Posted on 09/03/2023 9:05:58 AM PDT by devane617
There is a clear need for a new approach to the treatment of cognitive loss in older adults that takes little effort but is highly effective and affordable (Swedish Council on Health Technology Assessments, 2008). Environmental enrichment has long been studied in rats and mice, which can be enriched by placing them in a large cage with conspecifics, a running wheel, and regularly changing physical elements, rather than their restrictive box cage (Kempermann, 2019). The enrichment stimulates neuroplasticity that improves their human-like neurological symptoms in more than two dozen animal models of human neurological disorders (Nithianantharajah and Hannan, 2009; Hannan, 2014; Kempermann, 2019). Environmental enrichment also has more specifically been shown to ameliorate the human-like cognitive decline in animal models of aging (Valero et al., 2011; Patel, 2012). In lab animals, enhanced visual (Iaccarino et al., 2016), auditory (Martorell et al., 2019; Jung et al., 2023), and mastication (de Siqueira Mendes et al., 2021) stimulation, facilitates memory as it does in human older adults (Leon and Woo, 2018; Chan et al., 2022).
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Good info.
I do remember a couple of firmer girlfriends.
No Meijer stores around here.
“There is a clear need for a new approach to the treatment of cognitive loss in older adults that takes little effort but is highly effective and affordable”
Try it out on Joe and let us see the results before we try it out on ourselves.
My favorite kind! Does bring back stimulating memories. Definitely keeps one young. At heart and in our imagination anyway.
Try T J Maxx...
Mine gets a real jolt when the farmer down the road sprays liquified cowshit on his fields.
I’m pretty certain it won’t work. I’ve tried using diluted hydrogen peroxide in an evaporative air cooler — which is the more effective next step beyond running air over a bowl of hydrogen peroxide. However, when I was reordering those evaporative air coolers that basically just soak up liquid into a filter paper or sponge, there is a noticeable cooling as well as purifying effect.
But when I tried the misting technology, there is a very significant upgrade in the effect — while these devices cost about the same as a cheap desktop fan — so why not get the added features of a nice light show, 3 speed fan, misting diffuser — with a rechargeable battery or it runs plugged into a USB. That’s a lot of features for only $10 — and you can take it anywhere with you — and a battery charge lasts a reasonably long time.
It’s a killer application — particularly for diluted H2O2. I got mine on ebay at this site. Delivery was fast. The hangup with H2O2 has always been the most effective administration. Misting in this way is a perfect solution. Apparently it is inexpensive to do it effectively.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/325719925159
Many thanks for the info. What is your dilution ratio?
1 part H2O2 to 50 parts water? How can that be very effective? (I passed chemistry with a B, but only because the final was multiple choice. Plus a lot of homework and prayers.)
You can diffuse straight 3% hydrogen peroxide right out of the bottle — but that may cause slight eye irritation, and so you can titrate until you find the right dilution that works for you.
I will admit that 1:50 is on the weaker end of the spectrum of effectiveness — but I notice at that weak dilution — mold and mildew doesn’t grow on my evaporative air cooler filters — which is a problem using straight tap water.
It’s a great opportunity to learn on your own by actually doing these experiments — and seeing if it works for you. But to say “right” or “wrong” because you got a B in chemistry doesn’t mean much. Most of the greatest discoveries in science and research were made accidentally, and not because one got an A in their subject matter and therefore knew all that there was to know.
That’s Fauci territory.
I went to Italy when I was young, and of course remembered the extraordinary visual experiences of the landscape and architecture. But when I returned twenty years later, one of the first things that struck me as I got off the plane was a powerful smell of Italian coffee, followed by many other memory-laden fragrances — the fruits and flowers grown in lava-rich soil and stacked hign on street vending stands, the wood-fired oven baked bread, the streets with centuries-old earth and mold packed between the paving stones, the aroma of the different European cigarettes, cosmetics and perfumes as you pass by in a crowd...
Certain smells takes me back to a place almost as vivid as it was in real-time. Amazing what a smell can accomplish.
I had to look it up.
The uncinate fasciculus is one of several long-range white matter association fibre tracts in the human brain. It connects orbitofrontal cortex to the anterior temporal lobes through a direct, bidirectional monosynaptic pathway.
Well, what if I don't want to connect my orbitofrontal cortex to my anterior temporal lobes through a direct, bidirectional monosynaptic pathway, huh? Dang preverts...
lol...
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