The God Within documentary - exposing the false philosophy of modern science

This is a very provocative video questioning the basis of modern day science. What do you think?

What's Your Body For?

“The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.” —Thomas A. Edison

Brain Re-training Shown to Reverse ADHD in 12 Weeks - NaturalNews.tv

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For people with ADHD, Autism, Asperger's, Dyslexia the Brain Balance program is the best option available today. Dr. Robert Mellilo's hemisphere based therapy demonstrates that there is not a problem of damage, but rather a functional disconnection. This means that some parts of the brain have lagged behind others in development.

These are not purely genetic disorders or damage. Brains of ADHD or Autistic children's brains do not demonstrate any clear cut pathology.

This information alone gives people hope and hope itself is a great tool towards healing.

That being the case a 12 week course of therapy can be instituted with the goal to develop the weak areas of the brain. In just 12 weeks, without drugs, over 80% of patients are able to drop their medications with their doctor's help.

82% of 60 children lost the ADHD diagnosis within 12 weeks. 60% of them had a 2 grade level jump and 35% f them jumped 4 grades. These were very compliant cases with parents and children doing a lot of the recommended therapies between center visits.

This is certainly very exciting news for a very difficult health topic, which until recently, seemed to have no answer and no end in sight. It proves the chiropractic vision that the body has the ability to heal itself and the brain and nervous system are the master controller of the entire body. By providing the brain with the boost it needs in some cases great results can be achieved. Normalization of function is always the goal with drugs or surgery.

How Nutrition and Biology Influence Mood Behavior, Attention and Memory

The Brain & The Immune System

Dr. Russell Blaylock is way ahead of the curve.  Listen to him!

Magnet Treatment May Help Stroke Patients

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Patients suffering stroke received magnetic brain stimulation in a this study. The treatment is non-invasive.

The most interesting part of the study in my opinion was the recognition and utilization of the hemisphericity of the brain. The lead researcher, Dr. Anwar Etribi explains, "We believe that people develop partial paralysis down one side after they have a stroke because the hemispheres of the brain become unbalanced. The hemisphere that has not been affected can become overactive, while the damaged hemisphere can become inhibited."

Unbalanced brain hemispheres are not only involved with stroke, but with many other conditions, such as ADD/ADHD or headaches. Chiropractors with additional post graduate training in neurology utilize brain hemisphericity both as a diagnostic and therapeutic tool.

A clinician who understands how to look into these windows of function and treat accordingly will be able to accomplish results beyond compare without drugs or surgery.

An additional note is the use of magnets. The body has a magnetic field and there is iron in the blood. When magnets are applied blood flow is increased due to the attraction of iron in the blood. Increased blood flow brings more oxygen and nutrients to the affected tissues.

Kudos to Dr. Etribi for recognizing the brain's hemispheres and for his cutting edge research.

Attention, couch potatoes! Walking boosts brain connectivity, function

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Motion is life! Dead people don't move at all and couch potatoes are only moving a little bit, so they're only living a little bit. All muscles, ligaments, and joints are loaded with tiny receptors which respond to movement, pressure, and stretch. Motion fires them off to the brain increasing activity. This increases brain function. And just in case you've been sitting so long that you've forgotten, the brain controls the whole body! What a great positive feedback loop! Get moving!

Positive Brain Changes Seen After Body-Mind Meditation

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This is the future of medicine....no medications! The body has the capacity to heal given the chance. With an understanding of anatomy, physiology, and neurology we can make changes in how the brain functions and relates to the rest of the body. The emotional component is connected to body function and is crucial to address in today's overstimulating world. One of the brain's main functions is to filter out excessive stimuli. Meditation is the quiet we so sorely lack today.

One high-fat diet, two different outcomes: The path to obesity becomes clearer

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ScienceDaily (Aug. 5, 2010) — Why is it that two people can consume the same high fat, high-calorie Western diet and one becomes obese and prone to diabetes while the other maintains a slim frame? This question has long baffled scientists, but a study by Yale School of Medicine researchers provides a simple explanation: weight is set before birth in the developing brain.

Dr. Rosenberg's comments: Body composition may indeed be predetermined from birth. In today's society very few people can eat a high fat diet and remain thin and even if they do they still have to contend with heart disease, diabetes, stroke, etc.

Does this mean you should lose hope if you are heavy and have "tried everything"? Absolutely not. I believe the key to this study lies not within the high fat diet itself but rather its effect on the brain, and by that I mean inflammation.

"Those who are vulnerable to diet-induced obesity also develop a brain inflammation, while those who are resistant, do not," he said. "This emerging inflammatory response in the brain may also explain why those who once developed obesity have a harder time losing weight."

Inflammation literally means the brain is on metabolic fire and so are most of the cells in the body. The good news is that this can be tested for and reversed fairly easily! Once inflammation is reduced so is the obesity. And then other function begins to improve as well. This is like a film of dominoes in reverse!

Specific lab testing for markers of inflammation as well as neurotransmitter levels give a clear picture of exactly needs to be done to reduce the inflammation with the use of diet, exercise, nutrients, and sleep. This is all specific even to the time of day your body needs the support.

My office offers these services either in person or by tele-medicine over the phone or SKYPE.

Israel: 057-950-1685

U.S. 718-207-8566

SKYPE: Dr. Rosenberg

Email: info@DrRosenberg.net

The Brain May Age Faster In People Whose Hearts Pump Less Blood

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"Keep your heart healthy and you may slow down the aging of your brain, according to a new study reported in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association."

More encouragement to get up and get moving! Sounds like a good 2 for 1 deal to me! Seriously, anytime we exercise our bodies we're also shaping up our brains! Remember that the brain controls ALL body function!

Synapses In Lab Mice Rejuvenated By Exercise And Caloric Restriction

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"Harvard University researchers have uncovered a mechanism through which caloric restriction and exercise delay some of the debilitating effects of aging by rejuvenating connections between nerves and the muscles that they control."

This seems to be the opposite of what most of us are doing. Instead of physical activity and and sensible eating we are sedentary and overeat too often! There goes the brain!

Nutrients stimulate brain connections, could treat Alzheimer's

Research out of MIT says that a 3 ingredient nutrient cocktail can stimulate the growth of new connections in the brain, thus helping Alzheimer's patients. The scientists tested the effects of DHA, uridine, and choline, all of which are building blocks of fatty molecules "that make up brain cell membranes which form synapses." Synapses are the brain's connections from one neuron to another.

There are other nutrients which are known for brain health; acetylcholine, phosphatidylcholine, NAC, and glutathione are a few very important brain nutrients.

Men Are From Mars -- Neuroscientists Find That Men And Women Respond Differently To Stress

Male and female brains respond differently to stress. Men go into fight or flight mode and women respond emotionally. This can effect how treatment is geared for different people.

Here is the most important part of the article. Read just this if you don't want to read the whole piece:

"FIGHT OR FLIGHT: Certain events act as "stressors," triggering the nervous system to produce hormones to respond to the perceived danger. Specifically, the adrenal glands produce more adrenaline and cortisol, releasing them into the bloodstream. This speeds up heart and breathing rates, and increases blood pressure and metabolism. These and other physical changes help us to react quickly and effectively under pressure.

This is known as the "stress response," or more commonly, as the "fight or flight response." But if even low levels of stress go on too long, it can be detrimental to one's health. The nervous system remains slightly activated and continues to pump out extra stress hormones over an extended period, leaving the person feeling depleted or overwhelmed, and weakening the body's immune system.

STRESS-REDUCING TIPS: There are several easy, practical things people can do to reduce the amount of stress in their lives. (1) Be realistic and don't try to be perfect, or expect others to be so. (2) Don't over-schedule; cut out an activity or two when you start to feel overwhelmed. (3) Get a good night's sleep. (4) Get regular exercise to manage stress -- just not excessive or compulsive exercise -- and follow a healthy diet. (5) Learn to relax by building time into your schedule for reading or a nice long bath.

Men Are From Mars -- Neuroscientists Find That Men And Women Respond Differently To Stress

9 Drug-Free Approaches to Managing ADHD

Drugs for ADD and ADHD fill receptor sites in the brain to produce temporary effects. When the drug wears off the problem is still there and a new dose is needed. Over time the brain's receptor sites can become sensitized to the drug and the dose. Either more drug is needed or a different drug is needed. Now the studies are saying that "....more than 60 percent of the children on stimulants stopped taking the medication within eight years. What's more, the medications used in the study might have stunted participants' growth, researchers concluded."

No parent wants to stunt their kids growth just to get them to concentrate and behave normally. There are better ways to deal with ADD/ADHD. The best way is to build new neural pathways and receptor sites with various brain excercises and to fill those sites with nutrients which will make a permanent change for the better without side effects. The practitioner is seek out is an expert in functional neurology and a clinical nutritionist. My office provides both services.

Please contact me if you need someone in your area.

Ankles: A Balancing Act

Ankles sprains are the most common injury for physically active people. Professor Jay Hertel of the University of Virginia demonstrates four balancing exercises to strengthen ankles.

Balance training is a supremely low-tech but increasingly well-documented approach to dealing with unstable ankles.

Here's the key paragraph in the article:

Why should balance training prevent ankle sprains? The reasons are both obvious and quite subtle. Until recently, clinicians thought that ankle sprains were primarily a matter of overstretched, traumatized ligaments. Tape or brace the joint, relieve pressure on the sore tissue, and a person should heal fully, they thought. But that approach ignored the role of the central nervous system, which is intimately tied in to every joint. “There are neural receptors in ligaments,” says Jay Hertel, an associate professor of kinesiology at the University of Virginia and an expert on the ankle. When you damage the ligament, “you damage the neuro-receptors as well. Your brain no longer receives reliable signals” from the ankle about how your ankle and foot are positioned in relation to the ground. Your proprioception — your sense of your body’s position in space — is impaired. You’re less stable and more prone to falling over and re-injuring yourself.

It's all about the nervous system and central integration. The human body is a receptor based system. Information is received from sensory stimulii which includes balance and sense of position in space. That information is sent to the CNS, the spinal cord and brain, for processing and motor output. With less or aberrant info coming in there will be less or aberrant info going back to organs, joints, and other body structures. Weakness and instability will lead to more weakness and instability as the body tries to compensate in order to maintain balance both structurally and functionally. Professor Hertel mentions ligamentous receptors but there are also receptors worth mentioning in the joints and muscles. The excercises he reccomends are very advanced and at the same time relatively low tech. They demonstrate a real understanding of anatomy, physiology, and neurology.

Vaccine Mercury Brain Degeneration

We start off this serious presentation with a very satirical skit on vaccines!

Child's sleep linked to adulthood obesity risk

Adequate sleep is needed for normal cortisol and melatonin levels. When cortisol is high so is insulin. Insulin regulates blood sugar but it also helps to promote fat deposits. Ghrelin, a hormone which regulates satiation is also affected. Kids getting the usual Standard American Diet (SAD) of lots of sugar and artificial sweeteners, chemical additives, lots of simple carbs, low fiber, inadequate water and not enough excercise will sleep poorly. This will set up the vicious cycle of not enough sleep leading to obesity. The key point in this article is that the research shows that kids who don't get enough sleep in childhood will become obese adults. It has long term effects.

The bedroom should be free of distractions like TVs, computers, stereos, etc. It should be dark and well ventilated. The mattress should be firm and comfortable. The room and bedding should be as dust free as possible to reduce or eliminate dust mites. In short it should be a relaxing haven and a place to disconnect from the rest of the world. The bedroom should be for sleeping only, therefore no eating and no reading. Some of these suggestions may rub some the wrong way, but please just stop and think about how much stimulation we are exposed to every day. One of the main functions of the brain is to dampen all of the sensory stimuli that come our way. In today's electronic world we are constatly bombarding the brain with too much stimulus. At the very least the bedroom should be the place to shut it all out and give our brain and body a chance to recoup and function normally!


Mon Nov 3, 2008 11:50am EST
By Amy Norton

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Consistently getting a good night's sleep may help protect children from becoming obese as adults, a study published Monday suggests.

Researchers found that among more than 1,000 people followed from birth to age 32, those who got too little sleep as children were more likely than their well-rested counterparts to become obese adults.

Even with a range of other factors considered -- like childhood weight and TV habits, and adulthood exercise levels -- there remained a link between sleep deprivation during childhood and obesity risk later in life.

All of this supports the idea that early sleep habits have a direct effect on weight in the long term, according to Dr. Robert John Hancox, the study's senior author.

"Although we cannot prove that this is a cause-and-effect relationship," he told Reuters Health, "this study provides strong evidence that it probably is."

Hancox and his colleagues at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, report the findings in the journal Pediatrics.

A number of studies have found that sleep-deprived adults and children are at greater risk of being overweight. However, this is the first study to show a long-term relationship between sleep and obesity risk, Hancox said.

The study involved 1,037 men and women who had been followed since their birth, between 1972 and 1973, up to the age of 32. When the participants were 5, 7, 9 and 11 years old, their parents reported on their usual bed time and wake-up time.

In general, Hancox and his colleagues found, as childhood sleep time declined, adulthood body mass index, or BMI, climbed.

Adults who had been "short sleepers" as children -- averaging fewer than 11 hours in bed each night -- generally had a higher BMI than those who'd gotten more sleep as kids.

"Importantly, this is not because children who were short sleepers grew up to be short sleepers as adults," Hancox pointed out. "In other words, inadequate sleep in childhood appears to have long-lasting consequences."

The findings, according to the researchers, suggest that weight control may stand as another reason for children to get a good night's sleep. Experts generally recommend that children between the ages of 5 and 12 sleep for about 11 hours each night, while teenagers should get 8.5 to 9.5 hours. **(Dr. Rosenberg's note; 7 hours of sleep per night is optimal for most adults).

It's thought that children today are getting less sleep than the generations before them did, Hancox noted. That trend, he added, could be helping to feed the rise in obesity.

No one knows for certain why lack of sleep is linked to heavier weight. One theory, based on research in the sleep lab, is that sleep deprivation alters the normal balance of appetite-stimulating and appetite-suppressing hormones. Sleepy children may also be too tired for physical activity during the day.

SOURCE: Pediatrics, November 2008.

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Brain Power

How thoughts can be translated into actions! This is remarkable. Watch!

The Bilingual Brain

Here is a great article from the Society for Neuroscience in Washington, D.C.
The brain is an organ which is designed to receive sensory information and produce some type of motor output. The more you stimulate the brain with thinking activities and movement the more it will reward you.

Chiropractic is great for the brain because it releases locked up joints which contain motion receptors. When the joints are moving properly these receptors fire information to the brain. And when the joints are locked up or fixated they cannot fire off to the brain. The chiropractic adjustment does three things:

1. it restores motion to the joint
2. it fires off those receptors
3. decreases muscle spasm

Having moved from the U.S. to Israel I'm slowly learning to speak Hebrew. It's good to know that all the struggle to learn a new language may pay off with increased brain function!

As scientists unlock more of the neurological secrets of the bilingual brain, they're learning that speaking more than one language may have cognitive benefits that extend from childhood into old age.


Parlez vous francais? Sprechen Sie Deutsches? Hablas español? If so, and you also speak English (or any other language), your brain may have developed some distinct advantages over your monolingual peers. New research into the neurobiology of bilingualism has found that being fluent in two languages, particularly from early childhood, not only enhances a person’s ability to concentrate, but might also protect against the onset of dementia and other age-related cognitive decline.

These discoveries are leading to:
A better understanding of how the brain organizes speech and communication tasks.
Greater insight into how specific types of brain activity may prevent or delay dementia and other age related cognitive problems.

More targeted and effective therapies for helping bilingual individuals recover their communication skills after a brain injury.

Bilingualism is common in the United States. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, about 18 percent of Americans speak a language other than English at home. Of those, three-quarters also report that they speak English “well” or “very well”—a strong indication that they are bilingual.
Until fairly recently, parents and educators feared that exposing children to a second language at too early an age might not only delay their language skills but harm their intellectual growth. New research, however, has found that bilingual children reach language milestones (such as first word and first fifty words) at the same age as monolingual children. Nor do they show any evidence of eing “language confused.”

In fact, being bilingual may give children an advantage at school. Bilingual preschoolers have been found to be better able than their monolingual peers at focusing on a task while tuning out distractions. A similar enhanced ability to concentrate—a sign of a well-functioning working memory—has been found in bilingual adults, particularly those who became fluent in two languages at an early age. It may be that managing two languages helps the brain sharpen—and retain—its ability to focus while ignoring irrelevant information.

Other research suggests that bilingualism may delay the onset of age-related dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease, by up to four years. Although scientists don’t know why bilingualism creates this “cognitive reserve,” some theorize that speaking two languages may increase blood and oxygen flow to the brain and keep nerve connections healthy—factors thought to help ward off dementia.

More recently, scientists have discovered that bilingual adults have denser gray matter (brain tissue packed with information-processing nerve cells and fibers), especially in the brain’s left hemisphere, where most language and communication skills are controlled. The effect is strongest in people who learned a second language before the age of five and in those who are most proficient at their second language. This finding suggests that being bilingual from an early age significantly alters the brain’s structure.

Exactly how the brain organizes language in bilingual individuals has been debated for many years. Is each language “stored” in its own area of the brain or in overlapping regions? Thanks to technological advances in brain imaging, scientists have recently discovered that the processing of different languages occurs in much of the same brain tissue. However, when bilinguals are rapidly toggling back and forth between their two languages—that is, in “bilingual mode”—they show significantly more activity in the right hemisphere than monolingual speakers, particularly in a frontal area called the dorso-lateral prefrontal cortex (the source of the bilingual advantages in attention and control). This expanded neural activity is so prominent and predictable on brain scans that it serves as a “neurological signature” for bilingualism.

Finally, neuroscience research is showing promise for evaluating and treating bilingual patients who lose the ability to produce or understand speech after a brain injury. Research is showing that rehabilitation efforts that use both languages, not just one—even a patient’s native language—hold the greatest promise for recovery.



Reprinted by permission from Macmillan Publishers Ltd: Nature. 2004 Oct 14;431:757. ©2004.
Brain scans of bilingual individuals found greater gray-matter density (yellow) in the inferior parietal cortex, an area in the brain’s language-dominant left hemisphere. The density was most pronounced in people who were very proficient in a second language and in those who learned a second language before the age of five.

Brain function gets a boost from walking

Chiropractors have always said "Motion is life." This study shows that brain function is improved by walking. The cross-crawl pattern of walking fires opposite sides of the brain and improves blood flow and neurocircuitry. Cross-crawl is what babies develop and use.

To desk workers I would suggest getting up at least 5 minutes of every hour sitting and doing something like marching in place. Your knees should come up high enough so that your upper leg is parallel to the floor. Make sure to swing the right arm with the left leg and vice versa. You'll be surprised how fast you will tire initially. Don't get discouraged. The brain is plastic and will respond accordingly. You'll gain stamina and best of all brain power!


Two new studies spell out benefits for people recovering from in strokes as well as for those 50 and older.

By Jeannine Stein Los Angeles Times Staff Writer September 8, 2008

Walking is good for your head. Sure, we knew about the improvements it can provide to aerobic capacity, not to mention muscles and joints, but two recently released studies show that walking can enhance brain function too.

Walking or other repetitive exercise can change the brain in a number of ways, says Dr. Gary Small, professor of psychiatry and aging at UCLA's Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. The heart pumps more blood, affecting not only muscles but also the brain. "Your brain needs blood, because in the blood are nutrients and oxygen, which are good for the cells and will make the brain healthier," he says. "The vessels that deliver the nutrients also branch out and become more effective."

The act of doing a movement over and over can also stimulate the brain's neurocircuits, he adds, resulting in activity in various regions of the brain. That activity may decrease over time as the body becomes more efficient at the activity. But other stimulation can have an effect -- while a person walks outside with a friend, for example, the brain is guiding a number of activities, such as talking and observing.

In one study, stroke patients put through a walking program could walk better and faster afterward, and the repetitive movements also activated areas of their brain. Researchers expected to see most activity in the cortex, which governs motor skills, but instead much activity was seen in the subcortical region, which, says lead author Dr. Andreas Luft, "has some role in walking, but maybe we've underestimated it. We're actually putting this idea back as a potential mechanism of how walking is controlled."

About half of 71 study subjects with some movement disability were asked to walk on a safety-rigged treadmill three times a week for up to 40 minutes, increasing intensity to a moderate level as the study progressed. The others did assisted stretching exercises for the same amount of time. All were tested in the beginning and after six months for speed and aerobic capacity; about half in each group were given functional magnetic resonance imaging tests before and after to determine brain activity.

The walking group increased its speed by 51%, while the stretching group improved by 11%. The walkers' fitness levels also increased, with aerobic capacity rising about 18%, while the stretching group's fitness levels decreased slightly.

Functional MRI tests revealed intensified activity in the subcortical region in the walking group, which surprised the researchers (the stretching group showed no change). "We found that change can not only happen in the superficial layers of the brain, but in the deeper brain levels as well," says Luft, professor of neurorehabilitation at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. The study appeared in the August issue of the journal Stroke.

"The movement repetition that typically goes on in a physical therapy session is very low," says Dr. Daniel Hanley, a professor of neurology at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions and a co-author of the study, which was conducted at Johns Hopkins, the University of Maryland, and the Department of Veterans Affairs, Maryland VA Medical Center. "We did a lot of repetition with the same leg, and we think that is associated with the brain changes." The researchers believe the brain is either relearning how to walk, or reprogramming itself to compensate for regions damaged by the stroke.

In the other study, a walking regimen boosted cognitive scores in adults who were encouraged to exercise at home for 24 weeks in a moderately intense regimen (most chose walking). Researchers at the University of Melbourne in Australia did randomized tests on 170 adults 50 and older who didn't have dementia but were considered at increased risk due to memory problems. All participants received education materials on memory loss, stress management, diet, alcohol consumption and smoking, but not on physical activity. Half -- the control group -- were not encouraged to exercise. The others were asked to exercise for three 50-minute sessions per week. Cognitive function was measured over 18 months with the Alzheimer Disease Assessment Scale-Cognitive Subscale, which measures cognitive dysfunction in people with Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia.

Those in the exercise group showed a small improvement in cognitive scores compared to the control group, according to results published in the Sept. 3 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Assn. They also displayed better delayed recall. Researchers believe the progress is significant, considering participants engaged in only moderate amounts of physical activity. jeannine.stein@latimes.com