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"These are but a few examples of well documented, but little known, experiments designed to substantiate the bio-communication of the human organism. • Self-Experiments You can perform similar experiments on your own. Observe for a moment the universe around you. Now simply become aware. Direct your attention to some event, some phenomena, or some thought of your choosing. Begin to imagine what is already occurring in the world that envelops you and the world that you envelop. Envision two animals communicating through the transfer of a single molecule in the atmosphere called pheromones." - Richard, Dr. DiCenso, Beyond Medicine, exploring a new way of thinking (Get the book.)

"For example, in difficult-to-believe yet completely reproducible experiments, mice subjected to low levels of radiation throughout their lives lived an average of 30 percent longer than unexposed siblings.1,2 Yes, instead of killing or weakening mice, a low dose of radiation actually made them live longer. Other experiments involving environmental stressors such as heat, cold, lack of nutrients, ultraviolet light, and toxins all come to the same startling conclusion: at the right dose, these potentially lethal factors can actually promote survival." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"Active Emmetropization in Animals The phenomenon of active emmetropization has been noticed for some time in experiments with animals. These experiments demonstrate a recovery from nearsighted (nonzero) refractive states. The eye has the ability of compensating for lens-driven retinal defocus. The first evidence for active emmetropization—the eye's response to its visual environment—following an induced myopic state was identified in chickens (Wallman & Adams, 1987; Norton, 1990; McBrien & Norton, 1992)." - David De Angelis, The Secret of Perfect Vision: How You Can Prevent and Reverse Nearsightedness (Get the book.)

"Using certain test-tube experiments, for example, they can test whether a chemical interacts with the brain pathways involved in depression. If the experiments measure a response, that chemical is biologically active. Aheady, these companies claim that their new testing process has discovered that there are some five active ingredients that may help St. John's Wort ease depression—not the single ingredient, hypeticin, which is currently the target of standardization. These companies are also looking to contract with herb manufacturers to "guarantee" their herbal products." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"More recently, in a series of ingenious experiments, Harry Preuss, M.D., C.N.S., and his colleagues at Georgetown University Medical Center found that cinnamon reduced the systolic blood pressure of rats with high blood pressure. Interestingly, in these particular experiments the cinnamon didn't reduce the rodents' blood sugar, but it did reduce their insulin levels." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Once the experiments are finished, the results will be analyzed and data-crunched by our scientific team, examined by a neutral statistician, and then published on the website and in subsequent printings of this book. The website will thus become the living sequel to the book you are holding in your hands. You simply need to consult the website periodically for announcements of the date of every experiment. Hundreds of well-designed studies of group intention and remote mental influence have demonstrated significant results." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"Check your crispers regularly so they don't become science experiments. Keep your water—whether it's seltzer, a pitcher of cool water, or serving size bottles of water—in easy reach. Fruit bowl as art. Consider making a glass bowl or pretty basket a feature of your countertop. Fill it with fresh fruits like oranges, lemons, and apples that don't need refrigeration. It will be a pleasing visual reminder of your goals and an encouragement to enjoy fruit daily. If you work in an office it will be well worth the effort to SlimDown your workplace." - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.)

"He started doing experiments with horses by taking blood samples and then testing for mineral and other nutrient deficiencies. He discovered that some of these horses were low in calcium or magnesium, for example. So he would put standard feed out in the corral, and then he would put standard feed plus calcium, or magnesium, or zinc, and let the animals go out and freely eat. They would smell everything and eat only what they needed." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "Abram Hoffer, who has researched and published extensively in the field, tells how the early treatment efforts influenced today's thinking: "The orthomolecular treatment of schizophrenia was started in Saskatchewan in 1951 when we ran the first double-blind controlled experiments in North American medicine and also the first in worldwide psychiatry." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "We learned about serotonin from experiments in which certain drugs that preserve it from being destroyed in the brain seem to work as antidepressants. The theory is that whatever can supply or aid the serotonin factor will help depression. Some foods that contain tryptophan can act as antidepressants. It is found most abundantly in milk and turkey." Tryptophan is a precursor to Prozac and other drugs like it, drugs that amplify the activity of serotonin in the brain." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "After that we ran another three double-blind controlled experiments. Since that time we have accumulated massive clinical experience; I myself have seen many thousands of schizophrenic patients. The treatment for the schizophrenic patient is really relatively simple. It's a combination of the best of modern psychiatry, which includes the proper use of tranquilizers, antidepressants or other drugs, with proper attention to diet and the use of nutrients. Vitamin B3 is the main nutrient used in treatment. It is given in large doses. "It's not enough to give the tiny amount present in food," Dr." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Pain is related to depression, and after Pert's discovery, others conducted experiments to see if endorphins were indeed the link between exercise and elevated mood. They expected to find that endorphin-blocking drugs would prevent runner's high, but there were conflicting results. Then we found that endorphins produced in the body—the ones detected in the runners—cannot pass into the brain, and scientific enthusiasm for the endorphin rush faded. Endorphins obviously weren't the single answer, so they were abandoned in the lab. Now we're coming back around to them." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"Everyone working on these experiments had the sense that they were on the verge of something that was going to transform everything we understood about reality and human beings, but at the time they were simply frontier scientists operating without a compass. A number of scientists working independently had come up with a single bit of the puzzle and were frightened to compare notes. There was no common language because what they were discovering appeared to defy language." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.) "There was one other point of common agreement: all the experiments being carried out drove a stake into the very heart of existing scientific theory. CHAPTER TWO The Sea of Light Bill church was out of gas. Ordinarily, this would not be a situation that could ruin an entire day. But in 1973, in the grip of America's first oil crisis, getting your car filled up with gas depended upon two things: the day of the week and the last number of your license plate." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.) "The problem with this interpretation is that in many of the experiments, the viewers had been able to see a site as a moving video, as if they had been there on the scene. This meant that this phenomenon operated beyond a conventional ELF frequency. Furthermore, using the special double-walled, copper-screened room, which would block even low-frequency radio waves, didn't tarnish anyone's ability to pick up the scene or degrade any of the descriptions, even those of events thousands of miles away." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

"Fitzgerald goes on to share what Sheldon Krimsky calculated for his 2000 book, Hormonal Chaos: The Scientific and Social Origins of the Environmental Endocrine Hypothesis: If you take the most common one thousand chemicals and test them in unique combinations of three at a single dose per experiment, it would take 166 million different experiments to cover all the possibilities. And with up to 100,000 different synthetic chemicals in production and in the marketplace, the potential number of synergistic combinations becomes outrageous." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Wansink's experiments showed that people drink 25 percent to 30 percent more if they drink from a short, wide glass rather than from a tall, narrow one, and 31 percent more if they eat from a 34-ounce bowl compared to a 17-ounce one. While most Americans keep eating until their stomachs feel full, Okinawans stop as soon as they no longer feel hungry. "There's a significant calorie gap between when an American says, 'I'm full' and an Okinawan says, 'I'm no longer hungry,'" explains Wansink. " - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.) "In one of Wansink's experiments, he invited a group of people to view a tape and gave each one either a one-pound bag of M&Ms or a half-pound bag of M&Ms to eat as they pleased. After the video, he asked both groups to return their uneaten portions of candy. Those given a one-pound bag ate an average of 137 M&Ms, while those given a half-pound bag ate only 71. We typically consume more from big packages. Wansink's lab examined 47 products in this experiment, and the same thing happened over and over." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"ANTIMICROBIAL: Pomegranates have been found to be effective in killing a variety of life-threatening bacteria in laboratory experiments. CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE: Different studies with humans and mice found that supplementation with pomegranate juice helped prevent the development of fatty streaks in arteries. In another heart-related study published in the American Journal of Cardiology, researchers noted that patients who drank pomegranate juice daily for three months had improved heart function." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.) "Guava leaf has also been used successfully in experiments for controlling blood glucose. HEART HEALTH: Participants who consumed guava experienced a marked reduction of total cholesterol, triglycerides, and LDL ("bad") cholesterol, along with improved HDL cholesterol. Their blood pressure improved as well. ANTIBACTERIAL: Guava leaves have antibacterial properties and have been shown to have a highly lethal effect on salmonella and other harmful bacteria. Tips on Using Guava SELECTION AND STORAGE: • Guavas come fresh, canned, in a paste, jelly, juice, and nectar." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"More importantly data from a variety of experiments suggest that the contributing factors to the behavioral decrements seen in aging involve oxidative stress (OS) [39] and inflammation (INF) [40, 41]. This review discusses some of the nutritional interventions in aging and their putative utility in neurodegenerative disease. II." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"This is Zero Hour PE, the latest in a long line of educational experiments conducted by a group of maverick physical education teachers who have turned the nineteen thousand students in Naperville District 203 into the fittest in the nation—and also some of the smartest. (The name of the class refers to its scheduled time before first period.) The objective of Zero Hour is to determine whether working out before school gives these kids a boost in reading ability and in the rest of their subjects." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"Even when the animal model can provide very good information, there may be important caveats that inform the conclusions that can be made from the experiments. For example, there are numerous studies of the administration of high-fat diets to animals with increasing mammary tumor development. One limitation of such studies that is often not noted is that the observed increases in mammary tumors are found only when the high-fat diets are administered to virgin animals. In parous animals, the high-fat diets do not increase mammary tumors [35]." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Mandel's experiments showed that colored light restores balance to the life force, thus directly affecting the coherence of biophotons. The color from plants can have a direct affect on the light in our cells when we immerse ourselves in their presence. In the most obvious example, the color green, which is the frequency much of the plant world displays, carries the vibration of growth, abundance, and vitality. It is in the middle of the light spectrum, at the balance point." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.) "Unfortunately, when these experiments were being performed in the 1920s, the climate for this type of information was not receptive. It was not until much later, when others followed through with his initial research, that his hypothesis of ultraviolet radiation coming from cells was discovered to be true. It was found that all living cells—plant, animal, and human—have "biophotons" or light rays that they emit." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.)

"In many of his experiments, Mattson uses dietary restriction to cause mild cellular stress — there isn't enough glucose to produce adequate amounts of ATP—and he's found that mice and rats that are given a third of their normal calories live up to 40 percent longer than average. His work has helped identify protective molecules unleashed during various types of stress, including aerobic exercise." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.) "When we first did our experiments, we had all sorts of things going on," Gage explains. "We needed to tease that out, and to our surprise, just putting a running wheel in a cage had a profound effect on the number of cells that were born. Ironically, with running, the same percentage of cells die as in the control group — it's just that you have a bigger starting pool. But in order for a cell to survive and integrate, it has to fire its axon." Exercise spawns neurons, and the stimulation of environmental enrichment helps those cells survive." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"Their analysis found that only one of thirty-seven experiments involving the pain medicines had been published. GlaxoSmithKline settled the lawsuit brought by Spitzer by promising to begin disclosing the results of all its clinical trials to the public. Other drug companies made similar pledges. And in the fall of 2007, Congress passed a measure requiring the government to begin keeping a registry of drug trials so that the public would not be kept in the dark." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "Indeed, Iowans were becoming known to the drug industry as people who made good study subjects because of their willingness to follow directions and stick with experiments they volunteered for. In other words, they made good guinea pigs. In 2004 the university boasted it had 136 scientists managing clinical trials for the industry. It was involved in so many drug trials that it had negotiated standard written contracts with more than a dozen companies to save time. But there were problems." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "The companies carefully choose patients for those experiments, frequently leaving out the elderly, women, and patients who are very weak or ill. Once the government approves the drug, marketers and salespeople work feverishly to get doctors to prescribe it to millions of patients. A single class of new medicines promoted to treat irregular heartbeats is estimated to have killed fifty thousand Americans in just a few years." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

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