PTSD tied to metabolic syndrome

SAN DIEGO, Jan. 7 (UPI) -- Veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder are more likely to have a combination of medical disorders than other veterans, U.S. government researchers found.

The research, published Wednesday in the journal BMC Medicine, indicates a significant association between "metabolic syndrome" and PTSD.

Metabolic syndrome involves a combination of disorders, including obesity, high blood pressure and insulin resistance, that already had been shown to increase the risk of developing cardiovascular disease and diabetes.

Researchers from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the University of California, San Diego, found the syndrome also increases the risk of PSTD, an anxiety disorder that can develop after exposure to one or more terrifying events that threatened or caused grave physical harm.

After analyzing clinical data from 253 male and female veterans, they found that those with a higher severity of PTSD were also more likely to meet the diagnostic criteria for metabolic syndrome.

"Our findings suggest that metabolic syndrome provides a useful framework for assessing and describing the physical burden of PTSD and can be used prospectively to evaluate health risks that may be associated with combat exposure and PTSD," Pia Heppner of the Veterans Affairs of San Diego said.

If they would only realize that the memories are anchored in the afferent sensory neurons along the spine. The erector spinea muscles contract to block the emotional stimulus from being received by putting a tourniquet hold on the neuron. This muscle contraction compresses the vertebrae together causing the spinal nerve cell body head in the dorsal root ganglia to be compressed and the corresponding disc between the vertebrae (and the back pain).

The problem is that the sensory blocking mechanism also compresses the efferent neurons sending instructions to the visceral organs. This causes an increase in the intestinal discomfort and a corresponding decrease in the production of serotonin, which the body manufactures 80% to 90% in the enterochromaffin cells in the lining of the intestines.

The neurotransmitter serotonin inhibits the recall of emotional traumatic memories (this is how Prozac works) and thus the decreased levels allow the PTSD episode to manifest.

The consumption of carbohydrates increases the production of serotonin in the enterochromaffin cells, thus people eat to suppress emotions. Thus the beginning of the carb craving, weight gain emotional roller coaster.

If they would only realize exactly where the memories are stored it is relatively simple to decrease the emotional intensity attached to the memory and remove the negative stimulus to the cycle. I've done this many times with a high success rate.

I would if there were anything. I developed a simple technique a few years ago that provides a diagnostic analysis of a person's stored memories since birth without the person saying anything. It is accurate in detail to the point it scares people. The process totally bypasses the critical mind by not stimulating any of the five categories of sensory receptors. I work with a total stranger, no words are spoken, they are blindfolded or have their eyes closed and I do not touch them in any way. When I stimulate their stored memories, their physical body moves as though I am physically shoving them, even though I do not touch them. This happens even though I am 15 feet from the person. I can identify the major influential events in a person's life responsible for personality formulation. I can usually tell them how old they were when the event happened, who it involved, how they perceived it, where it is anchored in their body, and how they responded to the event. I look for the primary programming event where the belief pattern was formulated. It's pretty easy to decrease the emotional intensity attached to the memory. Many times when I stimulate an extremely emotional memory, either positive or negative, it knocks the person off their feet, very similar to a vestibular dysfunction.

I've been doing this for about fifteen years while I returned to the university to pick up a degree in psychology and then continued with courses and research in anatomy, physiology and neuroscience to understand the science behind what I could already do.

My original background was as a CPA and university professor, thus the logical bean counter mind in me had quite a problem dealing with this. I needed to understand the logic and science behind it. I read the human memory fields like x-rays read bones.

Karl Pribram at Stanford University was correct when he wrote his journal articles about the holographic storage of memories. I've attended the workshops and seminars of Eric Kandel of Columbia University (Nobel Prize winner on the Biology of Memory Storage) , Joe LeDoux of NYU who wrote the textbook on the neuroscience of memory. Their models are wrong. I did a demonstration for a few faculty members of the Harvard Medical School Mind/Body Institute (Now affiliated with Mass Gen. Hospital) and it really shocked them. What I do shakes the foundation of the neuroscientists as I demonstrate and prove what I say.

I did a presentation at Duke University in October and will be back there in February 2009 to do another. Hartford, CT in March..... many more scheduled. I did a presentation in the Naval Intelligence Building for a think tank a few years ago and they responded that the public is not ready to realize that their thoughts are not private. Their are many reasons why I held off sharing this until now. I just started sharing it with the public in 2008.

The proof is in the results. It does not utilize hypnosis of any other power of suggestion technique.

Memories are not stored in the physical body. They are merely anchored in the body. They are actually stored in very specvific patterns around the body.

The human brain does not function as a computer, but more as a radio transmitter and receiver, functioning at various frequencies.

All I do is hold my hand out and touch these memories, usually several feet from a person's physical body. When I touch the memory, the physical body responds as though I am pushing or pulling it over. The results are repeatable in a scientific controlled setting.

I never considered psychology as a science as the results were always biased by the subject's thoughts. This process bypasses the conscious mind and stimulates the subconscious mind by tripping the emotional aspect of the hologram.

It's much easier to demonstrate than it is to explain.

Extreme stress affects testosterone levels negatively and that will lead to metabolic syndrome, obesity and type 2 diabetes.

Very true. I'm currently working with a woman who has Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome where the result is an increase in androgenic hormones. It causes insulin resistance, diabetes, and obesity in about half of PCOS women. The pituitary gland does not produce the proper levels of FSH and LH to generate the cycling of the menstrual cycle. My work involves finding patterns of consciousness development that stimulate or suppress the pituitary gland. This is much harder than PTSD as the generating event appears to be stored in early childhood and harder to find. It's the same with MS. I've tested 7 MS patients now and found the same programming events in each one. One was an MD and several were health care workers. It's harder to test people in a wheelchair or walker.

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