Loss of Inhibition
NBA playoffs Time to kick back and watch the game Oh, BTW how about a couple of frosties to go along with it
Life is good!
An Observation
OK, the Mavs win and now I notice that I'm hungry Well having had my biggest meal of the day at noon I figure I should be a wee bit hungry at 83o at night
But there was something more about this hunger that I have experienced before after drinking a couple of regular sized beers
Needless to say with no food in the house(wife is out of town) I head to the store to satiate the strong appetite with some chicken, potato chips, and potato salad with some churan
Oh I See What Happened!
Then today this article comes along scanning through AllTop and seems to totally make sense of my experience
The Harvard researchers found that volunteers who hadn't had enough sleep time were more prone to lose prefrontal cortical inhibition of appetite inhibition
Says psychologist Kilgore, "the sleepier you are, the less the prefrontal cortex -- the inhibitory area of the brain -- is activated when it's shown high-calorie foods,"
Oh my gosh, that's what I experienced except it wasn't sleep! It was a couple of frosties just enough to reduce prefrontal inhibition of my primitive midbrain(lizard brain)
But another part of this experience was that there was a strong craving for sweet, salty, and sour tastes Ah fast foods! I was trying to calm down Vata, the energy pattern of movement that was provoked by the bitter beer
Solutions to Loss of Inhibition
Some solutions to this problem of loss of inhibition come to mind
Stop tossing down frosties - not going to happen
Talk to the primitive midbrain and tell it to stop overreacting - slim chance
Meditate - not helpful
Get more sleep - after I eat
Dance the Irish jig to take my mind off things - getting closer but unfortunately will increase my exaggerated Pitta appetite that is raging
Find substitutes for the sweet, sour, and salty tastes - now I'm getting somewhere
Substitution Matters
I don't care who you are if you're human this situation has happened to you
The bottom line is what to do about it when it happens? Realizing the Vata provocation is the first step and then thereafter settling the mindbody with substitutes for the sweet, sour, and salty tastes
For sweet, not chicken and potato salad, try avocado
For sour, not potato chips, try sour fruit, say avocado with lemon or lime
For salty, not potato chips, try sea salt on the avocad0
There You Have It! - An Energy Science Solution To The Uninhibited Hungry Primitive Midbrain
Eureka! Avocado, sea salt and lime
This is the power of energy science nutrition Psychology gave me the problem and I solved it with the energy science A perfect marraige of the matter and energy sciences knowledge!
Now if you'll excuse me I have to run to the store and pick up a few IPA's and some avocados with lime(I have the sea salt at home) Will have to test this out in my laboratory I'll let you know what happens!
Ciao until next time To health as a Skill Love Dr Bill
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Health in LA
Whole Foods has just been taken to another level!! With Pitta provocation in good fun
Until tomorrow Ciao To health as a Skill Love DrBill
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Eyeballs
It's never too late!!! to make lifestyle changes that can change your health
Enjoy as you read about this research story
Eyeballs and Health
Quit smoking, and your eyes will thank you An in-depth study of smoking and eye health in Wisconsin, The Beaver Dam Eye Study, yielded some eye-opening results
Those who quit smoking for at least five years had about the same risk of developing macular degeneration as those who had never smoked at all
In another study, former smokers who had quit at least 10 years earlier had a risk of cataracts 21 to 17 percent lower than those subjects who currently smoked
Stop Listening To the Mind
It's been said that the mind where we encounter thoughts, feelings, emotions, beliefs, and judgements is a pothole of trouble
The reasons for this are many but a couple are salient with respect to health The mind is that part of us that creates errant behaviors that we maintain that we call addictions such as the one to smoking as above
The mind's incessant activity is responsible for anxiety and all the ramifications of such activity
The mind's fear keeps us in the status quo and preventing us from taking on new more productive patterns of health
Healing: "Getting Out of the Way" Said Many Different Ways
What the eyeball story shows us in a behind the scenes way is that if we get out of the way we can acheive increased wellness In this case the addicted let go of the habit and the body searched for balance In this case the eyeballs got better
What's this mean? If we insist that the mind be quiet, we can let go of everything and acheive optimal health This is also called the pathway to least resistance
Another way of saying the same thing is, "If we insist that the mind get out of the way and not interfere with the natural processes of the physical body, healing naturally takes place"
Above all else the body yearns for its natural state of balance Unfortunately our minds mess it up
The Mind Creates Disease
"Why did I get sick doctor?" From the above it's clear we do it to ourselves
This is a very powerful place to be From a position of responsibility we can then move forward without being a victim to deal with our imbalance
Sometimes we need guidance as to what are the best choices to make because we are so laden down with past experiences that cloud our ability to make good healthy choices
Until next time Ciao To health as a Skill Love DrBill
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Dr Oz’s Colonic Polyp
In September of 2010 medical talk show celebrity Dr Mehmet Oz was found to have a colonic polyp Since polyps can be premalignant Mehmet was shocked(healthy guy who tries to be healthy by matter science standards) and understandably grateful that his profession prevented a possible malignancy from occurring
It was heralded as a significant event not only as colon cancer prevention but once again showed the matter science medical model's authentic value at finding disease in it's earliest stage
Screening Works
We may remember another celeb then President Ronald Reagan's colonic history in the 1980's He showed a couple of polyps in 1984 and 1985 which were removed with screening endoscopy
But then a muscle invading tumor in the cecum was removed in July 1985 after the polyp was removed in March 1985
Thereafter Reagan had no recurrence of polyps Screening colonoscopies have had an unprecedented impact on the late stages of colonic cancer just as PSA has had an impact on the discovery of prostate malignancies
Bad Luck Or Something Else
How do healthy guys like Oz and Reagan come up with colonic polyps?
"Heck everybody is going to get their turn Something's bound to turn up" The natural "bad luck" response would be appropriate to engage And even the energy science medical model would not dispute that sometimes predisposition to disease can happen
But the energy science medical model would also say that nutritional choices have to be factored into the causes of poor bowel health including the occurrences of polyp disease
Early Detection Versus Prevention
The article mentioned above ends with hoping for a "Dr Oz Effect", the author suggesting that screening colonoscopies are the panacea to preventing colon cancer
But is this really prevention?
Prevention implies that by so doing a test or procedure we prevent disease I don't think even MD's believe that Prevention from the matter science medical model can at best do early detection
The reason for this is that the biologic matter science model doesn't deal with the origins of disease Researchers believe that they get close with the understanding of molecular biochemistry but in the end their biologic model will never be able to get to the origin of diseases
The energy science medical model deals with the origin of disease which occurs at the level of the GI tract and 4 stages before it becomes manifest as a polyp in Dr Oz and Reagan's colon
True Disease Prevention
There are so many things we can do to prevent obvious dis-ease and here are some that you can do right now
Eat according to your mindbody makeup
Practice the 5 interogatives of eating
Ciao until next time To health as a Skill Love DrBill
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My Plate – The Nutritional Mainstream
The USDA recently revamped the public nutritional roadmap replacing the much maligned pyramid with a plate
And while the plate removes some criticisms about the pyrimid it still raises in my mind the efficacy of nutritional advice in general
The Need for a Standard
Throughout human history there has always been the need to create standards by which a group operates whether it be nutritional science or any science for that matter
The standard creation allows us to move along and build on our past data base
No doubt the well meaning need for a standard in nutrition for its citizens provided by the government agencies is helps the question is whether it adds anything to our current knowledge base
Or is it the same food just served up with a different appearance?
Information In Information Out
The current system of nutrition on which we premise our information sees the mindbody and the foods we ingest as molecular or matter based
In order for us to make any meaningful movement toward a better nutritional system of health is to try to explore other ways of seeing biological systems
Otherwise it's just business as usual The same information with the same spin Nothing new Samo Samo
If we keep looking at the biological world as molecular then we'll get molecular answers
It's the 21st Century Folks!
Hello! One hundred years ago Einstein said E=mc2 yet our current biological model and its proponents insist on this current matter science biological model that continues to look at the foods that it consumes as molecular as well
Just as physics was stuck in Newtonian thinking in the 19th century until Einstein and a cohort of pioneers brought us forward out of medieval physics thinking, our current biological model is woefully stuck in 20th century thinking utilizing its matter science moleuclar thinking
It's time for us to move our biological model into the 21st century into a way of seeing ourselves as energy fields as well as matter fields
My Plate Or A Qualitative Energy Science Nutritional Approach
The rehashing of a moelcular nutritional model is not an advancement of knowledge but rather the establishment of the status quo
Nutritional experts see no reason to rock the boat Move along with same tired worn out manipulation of knowledge blocks and make it through another lifetime patronizing the masses
But it is time for some to explore and find that an energy science nutritional approach can add immeasurably to the current molecular nutritional model
The Challenge for All of Us
Of course just becasue a standard is written for the citizens by a government agency means anything
People are going to eat what they eat and hang My Plate
So in the end My Plate becomes an exercise in futility with millions spent to promote an idea that nobody cares about except those who prefer to take pot shots at it
What we can do is begin our own journey in improving our nutritional health by embarking on new frontier that will not disappoint you
Try foodsheal.com and enter the 21st century
Ciao until tomorrow To health as a Skill Love DrBill
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