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Meet the psychobiome - Mounting evidence that gut bacteria influence the nervous system inspires efforts to mine the microbiome for brain drugs.
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How green spaces benefit mental health
Studies show that green spaces can have a protective effect on our mental well-being. We’re quicker to recover from stress, and less likely to experience depression. Kids grow up with fewer psychiatric problems. Adults are less likely to commit suicide. But not all green spaces are equal, and not everyone has equal access to safe, high-quality nature zones. Here’s what every parent — and every thinking person — needs to know. Improving mental well-being usually requires that we make a special effort, but here’s a remedy that requires no work at all: Experiments consistently show that we can improve our immediate outlook — and bounce back from stress — by merely gazing at scenes of nature.
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World Tai Chi & Qigong Day 2022 - 30th April 2022 - One World, One Breath
World Tai Chi & Qigong Day is an annual global event that has taken place on the last Saturday of April for over 20 years and this year it falls on 30th April. Over 80 nations will practise Tai Chi and Qigong at 10am local time creating a wave of Qi that spreads over the Earth.
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Microplastics Found Deep in Lungs of Living People for First Time (theguardian)
#Comment: What if microplastics were low intensity biological warfare? What if significant sources of microplastic pollution were purposely allowed to enter the environment through leaky regulations? How would we ever know this was happening or who's responsible? A silent weapon for a quiet war.
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Computer Interfaces are inhumane
1 mouse click amounts to about 7 gram of movement pressure. Over an average day of computer usage, this amounts to 2 tonnes. The long term effects of this on the human body are profoundly damaging.
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The Rhythms of the Brain Shape Our Perceptions
Focusing on what's important - this is one of the main tasks of our brain. After all, countless amounts of information are constantly flooding our senses. But how do we manage to separate the important from the unimportant? It has long been known that oscillatory neural activity is a key factor for this attentional selection in the mammalian brain. Scientists from the German Primate Center in Göttingen and the University of Melbourne have now investigated how this works. They found that coupling lower frequencies of oscillations with higher ones allows fine-tuning the brain and is thus the basis for higher cognitive functions, such as selective attention.
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The lung's microbial flora regulates the brain's immune reactivity
In its vital function of providing the body with oxygen, the lung is connected to the outside environment by a large exchange surface. This boundary between lung tissue and outside air is inhabited by a specific microbial flora, the so-called lung microbiome. The exact function of this microbiome has been scarcely researched. A scientific team led by Profs. Alexander Flügel and Francesca Odoardi at the Institute for Neuroimmunology and Multiple Sclerosis Research, University Medical Center Göttingen, have shown a close relationship between the lung microbiome and the brain. The researchers found out that the lung microbiome regulates the activity of microglia, the "brain's immune cells." This newly ascertained lung-brain axis is significant for disease processes: the exact composition of the lung microbiome determines the susceptibility of developing an autoimmune inflammation in the brain such as occurs in multiple sclerosis. The experimental results of this work were published today, 23 February 2022, in the online edition of the journal Nature.
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"The UN estimates that it would take an additional $30 Billion a year to provide safe, clean drinking water to the entire planet. Last year alone we spent 3 times that amount on bottled water."
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Go for a walk in Nature, it's more effective than schools and cheaper than therapy.
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Exercise your 12 eye muscles 3x/day to counter issues, such as strained eye muscles and headaches.
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"Safe and effective" - Pfizer vaccine data is released - Part of what Pfizer wanted to keep sealed until 2097. Of particular interest is page 30 and the following 9 dense pages describing adverse reactions.
Related: Critical Survey on Deaths & Injuries from Covid-19 Jabs by Professor Mark Skidmore
