Depression and the Lack of the Essentials

Depression is a very hard desease. I think, you will agree with this definition. Therer is not a reason to feel bad but the life becomes impossible. You can't do anything, you don't find a place where you can forget about this state, you "sleep" all the day and don't sleep in the night. Your body shows the signs of the bad state, too. Your hairs fall like the leaves in autumn, your nails go to pieces...

Some researches proved that all this depend from the ...lack of the Vitamin D.

The problem is that it's not enough to assume vitamins in tabs. We need half an hour (at least) of exposure to the sun every day. The right form of Vit.D can be created only by sun in our bodies. We can eat handfuls of tabs every day but they don't work without sun. Unfortunatelly. 

A study of 1282 elderly residents in the Netherlands found increased depression among people whose serum levels of vitamin D were below 25 (OH), with severity of depression dramatically increased as D levels decreased.

According to the Vitamin D Council several factors impact how much D is produced: 

• Angle of sun’s rays.  If your shadow is longer than you are tall, little vitamin D is being made.
• Skin color.  People with fair skin have less melanin to protect against sun damage and need only 15 minutes of exposure, while those with dark skin need up to six times longer.
• Amount of skin exposed.  Forty percent of a body’s surface should be exposed.  Torso exposure produces the most D; legs and arms a little; hands and face almost none.
• Age slows production, taking four times longer for people over 60 and under 20.
• Sunscreens as low as 8 block up to 95% of vitamin D production.
• Cloud cover and air pollution can reflect or absorb UVB.
• Glass blocks all UVB.

The way to combine sun and an other remedy to cure depression, physical exercises, is to walk at least 30 minutes every day. Specially, it's valid for aged and obese persons.

Than. There are Omega 3 fats. Those are essential for our brains, too. I don't want to repeat the things you know just. I want only to tell you about the new researches' results.

Magnetic resonance imaging has shown depressed people have stiffer cell membranes

And this essential substance we can find in natural products like Fish Oils. These do not work without sun exposion, too.
(quotes are from the books of Gracelyn Guyol  sent me in a mail by her promoter probably)

Aliments for Good Sleep

Everybody has own system to fight insomnia.Here are some of them:
One does not eat after 18:00
Other eats something before going to bed because feels bad with the empty stomach.
Somebody tryes to avoid coffee other does not drink at all.
Most use camomile or milk or honey or mix all them in a warm sweet drink...

What scientists say about it?

I found an article that -if summarized- explains what we have to avoid and what to assume before we go to bed:
Don't eat great quantities of food, much salt and peppers (all varieties)
Don't eat anything that includes great quantities of sodium: chips and crisps, stock-cubes and any tinned food.
Don't eat chocolate and don't drink coffee, tea etc.

What CAN we eat before we go to bed?
Ant food that helps to the body to produce seratonina responsible for relaxation and psychical health.
Such as:
Rise, cereals, pasta, bread, milk, vegetables and mature fruits.
The Prince of Relax is mandarine that contains many bromuri.

All this in respect of personal allergies and intollerances.

Benefits of Olive Oil for Alzheimer’s Disease

Many surveys prove that what we are afraid of today are different mental problems, and Alzheimer’s Disease occupies one of the first places in the list of our fears. The last newsletter about the recent events brought me the notice that scientists found a very effective substance that will help in the cure of this terrible problem of aging.

In 1998, the team from Philadelphia wrote they understood how the bad elements work: they block the nerves, turn they out, and the person does not remember anything more.

Now, in October, the same team published the results of their last discovery that tells about the benefits of the main substance of the olive oil: it changes the structure of the toxic elements that act in the brain and do not allow them cause damages for our memory.

Well, before the scientists invent a new medicine maybe we have to use olive oil in our diet -in everyday salads, for example.

This is my article of some years ago How We Make Olive Oil

Fight with Weight

My Holy Fight with Weight continue on the next step. I bought a massaging hula hop with magnets in the massaging "knobs". Here it is



My new devise comes from Korea (originally), has rather big weight of 1700 g and is large enough. Incidentally, Korea is where you can find the highest percentage of cosmetic surgery cases, including liposuction.




It's peculiarities, I think, make the difference with the hula hop I had before and could not use: I had terrible neck pains every time I used it. This one is much more difficult to twirl, and I had bruises first week of use, but I have not neck pains and am very content with it. Because I really like "hula-hopping".

If I could not twirl it more than 40 times the first days, I exercise about 5 minutes now. I like my sides -they become more compact with some muscles that is possible to find there now. :-))) I do not think that I'll be able to lower my weight because I have to change my mode to cook and to eat generally, but I think, my body will leave that nasty fat on the sides and I'll be more acceptable -for me, clearly.

List of Toxic Additives

This list is distributed by the Anti-Tumour Center of Pordenone, Italy. There are non-toxic (1), suspected (2) and TOXIC additives in this list. If you want to avoid intoxication and deseases, read the Ingredients of the aliment you want to buy and do not purchase those suspected and toxic. Specially avoid E330

Parkinson’s Disease: New Research Results

Very interesting Release sent me now could be interestoing for you, too. I wanted to sorten the article but it is unpossible because everything is important here. Specially for those persons that are waiting for the news about this terrible desease. So, even if I'm maybe not right that I copy an entire article here, I do it because I'm sure it's can be a hope for sentient beings.

Pitt Researchers Using Mathematics
To Target Parkinson’s Disease Symptoms

University of Pittsburgh mathematicians, working with neurobiology researchers, are using computational models, experiments, and analysis of models and data to study the way that signals are transferred between the basal ganglia, a collection of nuclei found in the brain that helps with motor control, and the thalamus, its downstream target in the brain. Although scientists can’t yet prevent the cell death associated with Parkinson’s, their study of mathematical patterns could guide the development of less invasive treatments that block the motor symptoms of the disease.

“For Parkinson’s patients, there are more spurts and pauses in neural activity, and the firing of groups of neurons becomes more coordinated, leading to tremor and other symptoms,” said Jonathan Rubin, Pitt professor of mathematics and one of the principal investigators on the project. “The neuronal activity is like a woodpecker knocking on a tree outside your window; it distracts you when it first starts pecking, and then the silence grabs your attention when the pecking suddenly stops.  Similarly, the starts and stops in the neuronal activity can become disruptive to signal processing in the brain.”

Rubin said this firing pattern may be what leads those with Parkinson’s to experience shaking, rigid muscles, and difficulty in making quick movements. Currently, if side effects of drug treatments become too strong, surgeons fight these symptoms with deep brain stimulation (DBS), an aggressive but commonly used surgical treatment in which an implanted electrode literally penetrates the brain and sends out electrical impulses.

“It’s not quite understood how deep brain stimulation works,” said Rubin. “But it may be similar to the white noise of a window fan: It’s right there in your window next to you, so it’s potentially more distracting than a woodpecker. But actually, the regularity of the rhythm is less disruptive for you and your brain.”

Pitt researchers are trying to understand the neuronal activity patterns so they can improve the deep brain stimulation procedure, making it more individualized and efficient.

Along with Rubin, the principal investigators of the NSF award for the study of complex biological systems across multiple space and time scales are G. Bard Ermentrout, Distinguished University Professor of Computational Biology and professor of mathematics at Pitt; David Swigon, Pitt associate professor of mathematics; and Ivan Yotov, professor and chair in Pitt’s Department of Mathematics. The NSF grant partially funded the work of mathematics graduate student Pamela Reitsma, who carried out preliminary computational studies on the flow of signals from the basal ganglia under the supervision of Rubin and Brent Doiron, Pitt assistant professor of mathematics.

The principal investigators of the NIH grant are Pitt researchers Robert Turner, associate professor of neurobiology at Pitt; Brent Doiron, assistant professor of mathematics; and Rubin.
 

New Researches About Ageing, Weight and Hairs

I found some interesting notices that tell about the results of the medical researches. I want to list them here.

One of them is about the ageing of the body.

Scientists discovered that our cells have natural limits of the number of divisions that is 50. After that, the cells begin to contaminate, disturb other cells. The researchers decided to clean the bodies of the mice from those old cells -and the mice remained in better form than those who did not have this treatment.

Now, they want to know if this cleaning can provoke deseases like cancer etc.

My personal doubt is this: why the nature choosed this strange precise number? Why 50 and not 49 or 52,  for example? Do the numbers, invented by humans, are valid for the Universe? 


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Second interesting discovery is about the weight and obesity.

The scientists are sure now different elements like plastic etc can influence the weight of the persons. Toxic substances of different sources we are in contact affect microbes that live in our intestine. Did you know that we have much more microbes in the intestine that all the sum of the cells that compose our body? The microbes practically control all the functions of our organisms.And, in this sence, weight, insuline, etc etc. But these microbs can be damaged by the chemical substances we are in contact with. Scientists found more than 30 toxins in the intestine of the obese persons.

It's known that some microbs of our intestine can change medicines we assume so that they become more toxic. And this s the next task for the researchers -to discover how the microbs of the intestine can interact with the pollute elements we have around us.


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Finally, the third report was about the color of the hairs.

One Japanese scientist found different metals in the hairs of different colors. So, iron, cooper and nickel are in the hairs of all colors. More nickel -light hair, more cooper -black hair, more iron and molybdenum -broun hair. What is interesting, Japanese researchers says, grey hairs contain only nickel.