“fat cells burn around 2.05 Calories per pound, so you’d gain a lot of weight” in order for for the extra fan to burn off the extra calories you’re eating.
Sad reality.
Dr. Stasha Gominak Discusses Sleep and Vitamin D Pt. 1 (by ETMC1)
Great video on vitamin D by a neurologist talking about the effects of D and Cpap on her patients, together with relevant research. The idea is low vitamin D can cause lots of neurological problems - in addition to global problems throughout the body.
It’s 1 hour + runtime.
Notes:
I love the idea that vitamin D is not just a bone building hormone, but a global hormone telling the body to repair itself - and fix any number of things that can go wrong in the body. I love the idea that it can repair the brain.
“We are organized to use our body when awake and repair it during sleep.”
It’s also interesting that if the vitamin D levels get too high, a number of low vitamin D symptoms re-emerge.
It’s interesting the idea that people should test their vitamin D levels to optimize their dosage.
The right test is D25OH and the right level is 60-80 ng/ml.
For every 1% increase in energy from saturated fatty acids, cholesterol levels rise by 1.3 to 1.7 mg/dl
http://www.csuchico.edu/grassfedbeef/research/Review Grassfed Beef 2010.pdf
Of course, not all saturated fat is equal, so this is an average over several studies. A few more tidbits from this article:
- Lauric Acid (C12:0) preferentially increases HDL so affects cholesterol in a positive way
- Stearic Acid (C18:0) has no impact on serum cholesterol concentrations
Aluminum in Vaccines May Increase the Risk of Autism, ADD and more...
According to a new study published in Current Medical Chemistry, children up to 6 months of age receive 14.7 to 49 times more aluminum from vaccines than the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) safety limits allow.
Like other adjuvants, aluminum is added to the vaccine in order to boost your immune response to the antigen. The antigen is what your body responds to and makes antibodies against (the lab altered bacteria or virus being injected). By boosting your body’s immune response, the vaccine manufacturer can use a smaller amount of antigen, which makes production less expensive.
As researchers wrote in Current Medicinal Chemistry:
“Experimental research … clearly shows that aluminum adjuvants have a potential to induce serious immunological disorders in humans. In particular, aluminum in adjuvant form carries a risk for autoimmunity, long-term brain inflammation and associated neurological complications and may thus have profound and widespread adverse health consequences.”
When you or your child is injected with an aluminum containing vaccine, the aluminum compounds it contains accumulate not only at the site of injection but can travel to your brain and accumulate there. In your brain, aluminum can enter neurons and glial cells (astrocytes and microglia). Studies have shown that aluminum can activate microglia and do so for long periods, which means that the aluminum in your vaccination may be priming your microglia to overreact.
The average aluminum content per vaccine ranges between 200 to 400 mcg, but if your child receives multiple vaccines at one time, which is common, the dose will rise much higher. Based on the number of vaccines given, children today are receiving 17 shots that contain aluminum, compared to four vaccines in the 1970s into the mid-80s. According to Dr. Ayoub’s calculations, the milligram dose of childhood explosure to aluminum in vaccines has more than doubled in that time.
This link has a bit more…
And we found just an enormously high percentage of children with autism who had very high aluminum burdens.
And one of the things you hear by so-called experts who try to allay people’s fears about aluminum and say, “Well, you know, aluminum makes up 8% of our earth’s crust.” It’s in the in the air. It’s in the soil. It’s in the water and so forth. And that may very well be true. It is a very common substance outside of the body but it has absolutely no biological role in the body. It is not a necessary or essential for any biological function in any animal or plant for that matter
the animal model is impressive. They’ve replicated virtually all of the brain changes in Alzheimer’s in experimental models that are exposed to aluminum.
we have an explosion of autism in the Western world. I think, for decades, the incidence was like one in 10,000. Now, it’s down to 1 in 100. Literally a hundred fold increase over the last 20 years or so, and it continues. Every study that looks at it seems to be progressively increasing to the point where we have it down to 1 in 20 before we know it.
This link reiterates the above points.
More than a sign of sleepiness, yawning may cool the brain
people are less likely to yawn when the heat outdoors exceeds body temperature.
The cooling effect of yawning is thought to result from enhanced blood flow to the brain caused by stretching of the jaw, as well as countercurrent heat exchange with the ambient air that accompanies the deep inhalation.
What You Eat Affects Your Genes: RNA from Rice Can Survive Digestion and Alter Gene Expression | 80beats | Discover Magazine
via slashdot
“Tiny bits of genetic material, called microRNAs, can make their way from the food you eat into your blood stream, and change how your genes are expressed, according to a new study. A team of Chinese scientists found tiny bits of white rice microRNA floating around in people’s blood after a meal. When they looked at what was happening on a cellular level, they found that the microRNAs were changing gene expression, decreasing levels of a receptor that filters out LDL (bad) cholesterol. When the scientists gave mice both rice and a chemical to block the microRNAs, their levels of that receptor returned to normal—-showing that the microRNAs weren’t just swimming through the blood stream, but acting on genes in the animals’ cells.”
I see this as more evidence that we really don’t understand all the ways in which food affects us. Additionally I see it as more evidence that we should eat foods for which we are evolutionarily designed. It’s difficult to know and understand all the effects of foods we are are not used to. Having worked in a laboratory where drugs are tested, I can tell you that foreign compounds are usually not a good thing for any organism.
researchers believe that very young children take naps because so-called sleep pressure builds rapidly in their brains — that is, the need for sleep accumulates so quickly during waking hours that a nap becomes a biological necessity. It is not just a question of how much total sleep that children need in 24 hours. Possibly because of the intense synaptic activity that goes on in their highly active, highly connected brains, young children are less able to tolerate long periods of time awake.
The muscular exertions involved in laughter make you feel good
Laughter is regularly promoted as a source of health and well being, but it has been hard to pin down exactly why laughing until it hurts feels so good.
The answer, reports Robin Dunbar, an evolutionary psychologist at Oxford, is not the intellectual pleasure of cerebral humor, but the physical act of laughing. The simple muscular exertions involved in producing the familiar ha, ha, ha, he said, trigger an increase in endorphins, the brain chemicals known for their feel-good effect.
How to select right amount of weight/sets/reps for your goal.
1RM - is the maximum amount of weight you can lift
(via Strength training - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
via quora
Variable Training goal
Strength Power Hypertrophy Endurance
Load (% of 1RM) 80-90 45-55 60-80 40-60
Reps per set 1-5 1-5 6-12 15-60
Sets per exercise 4-7 3-5 4-8 2-4
Rest between sets (mins) 2-6 2-6 2-5 1-2
Duration (seconds per set) 5-10 4-8 20-60 80-150
Speed per rep (% of max) 60-100 90-100 60-90 60-80
Training sessions per week 3-6 3-6 5-7 8-14
Exercise causes an increase in systemic mitochondrial biogenesis.
It has been known for more than 4 decades that exercise causes increases in skeletal muscle mitochondrial enzyme content and activity (i.e., mitochondrial biogenesis). Increasing evidence now suggests that exercise can induce mitochondrial biogenesis in a wide range of tissues not normally associated with the metabolic demands of exercise. Perturbations in mitochondrial content and (or) function have been linked to a wide variety of diseases, in multiple tissues, and exercise may serve as a potent approach by which to prevent and (or) treat these pathologies. In this context, the purpose of this review is to highlight the effects of exercise, and the underlying mechanisms therein, on the induction of mitochondrial biogenesis in skeletal muscle, adipose tissue, liver, brain, and kidney.
Is it bad for your eyes to read in the dark?
3 sources all say no. The only liability is the headache that you might get because your eyes have to work harder. But it doesn’t affect the health of your eyes.
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