Right Brain, Left Brain

Written by Dr. Michael L. Johnson


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You are not dead until your brain is dead. Your brain needs two things to survive: fuel and activation. Fuel comes inrepparttar form of oxygen and glucose. Glucose comes fromrepparttar 143235 food you eat, and oxygen comes fromrepparttar 143236 air you breathe. The normal inspiration/expiration ratio should be exhalation twice as long as inhalation. That is to say - breathe out twice as long as you breathe in.

There are also specific treatment modalities that a clinician may utilize to increase function or activation ofrepparttar 143237 right or left brain. One example is big letters made up of small letters. If you look atrepparttar 143238 small letters you will fire right cerebellum to left brain. If you look atrepparttar 143239 big letters you will fire left cerebellum to right brain.

Auditory stimulation (listening to nature sounds, clicks of a metronome, or Mozart in a major key) inrepparttar 143240 left ear comes up throughrepparttar 143241 brain stem over torepparttar 143242 right brain and vice versa forrepparttar 143243 right ear.

Visual stimulation fromrepparttar 143244 left side in a checkerboard pattern using different colors comes up throughrepparttar 143245 optic pathway torepparttar 143246 brain stem and up torepparttar 143247 right brain. The T.E.N.S. unit set at subthreshold stimulates large diameter nerves which fire up torepparttar 143248 cerebellum and torepparttar 143249 opposite brain.

Dr. Michael L. Johnson is a Board Certified Chiropractic Neurologist with over twenty years of experience in private practice, over 850 hours of neurological studies, and 3800 hours of postgraduate education. His bestselling book What Do You Do When the Medications Don't Work? - A Non-Drug Treatment of Dizziness, Migraine Headaches, Fibromyalgia, and Other Chronic Conditions is available through his website at http://www.askdrjohnson.com.


Nutritional Supplements - How To Choose A High Quality Product

Written by David Bloom


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There are also some nutrients that work best when taken together with a complementary vitamin or mineral, and inrepparttar majority of cases, this can actually improve their effectiveness. A perfect example is that of Vitamin D, which when taken together with a quality calcium supplement can both enhancerepparttar 143234 absorption rate and reducerepparttar 143235 amount of calcium that is excreted in waste products. Of course, you will still get some benefit from calcium supplementation alone, but for those to whom every bit of nutrition counts, a little homework is your best bet.

The most important reason to choose a high quality nutritional supplement is of course, safety. Unfortunately, since supplements and vitamins have become more popular withrepparttar 143236 general public, many bargain basement brands have popped up overnight withrepparttar 143237 claim that their product is just as good asrepparttar 143238 more expensive ones and much cheaper to boot. Be very wary of such claims! Remember, if a supplement is priced far below its competitors, they had to find some way to trim downrepparttar 143239 costs...are you willing to risk finding out what it was?

Mass produced nutritional supplements are often made in huge batches with equipment intended to churn out as much ofrepparttar 143240 stuff as possible inrepparttar 143241 shortest amount of time, and oftenrepparttar 143242 quality ofrepparttar 143243 supplement will suffer. Worse yet, there isrepparttar 143244 increased risk of contamination.

When choosing nutritional supplements, you must keep in mind that your very health is dependant onrepparttar 143245 decisions you make. While it might seem like a good idea to save a few dollars now, inrepparttar 143246 long run you might find yourself wishing that you had invested that extra little bit inrepparttar 143247 interest of quality. This is not to say that a less expensive nutritional supplement won't give you some benefit, but it might actually end up costing you more inrepparttar 143248 long run if you're having to take multiple pills several times daily to get any kind of effect.

Takerepparttar 143249 time to find a high quality nutritional supplement from a reputable manufacturer...you'll be glad you did!

David Bloom is an avid health enthusiast and senior editor of Herbal Supplements Guide, a site that discusses nutritional and herbal supplements and their potential therapeutic value. The site covers how supplements can be used not only to treat health conditions but also prevent illness and promote general health and well-being.


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