Probiotics Change Brain Activity, Emotional Response

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'Researchers from UCLA’s Geffen School of Medicine have determined that consuming a milk fermented with probiotics changes the brain activity of women.

The UCLA medical researchers divided 36 healthy women into three groups. One group was given a milk fermented with probiotics twice a day. Another group was given a milk without the probiotics. The other group was given no milk product.

Before the study began the women underwent extensive brain MRI studies and brain activity tasking response analyses. Then the women consumed the probiotic or placebo milk for four weeks, followed by repeated testing.'

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Study: “Organic” Honey Found to Contain Monsanto’s Roundup Herbicide Glyphosate

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'A recent study  from Boston University and Abraxis LLC discovered troubling levels of glyphosate in honey – including “organic” honey. Glyphosate is the main ingredient in Monsanto’s toxic Roundup herbicide. The researchers tested five different types of food products for contamination: honey, corn and pancake syrup, soy milk, tofu, and soy sauce. All samples were taken from metropolitan  Philadelphia grocery stores. 

The most shocking results were found in honey.  Specifically, out of 69 samples, including 11 taken from organic honey, the researchers found: 62 percent of conventional honey and 45 percent of organic honey contained glyphosate at unsafe levels.'

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Meet the Doctors Who Are Speaking Out Against Dangerous Big Pharma Disinformation

 
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'His name is Dr. Jack Wolfson, a fully trained and certified cardiologist who eventually left Big Pharma and the AMA’s official standard of care interventions behind after seeing that both approaches usually worsened patients’ conditions or at best did nothing to resolve the issues creating heart disease.


His transformation was also influenced by his relationship to his wife, Heather, a chiropractor. Chiropractors are known for their holistic approaches including supplements, diet, and sometimes acupuncture. The whole field of chiropractics had to endure chronic attacks from the AMA, which kept labeling it dangerous until chiropractors won their case against the AMA for violating anti-trust (monopoly) law in the 1970s.'

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Mindfulness Is More Effective Than Drugs For Both Anxiety and Depression

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'Mindfulness is "the intentional, accepting and non-judgemental focus of one's attention on the emotions, thoughts and sensations occurring in the present moment", which can be trained by a large extent in meditational practices. The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published the results of a ground-breaking study that found that meditation appears to provide as much relief from some anxiety and depression symptoms as antidepressants.' 

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