Does anyone know of a good way to get medicinal nutrition into the food supply to help children who misuse their computer access to bully, harass and terrorize the world? You know, the crackers mistaken for hackers?
Perhaps it is possible to super-size those fries with yam genes? And through selective breeding, the farm factory industry are able to create cows that produce a higher yield of choline (source of acetylcholine), tyrosine (source of the neurotransmitters dopamine and noradrenalin) and tryptophan (source of serotonin) in addition to pyridoxal (helps create neurotransmitters and retinol (improves eyesight) derivatives along with thiamine (improves mental acuity)? Or the vegan equivalent of grains and nuts to boost brain power? Yes, I am suggesting we move beyond hacking computers.
Where's the gene splicing kits for tomorrow's gene hackers? We may need to make a smart-drug neuro-peptide with nutritional co-factors piggybacking within the polypeptide chain.
Additionally, I feel that crackerjacks need to be inoculated with a special virus to enlighten their current methods of social control. Perhaps that's what they mean by "a dose of humility."
Originally posted: February 10, 2007 1:31 PM
Showing posts with label neuropeptide. Show all posts
Showing posts with label neuropeptide. Show all posts
20070607
Kappa Opiods and Hallucinations
Our own body makes dynorphin, a k-opioid, to counteract oxytocin secretion. Oxytocin is the "bonding" neuropetide released during orgasm. Dynorphin also controls appetite.
Another substance affecting k-opioid receptors is salvia divinorum, which is the only hallucinogenic substance with this effect. The euphoria and dystonia during a salvia high is not unlike getting a dynorphin high.
Dynorphin itself may cause depression, since it blocks the pleasurable side effects of oxytocin, especially the desire to be in one's lover's arms for hours and that loving feeling you get towards a lover or, for mothers, towards their baby.
Pentazocine is an opioid, which when mixed with naloxene is called talwin and when mixed with tylenol, talacen. Its hallucinogenic effects limits its use for pain during a heart attack.
Talacen is hard to obtain now, and petazocine and naloxene always dispensed as talwin.
Nubain used to be used a lot until 2003. In low doses, women respond better to it than men do. The opioid in it, nalbuphine, is 10 times more potent than talwin.
Thus, dynorphin could be the k-opioid responsible for bipolar depression, and with major depressive disorder with psychosis.
Another substance affecting k-opioid receptors is salvia divinorum, which is the only hallucinogenic substance with this effect. The euphoria and dystonia during a salvia high is not unlike getting a dynorphin high.
Dynorphin itself may cause depression, since it blocks the pleasurable side effects of oxytocin, especially the desire to be in one's lover's arms for hours and that loving feeling you get towards a lover or, for mothers, towards their baby.
Pentazocine is an opioid, which when mixed with naloxene is called talwin and when mixed with tylenol, talacen. Its hallucinogenic effects limits its use for pain during a heart attack.
Talacen is hard to obtain now, and petazocine and naloxene always dispensed as talwin.
Nubain used to be used a lot until 2003. In low doses, women respond better to it than men do. The opioid in it, nalbuphine, is 10 times more potent than talwin.
Thus, dynorphin could be the k-opioid responsible for bipolar depression, and with major depressive disorder with psychosis.
20050523
The Alternative to Medication
"...Peptides provide our body's most basic communication network. To study the molecules' specific function, Pert and colleagues at NIMH began taking wafer thin slices of rat brains and, using radioactive molecules, mapping peptide receptors in the brain. Dense clusters appeared in parts of the brain long associated with emotion. According to Pert, the hippocampus, a small, almond-shaped structure that is crucial in memory, is the brain's emotional gateway. Almost every variety of peptide receptor is found there, she notes. The frontal cortex and another brain structure, the amygdala, are also densely populated with peptide receptors. Since emotions are regulated by neuropeptides, and the brain's memory centers are filled with receptors for these peptides, it's likely that emotion and memory are intertwined. However, the peptide network reaches into all the organs, glands, spinal cord, and tissues of the body." — Impertinent ideas. (alternative medicine pioneer Candace Pert); Neimark, Jill Psychology Today 11-21-1997
In short, our emotions are stored throughout the body.
For wherever neuropeptides created by our feelings go, so too goes the memory for that feeling.
Thus it is possible to access emotional memory anywhere in the network which makes up the body-mind.
This is how meditation, chiropractic therapy, therapeutic touch (Reiki) and other forms of healing — even the simple activity such as walking - work.
Often our minds do not truly need psycho-pharmaceutical drugs — at least, not for the rest of our lives.
The side effects of those drugs show us their true nature, of becoming too much of a good thing.
Thus, Professor Pert's research implies that even AIDS is a body-mind threat, and that an interdisciplinary outlook towards disease is the optimal one.
However, I would caution against the strategy implied in the movie "What the Bleep Do We Know?" when Amanda throws away her anti-anxiety medication.
Tapering off medication is essential to gaining control over the body-mind. This involves reducing medication over a period of time i.e. over a period of four months from full dose to 3/4 of the dose over the first month of weaning to 1/2 of the dose during the second month to 1/4 the dose during the third month, to 1/8th the dose during the fourth.
No one needs to go through the process alone, given the number of cognitive behavior therapy groups out there to help a person by providing emotional support.
Even so, a few people may view daily exercise, a multivitamin supplement, salmon oil capsules and wholesome food as useful on the long run for what ails them.
The challenge is in adopting such a strategy to maintain positive mental health.
In short, our emotions are stored throughout the body.
For wherever neuropeptides created by our feelings go, so too goes the memory for that feeling.
Thus it is possible to access emotional memory anywhere in the network which makes up the body-mind.
This is how meditation, chiropractic therapy, therapeutic touch (Reiki) and other forms of healing — even the simple activity such as walking - work.
Often our minds do not truly need psycho-pharmaceutical drugs — at least, not for the rest of our lives.
The side effects of those drugs show us their true nature, of becoming too much of a good thing.
Thus, Professor Pert's research implies that even AIDS is a body-mind threat, and that an interdisciplinary outlook towards disease is the optimal one.
However, I would caution against the strategy implied in the movie "What the Bleep Do We Know?" when Amanda throws away her anti-anxiety medication.
Tapering off medication is essential to gaining control over the body-mind. This involves reducing medication over a period of time i.e. over a period of four months from full dose to 3/4 of the dose over the first month of weaning to 1/2 of the dose during the second month to 1/4 the dose during the third month, to 1/8th the dose during the fourth.
No one needs to go through the process alone, given the number of cognitive behavior therapy groups out there to help a person by providing emotional support.
Even so, a few people may view daily exercise, a multivitamin supplement, salmon oil capsules and wholesome food as useful on the long run for what ails them.
The challenge is in adopting such a strategy to maintain positive mental health.
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