioneer diet" or "cowboy diet" is not one that maximizes brain nutrition for infants or adults. And when expectant mothers are deficient in brain-supporting nutrients, guess what happens to the IQs of their children?
Three reasons to avoid red meat
This brings me to the third reason why I don't eat meat from mammals, by the way. The first reason is because excessive red meat consumption is bad for your health. The second reason is because it's inhumane to kill mammals for their meat. |
| I don't think it is ethical to eat any part of a cow, but my challenge to those people who do consume cows is, if you're eating the ribs, the rump, the shoulder and the spinal fluid squeezed out of the carcass, why is it that you think it's gross to eat the brain of a cow? The brain is one of the healthiest organs in that animal in terms of providing essential fatty acids for human consumption.
My hope in asking you to consider that question is that you will realize how irrational your beliefs are about foods, especially about meat. |
John J. Ratey, MD
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 This is the study I photocopy for patients who are skeptical of the idea that exercise changes their brain chemistry enough to help their depression, because it puts the issue in terms that are as black-and-white as psychiatry can hope to deliver, at least for now. The results should be taught in medical school and driven home with health insurance companies and posted on the bulletin boards of every nursing home in the country, where nearly a fifth of the residents have depression. If everyone knew that exercise worked as well as Zoloft, I think we could put a real dent in the disease. |
| Most of the brain research on resistance training has focused not on learning and memory, but on mood and anxiety. In one study from Boston University dating back ten years, researchers put a group of older adults on a twelve-week strength-training program (three sessions a week) and measured various aspects of psychological and cognitive function. They concluded that in addition to improving muscle strength by about 40 percent, the regimen lowered anxiety and improved mood and confidence levels, but had no significant effect on thinking ability. |
| Statistics aside, we know from animal studies that exercise can redirect the biology of the brain. Carl Cotman tested the effects of exercise on mice bred with a gene predisposing them to plaque buildup and found that exercise slowed down the accumulation compared to the inactive mice. Exercise also prevents inflammation, which Cotman believes might trigger the plaque accumulation— inflammation increases in the transition stage from cognitive decline to Alzheimer's.
Mattson found the same sort of result in rats that had their dopamine neurons knocked out to mimic the biology of Parkinson's. |
| The result is less strain on the vessels in the body and the brain. There are a number of mechanisms at work here. First, contracting muscles during exercise releases growth factors such as VEGF and fibroblast growth factor (FGF-2). Aside from their role in helping neurons bind and promoting neurogenesis, they trigger a molecular chain reaction that produces endothelial cells, which make up the inner lining of blood vessels and thus are important for building new ones. |
| It happens when a particular area of the brain is impaired or shuts down, not unlike when a fuse gets blown in a home's circuit breaker: the kitchen appliances may work fine, but the lights in the bedroom have gone dark.
There are different types of dementia, depending on which circuit is down, and what tripped it. The most common form, by far, is Alzheimer's disease, which is marked by inflammation and the buildup of amyloid plaque that begins in the hippocampus and spreads to the frontal and temporal lobes, as well as intracellular waste called neurofibrillary tangles. |
| Along with more than six hundred other nuns, she donated her brain to science as part of an ongoing study conducted by epidemiologist David Snowdon, who memorialized the School Sisters of Notre Dame, in Mankato, Minnesota, in his inspiring book, Aging with Grace. The nuns constantly challenge their minds, with vocabulary quizzes, mental puzzles, and debates about public issues, and many of them live to be one hundred or more. |
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| Any attempts to circumvent the memory-based copyright restrictions on this article will result in your brain imploding, causing such an extreme loss of cognitive function that your only hope for any future career will be running for public office. |
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 I've often stated that for every minute of laughter, you produce somewhere around $10,000 worth of healthy body chemistry, and what I mean is that if you had to go out and actually purchase these refined chemical compounds from labs or pharmaceutical companies, you would have to pay at least $10,000 for the very same chemistry that your brain is producing free of charge when you engage in laughter.
Some of these are brain-altering chemicals such as serotonin; others are immune-boosting chemicals such as interleukins. |
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 What good is a brain stuffed full of math and science facts if the heart can't pump oxygen to it? You can create the best test-taker in the world by cramming a child full of facts and formulas, but if he's obese and can't climb a flight of stairs without running out of breath, chances are that child will die of a heart attack before age 45. And then all that academic achievement is lost (because dead brains don't think very well).
Want to know where I learned self discipline and the rewards of hard work? I ran track for four years in high school. |
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| This boosts brain function, immune function and even the circulation of lymph fluids throughout your body.
Laughter is powerful medicine. It is perhaps the best medicine of all for countering the effects of chronic stress (which is devastating to the immune system). Laughter literally alters your body's physical response to stress, including emotional stress and environmental stress. With enough laughter and the right nutrition, you can enhance your body's response to virtually any health challenge. |
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| And so the cycle continues.
It's beef, stupid
It's no exaggeration to say that people who eat lots of beef, but who fail to eat the DHA-rich parts of the animal or supplement with other sources of DHA (such as fish oils) display lower intelligence than people who follow plant-based diets with DHA supplementation. It doesn't mean that eating beef makes you stupid. Rather, it means that the dumber a person is, the more beef they're likely to eat and the less likely they are to seek out and consume healthy oils like DHA. |
Eric R. Braverman
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 Signs of memory loss are therefore characterized by slowed brain speed and abnormal power and metabolism. Identifying what your particular memory problem stems from is as easy as identifying your nature. Not surprisingly, the two are closely linked.
THE BRAVERMAN MEMORY TEST
Many of the elements of the Braverman Memory Test are comparable to the Wechsler Memory Scale (WMS), and the Randt Memory Test, recognized standards for testing short-term memory and attention. There are six parts to this test. Please set time aside to complete the entire test in one sitting. |
| Generally speaking, forgetting names is not much of a problem and is a normal part of our brain's mental functioning, due to the fact that we have only a limited storage area for memory. True memory problems present themselves as difficulties in speaking, reading, and writing, and as dramatic changes in personality. These are not quaint consequences of getting older—they are all early signals of cognitive decline.
As you age, the production of your biochemicals and their related hormones diminishes, potentially affecting your ability to remember. |
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 The brain wasn't functioning like a normal, healthy, well-nourished brain; it was functioning like a zoned out "zombie" brain permanently distorted by psychiatric drugs.
Sending a teenager out into the public doped up on mind-altering drugs that we KNOW are linked to violence -- and jacked up on junk foods (he worked at McDonald's) -- is a certain recipe for disaster. Big Pharma executives, drug reps and the irresponsible psychiatrists who dish these pills out to teenagers might as well have just walked right into the mall and set off a bomb themselves. |
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| This action is analogous to shifting information on a computer: the brain is simply transferring information to another disk or to a different hard drive.
The toxic effect of stroke occurs as a result of the release of calcium into the cells, as well as an excessive release of the amino acids glutamate and aspartate, which are neurotoxic in moderate to large quantities. GABA-friendly nutrients can help protect cells against these factors. |
| Amino Acids: Protein-Building Neurotransmitters Of the four essential nutrient groups, the most fundamental to brain chemistry is protein and its building blocks, amino acids. Amino acids are the precursors to neurotransmitters, and the production of these biochemicals can be directly affected by amino acids in your diet. The list on the next page shows which amino acids are necessary to increase the production of a specific neurotransmitter.
However, the chemical composition of food is complex. |
| For example, combine the recommendations for dopamine and acetylcholine for maximum brain power, or combine the GABA and serotonin diets for maximum calming effects.
Vitamins and Supplements
Vitamins and other nutrients are found in a variety of healthy food sources. Yet our less-than-perfect daily lives often interfere with the ability to receive all the nutrients we desperately need. Being constantly on the go, traveling, commuting, and shuttling our children around, sometimes we're just too busy to restock our cupboards or fuss with meal preparation. |
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