Are You Suffering from Digestive Issues? Here are the 4 Most Common Causes (And Their Solutions) Millions of people suffer from digestive issues. I have mentioned on this page the four most common causes as well as their solutions. Candida albicans at 200X magnification. 1. Candida overgrowth occurs in the body when the good flora is eliminated and the yeast begins to overgrow. Symptoms of Candida can range from: HeadachesSleep problemsCravings for breads and sweetsPoor memoryDizzinessLarge abdomenGERDAnd More Micrograph of Clostridium difficile. C. There are several natural treatments that help to reduce the Candida and C. Natural Treatments for Candida and C. Fermented Garlic – Garlic is a natural antifungal and has antibiotic properties. Virgin Coconut Oil – Virgin Coconut Oil helps to kill of the yeast and C. Homemade Yogurt – Goat’s milk yogurt can help to bring down the Candida and C. 2. Many people having heartburn or burning sensations in the stomach actually have low stomach acid. There are also tests that your doctor can perform to find out if you have low stomach acid. 3.
Zen To Slim: A Simple, 5-Step Weight Loss Plan | zen habits Every Friday is Health Tip Day at Zen Habits. I think this one will be a bit controversial — weight loss theories seem to be a bit divisive, judging from past posts on this topics, as people have very strong opinions about the right way to lose weight. However, this post isn’t going to explore any of those theories. These people don’t need to go into the scientific theories, and they probably don’t want to count calories or do any kind of complicated calculations. When I started running last year, and eating healthier (eventually becoming a near-vegan), I lost more than 20 pounds and kept them off. Anyway, I recently had a few readers ask me about my weight loss plan. If this sounds right for you, check out the following plan. There is nothing revolutionary in this plan. Step 1: Begin gradual exercise. Some key points: Type of exercise. Step 2: Replace fatty and greasy foods with healthier foods. Some key points for this step: Examples: if you cook fried chicken, try baked instead.
30 Questions to Ask Yourself Before You Die {Via studioflowerpower on etsy} “Rather than money, than fame, than love…give me truth.” ~ Thoreau I woke up this morning and my life clock marked 30. My first sleep-deprived idea was to pack a small suitcase, get on the first train, move to another country, change my name, change my hair color (or get plastic surgery if needed), and start from scratch. When I don’t know how to deal with life, I hide sometimes. By now, I’m good at both: fighting and disappearing. A true warrior doesn’t feel forced to do either, but moves through and with and for life, like water. So after I washed my face and considered the costs of running and those of fighting, I decided to do neither and have some juice instead. {Alkaline Espresso / Click for recipe.} We are a constant process, an event, we’re change. As such, our smaller houses, our temporary homes can only be made of cards. Loving the questions means to love yourself. So here is an exercise we can do together: a tweak to your usual bucket list. You.
Hacking Habits: How To Make New Behaviors Last For Good In the workplace and in life, we are little more than the sum of our habits. Who we are and what we accomplish depends largely on a vast network of routines and behaviors that we carry out with little to no thought whatsoever. As neuroscientist David Eagleman writes in Incognito, “Brains are in the business of gathering information and steering behavior appropriately. It doesn’t matter whether consciousness is involved in the decision making. And most of the time, it’s not.” Habits are the brain’s own internal productivity drivers. In The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business, writer Charles Duhigg does a deep dive into the science of habits to explain how they work and how we can change them. How Habits Get Formed. When we first engage in a new task, our brains are working hard—processing tons of new information as we find our way. How Habit Loops Work. Habits consist of a simple, but extremely powerful, three-step loop. Both of those rewards are valid and necessary.
The Role of Oxalates in Autism and Chronic Disorders Read this article in: Dutch A mummy that had been preserved for a couple of thousand years in the high desert of Chile was discovered upon X-ray examination to have a very large oxalate stone in the kidney, about the size of a golf ball. The discovery of this ancient sufferer is testimony to the fact that kidney stones and oxalate toxicity have afflicted humans for a very long time. Oxalates (the salt form of oxalic acid) are extremely painful when deposited in the body. About eighty percent of kidney stones are caused by oxalates and they are by far the most common factor in kidney stone formation. There is also a large degree of genetic variability in the ability to detoxify the chemicals that produce oxalates. Oxalates can form all throughout the kidney and the urinary tract, and can also form in the ureter as well as in the bladder. Some kidney stones acquire a stag horn shape, while some oxalate crystals resemble pieces of coral. This last symptom is a common factor in autism. Dr.
The Two Week Lifestyle Overhaul — Zen to Fitness The Two Week Lifestyle Overhaul : Zen to Fitness corazón girl A while back I was thinking how cool it would be to write up a guide on how to give yourself a total lifestyle re-haul that wouldn’t cause you to sacrifice too much, just a two week period where you try your best in all areas of life to make some simple changes for the better. The three areas are: DietTrainingLifestyle Each of these areas can be adjusted slightly allowing you to live a healthier more fulfilled life, Its amazing how small adjustments in each area can and will lead to big differences in a short period. Diet This is a area where most people can make changes and even if they are hesitant to change for the long term at least trying for two weeks can be a primer to see if an overhaul makes enough of a difference to how they look or feel. - Stick to whole foods when you can; Don’t eat foods that have been processed, come out of a can or are pre-made. - Stick to Meats, Vegetables, Fruit, Nuts, Eggs, Some Dairy and Legumes. - Snack on high protein foods and vegetables.
Griffin the Parrot Demonstrates the Ability to Share Parrots are highly intelligent animals. The most famously brainy parrot, an African gray named Alex, was described as having the intelligence of a 5 year old child and the emotional capacity of a 2 year old. After Alex’s death in 2007, Dr. Irene Pepperberg from Harvard sought to continue the work she had been focusing on Alex with another African gray from her lab named Griffin. Though 19-year-old Griffin has not yet reached the level of Alex’s intellect (Griffin is still twelve years younger than Alex was at the time of his death, after all), he is still a highly impressive bird. The most recent paper is a follow-up study from work with Griffin from Dr. In the experiment, Griffin was partnered with a human. In a previous study, human partners played different roles by favoring a certain color cup, while one partner would copy whatever the bird chose.
Music Training and Neuroplasticity With our multi sensory brain, music harnesses powers of nature, culture, and mind. How much is the brain changed by the effects of music training and neuroplasticity? Music is one of the most demanding cognitive and neural challenges, requiring very accurate timing of multiple actions, precise interval control of pitch not involved in language, and multiple different ways of producing sound. Auditory and motor actions influence each other in a constant interplay, which is largely unknown. Brain Lesion Effects on Music All brain imaging is done in a time scale of seconds, but the brain functions in the scale of milliseconds. A lesion in the auditory cortex causes “amusia” where a patient can speak and understand everyday sounds, but cannot notice wrong notes in tunes, or remember melodies.Another case, a 71-year-old cellist, had encephalitis and lost ordinary memory, but remembers music. But, recent research shows that when studying infants these differences do not necessarily exist.
David Berreby – The obesity era Years ago, after a plane trip spent reading Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Notes from the Underground and Weight Watchers magazine, Woody Allen melded the two experiences into a single essay. ‘I am fat,’ it began. ‘I am disgustingly fat. I am the fattest human I know. I have nothing but excess poundage all over my body. My fingers are fat. That, as we used to say during my Californian adolescence, was then. And so the authorities tell us, ever more loudly, that we are fat — disgustingly, world-threateningly fat. Moral panic about the depravity of the heavy has seeped into many aspects of life, confusing even the erudite. Several governments now sponsor jauntily named pro-exercise programmes such as Let’s Move! Hand-in-glove with the authorities that promote self-scrutiny are the businesses that sell it, in the form of weight-loss foods, medicines, services, surgeries and new technologies. Higher levels of female obesity correlated with higher levels of gender inequality in each nation
breathe. | zen habits Experiments reveal that crabs and lobsters feel pain Lobsters and other crustaceans may feel pain. Matthew Roy; Wikipedia Every year thousands of them are boiled or torn apart while they are still alive, and now there is strong evidence to suggest that crustaceans experience pain. That was the stark message delivered by Robert Elwood, an animal behaviour researcher at Queen’s University Belfast, to the Behaviour 2013 meeting in Newcastle, UK, today. Crustaceans — crabs, prawns, lobsters and other creatures — are generally not protected by animal-welfare laws, despite huge numbers of them being caught or farmed for human consumption. This is a useful belief, as crustaceans are subjected to what Elwood calls “extreme procedures” — lobsters in factories having their legs removed while they are still alive, crabs being kept alive but tightly bound for days in fish markets, and live prawns being impaled on sticks for eating. In another experiment Elwood investigated whether hermit crabs could make motivational trade-offs as a result of pain.
13 Small Choices That Can Change Your Life In Great Ways While practicing neuropsychiatry and studying neuroscience for 40 years, my interest expanded from the human brain to include evidence of mind throughout nature—in animals, plants, microbes, and other cells. Amazingly, even plants and cells have intelligence, which means that science isn't all we've been taught to believe. From my decades of research, there are simple important things that I wish everyone knew. Some of these small choices and new ways of looking at the world could change your life in great ways. 1. Get plenty of sleep. Sleep is more important than most people realize. 2. Napping can increase memory and creativity. 3. Memory is not fixed. 4. If there is one magic bullet for increased body and brain health, including increased memory, it is sensible regular exercise. 5. When eating certain foods (including processed foods, sugar, and unnatural ingredients), our hormones and neurons react strongly, as if exposed to a drug. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.
Why Art Therapy is Good for the Alzheimer's Brain Art therapy has proven a powerful tool for treating Alzheimer’s. More than giving patients something pretty to look at it or an exercise to keep them busy, it stimulates the brain. It stirs memories and can bring language back into the life of someone who struggles to speak. “A picture is worth a thousand words,” an adage demonstrated over and over through the success of art therapy on Alzheimer’s patients. Studies show that art therapy gives back to Alzheimer’s patients, in some part, what the disease has taken away. Research published in the Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences examined how Alzheimer’s patients recall events through artwork. Hecht couldn’t recall time on a clock or name common animals. In interviews with Hecht’s researchers, Medical Daily reports how art allows Alzheimer’s patients to bypass language. Although experts agree that art therapy won’t cure Alzheimer’s, it provides a sense of accomplishment and completion.
How Smart Are Dogs? How Smart Are Animals? PBS Airdate: February 9, 2011 NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON (Astrophysicist, American Museum of Natural History): Hi, I'm Neil deGrasse Tyson, your host of NOVA ScienceNOW, where this season we're asking six big questions. On this episode: How Smart Are Animals? Meet Chaser. She's got a huge vocabulary. She knows the name of every single one of these? And it's not just her. Look at that intensity. And researchers are finally taking notice. BRIAN HARE (Duke University): A dog is like a soldier of science. NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON: Find Crawdad. BRIAN HARE: If we can figure out how they think, then we'll understand ourselves. NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON: Excellent, excellent, good job! And a trip to paradise, where some of the smartest creatures... TERI BOLTON (Roatan Institute for Marine Sciences): Come on, boy. NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON: ...who can even read symbols, are also the most talkative. TERI BOLTON: These are his clicks. NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON: But what are they saying? Also,... ALEX: Shower. ALEX: Two.