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"One is in the human brain, where a mind-altering cannabinoid named anandamide is manufactured. This same extraordinary chemical is also found in chocolate. Anandamide's name derives from the Sanskrit word ananda, which means bliss. Cannabis and chocolate and the human brain all share this bliss-inducing agent. In the human brain, anandamide binds to the same receptor sites as THC from cannabis. Anandamide produces a feeling of euphoria. This compound may account for why some people become blissed-out when they eat chocolate. The human brain is a marvelous and mysterious organ." - Chris Kilham, Hot Plants: Nature's Proven Sex Boosters for Men and Women (Get the book.)

"A lot of aspects of our mental condition will be helped because pregnenolone is made in the human brain, like DHEA. The enzymes are available that convert cholesterol into pregnenolone within the human brain, so these neurosteroids are within the brain, they have a function there. As we age, their levels decline and it would be appropriate in our older years to take tiny doses of these things. But until we learn more about this and DHEA and melatonin, the dosages need to be minimal. We do not know the long-term consequences of giving high doses." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"The fact is, there is something in us that loves a refined carbohydrate, and that something is the human brain. The human brain craves carbohydrates reduced to their energy essence, which is to say pure glucose. Once industry figured out how to transform the seeds of grasses into the chemical equivalent of sugar, there was probably no turning back. And then of course there is sugar itself, the ultimate refined carbohydrate, which began flooding the marketplace and the human metabolism around the same time as refined flour." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"That average just happens to match the alpha range of human brain waves, so there is wide speculation, and growing evidence, that the Schumann resonance affects the human brain. The heart also is tuned closely to this range of frequencies. The late New Zealand scientist Neil Cherry was among the most well-known of researchers who studied both the Schumann resonance and extremely low frequency (ELF) waves in relation to human health.2 He noted that they almost certainly play a role in the human circadian rhythm, which includes the wake-sleep cycle." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"The human brain is a precious and vulnerable organ," says Philippe Grand-jean, adjunct professor at Harvard School of Public Health and the study's lead author. "And because optimal brain function depends on the integrity of the organ, even limited damage may have serious consequences.... We must make protection of the young brain a paramount goal of public health protection. You have only one chance to develop a brain." Clearly, the mainstream medical and political establishment has a long way to go in recognizing and addressing the serious problem of chemical toxicity. " - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "The enzymes are available that convert cholesterol into pregnenolone within the human brain, so these neurosteroids are within the brain, they have a function there. As we age, their levels decline and it would be appropriate in our older years to take tiny doses of these things. But until we learn more about this and DHEA and melatonin, the dosages need to be minimal. We do not know the long-term consequences of giving high doses. Generally, my dosages are between 2 milligrams and 10 milligrams. I definitely do not recommend dosages as high as 50 milligrams of pregnenolone or DHEA." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "Very definitely, the human brain can renew itself. New nerve cells can be made, and existing cells can re-extend their networks and rebuild to full levels of cognitive function." Clinical trials have demonstrated the benefits. "PS was able to turn back the clock on memory loss by 12 years," Dr. Kidd says. "That is, in matching up names and faces. People were testing at about 64 years of age and at the end of the trial, they were testing 52 years of age. So it actually turned back the clock on a measurable aspect of memory loss." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"He placed three REGs near a culture of human brain cells, then asked a group of healers to send intentions for the culture to grow more quickly, and to engage in traditional space-conditioning meditations. Any deviation from the random activity of the REGs would indicate the probable presence of greater coherence. Radin also prepared a control batch of cells, which were not to be sent intention. After three days, there was no overall difference in the growth between the treated cells and the controls. Nevertheless, as the experiment progressed, the treated cells began to grow faster." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.) "Research in California and Israel has shown that lower concentrations of either positive or negative ions will produce fewer alpha frequencies in the human brain and that sudden higher levels of either charge can produce rapid, distinctive brain-wave changes.50 Persinger's research offers a vast amount of evidence that magnetic frequency affects our ability to "tune" in and transmit, and also affects those portions of the brain that receive the information." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"In Marcer's mind, Walter's machine worked on the same principle that Karl Pribram had worked out for the human brain: by reading natural radiation and emissions from the Zero Point Field. Not only did Walter have a mathematical map of how information processing in the brain may work, which amounted to a mathematical demonstration of the theories of Karl Pribram. He also had, as Peter saw it, a machine which worked according to this process." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

"Current research suggests that the effects of lead exposure on human brain development may be even more damaging than we currently know.36 Obviously, public-health policy in every nation must protect children, and resources must be invested to learn more about the effects of lead, help educate families about safe removal of lead from the home, and properly regulate the release of lead into our environment." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"Binding and endocytosis in isolated human brain microvessels. J. Clin. Invest. 99, 14-18. 39. Cohen, M. M. Jr. (2006). Role of leptin in regulating appetite, neuroendocrine function, and bone remodeling. Am. J. Med. Genet. A. 140, 515-524. 40. Friedman, J. M., and Halaas, J. L. (1998). Leptin and the regulation of body weight in mammals. Nature 395, 763-770. 41. Tartaglia, L. A., Dembski, M., Weng, X., Deng, N., Culpepper, J., Devos, R., Richards, G. J., Campfield, L. A., Clark, F. T., Deeds, J., Muir, C, Sanker, S., Moriarty, A., Moore, K. J., Smutko, J. S., Mays, G. G., Wool, E. A." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"The development of the human brain in utero is an extremely fragile process, as the placenta is not an effective shield against environmental pollutants and the blood-brain barrier (which protects an adult brain from environmental insults) is not completely formed until the beginning of the third trimester. Because the brain continues to develop postnatally and experience periods of high vulnerability, toxic interference at any point of prenatal and early childhood growth can lead to permanent and devastating changes in brain functioning." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.) "At Johns Hopkins, I studied the role of glutamate in cognition and made some effort to measure its receptors in the human brain. With acetylcholine, too little of the neurotransmitter has clear detrimental consequences on attention and memory and higher levels can improve cognition, but the situation with glutamate is murkier. Experimental research in animals has shown that if glutamate receptors are overstimulated by the abundance of glutamate, neurons may die. Recall from Chapter 2 that this research is based on the excitatory hypothesis." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"Studies by the Institute of HeartMath have shown that the electrical strength of the heart's signal, measured by an electrocardiogram (EKG), is up to 60 times as great as the electrical signal from the human brain, measured by an electroencephalogram (EEG), while the heart's magnetic field is as much as 5,000 times stronger than that of the brain.25 What's important here is that either field has the power to change the energy of atoms, and we create both in our experience of belief!" - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.) "The man commonly referred to as the "father" of the modern computer, mathematician John von Neumann, once calculated that the human brain could store as much as 280 quintillion bits of memory (that's 280 with 18 zeros following it). Not only can the brain store such an amazing amount of data, it can process it more quickly than any of today's fastest computers.2 This is important because it's the way we gather, process, and store the information of life that determines our beliefs and where they come from." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.)

"What Melatonin Does for You Melatonin is the hormone of hibernation in animals and is produced in a tiny region of the human brain known as the pineal gland. Melatonin does all the things you would want to do if you were hibernating—it relaxes you, makes you sleepy, cools your body, and lets you sleep while entertaining you with interesting dreams. It is the only hormone affected by light, temperature, and electromagnetic fields. Melatonin controls the deep and dream phases of your sleep." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"A principle to remember: Tampering with the human brain to influence human emotions and actions is not a good idea. MARKETING MYTH: PSYCHIATRIC DRUGS IN SMALL DOSES ARE RELATIVELY HARMLESS THE PREVIOUS CHAPTER described the case of Reynaldo Lacuzong who drowned himself and his two children in a bathtub after taking only two or three doses of the smallest available dose of Paxil (10mg). Despite how often doctors tell their patients, "Don't worry, it's a small dose," many people have serious adverse effects from one or two doses of a drug, often in relatively small amounts." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"As mentioned above, we do not know which form of BAP is toxic in the human brain or even for sure if it is the primary toxin. 3. BAP accumulates in all brains as they age. The process may even start in persons as young as twenty. It would be unnatural for an aging person not to have BAP in their brain, and, in fact, clinical-pathological studies of normal aging individuals demonstrate that nearly one-third of clinically normal people have sufficient levels of amyloid plaques in their brains to warrant an AD diagnosis had they been clinically demented." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"But neuroscientists have also shown that the overwhelming majority of connections between neurons in the human brain, and the chemicals that enable those connections, are created during childhood, and are affected by children's experiences. The eminent neuroscientist Susan Greenfield once wrote that there are as many neurons in a human brain as there are trees in the Amazonian rainforest, and as many connections between those neurons as there are leaves on those trees." - Sue Palmer, Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About it (Get the book.)

"The big brain is so difficult to get out of the tight birth canal that most of human brain development takes place after birth. When monkeys are born, their brains are more than 65 percent of the size that they'll be when fully grown. But baby human brains are only 25 percent of the size—that's one reason babies are so helpless for the first three months; their brains are in a state of rapid development. Many doctors actually call it the fourth trimester. On top of all that, the human birth canal isn't one constant shape, so the fetus has to twist its way through." - Dr. Sharon Moalem, Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease (Get the book.)

"Home Remedies Because walnuts resemble a human brain, many cultures have used it as a "brain food." In Asia, students are known to munch on walnuts before exams in hopes of improving test results. One home remedy suggests consuming 20 grams of walnuts daily for amnesia. Walnut leaves were once used to treat pain and thought to benefit good digestion. Throw Me a Lifesaver! HEART HEALTH: According to the USDA, "Supportive but not conclusive research shows that eating 1." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"As the last portion of the human brain to have evolved, it is the seat of rapid computing and guides the rest of the brain. Neurons throughout the brain extend their axons to connect with the cortex and thus inform it about a wide range of mental activity. Cortisol. The primary long-acting stress hormone that helps to mobilize fuel, cue attention and memory, and prepare the body and brain to battle challenges to equilibrium. Cortisol oversees the stockpiling of fuel, in the form of fat, for future stresses. Its action is crucial to our survival." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.) "In the adult human brain, they are located in a part of the hippocampus called the dentate gyrus, and in another area called the subventricular zone. Stem cells are encouraged to divide and develop into new neurons by fibroblast growth factor (FGF-2) and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF). See also fibroblast growth factor, hippocampus, and vascular endothelial growth factor. sympathetic nervous system. A vast network of nerve cells that connect the brain to the body and are activated by norepinephrine." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"It bears remembering that the human brain is about 60 percent fat; every neuron is sheathed in a protective layer of the stuff. Fats make up the structure of our cell walls, the ratios between the various kinds influencing the permeability of the cells to everything from glucose and hormones to microbes and toxins. Without adequate amounts of fat in the diet, fat-soluble vitamins like A and E can't pass through the intestinal walls. All this was known in 1977." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"For the record, there are more than 100 billion neurons in the human brain. Each neuron is connected to hundreds and thousands of other neurons, and each neuron can fire hundreds of times a second to other neurons across synapses. Altogether there are 100 trillion synapses through which the electrical and neurochemical messages flow. The connections are just about infinite. All of this activity happens within the confines of a three- to four-pound object. And the brain isn't even mainly composed of neurons. Ninety percent of the cells in the brain are actually not neurons." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"As an adult, possibly because he'd been so slight of build and not really the stuff of hearty physical exploration (in later life he'd resemble an elfin version of Albert Einstein, with the same majestic drapery of white shoulder-length hair) Karl chose the human brain as his exploratory terrain. After leaving .Lashley and Florida, Pribram would spend the next 20 years pondering the mysteries surrounding the organization of the brain, perception and consciousness." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

"My friend Sharon Begley, one of the best science writers in America, has written a superb guide to what's possible in the human brain. Food, Health, and Medicine For anyone interesting in digging deeper into the forces that shape how we look at medicine, food, and health in this country, here are some books that may forever change the way you see natural medicine, health advice, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, drug safety, and the business of drug (and food) marketing. Read them in the spirit of "information is power." - 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.)

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