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An Exciting New Paradigm In Health

An Exciting New Paradigm In Health

For plenty of years now, research involving stem cells has been all over the news headlines … for a nice reason.

According to the U.S. government’s National Institutes for Health (NIH), “Stem cells have the outstanding potential to create in to plenty of different cell types in the body. Serving as a kind of repair process for the body, they can theoretically divide without limit to replenish other cells as long as the person or animal is still alive. When a stem cell divides, each new cell has the potential to either stay a stem cell or become another type of cell with a more specialized function, such as a muscle cell, a red blood cell, or a brain cell.”

This revelation has opened up immense opportunities in the stem cell research arena, making a major frenzy among medical researchers. After all, the number of potential health benefits provided by cells that can become different types of cells when needed is only limited by the size of one’s imagination!
The use of embryonic stem cells is controversial on plenty of levels. But what most people don’t recognize is that in the coursework of recent years, the scientific community’s intense interest in the potential benefits of stem cells has led to plenty of fascinating discoveries in a closely related area – that of adult stem cell function.

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Emotion And Health for Heart Freedom

Emotion And Health for Heart Freedom

Healthy Emotions for Healthy Lives

A direct connection between your heart (emotion And feeling) And the remainder of your body affects your state of health. Neurobiologist Candace Pert And a team of researchers with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have identified “molecules of emotion.” Combinations of small bits of protein on the surface of cells form receptors, sensors that collect chemical information carried throughout your body by other molecules called ligands. Receptors And ligands are particular about the company they keep; to bind together they must be perfectly matched. Some ligands are natural to the body, such as peptides, neurotransmitters, And hormones; some are natural but foreign to the body, such as viruses; And others are artificial chemicals. When a ligand binds with a receptor (in what Pert calls “sex on a molecular level”)i information is deposited onto And in to the receptor in a biochemical exchange that has profound effects. If a receptor waiting for a natural body ligand is unoccupied, because emotional repression has reduced the supply of peptides, for example, an identical virus can dock And illness results.

According to Dr. Pert:

All emotions are healthy… Anger, fear, And sadness, the so-called negative emotions, are as healthy as peace, bravery, And joy. To repress these emotions And not let them flow freely is to set up a dis-integrity in the technique, causing it to act at cross-purposes than as a unified whole. The stress this creates, which takes the type of blockages And insufficient flow of peptide signals to maintain function at the cellular level, is what sets up the weakened conditions that can lead to illness.

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