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Easy 15min Routine To Relieve Back Pain
Hello and welcome to my video blog Today it is a short 15 min video to help with back pain, just scroll down the page to the video link. Pretty much everybody gets a bought of back pain and it can be very frustrating when you can’t do the things you love or are in…
Brain Training To Increase Resilience and Performance
Hello and welcome to my blog This week the topic is brain training to improve ‘performance’ by hacking into mental fatigue by building resilience. This is called Brain Endurance Training or BET or cognitive loading training. I have written ‘performance’ in inverted commas as these techniques were designed and tested on professional athletes and is…
Why Do People Take Growth Hormone and IGF-1
Hello and welcome to my blog This one is about supplements and biochemistry. There are a large number of supplements out there which claim all sorts and most of them are just crap. However there are compounds out there which offer lots of genuine benefits, but what is the catch? Today we are briefly looking…
Are ‘Exercise In a Pill’ Drugs Like Cardarine Dangerous?
Hello and welcome to my blog! This is part of the controversial compounds series of blogs. This week is all about cardarine/GW501516 and GW0742 Cardarine also called GW501516 and a stronger version called GW0742 are a class of supplement called ‘exercise in a pill’ or ‘endurance boosters’. They are not stimulants, SARMS or steroids, but…
Can Cannabis Oil Help Me? Or Is It Just Hype?
Hello and welcome to my blog! What Is CBD Oil? First things first, let’s clarify what CBD and CBD oil actually are. CBD oil is a collective term for oils made from fiber hemp, and do not contain THC. CBD Oil is a compound oil that contains at least CBD (Cannabidiol). These can also be…
How Taking Action Boosts Confidence And Beats Depression
Helllo and welcome! Today’s blog is about confidence, taking action overcome negative thoughts, using positive distractions and positive self talk. Self confidence is the belief of believing in yourself, to believe that you can accomplish what you set out to do, to overcome obstacles and challenges. Why do some people struggle with confidence?…
What is ASMR and Why Does it get 100s of Millions of YouTube Views?
Hello and welcome to my blog! Have you ever felt tingles in your head and deep relaxation while getting a haircut or head massage, listening to someone rustling paper, listening to a specific person talk in a gentle whispering manner, hearing certain sounds in a movie, while watching artist create a painting or watching a…
Homemade Alternatives To Botox
Hello and welcome to my blog! Today we are talking about wrinkles and biochemistry. Facial wrinkles occur from the continuous traction on the skin from facial muscles, but of course have a genetic and lifestyle component too. Today we are just focusing on two compounds, SNAP-8 and DMEA (Di-ethyl-aminoethanol)/Deanol, that studies have shown to help…
How To Boost Your Confidence In 5 Ways At Once
Confidence Confidence can be defined in several ways, but we all know what confidence means to us, and in which areas of life we want more confidence. The definition of confidence is; ‘A feeling of self-assurance arising from an appreciation of one’s own abilities or qualities’ Meaning, that we can rely on ourselves and our…
‘Carb Cravings’, Genes and ‘The Tryptophan Steal’
Hello and welcome to my blog. So many people get accused of having no will power or even feel like they have no will power when it comes to carbs and sugary snacks. What is the deal here? Is it your mind? Your biochemistry? Or your genes?. What can you do? Lets get started with…
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With magic mushroom season rapidly approaching in the U.K, let’s look and see what current medical research has to say about the medical benefits of psychedelics.
Psilocybin, the active ingredient from mushrooms such as the liberty Cap are 5-HT2A agonists (this is a receptor in some cell membranes and in brain cells)
Recent success of psychedelics, like psilocybin for the treatment of anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and addiction open new doors for treating mental illness.
Nichols DE, et al. Clin Pharmacol Ther. 2017
Psilocybin and other related compounds regulate inflammatory pathways via novel mechanisms, and represent a new and exciting treatment strategy for several inflammatory and pain disorders.
Flanagan TW, et al. Int Rev Psychiatry. 2018
Four RCTs trials were published between 2011 and 2016 (n = 104), mostly with psilocybin treatment (n = 92), and demonstrated that psychedelic-assisted treatment can produce rapid, robust, and sustained improvements in cancer-related psychological (anxiety & depression) and existential distress.
Ross S. Int Rev Psychiatry. 2018
The half sommersault is a do it at home version of the eplay manoeuvre used to treat certain kinds of vertigo such as BPPV, where calcium carbonate debris in the semi circular canals in the inner ear , referred to as a “stone” is the cause. This debris can build up over time so is more common in older people, but certain medication can also cause BPPV too.
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What is Brain endurance training (BET) and why are pro athletes and CEOs doing it?
Fatigue is the #1 biggest performance killer
We all know that in order to improve strength, power and speed or grow muscle we need to “train hard” to drive the body to improve. The brain is the same, in fact fatigue originates in the brain and once mental fatigue sets in everything becomes more difficult and we slow down, including physical tasks.
Think of walking up the stairs when you are mentally drained.
Brain endurance training (BET) which is a new training method that uses acute mental fatigue using digital neurological drills as a training stimulus to induce chronic reductions in fatigue during physical and/or cognitive tasks. Acute mental or BET training is ideally 60min per session x3 a week but benefits have been obtained with 90min total training per week.
Such training plans that including neurocognitive interventions benefit athletes, CEOs or anyone wishing to function at a higher level by making them more mentally resilient to fatigue, without affecting their physical training load and routines.
#braintrauma #neuroscience #neuroplasticity #athete #fatigue #trainingmotivation #braintraining #biohacking #cognitive
New Hope For Migraine Sufferers
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved erenumab, an anti-CGRP receptor monoclonal antibody, for prevention of migraine in May 2018.
Calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) is a signaling neuropeptide released from activated trigeminal (Cranial nerve 5 in the head/face) sensory afferents in headache, migraines and facial pain disorders.
The drug erenumab, is an anti-body which binds to the CGRP neuropeptide before it can bind to its receptor. In simple lay terms the way the drug Erenumab works. The CGRP neuropeptide which causes pain is like a key and the CGRP-receptor and Erenumab are like locks, so the The CGRP neuropeptide (the pain peptide) binds to the Erenumab and then there is not enough of it left to bind to the CGRP-receptor and create the symptoms of a headache or migraine.
The commonest side effects reported were injection site discomfort and nausea, but in many of the studies the same amount of people reported adverse effects in the control groups, who did not receive the anti migraine drug, but on the whole the drug is deemed 'safe'.
2 other anti-CGRP monoclonal antibodies have been submitted to the FDA for the indication of prevention of migraine, galcanezumab and fremanezumab. 1 small-molecule CGRP receptor antagonist (ubrogepant, MK-1602) is currently in phase 3 studies for the acute treatment of migraine.
Chronic migraine is defined as 15 or more headache days per month, of which eight or more were migraine days.
Tepper, SJ, Headache. 2018 Sep 22
Clin Neuropharmacol. 2017 Jul/Aug;40(4):169-174
Jain, S et al Pain Manag. 2018 Sep 21
