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The Missing Piece of Medicine

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American Chronicle
By Terry Leder
August 26, 2008
“That missing piece of our complex human body is known and taught in grade schools as the body´s messengers, hormones. Hormones have not been completely ignored; there have been significant advances in this area of medicine as well. We have Endocrinologists to investigate and research how all of these substances […]

‘Circadian eye’ could be key to insomnia

Posted by Leslie

17:45 11 June 2008
NewScientist.com news service
Ewen Callaway
You might call it our circadian eye. A handful of retina cells sense light, not for vision, but instead to reset our body clocks each day. Killing off these cells in mice leaves their sight unharmed, but throws their clocks out of whack, two new studies show.
Jolting these […]

If Men Menstruated…

Posted by Leslie

If Men Menstruated…
What would happen if suddenly, magically, men could menstruate and women didn’t ?
The answer is clear: menstruation would become an enviable, boast-worthy, masculine event.
Note:
Based on an essay written by Gloria Steinem.
Ms Steinem’s essay originally appeared in the October 1978 issue of Ms. Magazine.

Boys would mark the onset of menses, that longed-for proof of […]

The Center Will Not Hold As Parents & Docs Question Vaccine Policy

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The Center Will Not Hold As Parents & Docs Question Vaccine Policy
by Barbara Loe Fisher
It was only a matter of time. For 26 years parents of vaccine injured children and a few brave doctors have challenged the one-size-fits-all approach to mandated use of multiple vaccines in the absence of sound scientific evidence that […]

Circadian Rhythms Dominate All Life Functions, According To Study

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Source: Public Library of Science
Date: June 18, 2007
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/06/070615075550.htm
 
Science Daily New research from Colorado State University shows that the function of all genes in mammals is based on circadian — or daily — rhythms. The study, refutes the current theory that only 10 percent to 15 percent of all genes were affected by nature’s clock. While […]

Circadian rhythms: SCN synchronicity…hup, two, three, four

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Research Highlight
Nature Reviews Neuroscience 7, 328 (May 2006) | doi:10.1038/nrn1913

Ruth Williams

It would be most inconvenient if your stomach thought it was time for breakfast while your eyelids thought it was bedtime. Luckily, neurons of the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), which control the internal circadian rhythm, spontaneously synchronize so that their target neurons in peripheral tissues receive […]

A Case for the Moon

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 © Ken Ring 2004
Reprinted with permission 
Predict Weather.com
The Home of Long Range Forecasting

We all know the Sun radiates heat to the ground and causes extensive evaporation from the oceans and rain forests to the puddles, yet there is no way the Sun can cause the evaporation to fall back to the Earth. Moreover, it can rain […]

Plants Don’t Lie

Posted by Leslie

Tuesday, March 14, 2006
21st Reality
Imagine a world without plants? The moon is such a place. It looks nice in the sky, but we wouldn’t want to live on it. Aristotle told us plants have souls, but cannot feel. The early 20th-century botanist Raoul France of Vienna told us plants move as freely and as gracefully […]

“Foes raise red flag against suppression of menstruation”

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Response to Pittsburgh Post Gazette Article
By Leslie Botha
June 25, 2003.
 
To the Health Editor
Cc: Karen Hoffmann
 
Ms. Hoffman’s article dated 6/24/03, “Foes raise red flag against suppression of menstruation”, raises grave concern amongst the growing number of women and men who have come to realize that the natural gift of menstruation is the foundation of women’s being […]

Perhaps there’s a Reason it’s called “Men”-opause

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WebMD News
8/3/02
Written By Jeannie Davis

When Kerry Bell hit his mid 40s, life just wasn’t acceptable any more. ‘There was this huge dissatisfaction. … I didn’t like the way my life was going.
Oct. 20, 2000 — When Kerry Bell hit his mid 40s, life just wasn’t acceptable any more. “There was this huge dissatisfaction. … I […]