New scientific discoveries shine light on health benefits! Does prayer really work? Can prayer prevent and even reverse disease? Can prayer strengthen your brain and prevent mental decline? Can prayer improve your relationships? Can prayer increase your happiness and success?
Videos on hyperbaric oxygen therapy and traumatic brain injury. All videos are worth watching and includes before and after SPECT scans.
A video produced by the US Navy League for the hyperbaric oxygen therapy Volunteer Coalition.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2vzZ490PfQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbWBSe4gRrA&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD4n-y48YuU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geBUrrLa3XI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7gsU9NMuFM&feature=related
http://bit.ly/vuVJEG Laminin, an Important Protein that Looks Like a Cross
The simple answer to both questions seems to be yes.
Laminin is defined by the Webster Medical Dictionary as a “glycoprotein that is a component of connective tissue basement membrane and that promotes cell adhesion.” In other words, looking at laminin as a kind of glue isn’t far from the truth. There are several different laminins.
In their book The Laminins authors Peter Elkblom and Rupert Timpl go into more detail about both the importance of laminins and their structure. They describe laminins that, together with other proteins, “hold cells and tissues together.” They also say, “Electron microscopy reveals a cross-like shape for all laminins investigated so far.” They went on to say that in solution the laminin shapes were more like a flower than a cross. The strands of laminins do not always stand straight and at right angles, but they do consists of arms, three of which are short and one of which is long.
Research has been conducted on laminins in connection with numerous conditions and diseases. It has been found, for example, that people with congenital muscular dystrophies do not have laminin-alpha2, which is normally found in the layer of cells around muscle fibers and other cells important to the structural integrity of muscle cells.
Now tell me that our God is not the coolest!!!
Amazing.
The glue that holds us together….ALL of us….is in the shape of the cross.
Immediately Colossians 1:15-17 comes to mind.
“He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
For by him all things were created; things in heaven and on earth , visible and invisible,
whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities;
all things were created by him and for him.
He is before all things,
and in him all things HOLD TOGETHER. ”
Colossians 1:15-17
Just Google “Laminin” http://bit.ly/rBuacU
In my 45 years of teaching wellness there is only bad results from Fluoridation in water or toothpaste. Please look at some of the facts, Ken Anderson.
Communities across the US add fluoride to the water supply. Mainstream experts believe it prevents tooth decay but others think there’s something sinister afoot.
http://campaign.r20.constantcontact….R743evIQ%3D%3D
From the Fluoride Action Network:The broad based coalition of people opposed to fluoridation has just gotten bigger! In an interview with FAN’s campaign director Stuart Cooper, Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, said that if elected he would oppose any funding to enable the CDC to continue to promote fluoridation. He said that fluoridation was a local issue and the federal bureaucracy should not be spending tax dollars promoting the practice. Here is Stuart’s report of the conversation:
Last week, at a campaign event in Laconia, New Hampshire I spoke for several minutes about fluoridation with Dr. Paul, telling him about the EPA Union’s call for a moratorium, the 2006 NRC report, the numerous I.Q. studies, the dental fluorosis epidemic, and the CDC’s promotion of fluoridation, and asked him, “if elected President, would you allow the CDC, DHHS, or any federal agency to use tax dollars to promote water fluoridation?”
Dr. Paul responded: “The federal government should have zero…nothing to do with the promotion of fluoridation unless its on a military base...and hopefully there they would do the right thing. So no, federal fluoride promotion shouldn’t exist, they shouldn’t be telling you or anyone else what should happen because even though it was well intended at the time–I remember that I thought it was a bad principle because in a way it was massive treatment–and at the time everybody accepted the idea that fluoride was great and that you would never get a cavity and there was no downside, now there is a big question, that’s why you don’t want government doing these kinds of things. You or I should decide, someone should give us bottled water with fluoride, or we should have the ability to buy water with fluoride, but we should not have the federal government promoting fluoridation…sometimes their right, most of the time their wrong. They shouldn’t have the authority to do this. Especially with the information out there now about fluoride, I would do my best to stop federal involvement with state and local fluoride decisions.”
Ron Paul is a physician trained in obstetrics and gynecology and has been a U.S. Congressman representing the Houston area of Texas for over 20 years. He has run for President twice before, has multiple best selling books, and has a very large and loyal following across the United States.
Dr. Paul is the latest influential leader to join the choir of opposition to fluoridation in 2011. This winter, prominent Democratic New York City Council Member Peter Vallone, Jr. introduced a bill to prohibit fluoridation of the city’s drinking water. In April, former U.N. Ambassador and Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, along with fellow civil rights leaders Reverend Dr. Gerald Durley and Bernice King, called for a repeal of mandatory fluoridation laws. And just last month, Consumer Activist and former Green party and Independent party Presidential candidate Ralph Nader, came out publicly in opposition to mandatory water fluoridation.
The wide range of personalities opposing fluoridation, along with the nearly 4,000 medical and scientific professionals who have signed FANs professional statement, clearly proves that opposition to fluoridation is not only growing rapidly, but is also blind to ideology or political party affiliation. The anti-fluoridation tent just keeps getting bigger and bigger!
Direct link: http://www.priestsforlife.org/africa…fluoride-issue
http://www.ted.com/talks/ed_boyden.html
Ed Boyden At the MIT Media Lab, Ed Boyden leads the Synthetic Neurobiology Group, which invents technologies to reveal how cognition and emotion arise from brain networks
Ed Boyden shows how, by inserting genes for light-sensitive proteins into brain cells, he can selectively activate or de-activate specific neurons with fiber-optic implants. With this unprecedented level of control, he’s managed to cure mice of analogs of PTSD and certain forms of blindness. On the horizon: neural prosthetics.
Think about your day for a second. You woke up, felt fresh air on your face as you walked out the door, encountered new colleagues and had great discussions, and felt at awe when you found something new. But I bet there’s something you didn’t think about today – something so close to home that you probably don’t think about it very often at all. And that’s that all the sensations, feelings, decisions and actions are mediated by the computer in your head called the brain.
Now the brain may not look like much from the outside – a couple pounds of pinkish-gray flesh,amorphous – but the last hundred years of neuroscience have allowed us to zoom in on the brain, and to see the intricacy of what lies within.And they’ve told us that this brain is an incredibly complicated circuit made out of hundreds of billions of cells called neurons. Now unlike a human-designed computer, where there’s a fairly small number of different parts – we know how they work, because we humans designed them –the brain is made out of thousands of different kinds of cells, maybe tens of thousands. They come in different shapes; they’re made out of different molecules; and they project and connect to different brain regions. And they also change different ways in different disease states.
Let’s make it concrete. There’s a class of cells, a fairly small cell, an inhibitory cell, that quiets its neighbors. It’s one of the cells that seems to be atrophied in orders like schizophrenia. It’s called the basket cell. And this cell is one of the thousands of kinds of cell that we are learning about. New ones are being discovered everyday.As just a second example: these pyramidal cells, large cells, they can span a significant fraction of the brain. They’re excitatory. And these are some of the cells that might be overactive in disorders such as epilepsy. Every one of these cells is an incredible electrical device. They receive input from thousands of upstream partners and compute their own electrical outputs, which then, if they pass a certain threshold, will go to thousands of downstream partners. And this process, which takes just a millisecond or so, happens thousands of times a minute in every one of your 100 billion cells, as long as you live and think and feel.
So how are we going to figure out what this circuit does? Ideally, we could go through the circuit and turn these different kinds of cell on and off and see whether we could figure out which ones contribute to certain functions and which ones go wrong in certain pathologies. If we could activate cells, we could see what powers they can unleash, what they can initiate and sustain. If we could turn them off, then we could try and figure out what they’re necessary for. And that’s a story I’m going to tell you about today. And honestly, where we’ve gone through over the last 11 years, through an attempt to find ways of turning circuits and cells and parts and pathways of the brain on and off, both to understand the science, and also to confront some of the issues that face us all as humans. ………… this is part of the script from his talk at TED. How to get over fear & a lot more. http://www.ted.com/talks/ed_boyden.html