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  2. I have toyed with the idea of installing a sauna. I know it is a great thing to do.

      1. only way to excrete stored fat soluble toxins are 1) sweat and 2) bile acid binding fiber (germinated barley rivals cholestyramine) with concomitant minimal dietary fat (can cause reabsorption)

        sweat is primary route of Al excretion followed by silicic acid rich mineral water which is renally cleared.

        we are a polluted race, Catherine.

        Its a full time job defending against this stuff.
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        Physical effects of negative air ions in a wet sauna

        Abstract The physical effects of negative air ions on humans
        were determined in an experimental sauna room
        equipped with an ionizer. Thirteen healthy persons took a
        wet sauna bath (dry bulb temperature 42° C, relative humidity
        100%, 10 min exposure) with or without negative
        air ions. The subjects were not told when they were being
        exposed to negative air ions. There were no differences in
        the moods of these persons or changes in their blood pressures
        between the two saunas. The surface temperatures of
        the foreheads, hands, and legs in the sauna with negative
        ions were significantly higher than those in the sauna
        without ions. The pulse rates and sweat produced in the
        sauna with ions were singificantly higher than those in the
        sauna without ions. The results suggest that negative ions
        may amplify the effects on humans of the sauna.

  3. healthiest things in the world

    1) fasting (can cure diabetes via stem cell recruitment and differentiation into insulin producing beta-cells!)
    2) sauna (reductions in all cause mortality and dementia by up to 80% with 4+ sessions weekly!)

    quinetessential human toxin with 7 year brain half life… aluminum (check out chris exley’s youtube videos)

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    i agree that taking drug company’s words for it is a poor decision. always go to the primary literature and, as with all else, always make your own decisions!

  4. Thanks for this – I have been inspired to join Netflix – free for the first month, and watch this movie. A good move – thank you! I am a retired medical doctor from the UK. This film portrays the scariest version of our pharmacological future I have seen.

    We have, in the UK, relatively small amounts of Ritalin and Ritalin-like drugs. However, I was young when amphetamines were the rage. One fellow student took amphetamine, stayed up all night studying for her exams and came out telling us how well she had done. Turns out she had written her name 500 times on the exam paper and nothing else.

    Performance Enhancing Drugs erode judgement. It seems to me that a certain well-known entrepreneur may, like the rest of Silicon Valley be micro-dosing, it is possible to chart his decline from bright young thing to looking increasingly weird, even demented, by watching sequential YouTube videos.

    In my late twenties, I was “blessed” with bipolar disorder including episodes of mania (now long passed and medication free – see MoodMapping by Dr LIz Miller) Hypomania is a state of “creativity” where you think you are a genius. Unfortunately not! Manic ideas maybe plentiful but are largely rubbish. it is the ability to put an idea into action that makes for genius, not wild imaginings.

    The best Performance Enhancer is Lifestyle, that is Diet, Exercise, Meditation and Purpose. This approach enhances judgement as well as promoting a flow state. This approach is backed by many research studies even though, it is more demanding than popping a pill.

    The most hopeful part of the film is the research at the end that shows there is no overall improvement in performance. The long-term consequences of unbalancing brain chemicals may take many years to be fully evident. If you are looking for a culprit for school shootings, Ritalin et al. must be in the frame

  5. in the modern world, given our food supply, anything which lowers appetite could have indirect survival value.

    regarding amphetamine, low doses can indeed accelerate learning and verbal long term memory formation; high doses are neurotoxic. dont exceed 0.4mg/kg d-amphetamine per day.

    modafinil is a better long term drug anyways.

    Modafinil attenuates inflammation via inhibiting Akt/NF-jB
    pathway in apoE-deficient mouse model of atherosclerosis

    “Modafinil mitigates
    inflammation in apoE-/- atherosclerosis mice via inhibiting
    NF-jB activity in macrophages, and could potentially
    serve as a therapeutic agent for atherosclerosis.”

    Catherine you are my hero.

    1. 🙂 Good point. Given who is making the drugs, I trust them about as much as I trust the folks f****** up the food supply. Check out my review of the book Fasting. I think Fasting protocols are the way to go. I was very struct by the one study described in the movie that indicated that Adderal did not improve performance – just your perception of performance. Only one study though and who knows if that is trustworthy. Until I watched this I had not idea how much of this stuff was being pumped out.

    2. I wish I could persuade people that spraying their brain with chemicals cannot outflank millions of years of evolution! We are not mice, we are a highly evolved species with the best survival record on the planet and beyond.

      The problem is not our appetites so much as the circumstances that encourage overeating – stress, addiction, and idleness. Healthy people don’t get fat, obesity is a sign of poor health and the answer is not a pill.

      Taking “mind-altering” medication is like putting sulphuric acid on your computer, it might help some of the connections work faster, but overall its a disaster 😉

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