Comparing Strength Training Verses Stretching For Women

A study conducted by researchers at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver compared the benefit of strength training to stretching by women. They found that women who exercised with weights twice a week for a year had fewer signs of a certain type of brain damage than did the stretching group. The lead author thinks the difference may be the way blood is pumped to the brain in pulses during strength training. So…for women, start lifting those weights and remember, it only needs to be done twice a week.

(Reported AARP.com/bulletin, January-February 2015)

 

The Importance Of Reading To A Child

Depending on your age when you were a child, you may have experienced your parents reading aloud to you. The question is, how importance was that? Some researchers have found out. They discovered that 60% of wealthier families read to their children daily from birth to 5 years of age verses only 33% of families living below the poverty line. By the time they were entering school, the children who were read to had heard a million or more words giving them an advantage.

There are critical aspects of brain development that occur during the first three years of life and reading aloud during this time, as well as afterwards, may help build the child’s vocabulary and and communication skills. It leads to language development while also building motivation, curiosity and memory. Additionally, it helps the child practice listening.

In 2014, the American Academy of Pediatrics began recommending that parents read aloud to their children from birth. So…go grab some good books, your kids, and start reading! (Reported Mercola.com, May 14, 2015)

An Unusual Example Of A Good Samaritan

We usually think of ourselves as a species capable of being a Good Samaritan by assisting others that we don’t know in their time of need. While this is good for our ego, we may not be alone in having this trait. So, how about taking a look at how rats are Good Samaritans. In a study published in the journal Animal Cognition, the researchers placed two rats in a cage divided in half with a see through wall that had a small door in the wall. On one side, the rat was soaked and forced to sit in a pool of water (keep in mind that rats hate to get wet). The rat on the other side of the wall was in a cage that was dry. In nine of 10 cases, the rate in the dry cage opened the door letting the rat in the pool escape.

In a powerful variation on this experiment, the rat in the dry cage could choose to help the wet rat in a cage with a deeper pool get out or enjoy a tasty treat placed in a different room. In almost all the cases, the rat in the dry room, helped the wet rat get out before going for the treat. In some instances, they even shared the treat with the wet rat.  So…we are not alone in being a Good Samaritan.

How To Tell When A Loved One With Cancer Is Dying

I know this is a sensitive topic, but it’s important for family members to be able to make sure that they have had the opportunity to say their goodbyes.  

There are eight specific physical signs that doctors have identified when a cancer patient is dying. They are:

Inability to close his/her eyelids

Lessening ability to react to visual stimulation

Reduced ability to react to sounds and words

Facial drooping

Non-reactive pupils

Hyperextension of the neck

Vocal cord grunting

Bleeding in the digestive tract

So, if your loved one is exhibiting some of these signs, please make sure you have said everything you want to say to the person while they are still alive.
(Reported, The Jourrnal of Gerontology, Series B, 2015)

Hydrogen Water As A Way To Heal

I’m sure you’re saying to yourself, what is hydrogen water and what does it do? Hydrogen water is water that has been infused with extra loose hydrogen molecules in it. In this form hydrogen (H2) is a tremendously powerful antioxidant that goes after the most dangerous and destructive molecules called hydroxyl radicals. H2 neutralizes the radical by giving up an electron to stabilize the molecule. H2 also does this with other free radicals. It also increases the production of the body’s own natural oxidants including ones that affect the brain. Finally, H2 is able to enter the cells and the cells mitochondria and nucleus while it can also cross the blood-brain barrier.

Here are some of the areas that H2 therapy has been found to be beneficial:

Traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries

Parkinson’s

Alzheimer’s disease

Strokes

Heart attacks

Vascular disease

Diabetes

Liver and kidney disorders, and

Lung problems

There’s now a tablet you can use that frees up the H2 in the water. It’s produced by a company called Purative. You put it in a bottle of water, close tightly, wait 10 to 15 minutes and drink.
(Reported Health & Healing, May 2015)

Duct Tape For Wart

That’s right, duct tape. Some researchers wanted to find out how good duct tape is for healing warts. They had two groups and one group had their warts frozen off which is called cryotherapy and the other group had their warts duct taped. There were a total of 61 patients in the study ranging from 3 to 22 years old. The treatments went on for 2 months. The researchers found that 85% of the duct tape patients had complete resolution of their warts while the cryotherapy group had a resolution rate of only 60%. This means duct tape was significantly more effective than cryotherapy for treating warts. So…tape away.

(If you remember the movie My Great Big Fat Greek Wedding, some researchers are going to have to examine the actual effect of Windex!)

(Reported Seriously Science, September 29, 2015)

Vitamin D And Autism

In 2 papers published by biological scientist Rhona Patrick, Ph.D., she has found that Vitamin D may play a vital role in preventing autism. Vitamin D is actually a steroid hormone like estrogen and testosterone and it regulates over 1,000 different physiological processes and controls around 5% of the human genome. It’s involved in turning genes on or off.

As rates of autism have increased so has the rate of Vitamin D deficiency. Vitamin D is involved in regulating an enzyme called tryptophan hydroxylase which makes two kinds of serotonin. One kind is found in the gut and if there is too much produced by the body it causes gut inflammation. What Vitamin D does is it turns off the gene that’s involved in making the gut serotonin. This reduction in the gut serotonin allows the second type of serotonin to increase in the brain. This leads to better impulse control, better long-term behavior, reduced anxiety, increased memory and focus.

Brain serotonin also needs to be in sufficient amounts to prevent abnormal brain structure and brain wiring forming in the fetus. With a deficiency of serotonin abnormal brain structure development and brain wiring will occur.

Since many autistic kids have both brain and gut problems, one possible reason might be the level of Vitamin D in the mother while she is pregnant. Vitamin D begins affecting the fetus while it is in the womb.  So…a pregnant woman should have Vitamin D blood level in the 40 to 70 ng/ml range and she should also be taking Vitamin D3 as well as 100 mg of Vitamin K2.
(Reported Mercola.com February 14, 2016)

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