Mind Health

Here’s a good piece by our friend Lee Euler. It’s actually part of a longer piece about fighting cancer you’ll find at alternative-doctor.com (now a blog too!) Depression can be overcome. The following 11 tips are meant to help. However, for long-term or severe bouts of depression, you should seek professional help. 1. Myrrh. It’s […] The post Shut down depression before it shuts down your immune system appeared first on Dr. Keith Scott-Mumby.

Binaural Beats Rule Mind Power We all know the brain is the magnificent switch center that regulates most aspects of our physiology. Even autonomic functions, though not consciously controlled, are still under the control of the brain, via the sympathetic and parasympathetic pathways. Brain power can influence our health for good or for ill. So […]

Binaural Beats Rule Mind Power We all know the brain is the magnificent switch center that regulates most aspects of our physiology. Even autonomic functions, though not consciously controlled, are still under the control of the brain, via the sympathetic and parasympathetic pathways. Brain power can influence our health for good or for ill. So […] The post Binaural creative visualization and relaxation appeared first on Dr. Keith Scott-Mumby.

Zapping the brain with a mild electrical current helps people think outside the box to solve a task, an Australian research team has found. Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) works by altering the activity of neurons by passing weak currents through electrodes on the scalp. It can enhance mathematical skills, memory, attention and language learning. […]

Zapping the brain with a mild electrical current helps people think outside the box to solve a task, an Australian research team has found. Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) works by altering the activity of neurons by passing weak currents through electrodes on the scalp. It can enhance mathematical skills, memory, attention and language learning. […] The post More Electrical Mind Boosting Technology! appeared first on Dr. Keith Scott-Mumby.

Yet another study, published in the September 25, 2012, issue of Neurology, has linked low vitamin D levels with significant health issues — in this case, poor cognition. People with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) had lower concentrations of vitamin D than those without AD, and better cognitive test results were linked to higher vitamin D concentrations. According to the main author, Cynthia Balion, PhD, a clinical biochemist and associate professor, Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, the results provide sufficient evidence to warrant further investigation to determine whether a cause-and-effect relationship exists. She’s right, of course. Just because the two are associated, doesn’t mean low vitamin D causes cognitive problems. It might mean, for example, that people with malabsorption (a common problem, due to bowel inflammation) are short of all nutrients and because of the inflammatory process also get Alzheimer’s—essentially a disease of brain inflammatory decay. You’ll learn more about this brain and gut connection in my book Fire In The Belly. I was a pioneer in this area in the 1980s and 1990s.

Yet another study, published in the September 25, 2012, issue of Neurology, has linked low vitamin D levels with significant health issues — in this case, poor cognition. People with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) had lower concentrations of vitamin D than those without AD, and better cognitive test results were linked to higher vitamin D concentrations. According to the main author, Cynthia Balion, PhD, a clinical biochemist and associate professor, Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, the results provide sufficient evidence to warrant further investigation to determine whether a cause-and-effect relationship exists. She’s right, of course. Just because the two are associated, doesn’t mean low vitamin D causes cognitive problems. It might mean, for example, that people with malabsorption (a common problem, due to bowel inflammation) are short of all nutrients and because of the inflammatory process also get Alzheimer’s—essentially a disease of brain inflammatory decay. You’ll learn more about this brain and gut connection in my book Fire In The Belly. I was a pioneer in this area in the 1980s and 1990s.

That idiot Timothy Leary, with his outrageous pronouncements and behavior in the 1960s, got LSD banned from research. I’ve never taken street drugs, ever. But if I did, I would be tempted to try this one. It’s not addictive and, if you read the works of Stanislav Grof, has been responsible for some awesome insights […]

That idiot Timothy Leary, with his outrageous pronouncements and behavior in the 1960s, got LSD banned from research. I’ve never taken street drugs, ever. But if I did, I would be tempted to try this one. It’s not addictive and, if you read the works of Stanislav Grof, has been responsible for some awesome insights […] The post That Idiot Timothy Leary appeared first on Dr. Keith Scott-Mumby.

I was not too surprised that the article in the last issue about anxiety would strike some raw nerves. I think we are truly living in “The Age Of Anxiety”. See the previous article here: Alternative Doctor: The Age Of Anxiety To increase your understanding, I have reproduced here a page from alternative-doctor.com It’s been […]

I was not too surprised that the article in the last issue about anxiety would strike some raw nerves. I think we are truly living in “The Age Of Anxiety”. See the previous article here: Alternative Doctor: The Age Of Anxiety To increase your understanding, I have reproduced here a page from alternative-doctor.com It’s been […] The post Is The The Age Of Anxiety? – 2 appeared first on Dr. Keith Scott-Mumby.

The Immortal Bard is not only a wit and a genius with words; he was pretty good at getting into his characters’ psychology too… That’s obvious. Now a colleague has done a review of Shakespeare’s skills in the realm of psychosomatics (body-mind medicine) and suggested doctors could do well to study his plays and the […]