Eileen Luders, assistant professor at the University of California Los Angeles Lab of Neuro Imaging, and colleagues have found that long-term meditators have [...]]]> India is known for Spicy food, Bollywood movies, and meditation. Leave it to the Times of India to report on a study done in California showing that meditation makes your brain smarter!

Eileen Luders, assistant professor at the University of California Los Angeles Lab of Neuro Imaging, and colleagues have found that long-term meditators have larger amounts of gyrification (folding of the cortex, which may allow the brain to act faster, with a host of benefits) than non-meditators.

Why would more folding of the cortex be beneficial? The cerebral cortex is the outermost layer of brain tissue, which plays a key role in memory, attention, thought and consciousness.

The more folding of the cortex, the more area of brain tissue you have. In simple terms you get more brain matter when you meditate. The more brain matter you have the more storage space you have to remember all those important details of your life. The more brain matter you have the more nerve connections you set up to think better ideas faster and with greater thoroughness

How did they figure this out? Researchers took MRI scans of 50 meditators, 28 men and 22 women and compared them to 50 non-meditators matched for age, handedness and sex. The scans for the second group were obtained from an existing MRI database, while the meditators were recruited from various meditation venues.

The meditators had practiced their craft on average for 20 years using a variety of meditation types — Samatha, Vipassana, Zen and more. The researchers applied a well-established and automated whole-brain approach to measure cortical gyrification at thousands of points across the surface of the brain.

They found pronounced group differences. Perhaps most interesting, though, was the positive correlation between the number of meditation years and the amount of gyrification.

Now you may be thinking, why bother? These meditators are so far ahead of me how can I catch up? Have you ever heard the expression, “Its’ never too late?”

That’s true for exercise. One study I just love got a bunch of 90 year old residents of a nursing home to start exercising. Within just a few weeks they were doing so much better some of them got rid of their wheelchairs. It was amazing to note that they were able to build muscle at the same rate as 20 year olds who started exercising.

Let’s apply the same theory to your brain. Meditation can take many forms. One Buddhist practice has you just pay as much attention as you can to the present moment. It’s called “calm abiding”. Practice it right now. As you read this health update be aware of the position of your body, of the air coming in and out of your nostrils, of your chest and belly gently expanding with every breath, and sinking with each out breath. There … you just spent a moment meditating.

Maybe you feel like you’re too stressed to meditate. Taoists promote a practice called “The Inner Smile”. I’ve modified “The Inner Smile” to empower you to transform stress into fuel to power your life and dreams. That simple and effective meditation is called “Smile Into Distress”. Sign-up here to get “Smile Into Distress” delivered to your inbox. This 15 minute exercise teaches you to use your stress as raw material, like compost for a garden, to revitalize your body mind spirit.

I’ve been practicing Taoist meditation for 30 years with Master Mantak Chia. Master Chia will be in the SF Bay area from May 11 through the 17th. Mantak Chia is called “Master” because he’s spent his entire life studying healing methods and meditation systems from both the West and East. Over the years he’s blended these techniques into a powerful school of healing and transformative work called “The Universal Tao”.

Master Chia has undertaken significant research to prove scientifically the benefits of these practices. Master Chia has also authored over 21 books on Taoism including Energy Balance through the Tao – Exercises for Cultivating Yin Energy, Taoist Ways to Transform Stress into Vitality and The Inner Structure of Tai Chi.

Master Chia is the director of the Tao Garden Health Resort and Training Center, an award winning holistic spa and retreat in the beautiful northern countryside of Thailand. His mastery of this ancient knowledge, enhanced by his study of other disciplines, has resulted in a body of knowledge which is now being taught throughout the world, through 1,500 certified instructors and practitioners, to hundreds of thousands of people.

I’ll be there and invite you to check it out. Start making your brain work better with part or all of this meditation workshop.

PEMF stands for Pulsed Electro-Magnetic Fields, and it’s a very promising but complex area of medical research and therapy. The idea is that it’s like acupuncture, and now that it’s buttressed by over 1000 clinical studies and over 7000 research papers validating [...]]]> PEMF what’s that and how can it make a difference in my life?

PEMF stands for Pulsed Electro-Magnetic Fields, and it’s a very promising but complex area of medical research and therapy. The idea is that it’s like acupuncture, and now that it’s buttressed by over 1000 clinical studies and over 7000 research papers validating the therapeutic benefits, it should soon join acupuncture as a respected and recommended form of alternative medicine. The technology is rapidly approaching a tipping point. Heck, even Dr. Oz and Oprah Winfrey are all over it.

Check out the show that  Dr Oz said was the most important one he’s ever done! It’s all about PEMF therapy.

Before we get into it, first, here’s a bit about the technology. Unlike static magnets, PEMF sessions deliver a pulsed field that surrounds the body with healing energy, addressing a wide variety of health issues. The “secret sauce” is to mimic the range of magnetic frequencies and intensities found in the earth’s own field (Schumann resonance).

The idea is that cellphones and other types of radiation have mucked up the EM fields surrounding our cities – they’re now calling it “electro-smog” — and these polluted EM fields are slowly poisoning us at an electromagnetic level. By creating a local field that is bio-identical with nature and pulsing it so it penetrates into our cells, it promotes getting us back to a natural healthy state.

The research was initiated when astronauts got sick in space. In Yuri Gagarin’s historic flight into space – he was the first man in space – he returned in near critical condition after only one hour and forty-eight minutes in space. Clearly there was some vital element missing in space that we receive on earth. Well Yuri had plenty of food, he had water, and also oxygen and since the flight was less than 2 hours he really only needed oxygen. So what’s missing? Well you may say gravity was the missing ingredient and yes you would be correct, but we can survive in near weightless environments here on earth (in water for example) just fine. What researchers discovered was that the critical missing element is PEMF – Pulsed Electromagnetic Fields.

Since that first flight, pulsed magnetic devices have been used in every space suit and space station with the notable inclusion in the MIR space station. Further studies have been done on earth (zero field studies) with both laboratory animals and human subjects. What was found is that just in a matter of hours of NO exposure to healthy PEMF’s, cell metabolism begins to break down causing bone loss, muscle weakness, depressed metabolism, disorientation and depression.

Now, space suits all contain PEMF devices, so you get that yummy earth energy you need. Think about it… humans used to roam 20 – 30 miles a day. Now the average American takes only 2000 – 5000 steps daily. Approximately 2000 steps equals one mile. How much organic earth energy can we absorb working in a cubicle everyday?

Anyway, the research shows that PEMFs can:

* improve microcirculation

* increase oxygenation

* correct sleep disorders

* manage pain

* increase immunity

* help with nerve regeneration

and a bunch of other things that haven’t been as thoroughly tested yet. The most dramatic evidence lies in the recent use of PEMF as a repair technique for treatment of non-union fractures from sports or accident related injuries. One hockey star was out of the game through the end of the season because of breaking his leg. But with daily PEMF use he got back into play after only three and a half weeks.

Tennis great Roger Federer, athletes in the NFL, major league baseball players and boxers, as well as the entire Swiss Olympics Team, are now using PEMF on a regular basis. Lance Armstrong and Shaquille O’Neal are believers. In fact, more than a quarter million patients have now used PEMF to accelerate the normal healing process by stimulating growth and repair of tissue.

Wouldn’t it be great if you could get more energy and heal health problems just by laying down 8 minutes two times a day? It doesn’t work for everybody but after one year 78% of users were complaint free, 14% improved, and only 8% were unchanged. And none of them had damaging side effects. Pretty good results don’t you think?

You have two ways to get charged-up with earth energy. Either move through earth’s energy field walking some 20 – 30 miles a day or lay still on a PEMF device.

Now, the problem is that there’s a lot of confusing and conflicting information about PEMF on the Internet – usually promoted by manufacturers who oversell and overpromise their products, which makes it difficult for a non-technical person to compare between the different devices available on the market.

What’s more there are dozens of vendors of this technology out there! However, it seems that the emerging “best of breed” are the MRS 2000, BEMER 3000, QRS Quantron, Magno-pro, and the Curatron. In general, the more adept customers are looking for full body mats, low intensities between 0 and 70 micro-teslas and mimic the EM field of nature. Some units even come with a biorhythm clock that mimics EM field profiles that are active at different times of the day. This is if you don’t want to be put to sleep in the morning or energized before bedtime.

Most of the world has some form of socialized health care for its citizens. Those countries use the least invasive, safest, and most cost-effective means possible to keep their population healthy and  get them better quickly. In all of the European Union, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Israel only one PEMF device, BEMER, is fully medically approved. It’s been stacking up studies — including peer reviewed medical journals listed on PubMed — to alleviate the ailments and suffering of their people.

The United States is just a bit behind this breaking wave of tomorrow’s medicine here today. BUT it’s catching up. BEMER therapy is now available as an FDA registered device and is on its way to becoming an FDA approved medical device.

Through stimulating blood vessel contraction, increasing micro-circulation, increasing energy and thus turning on your inner Doctor, BEMER therapy has benefits for:

Beauty – by improving circulation to your skin.

Anti-aging – by feeding and cleaning your cells up to 30% more.

Recovery from injuries and illness – by turning on your inner doctor.

Sports performance – by increasing energy and oxygenation.

Enhanced sexuality – by improving circulation to your pelvic region.

 Watch this amazing video of increased micro-circulation. It’s taken with a very special camera. There are only a few of those cameras in the world.

Here’s an eye-opening fact … the blood vessels of a healthy young adult contract 30 to 50 times every 10 minutes. Guess how many times the blood vessels of an older, or sick, or injured person’s vessels contract – ONLY ONCE every ten minutes!

Since your millions of cells depend on those contractions to move blood to feed and clean them you can imagine how starved and toxic your cells become as you get older. Scary! But there’s no reason to be scared. Now you have the opportunity to change all that simply by laying or sitting on a BEMER 2 times a day for 8 minutes.

You could walk 20 – 30 miles a day but is that realistic? Not for me anyway. So, I got a BEMER. I decided I couldn’t live any longer being starved of earth energy.  Here’s how I’ve benefited so far:

Get to sleep easily and sleep through the night without waking

Normalizing hormones so fewer, less frequent, and less intense hot flashes

Less sensitivity to restaurant food

Decrease in the number of supplements I have to take

Decreased pain recovering from total hip replacement surgery and after-work-out soreness

That’s a list of the bad things that are getting better. On the good side I’ve been gifted with a deep abiding happiness suffusing my body-mind-spirit that I never experienced before. I’ve felt nourished in a way I didn’t even know I was hungry.

But don’t go by my experience alone. Check out what Dr Oz has to say about PEMF therapy.  And click here to find out how doctors around the world have helped their patients. Plus you can listen to their patients exciting stories of recovery from using BEMER therapy

Interested? Excited? Curious? Go here to check out BEMER now  or give me a call at 415-847-3755 and let’s talk about how you and your loved ones can experience the satisfying benefits of BEMER therapy.

   

You were feeling pretty good weren’t you? Feeling good in your body is a big part of the equation of having fun isn’t it? … So how do you feel good in your body more of the time? High on the list is good [...]]]> If you remember a time when you were having fun, what comes to mind?

You were feeling pretty good weren’t you? Feeling good in your body is a big part of the equation of having fun isn’t it? … So how do you feel good in your body more of the time? High on the list is good nourishment.

Stuffing food down your face quickly doesn’t qualify for nourishment. If nothing else it adds to your stress load. The quality of food you eat also makes a difference.

Do you think it’s hard work to feed yourself good home-cooked food?

Want to find out how to make eating easy, delicious, and quick to prepare? If so join the fun, this Saturday at Innate Chirorpactic Wellness Center in Albany, CA.

Food-Fest: How to Make Quick, Healthy, and Delicious Meals

“Want to feast on delicious, guilt-free, succulent food you didn’t have to lift a finger to make? Want to figure out how to soothe an aching tummy? Want to expand your repertoire of easy to fix foods that WOW! your family and friends?”

Make time for good food & fun!

This cooking class is good for omnivores, vegetarians, and vegans alike. In this interactive workshop you’ll …

• Enjoy a delicious, nutrition-packed lunch
• Find out how foods rejuvenate your body and mind
• Learn simple techniques to improve your digestion

You know you’d spend just as much for this delicious, gourmet meal in a restaurant BUT they wouldn’t share their recipes with you! Nor would you get easy ways to improve your digestion. … And you wouldn’t find out how those healthy and delicious foods rejuvenate your body and mind either like you will when you come to How to Make Quick, Healthy, and Delicious Meals.

October 24 ~ 12 to 2 PM
Innate Chiropractic and Wellness Center
916 A San Pablo Ave, Albany, CA 94706

SPECIAL BONUS: You’ll get quick, easy-to-prepare recipes to make at home.

Your workshop fee of $37 includes lunch, free recipes, and benefits the Alameda County Community Food Bank

SPECIAL DISCOUNT: bring your partner, child, or friend and you both get a discount. … only $50 for two. That’s a savings of $24! Think of all the fun you’ll have sharing good food and conspiring to eat healthier with ease, when you get back home.

Please pre-register by calling 415-847-3755 or writing drlinda@drlindaberry.com.

Ken Cook, President of EWG speaks about toxic chemicals.

EWG is coming to the Commonwealth Club San Francisco next month to present their just-updated version of 10 Americans: the presentation called “An Inconvenient Truth for Environmental Health”.

Please join me at the Commonwealth Club San Francisco on Monday, November 2 as EWG President Ken Cook reveals the startling results of a landmark EWG study of chemical pollution in our bodies and presents for the first time what they found when they tested 10 more Americans for BPA, rocket fuel, artificial fragrances and hundreds of other industrial chemicals.

Along with their new body burden study, Ken will also talk about their not yet released report on school cleaners and your child’s health, which focuses on local Bay Area school districts.
Click here to register with Commonwealth.

They guarantee it will be an eye opening evening!

“Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use it!” - Ram Dass: Author and spiritual teacher

In my opinion, my friend Dr. Ritamarie Loscalzo is a genius. She’s also a Licensed Chiropractor, Acupuncturist and Clinical Nutritionist practicing functional [...]]]> If you missed the life-changing call with Dr Ritamarie Thursday here’s another chance to access her amazing knowledge through a recording of our call. Just click this link for instant access.

In my opinion, my friend Dr. Ritamarie Loscalzo is a genius. She’s also a Licensed Chiropractor, Acupuncturist and Clinical Nutritionist practicing functional medicine in the state of Texas.

And, because going to a Doctor outside of the insurance system is unaffordable to many, she began to develop affordable programs that can reach many people. Today I want to tell you about a very important program that she is launching next week.

If you’re Experiencing Excess Belly Fat, Brain Fog, Burnout Fatigue or Blood Sugar Fluctuations, You Might Be Suffering From a Serious Metabolic Imbalance Called “Insulin Resistance.” Insulin resistanceis a common condition that affects millions of people.

You most likely have a blood sugar imbalance if you experience more than one of the following:

• Fatigue
• Brain fog
• Feeling agitated, jittery, and moody with almost immediate relief once food is eaten
• Feeling hungry, especially for sweets, after eating a full meal
• Intestinal bloating
• Sleepiness after eating a meal, especially after a carbohydrate meal
• Belly fat
• Increased or high triglycerides (a type of fat found in your blood)
• Increased blood pressure
• High total and LDL cholesterol levels
• Low HDL cholesterol

Insulin resistance has serious health consequences, including heart attack, stroke, type 2 diabetes, and cancer. It’s thought to play a role in sleep apnea, polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), high cholesterol, and chronic inflammation.

Dr. Ritamarie explains what happens when your blood sugar gets out of control, both in the short and long term. While the short term consequences are pretty gruesome, like fatigue, belly fat, lack of focus, sugar and carb cravings, the long term consequence are actually pretty darn scary.

But Dr. Ritamarie offers practical strategies you can use right away. In this upcoming program she gives you a 30 day process to re-sensitize your cells to insulin and balance your blood sugar naturally.

What she teaches in this course, when properly applied, has the potential to improve the quality and length of your life dramatically. It’s a fully supported, step by step program to get rid of stubborn belly fat, skyrocket your energy and create the space for true health to blossom and flourish.

Click here to find out more.

Sometimes people go on cleansing or healing programs and see amazing results. Others don’t, and it’s always a puzzle to find out why.

Dr. Ritamarie demystifies it. She takes the guess work out of deciding what foods to eat, how much to exercise and how to choose all those day to day lifestyle habits that can make or break you when it comes to health.
Dr. Ritamarie specializes in bringing hormones into balance so your energy soars. She says that there are many more hormones than most of us even know about and some of them control appetite and the rate of fat burning.

If you have a few pounds to shed, you really need to know about these hormones.

If you are tired, you need to know about the hormones that control your metabolism.

If you’re struggling with any health challenges at all, check this out.
Dr. Ritamarie’s B4 Be Gone will guide you step-by-step to making and committing to the lifestyle and diet changes it will take to achieve long lasting results including:

* A strong, lean and healthy body that turns a few heads

* Enough energy at the end of the day to go dancing or play soccer or whatever it is you love to do

* Deeper and more fulfilling relationships because you can be fully present and caring

* Mental clarity that allows you to perform better at work, and be competent at whatever you endeavor

B4BGone Includes:

• 30 days of menu plans
• a 220 page recipe collection filled with mouth watering, easy to prepare,
  blood sugar stabilizing recipes
• food preparation videos
• fitness plans and exercise videos
• a 30-day series of quick and easy stress management audios
• direct support from Dr. Ritamarie on calls and on the forum
• a new community of peers who will make the changes with you

These are only some of the major features of the B4 Be Gone program. B4 Be Gone has everything it takes for you to succeed. All you need to do is show up, commit, and do the steps.

Click HERE to Get the Full Scoop on how YOU can be Dr. Ritamarie’s next success story.