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113-References for AK taste testing methods, LSD, Muscle soreness, Coordination exercises.

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Hi Everyone, 
Here is this weeks collection of references.  I had many requests for the Science Journal article that began the method of AK taste testing.  I said that it was a 1976 article but when retrieving it I found it to be a 1969 article.  Here is the link for it and it is a FREE DOWNLOAD.  Enjoy this relic of history.  It certainly inspired Dr. Goodheart and helped validate his observations and memory of oesophageal injuries of children requiring bypasses after drinking lye.  I will try to find these references for a future issue.  Dr. Goodheart used to describe how these children were given food to chew, then the bolus was inserted in their stomach so they could thrive during the preparation for their surgery.  I am always amazed at how broad Dr. Goodheart's reference access was as he formed his methods.  I know that many doctors sent him material that they found, but the global perspective he had for observing and implementing information set a trend that we all should follow.  Never be satisfied that you think you know everything.  Adding this information to the other references I have included during the past year relating to buccal absorption, sublingual absorption and taste receptor pathways should provide a collection of information supporting the theory of nutrition and food testing and the anatomical pathways and the physiology  that we use in our work. Of course, research for reliability and outcome validity of this method we use clinically still needs more funding and work.  I was also sad to see this week, that 1 in 8  to 1 in 4 Americans have to use food stamps to feed themselves and families.    Donald
 





1.  Patients and Doctors writing their case together for publication?   Here is the design for a new journal that may add to the collection of AK data.  Read the experience of this journal editor.  :   .  Free Download.  Thanks to Dr. Cuthbert for this link. Back to TOC

2. Here is a British Army film clip of an experiment with LSD on their soldiers .   .  It reminds me of the film "Jacob's Ladder" based on the story of a chiropractor helping soldiers recovering from Vietnam drug experiments.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xyG3qjASLo  , http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099871/trivia  Back to TOC

3. Muscle soreness means performance decrease . "Practical applications of this research are that resistance training may be continued after eccentric damage; however, a minor delay in the onset of recovery may occur depending on training modes. Muscle soreness is a good indicator of performance decrement during dynamic movements following eccentric damage."   Back to TOC

4. Coordination exercises create better performance in soccer players.  "In practice, to induce higher attentional control and executive function in open skill sport athletes and to better prepare players to cope with the demands of their match, coaches should modulate complex motor behaviors with increasing velocity of execution and are strongly recommended to make use of technical and tactical drills that focus on the player's agility under time pressure to induce higher attentional control and executive function."   Back to TOC 

5. Dehydration decreases pacing ability during competition. "Differences between the fastest and slowest loops between trials demonstrated an increased ability for hydrated individuals to evenly pace themselves. While total variation from the mean pace was not significantly different, it could have practical applicability. These findings reveal that dehydration is associated with decreases in a runners' ability to evenly pace themselves during a competitive situation. Back to TOC 


6. Electrical muscle stimulation lowers blood lactate after exercise better than resting .  "electrical muscle stimulation also reduced blood lactate 20 minutes postexercise significantly better than resting passive recovery. Electrical muscle stimulation shows promise as an alternate recovery treatment for the purpose of lowering blood lactate."  Back to TOC

7. Anaerobic waterbased exercise increases salivary testosterone more than aerobic exercise.   "Water-based exercise with emphasis on strength development was found to stimulate a more acute increase on salivary testosterone than water-based aerobic exercise, probably as a result of the higher intensity used in that training protocol. Given the known relationship between acute hormonal responses and chronic neuromuscular adaptations, the testosterone response after W19 should be considered when prescribing water-based exercise, especially to older populations."  Back to TOC

8. Dynamic Muscular Stabilization Technique strengthens muscles better than conventional physical therapy .  "No major adverse effects were recorded in any of the patients in either group. This study concluded that for early recovery, DMST is more suitable than conventional treatment."   Back to TOC

9. The Gluteus Medius strengthens better with exercise on an unstable surface . "The results, however, suggest that if the goal is to increase the challenge to the gluteus medius, dynamic, single limb exercises performed on unstable surfaces, such as a balance cushion, may place greater demands on the gluteus medius than similar exercises performed on stable surfaces."   Back to TOC

10. Depression kills you but Anxiety helps you . "The study also shows that patients with depression face an overall increased risk of mortality, while a combination of depression and anxiety in patients lowers mortality compared with depression alone. Dr Stewart explains: 'One of the main messages from this research is that 'a little anxiety may be good for you'."   Back to TOC

11. Homeopathy and ethics .  "Experts have described the practice of prescribing homoeopathic medicines on the NHS as unethical, unreliable, and pointless.  Several witnesses giving evidence to MPs on the parliamentary science and technology committee on 25 November questioned the wisdom of giving such remedies to patients in an NHS setting.  The committee was holding a one-off evidence session on homoeopathy as part of an investigation of the scientific evidence that underpins the government’s existing policies."   :  Back to TOC

12. Tyrosine phosphatase builds brain synapses .  " Lim et al. investigated the biological functions of the brain-specific protein tyrosine phosphatase receptor–type T (PTPRT). Hippocampal neurons overexpressing wild-type PTPRT (WT-RT) showed increased numbers of dendritic spines, excitatory synapses, and inhibitory synapses compared with those expressing a control plasmid. Conversely, knockdown of PTPRT by small interfering RNA (siRNA) in neurons reduced spine density and synapse formation."  Back to TOC


14. Neck flexor and extensor muscle weakness may be a sign of respiratory problems . "According to the results, chronic neck patients presented with a statistically significant decreased maximal voluntary ventilation (P = 0.042) and respiratory muscle strength (Pimax and Pemax), (P = 0.001 and P = 0.002, respectively). Furthermore, the current study demonstrated a strong association between an increased forward head posture and decreased respiratory muscle strength in neck pateits. The connection of neck pain and respiratory function could be an important consideration in relation to patient assessment, rehabilitation and consumption of pharmacological agents."   The medical review of this paper is dismissive, arguing that vital capacity measurement is all the clinician has to evaluate the patients when this study describes it as having a low sensitivity.  "The authors argue that vital capacity is a less sensitive measurement, but that is what we use when evaluating respiration in potential respiratory failure.  The anterior scalene and trapezius are indeed active in normal respiration (the latter only at extremes), but proof of weakness of neck flexors or extensors requires fairly sophisticated tests. The practicing clinician never finds neck weakness on examination except in serious neuromuscular disease. I don't think we need to worry about respiratory compromise in patients with sore necks!"  http://neurology.jwatch.org/cgi/content/full/2009/1201/7?q=etoc_jwneuro  Back to TOC


15. Peer to peer sharing spurs scientific innovation .  The ICAK is a great example of this process from a clinical perspective.  We have so many professions doing their best to share their observations.  Here is a link to a scientist's comments.  Elias A. Zerhouni is the Chief Scientific Advisor of Science Translational Medicine at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, DC; senior advisor for Johns Hopkins Medicine; a senior fellow at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA; and the immediate past director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health. E-mail:  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .  the legal community must revamp intellectual property (IP) policies that unduly limit the “freedom-to-operate” space for breakthrough innovation, because unwieldy negotiations among a plethora of interested parties (from university technology transfer offices to industrial players) have become too onerous. Innovation in IP such as the patent pooling and royalty sharing that occur in other industries may be as critical as biological innovation itself if scientists are to succeed in improving health care in the long term. As pointed out by Munos and Chin, complex problems are often best resolved by an open-network approach with inherent knowledge-sharing mechanisms, rather than by the closed-shop approach of the past. Their vision is right.":  Back to TOC


17. There is one prescription to treat a dozen diseases .  Here it is.  "What if there was one prescription that could prevent and treat dozens of diseases, such as diabetes, hypertension, and obesity? Would you prescribe it to your patients? Certainly!  We would like to introduce you to Exercise is Medicine™, an initiative launched by the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and the American Medical Association (AMA). Guiding principles for the program have been designed to help improve the health and well-being of our nation through a regular physical activity prescription from doctors and other healthcare providers. They are as follows:
  • Exercise and physical activity are important to health and the prevention and treatment of many chronic diseases;
  • More should be done to address physical activity and exercise in healthcare settings and
  • Encouragement of ACSM's effort to bring a greater focus on physical activity and exercise in healthcare settings.
To encourage your patients to engage in physical activity, the Exercise is Medicine™ initiative has developed aPre-Participation Checklist. It takes only a few minutes for them to fill out. If they answer "yes" to any of the items, they need a medical opinion about the type of exercise that is safe and appropriate for them before they start a program."  : Back to TOC



20. Managing Nausea and Vomiting in pregnancy .  Here is an EBM overview.  Back to TOC

21. Do you yell at your staff.  NOT a good idea .  It can be an expensive and time consuming folly. Back to TOC

22. How to create a Facebook business page .  Here is the A-Z for do it yourselfers.:   Back to TOC

23. Orthopedics and Ophthalmology have the most WRONG operations .  "Ophthalmology and orthopedic surgery have the highest rates of incorrect procedures within the operating room, and invasive radiology has the highest incidence outside the operating room, according to a report in the November Archives of Surgery.":  
Electronic records may not save costs. "New electronic record systems installed in thousands of U.S. hospitals have done little to rein in skyrocketing healthcare costs, Harvard University researchers said in a study released on Friday.
A review of roughly 4,000 hospitals from 2003 to 2007 found that while many had moved away from the paper files that still dominate the U.S. healthcare system, administrative costs actually rose, even among the most high-tech institutions."   Back to TOC

24. How to avoid the flu .  Thank you to Dr. Michelle Nielsen for creating this lecture.  Back to TOC

25. Direct Pathway to the Brain for taste testing . This is the Science journal article that started the AK taste testing hypothesis.  It is a free download.  "Whole-body autoradiographic stuidies demonstrated that, when isotopically labeled glucose is placed in the ligated oropharynx, there is a rapid movement of the isotope directly to the intracranial cavity. This passage involves nonspecific diflision, bypassing all recognized rouctes to the brain."   Back to TOC

26. Telling your kids to exercise to lose weight doesn't work . "Parental encouragement of PA for weight loss was therefore not an effective strategy in this sample. Findings are consistent with research on parental child feeding practices, where parental control has been linked with unintended negative dietary and psychosocial outcomes among children."  Back to TOC


28. Osteopathic manipulation helps pain below the shoulder blade .  "Notalgia paresthetica is a chronic sensory neuropathy characterized by pruritus of the upper to middle back, typically below the left shoulder blade. Symptoms may include pain, hyperesthesia, paresthesia, and hyperpigmentation of the affected area. Although the etiologic process of this condition is poorly understood, recent correlations with degenerative spinal changes suggest that spinal nerve impingement may play a role. The authors report the case of a 59-year-old woman with notalgia paresthetica whoreceived one 20-minute session of osteopathic manipulative treatment that focused primarily on thoracic spine and rib somatic dysfunctions. After treatment, the patient reported immediate improvement of symptoms. A discussion of this condition based on previously published literature is also provided."   Back to TOC

29. Americans are starving .  "With food stamp use at record highs and climbing every month, a program once scorned as a failed welfare scheme now helps feed one in eight Americans and one in four children.  It has grown so rapidly in places so diverse that it is becoming nearly as ordinary as the groceries it buys. More than 36 million people use inconspicuous plastic cards for staples like milk, bread and cheese, swiping them at counters in blighted cities and in suburbs pocked with foreclosure signs."  Back to TOC

30. Magnetic and copper bracelets fail to show benefit.  "No difference was observed between devices in terms of their effects on pain as measured by the primary outcome measure (WOMAC A), the PRI and the VAS. Similar results were obtained for stiffness (WOMAC B), physical function (WOMAC C), and medication use. Further analyses of the PRI subscales revealed a statistically significant difference between devices (P = 0.025), which favoured the experimental device. Participants reported lower sensory pain after wearing the standard magnetic wrist strap, than when wearing control devices. However, no adjustment was made for multiple testing.  Our results indicate that magnetic and copper bracelets are generally ineffective for managing pain, stiffness and physical function in osteoarthritis. Reported therapeutic benefits are most likely attributable to non-specific placebo effects. However such devices have no major adverse effects and may provide hope."   Back to TOC

31. Where you live effects your stress.   "The results identify and describe eight perceived sensory dimensions. People in general prefer the dimension Serene, followed by Space, Nature, Rich in Species, Refuge, Culture, Prospect and Social. The dimensions Refuge and Nature are most strongly correlated with stress, indicating a need to find the most restorative environments. A combination of Refuge, Nature and Rich in Species, and a low or no presence of Social, could be interpreted as the most restorative environment for stressed individuals.  From a city planning perspective, the results indicate how urban green spaces can be viewed as elements of importance to public mental health. However, before the dimensions can be used by practitioners as tools to promote health through city planning, more research is needed."  Back to TOC

32. The reverse psychology of vaccine adjuvants . "Adjuvants are widely used in European flu vaccines as well as in Canada. But not in the United States -- even though the federal government has spent nearly $700 million buying them.

The reason -- people might not trust them.  "If we really do want pregnant women to trust this vaccine or even parents, we have to think about what is acceptable to them," Dr. Anne Schuchat of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in an interview.  "We have so much vaccine hesitancy in this country," agreed Jeff Levi of the non-profit Trust For America's Health. "To add...a new element could well have undermined the efficacy of this campaign," Levi told a hearing this week before a Congressional subcommittee."   Back to TOC


33. Helping balance and vertigo with canalith repositioning .   I have used this method for a few years now with great success.  For AK doctors, you may also have to correct other proprioceptive problems with spinal reflexes and lower leg muscles. "All patients were diagnosed as having posterior SCC BPPV. Eight patients described immediate relief of their vertigo following the first maneuver. Ten days later 16 patients (61.5%) showed complete relief from vertigo. The Epley maneuver was repeated in five patients who showed moderate improvement with the first maneuver. Five patients with little or no improvement following the Epley maneuver undertook the Semont maneuver (liberatory maneuver): complete relief from vertigo was found in two. Patients were followed up during 3 months. No recurrence was observed in any patients during the study period. After 3 months, six patients still had the symptoms of BPPV but to a lesser degree.  Our results indicate that BPPV can be diagnosed easily and treated using a simple maneuver. On the basis of patient history and the Dix–Hallpike test it seems to be unnecessary to perform other diagnostic examinations routinely before trying CRM. Diagnosis and appropriate therapy is important for the prevention of further complications."  Back to TOC


34. A report of a cure for MS that may further help your patients .  "An Italian doctor has been getting dramatic results with a new type of treatment for Multiple Sclerosis, or MS, which affects up to 2.5 million people worldwide. In an initial study, Dr. Paolo Zamboni took 65 patients with relapsing-remitting MS, performed a simple operation to unblock restricted bloodflow out of the brain - and two years after the surgery, 73% of the patients had no symptoms. Dr. Zamboni's thinking could turn the current understanding of MS on its head, and offer many sufferers a complete cure.  He formed a hypothesis on how this could lead to MS: iron builds up in the brain, blocking and damaging these crucial blood vessels. As the vessels rupture, they allow both the iron itself, and immune cells from the bloodstream, to cross the blood-brain barrier into the cerebro-spinal fluid. Once the immune cells have direct access to the immune system, they begin to attack the myelin sheathing of the cerebral nerves - Multiple Sclerosis develops."   .  Here is the research reference . FREE DOWNLOAD:  Back to TOC


35. How research studies can be biased .  "We identified 12 cohort studies that followed up research from inception, four that included trials submitted to a regulatory authority, 28 that assessed the fate of studies presented as conference abstracts, and four cohort studies that followed manuscripts submitted to journals. The pooled odds ratio of publication of studies with positive results, compared to those without positive results (publication bias) was 2.78 (95% CI: 2.10 to 3.69) in cohorts that followed from inception, 5.00 (95% CI: 2.01 to 12.45) in trials submitted to regulatory authority, 1.70 (95% CI: 1.44 to 2.02) in abstract cohorts, and 1.06 (95% CI: 0.80 to 1.39) in cohorts of manuscripts. Dissemination of research findings is likely to be a biased process. Publication bias appears to occur early, mainly before the presentation of findings at conferences or submission of manuscripts to journals."  FREE DOWNLOAD  Back to TOC

36. Arch supports may help knee osteoarthritis .  "There was a significant main effect for condition, whereby insoles significantly reduced the adduction moment (all p<0.001). However there was no significant main effect for time, nor was an interaction effect evident. No significant associations were observed between total insole use and change in gait parameters with used insoles at one month, nor was there a difference in effectiveness of insoles between high and low users of the insoles at this time. Conclusions Effects of laterally wedged insoles on the adduction moment do not appear to decline after one month of continuous use, suggesting that significant wedge degradation does not occur over the short-term."  FREE DOWNLOAD  Back to TOC

37. How gasoline fumes may cause aggressive behaviour . "The present results revealed that gasoline inhalation induced significant fluctuations in the levels of the monoamine neurotransmitters in the studied brain regions. This was concomitant with a decrease in Na+, K+-ATPase activity and total protein content. Moreover, the group exposed to the unleaded gasoline exhibited an increase in lipid peroxidation and a decrease in AChE and superoxide dismutase activities. These physiological impairments were accompanied with a higher tendency towards aggressive behaviour as a consequence to gasoline inhalation.  It is concluded from the present work that chronic exposure to either the leaded or the unleaded gasoline vapours impaired the levels of monoamine neurotransmitters and other biochemical parameters in different brain areas and modulated several behavioural aspects related to aggression in rats." FREE DOWNLOAD  Back to TOC

38. Foot arch problems change lower leg muscle activity .  "During contact phase, the flat-arched group exhibited increased activity of tibialis anterior (peak amplitude; 65 versus 46% of maximum voluntary isometric contraction) and decreased activity of peroneus longus (peak amplitude; 24 versus 37% of maximum voluntary isometric contraction). During midstance/propulsion, the flat-arched group exhibited increased activity of tibialis posterior (peak amplitude; 86 versus 60% of maximum voluntary isometric contraction) and decreased activity of peroneus longus (RMS amplitude; 25 versus 39% of maximum voluntary isometric contraction). Effect sizes for these significant findings ranged from 0.48 to 1.3, representing moderate to large differences in muscle activity between normal-arched and flat-arched feet.  Differences in muscle activity in people with flat-arched feet may reflect neuromuscular compensation to reduce overload of the medial longitudinal arch. Further research is required to determine whether these differences in muscle function are associated with injury."  FREE DOWNLOAD:  Back to TOC

39. Cornsilk extract may increase insulin and rebuild injured beta cells . This animal study shows good outcomes and is a FREE DOWNLOAD.  "Corn silk extract markedly reduced hyperglycemia in alloxan-induced diabetic mice. The action of corn silk extract on glycaemic metabolism is not via increasing glycogen and inhibiting gluconeogenesis but through increasing insulin level as well as recovering the injured beta-cells. The results suggest that corn silk extract may be used as a hypoglycemic food or medicine for hyperglycemic people in terms of this modern pharmacological study."   Back to TOC


40. Comments:

Hi Dr. McDowall:

Thank you so very much for your kind words about Prof Carrick's lecture in Australia! I am so pleased that you enjoyed the lecture and greatly appreciate you spreading the word about applied neurology to your fellow colleagues.

Happy Holidays,

Trish Merlin, Registrar

Thank you again for all the information you are making available!
And my grateful thanks for all you have done to help me,
which, of course, includes teaching me about Kinesiology!
Monica



Donald McDowall
DC, MAppSc, DNBCE, DIBAK, FACC
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