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"Recent studies show that supplementation of omega-3 fats, especially DHA, during pregnancy improves cognitive performance of a child when he or she is four years old. Additional studies suggest that higher omega-3 fat intake preserves cognitive function as we age, reducing the risk of dementia. It's clear that omega-3 fats are important throughout life for optimal brain development and performance. Nerve growth factors determine your brain's learning or memory capacity or its interconnectedness." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"Pedestal tables were arranged around the stage, and no one was more than a few feet away from the performance. Everyone in the room could see everything, and see it very well. Michael simply walked onstage, and, with little more than a "Hello, I'm Michael Hedges," something extraordinary began to happen: Suddenly his hands were doing things that I'd never seen a guitarist's do in my life. As he began his unaccompanied performance, his fingers stretched and bent in uncanny ways to form the chords and create sounds that gave the room a feeling that I can only describe as surreal." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.)

"This in turn causes a decrease, not only in sexual desire and performance, but in the competitive drive to succeed and accomplish in life. In women, excessive estrogen in the body causes a reduction in testosterone levels, which leads to a similar decline in sexual desire and performance and a similar reduction in "life drive." Wild Oats and Nettles As we've just discussed, available testosterone levels tend to diminish with age. Adequate testosterone levels are essential in sexual functioning and "life drive" for both sexes." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"Patients were assessed for weight, body composition, dietary intake, resting energy expenditure (REE), and performance status. Patients consumed a median of 1.9 cans daily. All patients were losing weight at the start of the trial at an average rate of 2.9 kilograms (kg) monthly. After administration of the fish oil—enriched supplement, patients had significant weight gain at both three (average 1 kg) and seven weeks (average 2 kg). Dietary intake increased significantly by almost 400 calories per day. performance status and appetite were significantly improved after three weeks." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"A TNS machine should not be used by people with heart pacemakers as it can interfere with the pacemaker's performance. Magneton Therapy or Bio-energetic Acupuncture You will have learned at school about the earth's magnetic field and the pull of the North and South Poles. And, like most of us, you probably have not thought too much about it since. But perhaps magnetic therapy can improve asthma." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"He's been on several collecting trips to Guatemala and Central America, looking for orange, pink and red Annona fruits to bring back for his employer, Zill High performance Plants in Boynton Beach, Florida. Mahdeem was born in Michigan but grew up in the Amazon basin near the city of Manaus, where his missionary parents started an agricultural school. "I soon acquired a nickname: Bouritirana, which is the name of a small, worthless fruit," he says in a singsong voice with a indeterminate, vaguely Southern twang. He was given the name because he'd asked someone if he could eat it. " - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "At the end of the day, I join Voon and his colleagues at a folk dancing performance in an open-air stadium. The traditional forest dances seem out of place on this amplified, metallic stage. The crowd, wearing button-up shirts and dress shoes, watches the dancing and then stands up to sing along to an anthem. It's a catchy song with a syncopated Casio beat and couplets about embracing progress and cyber technologies: "Thank you for the way the old things were done," they sing. "Now it's time for the modern age." Naught but fruit doth ever pass my lips . . ." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Major research done by NASA's Molecular Biophysics Laboratory showed that performance, work capacity, allergic conditions, pains, healing and burn recovery were all improved in negatively ionised air. Small, inexpensive ionisers are now available from pharmacies, health food outlets and electrical stores. Surfaces around the ionisers need to be cleaned regularly to avoid discoloration from the matter they attract." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"When new drugs were compared to diuretics alone, their performance was worse. For instance, the Multicenter Isradipine Diuretic Atherosclerosis Study (MIDAS) compared the calcium channel blocker isradipine to the diuretic chlorthalidone in 883 patients with high blood pressure. Twenty-five patients on isradipine had a major cardiovascular event (heart attack, stroke, heart failure, death, or angina) compared with fourteen on a diuretic, a statistically significant difference." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.) "Seventy percent develop retrograde ejaculation (ejaculation backward into the bladder), which does not affect sexual performance. One percent of men develop incontinence. The estimates of TURP-induced impotence are difficult to estimate since many men in the older age range of BPH patients already have sexual problems. Estimates vary around 5%, and it is possible that there are no true TURP-induced cases of impotence that do not respond to Viagra. Other treatments for BPH include thermotherapy, laser surgery, and minor incisions. If medications do not help I recommend starting with a TURP." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"I relate it to performance in sports. I put it in terms of running faster, jumping higher, and having more fun in general. After the initial discussion and introduction, I explain the new diet in a very positive way. "Won't it be great to go to the market with Mom and Dad and pick out the freshest melons and the reddest strawberries? Won't your pancakes taste great topped with a big mountain of berries?" Kids get it easily. If only the adults did. I've seen preschool classes of fifteen children where there were somehow a hundred birthday-party days. I don't know how this happens . . ." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.) "The therapist can help assess what went wrong whenever performance falls short. The therapist can also candidly discuss with you things about your child's thoughts and feelings that he or she may not be willing to tell you for fear of disappointing you. A professional cognitive behavioral therapist can be a trusted friend, confidant, and ally to call when you and your child run into snags at home." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.) "The truth is that no matter how technology enhances our performance at work or our leisure at home, people who are successful know how to complete tasks—no matter how challenging or time-consuming the tasks may be. We all have to identify the things we think are important and then figure out how to focus our energies into them. We all struggle to learn this, but those with ADD/ADHD have an even harder time. For a parent, your first obligation is to make sure that your child is happy and healthy." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.)

"Bee pollen has been found to enhance energy, stamina, and strength, and to improve the performance levels of athletes. It has also been shown to help reduce symptoms of allergies, hayfever, and asthma. By starting with a small amount, say Vs of a teaspoon, and gradually building up to one or several teaspoons per day, most people can enjoy the nutritional and therapeutic benefits of this natural food. Chlorella Chlorella is a relatively unrecognized food even though many people who know of it call it "the most magnificent food in the world." Like spirulina, it is a freshwater micro-alga." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.) "For optimum performance, the human body needs its owner to understand the energy healing features that are built into it that create physical and emotional health. We need understanding. When people ask me what this book is about, I tell them that it explains: how the human body was designed to operate, what its requirements for healthy operation are, why it develops disease symptoms, how the disease process can be reversed, and how one can enjoy health and vitality well into old age." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.) "If we do not put quality nutrition in, we cannot expect to get quality performance out. If we put dirty gasoline into the fuel tank of a car, we know it will not be able to function properly, perform smoothly, and provide trouble-free service for us. However, we regularly do something similar with our bodies. Why? We do not seem to realize that junk, processed, and chemically-enriched foods are very harmful to our bodies. We have not educated ourselves nor have we been educated about the true nutritional requirements our bodies have." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"A neurochemical evaluation (see the performance Enhancement Survey at the back of this book) showed that Thelma had low serotonin levels. Occasionally, Thelma's job became stressful, which would drive up her brain levels of dopamine, triggering nervous tension, anxiety, and fear—feelings that Thelma regarded as unbearable. She'd rather be depressed—at least she knew what to expect. Whenever Thelma got stressed, she automatically withdrew not only from the stressor, but from much of life. Withdrawal caused her dopamine levels to fall, but it did little or nothing for her low serotonin." - Joel C. Robertson, Peak-Performance Living: Easy, Drug-Free Ways to Alter Your own Brain Chemistry and Achieve Optimal Healt (Get the book.) "And with that, let's take the next step in our performance enhancement: adopting the right exercise program for mental and physical health. 8 Exercise Programs for Satiation and Arousal Personalities Relaxing and Energizing Workouts The effects of exercise on mood are dramatic and well documented. Studies have shown that exercise reduces depression, anxiety, and stress. It also significantly improves our outlook on life." - Joel C. Robertson, Peak-Performance Living: Easy, Drug-Free Ways to Alter Your own Brain Chemistry and Achieve Optimal Healt (Get the book.)

"Dietary intake increased significantly by almost 400 calories per day. performance status and appetite were significantly improved after three weeks. In contrast to previous studies, this study suggests that an EPA-enriched supplement may not only slow or stop cachexia; it may even reverse wasting in advanced pancreatic and, perhaps other cancers. The researchers concluded that a fish oil-enriched nutritional supplement may be a safe and effective means of preventing weight loss in cancer patients and may even increase survival time in patients with pancreatic cancer." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"In contrast with the performance of Kamar al-Zaman was that of Budur. She had no thought or fear of anyone watching. Furthermore, Maymunah, who had awakened her, with female malice had gone high up her leg and bitten hard in a place that burned. The beautiful, noble, glorious Budur, discovering her male affinity beside her, and perceiving that he had already taken her ring, unable either to rouse him or to imagine what he had done to her, and ravaged with love, assailed by the open presence of his flesh, lost all control, and attained to a climax of helpless passion. " - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell (Get the book.)

"Through the lens of moxabustion, they assessed the relative importance of anatomy and experience as sources of authoritative knowledge; they asserted the necessity of medical training to the proper performance of this powerful new therapy; they critiqued lay interventions into medical debates. The ease with which moxabustion became a Trojan horse in its narrators' internecine and intellectual battles offers another perspective on the pursuit of cross-cultural medical knowledge by medical professionals." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"The first step in the process of boosting intellectual performance and promoting feelings of joy, inner peace, and well-being is to understand your own underlying emotional tone. You have a familiar set of feelings that you regard as normal and even optimal under routine, everyday circumstances. By "optimal," I mean that this feeling state is your preferred condition, just as Thelma preferred being at least mildly depressed. This preference is actually created in your brain by precise amounts of dopamine, norepinephrine, acetylcholine, GABA, and serotonin." - Joel C. Robertson, Peak-Performance Living: Easy, Drug-Free Ways to Alter Your own Brain Chemistry and Achieve Optimal Healt (Get the book.) "They tend to sit for hours doing little more than watching television or staring into space. The performance program for Satiation type 2 will raise serotonin to help relieve depression and will mildly elevate dopamine and norepinephrine levels to increase energy, creativity, and willpower. I say mildly elevate dopamine and norepinephrine because Satiation personalities typically dislike and feel stressed by an abundance of gas-pedal neurochemicals." - Joel C. Robertson, Peak-Performance Living: Easy, Drug-Free Ways to Alter Your own Brain Chemistry and Achieve Optimal Healt (Get the book.)

"If your engine is not running smoothly, fixing only one problem might not improve its performance. You might need to change clogged filters, adjust the valves or cylinders, replace the timing belt, and service the battery. In terms of your body-field, you might find that an imbalance, say a problem with your Nervous System Driver, doesn't stay corrected through use of the corresponding Driver or related Integtator Infoceuticals." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"Despite the poor performance of the American health care system, our health care costs are simply staggering. In 2004, health expenditures in the United States are projected to exceed $6100 for every man, woman, and child. How does this compare with other countries? The United States spends more than twice as much per person on health care as the other industrialized nations. Even taking into account our higher per-person gross domestic product, the United States spends 42 percent more on health care per person than would be expected, given spending on health care in the other OECD nations." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "Only studies that met these standards would be certified by the new body—thus establishing an effective performance threshold for validation of clinical research. This certification would become part of the peer-review process for medical journals—publication could be restricted to certified research or articles' certification status could be clearly identified for readers. Certification would also be identified in all the scientific evidence presented to doctors in marketing material and continuing education." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "When I first read of the poor performance of the U.S. health care system I was incredulous. But as I confirmed these findings with data from multiple sources and began to understand the underlying causes, my skepticism gave way to a sense of vindication. I had been trained to believe that carefully reading the medical journals, following experts' recommendations, and keeping up with continuing education would ensure that I was bringing the best possible care to my patients." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"The emotions bioenergetically linked to Integrator 6 are those related to drive and performance and to personal characteristics such as charisma. Empathy also is found here. ENERGETIC INTEGRATOR 7: BLOOD FIELD /GALLBLADDER MERIDIAN Whereas Energetic Integrators 5 and 6 relate bioenergetically to the brain and/or spine's white matter, Energetic Integrator 7 connects to the gray matter. It especially is tightly linked to the motor cortex of the brain, so it is correlated clinically to all types of motor problems, from twitches and numbness to gait problems." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"In fact, if you examine any training regimen, the introduction of mandatory rest periods improves performance. Research has demonstrated maximal muscle growth occurs if you rest an exercised muscle for several days between sessions.6 In Diet Evolution, you're learning a new regimen, a new way of living and eating. I'll explain why you'll hit plateaus, but the important fact to take away from this chapter is that "settling in," a yoga term I'll explain shortly, is critical to your long-term success on and enjoyment of the program." - 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.) "Cordyceps, originally only grown in Tibet and used solely by the Imperial family, were the secret natural performance enhancer used by Chinese Olympic athletes when the nation reentered the games. (For more on these supplements and dosage suggestions, see www.drgundry.com.) MANAGING HYPERTENSION: SUPPLEMENT YOUR DIET Hawthorne berries, olive leaf extract, magnesium, and manganese all help dilate (relax) blood vessels. Indeed, many studies suggest that hypertension is a good marker for low stores of magnesium in the body." - 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.)

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