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Meditative Practice Intervenes For Treatment Failure

Sam Shelley – Levittown, PA – Founder of Head Trash Anonymous, and author who discusses the value of meditation for several maladies including multiple sclerosis, and bipolar disorder.

Sam’s life was filled with pain and suffering. At the age of six, a van nearly took his life. As an adult, he was hospitalized several times for suicidal tendencies diagnosed as a bipolar, and multiple sclerosis that left him disabled. With a driven, personal meditative persistence, his conditions ultimately improved, and he restored his health.

His is a story of transformation which began with a five-minute daily meditation practice. In his book, he shares all the practices and tools that he used for recovery. This edgy report from a client perspective demonstrates the value of consistent meditative practice.

References

* Easy Yoga: Your Ultimate Beginners Guide to Understanding Yoga and Leading a Disease-Free Life through Routine Yoga Practice June 26, 2015, by Advait – Global Amazon

* Yoga Therapy for Parkinson’s Disease and Multiple Sclerosis Aug 18, 2016, by Jean Danford – Global Amazon Link

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Again, special thanks, Sam, for this useful overview of meditative practice for these heretofore unpredictably treatment resistant presentations.

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Our Next CoreBrain Journal Episode

143 Elicia Miller – In our culture and most families, we often don’t receive the support to process many of our emotions, and so we continue to repress them by distracting and numbing ourselves and through controlling and addictive behaviors.

Elicia realized that unprocessed emotions cause chronic emotional and physical symptoms, as well as relationship problems.

Details For The End Of Autism

From The CBJ Walsh Molecular Series: 4 of 4 

Fresh molecular insights from informed laboratory assessments inform both practitioners and parents about how we now find ourselves approaching the end of autism.

~ William Walsh

End? Yes, You Read That Correctly – Here’s How

Autism Markers Set The Stage For The End Of Autism

Dr. Bill Walsh is an international thought leader, and is, without question, the most frequently downloaded expert for our thousands of listeners here at CBJ. This heartwarming Episode on autism markers further explores his increasingly constructive medical perceptions as they relate not only to autism markers but the future of mind science.

On A Personal Note

You can tell from our conversations that I know Dr. Walsh very well. Bill is not a poser. He’s not bombastic or hyperbolic in his thinking or presentations. He is a disarmingly genuine guy with a humility that makes him a bit uncomfortable with this, his new perspective on the End of Autism. He’s exceedingly careful in every discussion not to embellish the facts, but to describe the data as it is, rather than what it might otherwise appear to be with a vivid imagination. His research numbers, his live, hand’s on, enduring clinical experience with thousands of autistic patients over the years, inarguably sets him apart as an unusual, indeed exemplary, researcher/practitioner who lives within a refreshingly contextual data-reality of both applications over time and measured outcomes.

Autism Understandings Target Improved Interventions

No matter your perspective on autism spectrum challenges professionally or personally, you won’t have to search far to see the implication for how the application of these dramatic insights with autism markers will change the future for the entire spectrum of mind science – from personality to behavior, to self-management to the most hopeless of mental conditions.

One cannot overstate the global implications of Bill’s work.

Actionable Evolution For The Mind

No matter your station in life, from high school to doctorate, to struggling parents living miles from any town, this Episode will in a short time become the most hopeful, most risky, most groundbreaking of all our interviews. Here Dr. Walsh connects dots that spell a different future for all of us who care about the big picture, the evolution of the human mind.

More specifically, in this CBJ/141 Episode, Bill describes in useful detail multiple striking perspectives regarding the clinical development of the use of autism markers to address the reality of epigenetic, molecular and biomedical imbalances that trouble thousands of children and adults. I well remember my reaction of surprise when Dr. Walsh first, somewhat hesitatingly, hinted at the evolution of this extraordinary topic, The End of Autism – during our meeting with Walsh Institute Training student-professionals last year.

Your Walsh Homework If You Haven’t Prepared | 3 Previous Specials

* Methylation – CBJ/115 – Start At This Link – Essential Brain Function

* Copper & Kryptopyrrole – CBJ/137 – Next Step For Multiple Conditions

* Schizophrenia & Bipolar – CBJ/042 – Applied Molecular Insights

* Walsh Neuroscience Presentation on Bipolar At American Psychiatric...

Autism Markers: Expert Opinion On Biomedical Testing For ASD

You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.

~ Daniel Keys Moran

Dr. Kurt N. Woeller became a biomedical autism specialist many years ago in 1998. An original Defeat Autism Now! (DAN!) referral physician, he has years of experience in researching and implementing advanced biomedical interventions based upon autism markers from laboratory testing, for individuals suffering from autism challenges. He now works as the Autism Outreach Clinical Director for Great Plains Laboratories in addition to his own interesting treatment and training practice linked next.

His extensive network of exceedingly helpful educational websites, books and webinars provide parents of individuals on the autism-spectrum, as well as physicians and other healthcare providers treating autism, access to an abundance of important information regarding the latest biomedical intervention systems.

Connections

Professionals: To engage in direct interaction with Dr. Woeller you can subscribe to his biomedical autism training website at AutismRecoverySystem.com – a deep resource for both professionals and parents.

On A Personal Note

I’ve known Dr. Woeller for many years and find him to be an exceedingly helpful clinician with remarkable translation skills in terms of addressing the difficult reality of hard data provided by specific autism markers, and then synchronizing it with clinical treatment. If you’re a clinician I strongly recommend that you take a look at his Autism Recovery System and consider the fact that autism training takes you deeply into functional medicine clinical investigations that will find application almost anywhere in mind science.

Kurt is interesting, engaging, and on a serious mission to help all of us improve our assessment and treatment strategies. Our conversation here at CBJ is loaded with take-home messages for every level of autism interest.

Parents and Family: Tune in here for his Autism Global Summit, for parents and concerned family about the evolution of mind science.

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Dr. Woeller Reports On Autism Markers

* My practice for over 20 years, & my first reference point: The Rain Man

* Teaching experience, & just recently launched training programs at Autism Recovery System  

* All of these multi-system dysfunctions directly affect the brain

* Thinking about autism markers is limited by a “camp” set of perceptions

* The key point is that autism can be helped

* The importance of a healthy gut

* The toxic effect of impaired gut physiology and Candida

* The relevance on OATS testing of Clostridia bacteria

* Sponsor Notes: The Berry Robinson Center & Direct Health Access Laboratory

* The relevant interface between OATS and IgG testing

* My testing priorities in sequence

* The relevance of testing for environmental toxins – GPL-TOX

* My Four Pillar Approach to working with every autistic child

* Dr. Seneff agrees on glyphosate relevance even involving IgG

Bioengineering Takes Tragic Handicaps Out Of The Darkness

139 Adam Piore – author of The Body Builders: Inside the Science of The Engineered Human – chronicles the ways new technology has retooled our physical expectations and mental processes. Piore visits people who have regrown parts of their fingers and legs in the wake of terrible traumas, tries on a muscle suit that allows him to lift ninety pounds with his fingertips, dips into the race to create “Viagra for the brain,” and shadows the doctors trying to give mute patients the ability to communicate telepathically. Fasten your seatbelts for a dizzying trip into fresh mind and body regions.

Bioengineering activities address far more than just getting around with minimal support. Here Adam discusses his profound experiences with those who thought they would remain crippled and broken forever.

Prosthetic Connections

Do you know someone who suffers from the challenges of physical trauma, who lost a limb? This fresh perspective offers evolved bioengineering diagnostic and treatment options, and in this CBJ Episode takes recovery choices beyond simple prosthesis into the unexpected land of improved performance.

References

* To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists        Solving the Modest Problem of Death February 28,  2017, by Mark O’Connell – Amazon Global Link

* Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves, by George M. Church, & Ed Regis – Amazon Global Link

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Connections Matter: Headache Pain, Migraines & Tinnitus

Often Arise From Dental Malocclusion

Dr. Ron Rosenthal – Here Rosenthal weighs in on multiple biomedical pain and mind connections with migraines. With degrees in dentistry, biology, education, and a Fellowship in the Academy of General Dentistry, he left Eastern Virginia’s tidewater for the hills of Kentucky, where he taught at the dental school there. He’s a geographic neighbor now back in Hampton Roads, VA, is retired, and, as you will soon see, deeply opinionated about specific dental challenges that directly affect brain function through unrelenting head pains. Until our interview, however, we had never previously met.

Know someone who suffers from migraines, headaches, or tinnitus? This fresh perspective offers evolved diagnostic and treatment options, not on the traditional headache radar.

Treatment Failure & Migraines

During his teaching tenure, he became a co-director of the division of occlusion. That’s the track where they teach details about headaches, migraines, and closely associated tinnitus. After appointment as the director of the Treatment Planning Division, he began to understand these connections more completely. Dr. Rosenthal brings years of experience to one of the most commonly missed contributory conditions that create migraine pain: dental challenges.

Yes, you read that correctly. Small dental misalignments are measured and corrected in challenges that arise in less than a millimeter of dental enamel. Ron tells us how he’s worked this out for many stuck in years with dramatic pain and tinnitus.

Why Discuss Migraines And Tinnitus?

In a word, these several conditions often arise from previously unknown connections. Tinnitus is often directly linked to migraines and headache pain, and far too often these dots, those crossroads, exist in a disconnected, under-appreciated but imperative, biomedical reality. In this CBJ/138 Dr. Rosenthal discusses multiple connections, he’s personally witnessed and successfully treated over the years.

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Questions

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Copper and Kryptopyrrole Details For Treatment Failure – 2

From The CBJ Walsh Molecular Series: 2 of 4 

A common problem in ADHD, behavior disorders, and hormonal depression is a genetic inability to control copper, zinc, manganese, and other trace metals in the body due to improper functioning of the metallothionine protein.  These patients are often deficient in trace metals, amino acids, and Vitamin B-6 and overloaded in others.  They must avoid supplements and “enriched” foods containing copper..

~ William Walsh

This Copper & Kryptopyrrole Walsh Molecular Series Republished

Dr. Walsh Digs Deeper

Dr. Bill Walsh describes in useful detail during this Episode from one of the three top downloads at CBJ [this is a republication [2] of the CBJ/034 download] that numbers now in the thousands.  We think copper and kryptopyrrole imbalances bear repeating for all the new listeners not only because of their documented listening track record here but because they remain so overlooked and so frequently causal in treatment failure globally.

In this Episode he clarifies how easy, cost-effective measurement and correction of unbalanced copper and kryptopyrrole levels caused by, for example, combat stress can significantly add to depression, even psychosis, and fans the flames of substance abuse. Just remember, psych meds don’t touch these underlying measurable biomedical imbalances.

Think: molecular physiology arrives at the street level. Yes, this data is available in the urban landscape of Birdsnest, Virginia on the Eastern Shore.

PTSD,  TBI, PMS, and estrogen dominance are all often associated with these biomedical findings – all of these can become amplified, measurable and correctable. Accurate measures must become a part of every future stress-recovery process. If you don’t measure and treat it, it will not respond to psychiatric medications.

Your Homework If You Haven’t Prepared

* Methylation – CBJ/025 Published – Start At This Link

* Copper & Kryptopyrrole – CBJ/034 Published First At This Link – No need to go back.

* Schizophrenia & Bipolar – CBJ/042 Published

* Coming Soon – CBJ: Walsh on Autism

Copper [Cu] Overview: 

“Copper-overloaded depressives usually report that serotonin-enhancing antidepressants provide an improvement in moods, but they worsen anxiety. Benzodiazepines such as Klonopin and Xanax can be effective in reducing anxiety but are reported to have little effect on depression for this biotype. High-copper females are usually intolerant of birth control pills or hormone replacement therapy since these treatments increase copper levels in the blood. [96% of this biotype are women.]”[1]

Consider chronic fatigue [CFS], terrible PMS with PMDD, and pervasive irritation with profound anxiety down to the marrow of your bones. 

Walsh Kryptopyrrole [Kp] Overview:

“Pyrrole disorder typically involves high anxiety, poor behavioral control, a reading disorder, impaired immune function, and other troubling symptoms. We observe severe pyrrole levels in persons diagnosed with violent behaviors, depression, schizophrenia, and other serious mental disorders.

A significant number of

Unstuck Reports: Celebrity Anxiety And Depression

Life is in the striving, not the arriving.

~ Seth Swirsky

Seth Swirsky is a consultant/coach for media professionals in Beverly Hills, CA. His experience on several levels dealing with celebrity anxiety addresses specific challenges for all of us.

A New Haven, Connecticut native, Seth is a self-described “manic expressive,” an American pop music songwriter (including the Grammy-nominated “Tell It To My Heart”), an author, a recording artist, a filmmaker, a political writer and a noted baseball memorabilia collector.

Listen to hear brief remarks about the artists who performed his songs. He’s been there. Seth may already be on your radar if you love pop music. He wrote the #1 smash hit song Tell It To My Heart for Taylor Dayne amongst many other hits for the likes of Smokey Robinson, Celine Dion, Al Green and Olivia Newton-John. Baseball lovers may have read one or all of Seth’s three bestselling books, Baseball Letters, Every Pitcher Tells A Story or Something to Write Home About.

In addition to baseball, Swirsky is also a huge fan of The Beatles. His full-length documentary, Beatles Stories, was chosen as an Official Selection at the 2011 European Independent Film Festival – considered the Sundance of Europe – and had its world premiere in Paris, France on April 3, 2011.

This award was followed by premiering in several notable festivals throughout the country. Beatles Stories was nominated for Best Score for an Indie Film or Documentary at the 2013 Hollywood Music and Media Awards.

Seth’s Anxiety Conquered – Strategy & Tactics

Seth is a delightful person with street experience from his own conflicts with celebrity anxiety. This Episode is a Must Listen for many reasons – not the least of which is Seth’s warm good humor and can-do, get-it-done, yet humble and engaging personality. He’s a celebrity who manages the different realities of celebrity self-management from fresh perspectives.

Seth’s Book and Perspective

Now Swirsky brings his artistry to the psychology field with his unique new self-help book, 21 Ways to a Happier Depression: A Creative Guide to Getting Unstuck from Anxiety, Setbacks, and Stress,

His earthy, engaging observations connect with useful mindset options at the street level beyond the hallowed halls of celebrity detachment.

Designed originally as a coffee table art book, 21 Ways offers simple and easily doable ideas for anyone struggling with anxiety and depression. Written in a breezy, conversational style [quite obvious in our conversation], the book is filled with 24 original watercolor pictures by the American artist, Kirsten Tradowsky. Not a linear chapter book or workbook, readers can open to any page at any time for a new idea to help take down their stress level. It’s an invigorated, unorthodox opportunity for an instant Reality Reframe.

Seth wrote 21 Ways to change your mind.

Swirsky, a Dartmouth College graduate with a Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology and a thriving Beverly Hills practice says, “I wanted to make this book feel like it’s your friend — that, whenever you needed help, it is always there for you.”

Swirsky developed these 21 suggestions for alleviating stress because he struggled with panic attacks for many years. The simple tried and true remedies he outlines in the book — which provides applicable self-management for feelings of depression as well — are the same ones he utilized to help himself and his many patients over the years

Seth’s Comments On His Mindset Tools

* I grew up loving music and had jingles on national TV in college

* Out of the clear blue in the context of great successes anxiety hit me har...

Molecular Insights: Nigeria Evolves Mind Care

135 Dr. David Ajibade is an interesting guest reporting on biomedical testing and associated medical implications as Nigeria evolves the practice of biomedical measurements for mental health. He is the Executive Director and founder of Brain and Body Solutions, Ltd., an integrated health center there, and Brain and Body Foundation, a Nigerian organization focused on educating the general public on brain health related matters. He focuses on providing safe, effective breakthrough technologies to alleviate the suffering of children and adults troubled with brain related medical conditions. He has a special interest in children born with multiple medical challenges in Nigeria.

Our Meeting With Dr. Walsh And Walsh Medical Providers 

For the record, I met David at a Walsh Institue training program near Chicago in 2015 and found his enthusiasm and deep interest in molecular physiology inspirational as he regularly considered the process of translating Walsh work back to the Nigerian medical community.

His Experience

Dr. Ajibade received his medical degree from the University of Ibadan and worked in the Radiotherapy and Oncology (cancer) Department at the National Hospital in his hometown Abuja before leaving for the United States to pursue a complete study of mental health issues, medicine and the process of evolving the standard of care. He returned from additional training in the US to serve as a Consultant to the Nigerian Army on mental health related issues, including PTSD, depression, and substance abuse.

He has devoted the last twenty years of his life to studying how the human mind and body work together, with a focus on understanding how to optimize their interactive dynamics to improve mental health and informed recovery. He has also had a keen interest in identifying and studying some of the most researched and most critically acclaimed discoveries in medical science, especially in the fields of brain function and cancer.

Support For Nigerian Health Systems

Here David also reports more details on his non-profit work with the Brain and Body Foundation as Nigeria evolves its care of children with developmental challenges.

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Links For Dr. Ajibade

* The non-profit Brain and Body Foundation – Provides relief for children suffering from the tragic consequences of brain damage or mal-development beginning in Abuja, Nigeria and extending to other African countries. The foundation raises public awareness about the reality and causes of brain disorders, the burden they impose on society, and the evidence-based solutions available, in order to encourage government and private institutions to join the campaign to promote brain health nationwide. The clinical results seen from these projects are now being published in peer reviewed journals.

* Brain and Body Solutions in Nigeria

* Dr. Ajibade – LinkedIn

* His Twitter Link

* Twitter for the Brain and Body Foundation

Prior CBJ Interviews On Similar Topics

* Dr. Walsh on Methylation – CBJ/025

* Dr. Walsh on Copper and Kryptopyrrole – CBJ/034

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Profound Insights On Glyphosate, Mind Science & Culture

Ed note: This CBJ Episode 134 is delayed on publication due to some background tech issues. I’m resending it out ‘raw’ now [1-19] while correcting the CBJ site issues. Our direct discussion links coming soon for this outstanding interview with a global thought leader on the evolved understanding of the biomedical interface with glyphosate toxins that permeate everyday life.

Dr. Stephanie Seneff is a Senior Research Scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. She received the B.S. degree in Biophysics in 1968, the M.S. and E.E. degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1980, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1985, all from MIT. In this CBJ Episode, she details profound contributions to today’s health care crisis.

For over three decades, her research interests have always been at the intersection of biology and computation: developing a computational model for the human auditory system, and an understanding human language so as to develop algorithms and systems for human computer interactions, as well as applying natural language processing (NLP) techniques to gene predictions.

Seneff Reports

She has published over 170 refereed articles on these subjects and has presented keynote speeches at several international conferences. She has also supervised numerous Masters and Ph.D. theses at MIT. In 2012, Dr. Seneff was elected Fellow of the International Speech and Communication Association (ISCA).In recent years, Dr. Seneff has focused her research interests back towards biology.

Dr. Seneff’s Focus on Glyphosate Ubiquity

In recent years, Dr. Seneff has focused her research interests back towards biology. Today she concentrates mainly on the relationship between nutrition and health. Her recent work on the ubiquity of neurotoxic effects from glyphosate provides specific references for the profound relevance of agricultural practices that directly contribute to today’s health care crisis.

Since 2011, she has published over two dozen papers in various medical and health-related journals on topics such as modern-day diseases (e.g., Alzheimer’s, autism, cardiovascular diseases), analysis and search of databases of drug side effects using NLP techniques, and the impact of nutritional deficiencies and associated glyphosate toxicity. Must listen.

Coming Soon: Dr. Seneff’s Comments Linked Here at CBJ/134

* I started with an interest in autism many years ago 

* I was searching and striking out with aluminum, lead  and vaccines

* Glyphosate substitutes for glycine

* All of these diseases are going up exponentially

* The core relationship & specific foods that suffer from the connections between GMO modification and Roundup

* The likely connection between IgG, Glyphosate and food sensitivities

* Glycine palindrome sequencing and specific brain ‘diseases’ Mad Cow and Alzheimer’s

* Glyphosate, neurotransmitters, thyroid, and melatonin aberrations via the shikimate pathway

* It also significantly disturbs mineral pathways through chelation

* Details on manganese deficiency, sulphur and methylation challenges re: autism 

* Autism, sulfate, glutamate and the leaky blood-brain barrier

* Our epidemic of inflammation and sulfate dysregulations create additional challenges associated with autoimmunity

AutoImmunity, Immunity, & Mast Cell Activation Syndrome [MCAS]

Occam’s Razor & Treatment Failure – 2

Dr. Lawrence Afrin 

It’s important to understand that [Occam’s] Razor doesn’t say the simpler of two explanations is the more likely, nor does it say that the more popular, more widely believed, or easier to understand explanation is the more likely. It doesn’t even say that one explanation is necessarily more likely than two or more. All it says is that if one explanation can account for at least as much of the observed truth of a situation as two or more explanations, then it’s more likely that the one explanation is closer to the true explanation than the two or more explanations.[1]

~ Lawrence Afrin

The great thing about science is that it’s true whether you believe in it or not.

~ Neil deGrasse Tyson

Coalescent Thinking For Chronic Treatment Failure

133 Dr. Lawrence Afrin – This CBJ/133 episode takes on the issue of the pervasive, yet often under-recognized, medical mystery of Mast Cell Activation Syndrome, it’s crippling, life-threatening effect, and it’s absolute relevance in the evolution of understanding important immunity nuances of mind science. 

Ed Note: Yes, this is a republish [2] of the second most popular Episode download here at CBJ after more than a year of reports from more than 100 thought-provoking neuroscience consultants and patients. MCAS with Dr. Afrin bears repeating for our growing international list, with many new global listeners since then. We first published this piece in July ’16 at CBJ/028. [It’s second in total download numbers to Dr. Bill Walsh on Methylation at CBJ/025. We welcome our increasingly informed audience – note that these two apparently arcane topics present as the most frequent downloads.]

Dr. Afrin is charming, refreshingly articulate and passionate about his work as one of the leading authorities in the world [my perception, not his PR] on this exceedingly complex condition. You may not understand some of our conversation – as you will hear me also asking for clarifications – but this episode is an absolute must for anyone with a complex untreatable biomedical condition.

MCAS should be on everyone’s radar. Listen up as MCAS effects and estimated 10% of the general population – and directly affects the brain, with both mood and cognition conditions. It’s where the rubber often meets the rocky immunity road.

Report From The Front: Jennifer’s Mast Cell Activation Syndrome Story 

Jennifer’s story points to several clinical issues:

“Consider your life. – Now consider how your life might change if things like loud noise, heat, strong emotions or stress, odors or even being startled could cause you to have an allergic reaction. Imagine suffering allergic reactions so frequently that you prayed for just 30 seconds of real relief each day. Imagine dreading the next response, because it may bring vomiting and diarrhea, convulsions, unresponsiveness or even paralysis-like symptoms.”

Jennifer Robin, first diagnosed with mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS)[2] in 2014, faced these challenges daily until she received treatment in 2015 from the University of Minnesota Health Hematologist/Oncologist Lawrence Afrin, MD, an internationally respected expert on MCAS.

‘The disease can be a life-ruiner. I was unable to work,