Monday, May 27, 2019

Suffering from Anxiety? Learn to Sit Properly!

Mental health is a sensitive thing… When it comes to physical health, unless you have some kind of infection that comes from outside, the rest of the ailments are all coming from within us. What is coming from within you, is it your responsibility? If your body is creating an ailment from within, is it your responsibility to fix it? 

Is it not true that any number of people who lie in bed like a potato till noon time are suffering from many ailments? They thought others are idiots who get up at 5 o' clock in the morning and run, swim, play, or do something else. They thought they were really enjoying life, just eating and sleeping. But after some time, it takes a toll on the system. Then they think it is someone’s fortune to have good health, while they have ill health. No! Health is created from within. If an invasion happens from outside in the form of an infection, that is a different matter. 

When it comes to mental health, it is far more sensitive to say this, but still – if what happens to your body is your responsibility, is what happens to your mind not your responsibility? There may be many contributing factors. Even physical ill health may be caused due to many factors. The same may be true with mental health too. But we need to separate sadness from psychological illnesses. You cannot go to your doctor and fix your sadness; he may also be sad.

If you are medically ill, they can fix you to some extent with medication, which is a continuous manipulation of chemistry. But the most sophisticated chemical factory is right here [in the human body]. Suppose your chemistry was in your hands, would you cause anxiety or ecstasy? Definitely, your choice would be ecstasy, the highest level of pleasantness.

The problem is just this – your chemistry is out of control, for whatever reason. There may be genetic patterns, there may be pathological reasons, there may be outside stimuli, many things. But still, is it not your fundamental responsibility to take charge of your physical and mental health? The moment you think it is not yours, stalemate – it is completely out of your hands. If you see that it is your responsibility, everything may not be fixed tomorrow morning, but you can start moving towards well-being. 

This is very important – the responsibility of who you are, what you are, what you are not, must move to you. This is my fundamental mission: from religion to responsibility. Religion means responsibility is up there in heaven for everything that goes wrong in your life. The problem is you are on a round planet and the damn thing is spinning. Nowhere in the cosmos is it marked “This side up.” If you don’t even know which way is up, inevitably, you are looking up in the wrong direction.

How come something “up there” is responsible for what you are? It is time we take this responsibility – then we can do the best we can do. Will everyone on the planet be of the same level of physical and mental health? No, that will never happen. But are we doing the best we can about ourselves? That is most important. What we can do, must happen. If we do not do what we cannot do, there is no problem. But if we do not do what we can do, we are a disaster.

There are simple ways to bring balance to the system. There is chemistry; there are various glandular functions happening in the body. The simplest thing is you just learn to sit properly. Sit in such a way that the body does not need your muscular support, that it is so well balanced that if it sits, it simply sits. Just do this for a few hours a day, and you will see – you will feel much better. There are other more complex processes that you can do to come out of this problem. But at least try this much – geometrically, keep yourself in such a way that there is no stress in the system.

Initially, it looks like there is an effort, but once you sit like this, you see that without effort, without stressing any particular part, the body just stays there. Geometry is most important. This is true of anything physical in the universe – how efficiently something functions depends on how well-structured it is, geometrically. Let’s say an engine, for example. If you call something a really good engine, it means it is geometrically well-aligned; there is no friction. If you call a building well-designed, it means it is well-structured, geometrically.

It is similar with this body and with the entire cosmos. Right now, the planets are going around the Sun. Are they handled with steel cables or something? It is just the geometry. If the solar system goes off its geometric alignment, it is finished. Only because of perfection of geometry, it is working. Similarly with your body: On one level, the whole system of yoga is about getting your physical, geometry aligned with the cosmic geometry, so that being here becomes absolutely effortless. 

Whether you name it stress, anxiety, or whatever else – essentially, there is friction in the system. So it is important that first, the system is geometrically well-aligned, and next, it must be properly lubricated. There are ways to do this. Where there is geometrical perfection, there is no effort; there is no friction. That is what you have to bring into your system. Do not allow these small things to take over your life. One little anxiety bothering you all the time can limit and destroy the process of your life. This must be fixed as early as possible.

Yogasanas are a way of aligning the inner system and adjusting to the celestial geometry, thereby becoming in sync with the existence and naturally achieving a chemistry of health, joy and above all, balance. Find a yogasanas class closer to you, to enjoy its benefits.

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Saturday, May 04, 2019

Blood test to spot Alzheimer's before symptoms occur

Researchers have developed a new test that could help doctors detect Alzheimer's disease 8 years before the 1st symptoms occur.

Using current technique, Alzheimer's disease, the most frequent cause of dementia, can only be detected once the typical plaques have formed in the brain.


At this point, therapy seems no longer possible. However, the 1st changes caused by Alzheimer's take place on the protein level up to 20 years earlier.


Once amyloid plaques have formed, it seems the disease can no longer be treated, said study's co-author.


In Alzheimer's patients, the amyloid beta protein folds incorrectly due to pathological changes long before the 1st symptoms occur.


A team of researchers successfully diagnosed this misfolding using a simple blood test. As a result, the disease could be detected approximately 8 years before the 1st clinical symptoms occur.


But experiments showed that the test was not suitable for clinical applications as the test provided false positive diagnoses for 9% of the study participants.


In order to increase the number of correctly identified Alzheimer's cases, the researchers have now introduced the 2 tier diagnostic method.


To this end, they use the original blood test to identify high-risk individuals. Subsequently, they add a dementia-specific biomarker, namely tau protein, to run further tests with thise test participants whose Alzheimer's diagnosis was positive in the 1st step.


If both biomarkers show a positive result, there is a high likelihood of Alzheimer's disease, said the study.


Through the combination of both analyses, 87 of 100 Alzheimer's patients were correctly identified in our study, the author said.


Now, new clinical studies with test participants in very early stages of the disease can be launched, he added.


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Researchers have developed a new test that could help doctors detect Alzheimer's disease eight years before the first symptoms occur. Using current techniques, Alzheimer's disease, the most frequent cause of dementia, can only be detected once the typical plaques have formed in the brain. At this point, therapy seems no longer possible. However, the first changes caused by Alzheimer's take place on the protein level up to 20 years sooner. "Once amyloid plaques have formed, it seems that the disease can no longer be treated," said study co-author Andreas Nabers from Ruhr-University Bochum in Germany.

https://www.thehansindia.com/life-style/health/blood-test-to-spot-alzheimers-before-symptoms-occur-526646

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Sunday, March 20, 2016

New blood test to diagnose Alzheimer's early

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 A new blood test may potentially help detect Alzheimer's disease at an early stage, giving people up to 15 years warning before the symptoms appear, scientists say.

The test is based on an immuno-chemical analysis using an infrared sensor. The sensor's surface is coated with highly specific antibodies which extract biomarkers for Alzheimer's from the blood or the cerebrospinal fluid, taken from the lower part of the back (lumbar liquor), researchers said.

The infrared sensor analyses if the biomarkers show already pathological changes, which can take place more than 15 years before any clinical symptoms appear, they said.

A major problem of Alzheimer's disease diagnosis is the fact that, by the time the first clinical symptoms appear, massive irreversible damage to the brain has already occurred. At that point, symptomatic treatment is the only available option, researchers said.

"If we wish to have a drug at our disposal that can significantly inhibit the progress of the disease, we need blood tests that detect Alzheimer's in its pre-dementia stages," said Klaus Gerwert from Ruhr-University Bochum in Germany.

For the novel test, the secondary structure of the so-called Amyloid beta peptides serves as biomarker. This structure changes in Alzheimer's patients, researchers said.

In the misfolded, pathological structure, more and more Amyloid beta peptides can accumulate, gradually forming visible plaque deposits in the brain that are typical for Alzheimer's disease. This happens more than 15 years before first clinical symptoms appear, they said.

The pathological beta Amyloid plaques can be temporarily detected by positron emission tomography (Amyloid PET) but this procedure is comparatively expensive and is accompanied by radiation exposure, they said.

Together with researchers from German Centre for Neurogenerative Diseases (DZNE), Gerwert and colleagues developed an infrared sensor for detecting misfolding of Amyloid beta peptides.

The infrared sensor extracts the Amyloid beta peptide from body fluids. After initially working with cerebrospinal fluid, the researchers subsequently expanded the method towards blood analysis.

"We do not merely select one single possible folding arrangement of the peptide; rather, we detect how all existing Amyloid beta secondary structures are distributed, in their healthy and in their pathological forms," said Gerwert.

Researchers analysed samples from 141 patients. They achieved a diagnostic precision of 84 per cent in the blood and 90 per cent in cerebrospinal fluid, compared with the clinical gold standard.

The test showed an increase of misfolded biomarkers as spectral shift of Amyloid beta band below threshold, thus diagnosing Alzheimer's, researchers said.

The findings were published in the journal Biophotonics.

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