How To Bolster Your Blood-Brain Barrier

Posted on 17. Jun, 2008 by Kerry Friesen, M.D..

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Just in case you didn’t know, the blood-brain barrier (BBB), serves as a veritable “surge protector” guarding against certain drugs, chemicals and toxins that find their way into your blood stream.
Depending on the biochemical characteristics of specific molecules, they may never find their way into the brain. Good thing, [...]

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Depression: A Novel Nutritional Neuroscientific Approach

Posted on 11. Jun, 2008 by Kerry Friesen, M.D..

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Depression can be difficult to treat.
Even with the most effective medications, a sixty percent response rate is considered exceptional. Worse yet for most people, continued treatment revolves around minimizing side-effects rather than aggressively addressing the circumstances that allowed the depression to develop in the first place.
To confound matters even more, recent studies suggest [...]

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“Metaphysical” Fitness: 3 Minutes To Immediate Mental Clarity

Posted on 09. Jun, 2008 by Kerry Friesen, M.D..

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If you’re like me, your first inclination will be to dismiss this simple yet astonishing exercise in “metaphysical” fitness. It came to me, compliments of the Barefoot Doctor and now I happily share it with you. The italics are mine, the content is universal.
Enjoy….
When the world seems strange, your habitual reference [...]

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We Are What We Eat And We Feel What We Smell…

Posted on 06. Jun, 2008 by Kerry Friesen, M.D..

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Terpenoids are naturally occurring aromatic organic compounds that have been utilized in Ayurvedic medicine for thousands of years — we know them as aromatic or “essential oils”.
Menthol, camphor, thymol, eugenol and incensole acetate are all examples of plant terpenoids with psycho-active properties. Yep, I said psycho-active.
Apparently burning incense is [...]

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Want What Savants Got? Try Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation

Posted on 31. May, 2008 by Kerry Friesen, M.D..

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Can’t see the forest for the tree(s)? You might be a savant in the making. Weak central coherence theory seeks to explain the distinct savant ability to focus on details rather than being distracted by the “big picture“. When you combine the above traits with “overconnectivity” and unbalanced excitatory-inhibitory neural [...]

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Instant Bliss: It’s Just To The Right Of Your Left Hemisphere

Posted on 26. May, 2008 by Kerry Friesen, M.D..

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On the morning of December 10th, 1996 Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, Harvard intellectual and neuroanatomist, suffered a massive hemorrhagic stroke that damaged her left-hemisphere seemingly beyond hope of recovery. Now no longer restrained by the constant chatter originating in her left hemisphere, her newly liberated right-hemisphere opened the door to instant nirvana.
Dr. Taylor spent the [...]

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