Alleviating Depression And Anxiety Through Your Gut 

Research A study from Griffith University in Australian reported in Prevention Magazine analyzed the effects of taking probiotic supplements on participant’s levels of depression and anxiety. The researchers found that taking the supplement reduced the participant’s symptoms. This could be due to the level of communication between the brain and your digestive system. They also found that healthy people taking the supplement were better able to manage stressful situations. I would recommend taking a supplement that is in the 25 to 50 billion range and has a variety of bacteria strains in it. You can also add probiotic-rich foods to your diet which includes pickles, sauerkraut, yogurt, kefir and aged cheeses like cheddar and Gouda. So…take your supplement or eat up to reduce your anxiety, depression or stress.

New Hope For Parkinson’s Sufferers

A recent study analyzed the effects of N-acetyl-cysteine (NAC), a nutritional supplement, on 2 groups of people with Parkinson’s disease. One group was the control group which just continued on their regular medications. The second group added to this 600 mg of oral NAC twice a day as well as a weekly intravenous infusion of 50 mg/kg of NAC. They did this for three months. The researchers found that the NAC group had marked improvements in both mental and physical function. In addition, the NAC protected dopamine transporters in the brain, which researchers postulate can slow neurodegeneration and the progression of symptoms. Dr. Julian Whitaker recommends adding 1,200 mg of NAC daily in divided doses. Since the study participants had their improvements occur within 3 months, Parkinson’s sufferers should notice changes pretty quickly to see if NAC is helping them.

(Reported Dr. Whitaker.com, Vol. 27, No. 9)

Listing GMOs In Foods, So You Know What You’re Buying

  About a year ago, a Vermont law requiring GMOs to be listed on food packages was stopped from going into effect. Congress passed a law overriding this requirement. Instead of having a GMO’s clearly listed on the food package, a QR code would be on the label and by scanning it you would be taken to a website. The US Department of Agriculture just released the study on this and they found that having this GMO information only online is a totally inadequate way to give consumers the information that they want on GMOs.

Some of their findings included:   

1. Low income earners, rural residents and those over 65 might not have the technical ability or be unfamiliar with how to access QR Codes.  
2.  The QR Code apps on the market are not intuitive and also have pop-up ads which could confuse consumers
3. Consumers without phones cannot access the information
4. Internet speeds could be too slow to easily download the information

The report concluded that “offline alternatives are necessary for consumers who lack access to a scanning device or broadband.” So…my interpretation is that the Vermont law of listing the GMOs on the package was the simplest and easiest way to give consumers real choice in choosing whether or not to buy GMO products. Hopefully, this will be the recommendation of the USDA especially since consumers overwhelmingly want to know if GMOs are in their foods.

 Some Interesting Ways To Diffuse Anger

With everything that’s been going on politically, you could be getting into heated and angry discussions with friends and relatives. According to Dr. Robert Nay, there are several strategies to use to diffuse anger that you might not have thought of.

The first one is to ask the other person to sit down and if they are able, to use a  reclining chair. Dr. Nay says the brain interprets a seated or reclining position as safe and relaxing which interrupts the adrenaline you and the other person might be secreting.

The second approach involves not going to bed angry. Going to bed angry appears to reinforce the negative emotions.

My approach would also be to meditate for a few minutes before going to sleep, if you’re angry, as this changes your physiologic response since you can’t hold the anger when your body is in a deeply relaxed state.

So…if political anger strikes, you can take charge of diffusing the situation, at
least within yourself.

The Complex Human Brain 

The Our brains are much more complex than we have thought. Our brains contain around 86 billion neurons with half of them located in the cerebellum, which coordinates muscular activities. A baby doesn’t start really producing neurons until their third week after birth. At that point, the baby’s body produces an astonishing 250,000 new neurons per minute. This production of neurons continues through early in the baby’s life. All this results in trillions of connections between neurons in the brain and the rest of the body.
(Reported Mercola.com, December 12, 2015)

Media Is Reshaping Young People's Brains  

The Our brains are much more complex than we have thought. Our brains contain around 86 billion neurons with half of them located in the cerebellum, which coordinates muscular activities. A baby doesn’t start really producing neurons until their third week after birth. At that point, the baby’s body produces an astonishing 250,000 new neurons per minute. This production of neurons continues through early in the baby’s life. All this results in trillions of connections between neurons in the brain and the rest of the body.(Reported Mercola.com, December 12, 2015)  

Common Sense Media reported that teens are actually spending 9 hours a day using all types of media. This figure doesn’t include time used for attending school and for homework. This nine hour figure includes just entertainment time. The kids have become multitaskers with half the teens reporting that they often or sometimes use social media or watch TV, while 60% say they text and 75% listen to music. When asked if they believed TV or texting had an influence on the quality of their school work, 66% said no it did not.

The teens view of themselves did not match the results of a study conducted by Stanford University where they found these multitaskers performed worse on tests of cognitive control. Another study with 400 teens found that compulsive texters were more likely to have trouble sleeping and they also had a lower level of academic performance. On the flip side, students who abstained from texting during a lecture wrote down 62% more information during the class and recalled more detailed information from the lecture. Non-texters also scored a full letter grade and a half higher on a multiple choice test.  So…as a parent, you need to stay aware of what your teen is doing with mixing social media and TV with school work.

(Reported Mercola.com, December 16, 2016)

Powerful Video Showing People’s Reactions To  Learning Where Their DNA Says They’re From 

I watched this video and was very touched as it showed a group of people talking about countries and nationalities that they didn’t like. They then had their DNA taken and got their results. That’s the part that’s powerful. What they thought their heritage was, wasn’t necessarily accurate. Please take a few minutes to watch it. You’ll be glad you did. Click Here to watch!

NEW: Articles on MY NEW Switched-On Start-Up Entrepreneur Seminar

I’m excited. I just had an article appear in INC about my Switched-On Start-Up   Entrepreneur Seminar.  Click HERE to read the article. 

Also, I was interviewed in another article that was just published on Thursday in OpEDNews. This article is about how Homeless Entrepreneurs create business success. Click HERE to read this one.

I have just finished putting the Switched-On Start-Up Entrepreneur Seminar online as a streaming course.  If you or someone you know is in the start-up phase of being an entrepreneur, you can use this link or forward it to learn more about this powerful way to immediately switch your brain and body on to succeed. 

THANKS, THAT'S IT FOR THIS MONTH!

Thanks,

Jerry