Long Term degradation of Food Supply and Toxins exposures

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Long Term degradation of Food Supply and Toxins exposures

 

 

Dear Friends:

 

I know that most don't want to acknowledge that our " bad habits " passed to

the kids are harming both ourselves and our kids, but here's the proof!

 

Just as every ten years brings a lowering of medical test " normal " ranges,

so

IQ scores are periodically lowered to avoid classifying everyone in a class

demanding special education ;-(. Red these papers, weep, and then pray long

and

hard that we awake!

 

Sadly,

 

Willis

 

http://www.all-natural.com/brain.html

 

 

 

Epidemic Brain Dysfunction

 

 

 

Refined sugar, alcohol, cigarettes, marijuana, LSD, and other commonly used

substances are neurotoxic; that is, they damage the brain or impair its

functioning. Researchers from the New York University School of Medicine,

using Brain

Electrical Activity Map technology, have found that people who crave sugar,

junk food, alcohol, drugs, etc., do so because they are trying to correct an

existing brain imbalance. It is a form of self-medication. For example,

people

with depression have damage to the frontal lobe of their brain, which shows

up

as reduced electrical brain activity during scans. When these individuals

take

sugar or drugs, their brain map temporarily becomes normalized.

Unfortunately, with repeated use, the abnormalities worsen.

 

Modern society is suffering an epidemic of abnormal brain functioning, and

there are many contributing causes - lead poisoning, asbestos, trans-fat

diets,

fluorescent lights, drugs, alcohol, nutrient-depleted foods, and so on. A

recent study from the American Psychiatric Association (APA) revealed that

50% of

the U.S. population has significant Axis I disorders or brain chemical

imbalances. Possible symptoms of this condition include anxiety, depression,

insomnia, and somatization disorder (psysiological dysfunction of the body).

Ninety

percent of the population fit psychiatric diagnostic classifications that

are,

in many ways, precursors to severe brain chemical imbalances.

 

Some adventurous doctors are going beyond accepted medical procedures in

order to treat these ubiquitous brain dysfunctions. They use " smart " drugs,

such

as eldepryl, tyrosine, anti-depressants, DHEA, as well as nutrients and

herbs

such as ginkgo biloba, antioxidants, amino acid supplements, high doses of

vitamin E, etc. In addition, cranial electrical stimulation is applied to

further

normalize brain function.

 

Research has indicated that sweets and junk food are the gateway to alcohol,

and alcohol is the gateway to drugs. Unfortunately, many of today's youth do

not understand that drugs are harmful, evidenced by the fact that the use of

drugs continues to rise in this age bracket. However, the Brain Electrical

Activity Map can be used as an educational tool to show teens pictures of

the

brain's activity, so they can see for themselves the abnormalities that

arise from

a poor diet and drugs.

 

 

Based on information in: Townsend Newsletter for Doctors, November 96; From

Spectrum #52, January/February 1997, page 17 (For 1 year subscription, send

$20.00 [outside U.S.A.-$28.00] to Spectrum, 2702-D Camellia Drive, Durham,

NC

27705)

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Kathy,

it was in 1996, when I heard from a professor of neurophysiology in

public lecture at university that the intelligence tests had to be

standardized

anew in the US. Otherwise 75 percent would have had an outcome of being

mentally disabled which would have entitled them to apply for social

welfare. For

financial and political reasons they preferred to change the norm of the IQ

tests. This decline in intelligence was attributed to the ample use of over

the

counter antibiotics.

 

Katharina

 

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Journal of Neurochemistry

Volume 82 Issue 3 Page 625 - August 2002

doi:10.1046/j.1471-4159.2002.01008.x

 

 

Adenosine A1 receptor down-regulation in mothers and fetal brain after

caffeine and theophylline treatments to pregnant rats

David León, José Luis Albasanz, María Angeles Ruíz, Mercedes Fernández and

Mairena Martín

 

Abstract

 

Pregnant rats were treated daily with 1 g/L of caffeine or theophylline in

their drinking water during pregnancy and the effect of these

methylxanthines on

adenosine A1 receptor was assayed using binding and reverse transcription

polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assays in brains from both mothers and

full-term fetuses. In plasma membranes from pregnant rat brain, caffeine and

theophylline caused a significant decrease in total receptor numbers, of the

same

order in both cases (30%), with no significant changes on receptor affinity.

The

effect of these adenosine receptor antagonists on plasma membranes from

fetal

brains was more marked, being detected at approximately 50% of the total

receptors detected in control conditions. However, in this tissue, a

significant

increase in the receptor affinity, of the same order in both cases, was also

detected after antagonist administration. No significant variation on the

potency

of caffeine and theophylline as antagonists was detected after treatments in

mothers; however, higher affinities were detected in fetuses. A decrease in

the

total receptor numbers in fetal brain was associated with an increase in the

mRNA coding A1 receptor, as determined by RT-PCR assays, not having detected

any mRNA difference in maternal brain. No variation in the levels of mRNA

coding A2A receptor was detected in any case. These results suggest that

maternal

caffeine or theophylline intake modulates adenosine A1 receptor, causing a

down-regulation of adenosine A1 receptor in brain in both mothers and

fetuses.