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The Human Brain

Our human body is subject to the aging process. And as we undergo the aging process, our mental sharpness is gradually affected. This is the time when mental functions are slowly losing its agility.

When your memory is getting jumbled, then maybe it is due to aging. Majority of doctors and scientist involved in health are one is saying that this mental tumbling down is due to the oxidative strain and brain havoc courtesy of free radicals.

According to a reliable doctor, “Oxidative stress and inflammation are the most significantly damaging evil twins leading to brain aging.”

In the recent convention under the auspices of the American Chemical Society, scientists expounded the reasons behind the brain decay related to aging. The popular doctor named Shibu Poulose, Ph.D., delivered the important new study.

Dr. Poulose is the current head of the project under the Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging based in Boston. On this project, he was collaborating with another renowned doctor – Dr. Joseph.

The late Dr. Joseph was considered as one of the pioneering leaders and scientist doing credible studies on how various antioxidants contained in different fruits and nuts can avert cognitive decline.

Before finishing this project, Dr. Joseph made a successful research which showed and confirmed that both inflammation and oxidative damage are the top factors causing physical and mental aging-related problems.

The new research shows one more critical and earlier unidentified factor in mind decline. And finally confirms there is one food which is above all other food in the area of averting mental decline. That fruit is blueberry.

Let’s take a look at the mental aging process. During our younger days, we are producing in our brains cells named microglia. Using the autophagy process, these cells can be able to eradicate and reprocess biochemical rubbish. These so-called brain “cleaners” are doing good to your brain by clearing away mental rubbles which have the potential to  impede the normal brain functioning.

The problem is that we get older, these brain “cleaners” also aged.  They get less efficient and will reach a period when they end their function. Consequently, there could be building up of “mental debris” which definitely affects the over-all mental health.

And the worse thing happens as the old brain “cleaners” in countering the buildup of debris are starting to harm the remaining healthy cells in the brain.

Right now, there are some studies conducted to determine how to shut off the authophagy process with older people so it will not instead create more damages to the brain.

Hopefully a possible cure could be on the horizon!

Meditating With The Baby

Have you thought of your thoughts? How do you define a thought?  According to some experts, a thought is a form conceived in the mind and consists of a few micromilliwatts of energy flowing through the brain.  Everyday a normal and average human being can process up to 70,000 thoughts.

Since thoughts come and go rapidly, and are as transitory as passing clouds, most people dismiss them as being unimportant and inconsequential.  Nothing could be further from the truth.

Thoughts wield a powerful impact on your body, your health — and your life.  “Every good thought you think is contributing its share to the ultimate result of your life,” Grenville Kleiser once said.  Likewise, every negative thought you think also contributes its share — and is capable of wreaking havoc to your health, whether you realize it or not.

Maybe you have already heard of people suffering from incurable, often lingering, disease or sickness but were healed spontaneously and restored to perfect health with no medical intervention in any way.

This phenomenon of spontaneous healing which some people compare to a spiritual or religious experience in most cases can be explained by the body’s miraculous ability to produce its own chemicals to heal the body.

For example, when you think thoughts of tranquility at a deep level of awareness, your body — specifically, your leukocytes, adrenal cells and macrophages — will start producing a tranquilizing biochemical similar to diazepam (a drug popularly called as Valium).  However, not like Valium, the tranquilizing chemical produced by the body is the “real diazepam” — the molecule of tranquility supporting the appropriate functioning of the immune system.

A negative thought, on the other hand, releases a cascade of harmful chemicals in your body, takes its toll on your health and well-being, slowly kills your spirit, and could also lead to physical disease.

Consciously directing one’s mind to think only thoughts that cause the body to produce health-enhancing biochemical is, quite frankly, easier said than done. It is because every human being is made up of conditioned reflexes, reacting to people and circumstances … and such reactions result in very predictable biochemical outcomes such as behavioral outcomes and finally physical outcomes.

Therefore, if you are conditioned to enjoy thrill rides and roller coasters your positive thoughts would cause your body to produce substances that are beneficial to your health.  If, on the other hand, you are conditioned to fear roller coasters your negative thoughts would cause your body to produce substances that are detrimental to your health and may even cause illness.

No two people process the same stimulus the same way.  That which causes fear in one person clearly may not affect the other person the same way.  The difference in the way you or another person reacts to stressors — and the difference in your ability (or inability) to relax and experience tranquility — has something to do with your respective conditioning.

To counteract conditioned responses detrimental to your health, you can choose to reframe those stressors in ways that neutralize their negative effect.  But by far, the most effective method for overcoming deep-seated conditioning is hypnosis.

Using hypnosis, which is a focused state of attention that increases suggestibility, you can rise above conditioned reflexes, adapt easily to stressful situations, resolve existing anxieties, and create positive ways of looking at the world.

These go a long way in mustering the body’s natural ability to produce health-enhancing biochemical more advanced than any pharmaceutical company could ever manufacture.

Befriend your thoughts towards a healthier you!

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