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Joey Cardillo ~ Can Coconut Oil Help Alzheimer’s Patients?

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NaturalNews April 23 2013

Alzheimer’s disease is a neurodegenerative brain condition that comes with a multibillion-dollar per year cost to the American public, and its takeover doesn’t seem to be slowing down. It is estimated that in 2013 alone, Alzheimer’s disease will cost Americans more than $200 billion. With its prevalence appearing to be at an all time high, it appears that the medical world and the public should be looking for better alternatives in regard to preventing its takeover. The Westernized approach to treating such a condition has some upsides, but many crucial factors seem to be left out of the overall equation – food (like coconuts) being one of these major areas to assess.

The effects of coconut oil on the brain

Coconut oil is an amazing food, and luckily, science has shown that it is among one of the most healing in nature. In regard to helping Alzheimer’s patients, the ketone bodies, which are given off when coconut oil’s fatty acids are metabolized by the liver, can be a perfect fuel source for the brain – a trait that can surely help Alzheimer’s patients.

A brain that has been impacted by Alzheimer’s disease cannot efficiently use glucose for fuel as it once did. Ketones help to solve this problem by providing a different fuel source that the brain can use instead.

Think of this “fuel swapping” arrangement much like how a hybrid car switches between gas an electricity – carbohydrates being the gas, and ketone bodies acting as the much cleaner, more efficient electricity.

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Nicholas West ~ Neuroscience, Obama’s Brain Project, And Military Mind Control

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Activist Post April 3 2013

In light of Obama’s announcement of a $100 million brain-mapping project, which is being promoted as essential in unlocking the secrets behind degenerative brain conditions and kick starting job growth, it is worth examining the darker potential.As The New American rightly highlights, whenever DARPA is involved, we can expect that there will be creepy military applications . . . like mind control. This mission has actually been around for some time within the halls of elite think-tanks, and now appears to be coming to full fruition.

In particular, the UK think-tank, The Royal Society (which has openly admitted to studying how to play God with the climate) kicked off a program in 2010 that revealed its multifaceted investigation into the identification of organic brain function and potential control over human behavior.

The Brain Waves project is divided into four modules, each tasked with studying the impact of developments in the field of neuroscience and neurotechnology.  The titles of the modules reflect the areas of examination:

Module 1: Society and policy
Module 2: Implications for education and lifelong learning
Module 3: Conflict and security
Module 4: Responsibility and the law

The results from these modules have been published, and clearly illustrate how this panel views the lower public masses in light of their status as the elite arbiters of human destiny. The dual approach to this investigation must be kept in mind as the U.S. government is now rolling out the BRAIN initiative as the next great thing since the human genome project. The ramifications are potentially even more momentous.

We often hear from critics that these think-tanks are an essential part of scientific discovery, and that drawing conclusions of a nefarious nature about their intent is paranoid conspiracy theory — they are only thinking, after all.  I would submit that objective scientific inquiry is absolutely necessary and that the proper role of science is to disseminate results to the public for open debate, prior to their implementation.  However, think-tanks such as the Royal Society betray, by their own language, subjective biases (and corporate connections) that have no place in true science.

The Royal Society funds over 700 private ventures, which undoubtedly are directed by findings from studies such as Brain Waves.  While their studies might be couched in scientific terminology, there is always a philosophical overlay that indicates a desire to study the sciences specifically for use toward a purpose that a relatively small group sees fit.  Furthermore, given that many developments in neuroscience are already being forced upon the public in a negative manner, the claims of open debate and “welcoming comments from the public” seem disingenuous.  Rather, what we have is a another think-tank blueprint that is merely stating the current course planned long ago, as well as what is to be rolled out in the near future under projects like BRAIN.

Just as we have seen from other think tanks such as the Project For a New American Century, Council on Foreign Relations, Brookings Institution, and a host of others; their thoughts translate to reality on a less-than-coincidental frequency, so we would do well to listen to what they have been saying.

The Project (an elite view of the brain)

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Christopher Combates ~ I Am Here Are To Enjoy My Life As Much As Possible While Helping Others Do The Same

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Inspire Me Today February 16 2013

Simplicity is beautiful, so my message to the world is as simple as can be. Enjoy every moment of your life as much as possible!

Being that I am only sixteen, I see the world from a different perspective than most of you who are reading this. Billions of people around the globe continue to ask those bold questions “Why are we here?” “What is our purpose?”

In my opinion, what else are we here for then to enjoy the ride as much as possible. In almost every religion, it is encouraged to live a joyful life, without hindering someone else’s enjoyment.

Whether or not there is an afterlife, depending on your personal belief, why not enjoy the life you are living right now?! Leave the afterlife for the afterlife and keep this simple rule in mind.

Enjoy your life as much as possible, while helping others enjoy theirs.

If this one simple guideline is followed at all times, I’m sure you will live a fulfilling life.

Some people say, “Well what about work? Don’t you need to work hard in order to live a joyful life?” I say “Yes, you are absolutely right. But remember the difference between working hard and hard work.”

I work extremely hard every day of my life. I am an honor roll student who has published a book at sixteen, created a business with a website to match, and have lived an awesome social life. Plus, it is only the beginning!

“Working hard” is positive while “hard work” is negative. When someone works hard on something they love to do, they enjoy it. When someone works by trading their time for money, it is considered hard work. To sum it up, “work hard” on what you love to do and you will never experience “hard work.”

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Dr. Barrie Trower ~ Dangerous Radiation Everywhere [Video]

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White TV | September 26 2012 | Thanks, Annette

Former MI5 agent Barrie Trower is a physicist who worked for British intelligence. There he got secret knowledge about the huge danger of electro smog= scalar waves and microwave radiation in our cell phone and Wi-Fi technology. He reveals how intelligence agencies misuse microwaves to influence people’s bodies, even the brain. They can induce pain everywhere in the body and illness, even heart attacks and every form of cancer. They can control your mind by reading your thoughts, changing them, spying on your memory, change or erase it. They can remote control a human totally without the targeted individual knowing about it. People can be programmed to be a living video camera, killing- or sex-machine.

It is easy to let people hear voices in their skulls. V2K is not a mental illness but the result of modern technology.

The cell phone and wireless Internet radiation damages not only us, our children and nature but even future generations in a so horrible way, that in three generations a lot of women will have lost their fertility.

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Laura Bruno ~ Off-Loading Karma And Cellular Memory

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Laura Bruno’s Blog | November 28 2012

Just a quick heads up: today’s eclipse and the next three days offer an exceptional window of opportunity to off-load a bunch of old junk — especially past life junk. I’ve noticed this in myself and during some sessions this week: the veils between lifetimes are particularly thin right now. If you’re experiencing major emotional or physical symptoms that have you stopped in your tracks, use that pause to inquire, “Is this even related to my current lifetime?!” Notice your body’s response. If you feel an immediate shift of the energy, a lightening of your load, or prickles of relief and hope, I encourage you to send that baggage off with the Universal Bellhop.

You are a VIP in your own life … this life … and you have arrived! Kick off your shoes, fluff up your pillow, open the curtains, and smile at your good fortune. If the Universal Bellhop loses your luggage, no worries there. You didn’t want that old junk anyway, did you? Go ahead, open the closet in your penthouse suite. Everything there’s a perfect fit for your new, healthy body. Take a deep breath and let your heart feel glad. Savor your new surroundings while you contemplate what “home” means. You’re not quite there yet, but you’ve moved out of the old digs. No need to drag the past — even the lengthy, distant past — around with you anymore.

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Asara Lovejoy ~ Curiosity Creates Opportunity And Solutions

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Inspire Me Today | August 24 2012

Did you know that curiosity creates opportunity and solutions? It is true that when you are curious, you cannot be afraid or negative. You literally disengage from limited thinking by engaging a curious mind.

Ask yourself – how curious am I? When faced with a conflict, or problem, financial, emotional, or health – do you get curious or do you react with fear? When you replace concerns and fears with curiosity, something physical happens in your brain – you re-engage your open potential where there is a solution to every problem and condition.

You have a magnificent brain with different levels of brain waves that reflect different states of consciousness. In your ordinary daily thinking activity, your fastest brain wave – beta (logical thinking mind) – operates 90% of the time for a 1% return. Our beta mind thinks in duality of this or that, maybe, maybe not, and uncertainty. It also pulls from the past and projects to the future so it can only analyze old data – not much help there.

It is hard to find a solution or go in the right direction with conflicting thoughts based on past mistakes and experiences. Most folks try to think their way into a new solution and find it hard and difficult – often forcing a result that turns out badly.

Curiosity brings you into a state of your greater intelligence that you may not even know you have – your slower brain wave of theta that only operates in the now of a potential.

Being curious brings you into investigating possibilities without knowing an answer and simultaneously reduces your negative, concerned fearful emotions. This is powerful because now you have the space for something other than your fear to arrive.

Try it for yourself. Think of a fear or a problem, close your eyes and mentally say to yourself – I am curious – I am just curious about this situation. Notice how your mind quiets. Each time your fear arises repeat the process – I am curious.

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Caro ~ Living From The Heart

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Spirituality & The City | July 23 2012

I feel like whispering this post.

I feel my heart beat.

I feel deeply connected to this miracle we carry within our bodies.

Since yesterday I did drafts because I wanted to write about forgiveness.. It is all one, in our heart. Once we feel this, all the rest, our life is lived from this center.

Unconditional love, the love we share as we are one.

When you naturally feel this, when you live from your heart, your power is unlimited. I speak not about power in terms of leadership or dominance over others. I speak about creative power, the power of unconditional love.

Do you see the beauty of the world ? In your daily life ? Do you still look at the trees ? Do you recognise their beauty which they unfold in front of our eyes, each day ?

Do you see the sun rays ? Do you feel the energy ?

And do you look at the beauty of the flowers you just bought ?

Do you try to see the world not only through your mind and eyes, but through your heart ? Try it. You will realise that there is beauty all around you…

So why don’t you whisper to your heart and tell it, that you are happy to feel it beating in your chest ? It is the motor which gave you life and which is the best guide you can find to sail through the water, the ocean of life…

There is a wonderful article “The Heart of The Matter” I found this morning. It is an excerpt from  Transforming the Nature of Health: A Holistic Vision of Healing That Honors Our Connection to the Earth, Others, and Ourselves, by Marcey Shapiro, M.D., released in physical and electronic form by North Atlantic Books. 

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Wes Moore ~ Television: Opiate of the Masses (Thanks, C)

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That television you watch every day, your secret best friend, is an addictive opiate. It’s one of the most potent mind control devices ever produced. Don’t be too surprised if TV addicts discover they need help of addiction recovery counselors one day.

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CCLE Vol.2 Issue 2, pp.59-66 | The Journal Of Cognitive Liberties

Alright junkies, I know you don’t like staring at long strands of motionless text, and I know it’s a struggle for you to analyze and comprehend the meaning of complex sequences of words. But if you give me just a few minutes, I will let you in on a little secret that marketers and governments have been relying on for decades. That television you watch every day, your secret best friend, is an addictive opiate, and not only that, it’s one of the most potent mind control devices ever produced. And I’m not just basing this on intuition. I have the neurological evidence to prove it.

Although the definitions are vague and somewhat misleading, the word ‘addiction’ usually refers to a psychological or physical dependence on a particular experience that must be repeated in order for a person to be comfortable. Usually, we think about this in terms of chemical addiction, which occurs when the addict’s chemical of choice reorganizes the nervous system so that it requires the presence of that chemical to operate smoothly.
Of course, not all addictions are chemical. Any behavior that leads to a pleasurable experience will be repeated, especially if that behavior requires little work. Psychologists call this pattern ‘positive reinforcement.’ This is what we mean, technically speaking, by addiction. In this sense, television certainly fits into the category of an addictive agent.

When you watch TV, brain activity switches from the left to the right hemisphere. In fact, experiments conducted by researcher Herbert Krugman showed that while viewers are watching television, the right hemisphere is twice as active as the left, a neurological anomaly.(1) The crossover from left to right releases a surge of the body’s natural opiates: endorphins, which include beta-endorphins and enkephalins. Endorphins are structurally identical to opium and its derivatives (morphine, codeine, heroin, etc.). Activities that release endorphins (also called opioid peptides) are usually habit-forming (we rarely call them addictive). These include cracking knuckles, strenuous exercise, and orgasm. External opiates act on the same receptor sites (opioid receptors) as endorphins, so there is little difference between the two.

In fact, strenuous exercise, which produces the nominal ‘runner’s high”a release of endorphins that flood the system, can be highly addictive, to the point where ‘addicts’ who abruptly stop exercising experience opiate-withdrawal symptoms, namely migraine headaches. These migraines are caused by a dysfunction in opioid receptors, which are accustomed to the steady influx of endorphins.

Indeed, even casual television viewers experience such opiate-withdrawal symptoms if they stop watching TV for a prolonged period of time. An article from South Africa’s Eastern Province Herald (October 1975) described two experiments in which people from various socio-economic milieus were asked to stop watching television. In one experiment, several families volunteered to turn off their TV’s for just one month. The poorest family gave in after one week, and the others suffered from depression, saying they felt as though they had ‘lost a friend.’ In the other experiment, 182 West Germans agreed to kick their television viewing habit for a year, with the added bonus of payment. None could resist the urge longer than six months, and over time all of the participants showed the symptoms of opiate withdrawal: increased anxiety, frustration, and depression.

The signs of addiction are all around us. The average American watches over four hours of television every day, and 49% of those continue to watch despite admitting to doing it excessively. These are the classic indicators of an addict in denial: addicts know they’re doing harm to themselves, but continue to use the drug regardless.

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Laura Bruno ~ Dream On: Why Sleep is So Important

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Laura Bruno’s Blog | March 31 2012

The folks at frugaldad.com sent me this infographic on sleep, and I thought I’d share it here. Having had my own brain injury and working with so many other TBI survivors, I know firsthand and professionally just what a difference a good night’s sleep makes for healing, brain function and mood. In 2010, I lived in an apartment with an old fashioned elevator pulley directly above my bed. That same attic housed many of the doors I painted that year, but, my goodness! Steady sleep did not come easily.

I do credit all the wake up calls for having so many dream downloads that year, but my waking life has infinitely improved since moving to a house where I often sleep the whole night through. I also see from close, objective observation how many factors sleep deprivation affects — as well as how such things miraculously resolve themselves during extended periods of sleep recovery. A high raw food diet certainly shaves several hours off required sleep, but the adrenals, brain, outlook, wound healing and general experience of life sure love some zzzzz’s.

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Visionkeeper ~ Soon The Craziness Will End

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One World Rising | April 10 2012

For so long now we have held on and worked hard to change ourselves so we could change the world. Hold on tight for it seems that change is drawing near. Our dream of freedom may be just around the next bend in the road. At times we have all faltered and began to doubt that maybe this freedom is all just an illusion as well. This past week has been one of struggle for many, as energies began to radically shift and shake us all deeply within. I think just about everyone could feel something was in the making. For those who are still trapped in the illusion they had fears of what the dark ones would do next, rumors spread like wildfire of all the evils the were cooking up. For the awakened ones it was exhausting energetically yet exciting, for they knew the birthing was in process and the end was near. Soon ‘one world’ will be born and love will rule the planet.

Are you ready for free energy and no more light poles, or wall sockets or mercury filled light bulbs? How about cars that need no gasoline, houses no longer needing furnaces and wood stoves? This is the world we have been and are now creating and it is being born to us all. The insanity will come to an end. No more war and death and destruction, no more lies and deception, no more controlling or manipulating. It is almost more than one can dare to imagine. Life is about to do a 180 and we best hold on tight so we don’t blow off into the cosmos. There is bound to be some chaos in the adjustment period. To switch such a massive structure from one way of being to another, there are bound to be a few glitches.

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Visionkeeper ~ Shifting Energies

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One World Rising | March 27 2012

Can you feel the change in the air? It is blowing all around us and everything keeps shifting and morphing into new ways of being. Love is such a powerful emotion. When it gets in under your skin life becomes so different. I’m not talking about lovey dovey kind of love, although that kind is pretty nice too, but I am talking about being moved to tears and being over taken by emotions. Everything seems so heightened right now it doesn’t take much to shed a tear over just about anything. We are regaining our abilities to feel again, to sense the rightness and wrongness in things from the heart not the mind. Everything seems to be coming from the heart now and hopefully things will stay this way and we will have left behind our callous ways, hardened by all the war and hate and killing we have been spoon fed for so long now. Once you disconnect from the media horror and you begin to feel again, it is shocking to think how you were before.

Energy is radiating off of everything. The solar flares when they came in non-stop in the earlier part of this month made the air seem electric with energy. It felt almost like walking around in a world of  static electricity. Our messaging came to us riding upon the currents delivered by the sun. All kinds of new energy coding, DNA changes all came pummeling at us from the cosmos. Our bodies have been going through major adjustment periods trying to adapt to the new frequencies and the molecular changes going on within. We  are no longer as we were before as human beings. We have begun the shift to our new ways of being, rewired like a new computer ready for high-speed and beyond. Who knows what we will all be capable of doing once all is said and done.

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Keep Government Out Of Mind-Reading Business!

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Paul Root Wolpe | CNN Belief Blog
November 14 2011

“My thoughts, they roam freely. Who can ever guess them?”

So goes an old German folk song. But imagine living in a world where someone can guess your thoughts, or even know them for certain. A world where science can reach into the deep recesses of your brain and pull out information that you thought was private and inaccessible.

Would that worry you?

If so, then start worrying. The age of mind reading is upon us.

Neuroscience is advancing so rapidly that, under certain conditions, scientists can use sophisticated brain imaging technology to scan your brain and determine whether you can read a particular language, what word you are thinking of, even what you are dreaming about while you are asleep.

The research is still new, and the kinds of information scientists can find through brain imaging are still simple. But the recent pace of progress in neuroscience has been startling and new studies are being published all the time.

In one experiment, researchers at Carnegie Mellon looked at images of people’s brains when they were thinking of some common objects – animals, body parts, tools, vegetables – and recorded which areas of their brains activated when they thought about each object.

The scientists studied patterns of brain activity while subjects thought about 58 such objects. Then they predicted what the person’s brain would look like if researchers gave them a brand new object, like “celery.”

The scientists’ predictions were surprisingly accurate.

Many scholars predicted as recently as a few years ago that we would never get this far. Now we have to ask: If we can tell what words you are thinking of, is it much longer before we will be able to read complex thoughts?

In another experiment, researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich, Germany, sought out a group of “lucid dreamers” – people who remain aware that they are dreaming and even maintain some control over their dreams while they sleep.

The researchers asked the subjects to clench either their right hand or left hand in their dreams, then scanned their brain while they slept. The subjects’ motor cortex, the part of the brain that controls movement, lit up in the same manner it would if a person clenched their left hand while awake – even though the actual hand of the sleeping subjects never moved.

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