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Neurochemicals like dopamine, serotonin and gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) produced within the bounds of fecal matter? Oh, that explains the ‘green minded’ ideology.

Yes, you have read it right, a recent study of Mark Lyte involving feces of monkeys reveal that neurochemicals like dopamine, serotonin and gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) produced by enormous gut microbiota.

Eighteen vials were rocking back and forth on a squeaky mechanical device the shape of a butcher scale, and Mark Lyte was beside himself with excitement. ‘‘We actually got some fresh yesterday — freshly frozen,’’ Lyte said to a lab technician. Each vial contained a tiny nugget of monkey feces that were collected at the Harlow primate lab near Madison, Wis., the day before and shipped to Lyte’s lab on the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center campus in Abilene, Tex.

Inside a closet-size room at his lab that afternoon, Lyte hunched over to inspect the vials, whose samples had been spun down in a centrifuge to a radiant, golden broth. Lyte, 60, spoke fast and emphatically. ‘‘You wouldn’t believe what we’re extracting out of poop,’’ he told me. ‘‘We found that the guys here in the gut make neurochemicals. We didn’t know that. Now, if they make this stuff here, does it have an influence there? Guess what? We make the same stuff. Maybe all this communication has an influence on our behavior.’’

Given the extent to which bacteria are now understood to influence human physiology, it is hardly surprising that scientists have turned their attention to how bacteria might affect the brain. Micro-organisms in our gut secrete a profound number of chemicals, and researchers like Lyte have found that among those chemicals are the same substances used by our neurons to communicate and regulate mood, like dopamine, serotonin and gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA). These, in turn, appear to play a function in intestinal disorders, which coincide with high levels of major depression and anxiety. Last year, for example, a group in Norway examined feces from 55 people and found certain bacteria were more likely to be associated with depressive patients.

At the time of my visit to Lyte’s lab, he was nearly six months into an experiment that he hoped would better establish how certain gut microbes influenced the brain, functioning, in effect, as psychiatric drugs. He was currently compiling a list of the psychoactive compounds found in the feces of infant monkeys. Once that was established, he planned to transfer the microbes found in one newborn monkey’s feces into another’s intestine, so that the recipient would end up with a completely new set of microbes — and, if all went as predicted, change their neurodevelopment. The experiment reflected an intriguing hypothesis. Anxiety, depression and several pediatric disorders, including autism and hyperactivity, have been linked with gastrointestinal abnormalities. Microbial transplants were not invasive brain surgery, and that was the point: Changing a patient’s bacteria might be difficult but it still seemed more straightforward than altering his genes.

When Lyte began his work on the link between microbes and the brain three decades ago, it was dismissed as a curiosity. By contrast, last September, the National Institute of Mental Health awarded four grants worth up to $1 million each to spur new research on the gut microbiome’s role in mental disorders, affirming the legitimacy of a field that had long struggled to attract serious scientific credibility. Lyte and one of his longtime colleagues, Christopher Coe, at the Harlow primate lab, received one of the four. ‘‘What Mark proposed going back almost 25 years now has come to fruition,’’ Coe told me. ‘‘Now what we’re struggling to do is to figure out the logic of it.’’ It seems plausible, if not yet proved, that we might one day use microbes to diagnose neurodevelopmental disorders, treat mental illnesses and perhaps even fix them in the brain.

The complete article is from this blog: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/28/magazine/can-the-bacteria-in-your-gut-explain-your-mood.html?smid=tw-nytimes&_r=0

6 Ways Medicine in Space is Completely Different from on Earth

Everything's different in zero-gravity

You may or may not want to go to space, but here’s something certain: you definitely don’t want to get sick there. Ask the crew of Apollo 7, the 1960s mission in which the commander contracted a cold, spread it to the other two astronauts and all three of them spent the entire mission trapped inside a cramped spacecraft, sneezing, hacking and griping at the ground.

And that was just 11 days in Earth orbit. What about a year aboard the International Space Station(ISS)? What about a two-and-a-half-year mission to Mars. And what about something a wee bit more serious than a cold—like appendicitis or a heart attack or a severe injury? Zero-gravity plays all manner of nasty games with the bones, muscles, organs, eyeballs, the brain itself—never mind the infectious risks that come from sealing half a dozen people inside a self-contained vessel, where a virus or bacterium could simply circulate ’round and ’round, from person to person indefinitely.

These are some of the things that will be on the mind of rookie astronaut Kjell Lindgren, who will spend nearly six months aboard the ISS when he lifts off in late July as part of the station’s next three-person crew. Lindgren is not just a well-trained astronaut, but a specialist in aerospace and emergency medicine—just the kind of expert who will increasingly be needed as the human presence in space becomes permanent.

“If we want to go to Mars some day,” Lindgren said in a recent conversation with TIME, “if we want to get further and deeper into the solar system, we need to start thinking about these things, thinking about the capabilities we need to do an appendectomy or take out a gall bladder.”

There will be no gall bladder or appendix takings while Lindgren is aloft. For now, he and the ISS flight doctors back on Earth are taking only space-medicine baby steps, learning the basics about the radical differences between medical care on the Earth and medical care off it. Here are a few of the most vexing problems they have to learn to solve:

1. Where is that kidney again? On Earth, your organs settle into predictable positions. A doctor palpating your liver or thumping your chest knows exactly where things ought to be. In zero-g, not so much. “The organs may be displaced a little bit,” says Lindgren. “They tend to shift up a little more. The heart may have a little bit of a different orientation, which may be reflected on an EKG.” Other kinds of shifting or compression—of the lungs, stomach, bladder and more—can cause problems of their own.

2. Your bones hate space: Without the constant tug of gravity, your skeleton doesn’t work nearly as hard, which causes it to weaken and decalcify. Astronauts spend many hours a week exercising to counteract some of that, but nothing can reverse it completely. When Russia’s Mir space station was still flying, newly arriving cosmonauts were warned not to exchange traditional bear hugs with crew members who had been there for a while. The risk: broken ribs.

3. Your eyes do too: Astronauts who have been in space for long-term stays often find that their vision grows worse, and it doesn’t always bounce completely back when they return to Earth. The problem is caused by fluid shifting upward from the lower body into the head, compressing the optic nerve and distorting the shape of the eyeball. Eye infections and irritation are more common too—for decidedly ick-inducing reasons. “Dust doesn’t settle in the vehicle like it does on Earth,” says Lindgren. “So things that are liberated, little pieces of metal from equipment or maybe dead skin just float around and cause eye irritation.”

Can I take a selfie while singing this song? LOL . This is nice, makes me tachycardic.

(via https://soundcloud.com/thechainsmokers/selfie-preview?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=tumblr)

(via https://soundcloud.com/pedro-leone-1/if-walls-could-talk-male-voice?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=tumblr)

"If Walls Could Talk" original by Celine Dion

Can you keep a secret? These walls keep a secret That only we know But how long can they keep it? 'Cause we're two lovers, we lose control We're two shadows Chasing rainbows Behind closed windows Behind closed doors If walls could talk Oooh... they would say I want you more They would say Hey...ever felt like this before? That you'll always be the one for me If walls had eyes My... they would see the love in sight They would see Me...in your arms in ecstasy And with every move they'd know I love you so I love you so Two people making memories Just too good to tell These arms are never empty When we're lying where we fell We're painting pictures Making magic Taking chances Making love [Chorus] When I'm feeling weak You give me wings When the fire has no heat You light it up again When I hear no violins You play my every string Stop the press Hold the news The secret is safe between me and you - walls Can you keep a secret? [Repeat Chorus] [Adlib:] I love you so Ooooh I love you baby Ooooh baby Love you love you love you so honey Love you love you love you so In your arms in ecstasy If they could only see you and me baby Just you and me baby

‘Diretsuhanay’ via formal correspondence: strike 2.

VP Binay is really nailing it with his very brief, straightforward and concise letters lately. Days ago, it was his resignation letter to Pres. Aquino with just 13 words (and was bashed with netizens of Aquino’s virtual reply as: ‘K’.). 'Diretsuhanay' via formal correspondence. Now, he wrote Senator Pimentel with a direct- Magpakalalaki ka! ..all via formal correspondence. 

Binay hits Pimentel's call to audit offices Binay headed, tells him in letter, "Magpakalalaki ka" | via @ryan_chua pic.twitter.com/d4gssnTk9Q

— ABS-CBN News Channel (@ANCALERTS) June 25, 2015

My previous post regarding his resignation letter is at: 

http://manictiger.blogspot.com/2015/06/literally-short-concise-and.html and  

http://manictigerph.tumblr.com/post/122328416567/literally-short-concise-and-straightforward-big

Hail to my BS Nursing Alma Mater, Riverside College.

This is in relation with my previous post regarding maritime entitlement dispute between China and Philippines:

http://manictigerph.tumblr.com/post/121415465917/ww3-insight-the-war-has-already-started-a-decade

Well, It’s never too late to start even if we are over the definitions of being late. I still trust in Divine Providence and may God hear us.

Green-or-brown minded: Neurochemicals were found in poop: serotonin, GABA, dopamine, etc.

Yes, you have read it right, a recent study of Mark Lyte involving feces of monkeys reveal that neurochemicals like dopamine, serotonin and gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) produced by enormous gut microbiota.

Eighteen vials were rocking back and forth on a squeaky mechanical device the shape of a butcher scale, and Mark Lyte was beside himself with excitement. ‘‘We actually got some fresh yesterday — freshly frozen,’’ Lyte said to a lab technician. Each vial contained a tiny nugget of monkey feces that were collected at the Harlow primate lab near Madison, Wis., the day before and shipped to Lyte’s lab on the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center campus in Abilene, Tex.

Inside a closet-size room at his lab that afternoon, Lyte hunched over to inspect the vials, whose samples had been spun down in a centrifuge to a radiant, golden broth. Lyte, 60, spoke fast and emphatically. ‘‘You wouldn’t believe what we’re extracting out of poop,’’ he told me. ‘‘We found that the guys here in the gut make neurochemicals. We didn’t know that. Now, if they make this stuff here, does it have an influence there? Guess what? We make the same stuff. Maybe all this communication has an influence on our behavior.’’

Given the extent to which bacteria are now understood to influence human physiology, it is hardly surprising that scientists have turned their attention to how bacteria might affect the brain. Micro-organisms in our gut secrete a profound number of chemicals, and researchers like Lyte have found that among those chemicals are the same substances used by our neurons to communicate and regulate mood, like dopamine, serotonin and gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA). These, in turn, appear to play a function in intestinal disorders, which coincide with high levels of major depression and anxiety. Last year, for example, a group in Norway examined feces from 55 people and found certain bacteria were more likely to be associated with depressive patients.

At the time of my visit to Lyte’s lab, he was nearly six months into an experiment that he hoped would better establish how certain gut microbes influenced the brain, functioning, in effect, as psychiatric drugs. He was currently compiling a list of the psychoactive compounds found in the feces of infant monkeys. Once that was established, he planned to transfer the microbes found in one newborn monkey’s feces into another’s intestine, so that the recipient would end up with a completely new set of microbes — and, if all went as predicted, change their neurodevelopment. The experiment reflected an intriguing hypothesis. Anxiety, depression and several pediatric disorders, including autism and hyperactivity, have been linked with gastrointestinal abnormalities. Microbial transplants were not invasive brain surgery, and that was the point: Changing a patient’s bacteria might be difficult but it still seemed more straightforward than altering his genes.

When Lyte began his work on the link between microbes and the brain three decades ago, it was dismissed as a curiosity. By contrast, last September, the National Institute of Mental Health awarded four grants worth up to $1 million each to spur new research on the gut microbiome’s role in mental disorders, affirming the legitimacy of a field that had long struggled to attract serious scientific credibility. Lyte and one of his longtime colleagues, Christopher Coe, at the Harlow primate lab, received one of the four. ‘‘What Mark proposed going back almost 25 years now has come to fruition,’’ Coe told me. ‘‘Now what we’re struggling to do is to figure out the logic of it.’’ It seems plausible, if not yet proved, that we might one day use microbes to diagnose neurodevelopmental disorders, treat mental illnesses and perhaps even fix them in the brain.

The complete article is from this blog: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/28/magazine/can-the-bacteria-in-your-gut-explain-your-mood.html?smid=tw-nytimes&_r=0

“The Songs of Rice” (featuring the in-depth culture of Thailand)

I love diverse cultures and international relations. This topic and field is very delighting for me because I am a dreamer, supposed to be a traveller but because of sickness, got grounded inside my home--literally.

What I like most about this movie is its relation and similarity with Filipino culture. Thailand is one of the countries I dream to visit, and I think this nation has good and brilliant minds too in the field of mass communications and international documentaries. On the other hand, I messaged the director of this film, The Songs of Rice:

ครั้งแรกที่ผม ดู รถพ่วงและ อ่าน บทสรุป ของ " เพลงของ ข้าว "ผม สนใจจริงๆ ฉันคิดว่ามัน เป็น ความรู้สึก เห็นคุ��ค่า ที่จะได้สัมผัส เกินกว่าสิ่งที่ โลกรู้ เกี่ยวกับประเทศไทย ลึกลับในการ พูด แต่ จะซื่อสัตย์ หลังจากที่ ฟิลิปปินส์ไทย เป็นประเทศที่ ชื่นชอบ มากที่สุดของฉัน และไม่มีอะไรที่ ดังต่อไปนี้ ฉัน ได้รับการฝัน ในการเยี่ยมชม ของคุณ ( ผู้เขียน / ผู้อำนวยการ ) ประเทศ ในอนาคต ขอให้โชคดี และผลงาน ของคุณมีความ สวยงาม และเป็นความจริง

Thank you google for translating my message.

Synopsis:

This is a visual record of rice culture and its influences on the people in different parts of Thailand. The lyrical structure of this documentary film reflects the melodies in the songs of rice, crafted and composed by the diverse harmonies of the people who may sing in different voices but who share the same heart.This is the final movie in the rice trilogy that began with STORIES FROM THE NORTH and AGRARIAN UTOPIA.

Taken from: https://www.behance.net/gallery/19576471/The-Songs-of-Rice-()-Documentary-Film?

About the author:

Trailer:

This is the link to view his works: https://www.behance.net/harin_p

Vice President Jejomar Binay on Tuesday informed President Benigno Aquino III of his resignation from the Cabinet through a simple, one-sentence, straight-to-the-point letter. "I hereby tender my irrevocable resignation as member of the Cabinet effective immediately," Binay said in his letter dated June 22, 2015. The letter was handcarried by Binay's daughter, Rep. Abigail Binay, to Malacañang. It was received by Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa, according to Joey Salgado, head of the Office of the Vice President media affairs. Info from rappler and gmanews.com

And the netizens in Facebook have gone wild, and created this sample reply:

K.

This song simply hits into the subconscious. The melody is simple and the message is exceptional. Myko Mañago sang this cover in such a great versatility. Just sayin'.

I'm bias on good covers.

BoysLikeGirls Ft. Taylor Swift - Two is Better than One (COVER) by Myko Mañago

https://youtu.be/KiefX6Zt-zo

I agree with Ynarra (June 2015 article from amazetify) that dogs are one of the sweetest animals in the planet (they’re number one). No matter who and what you are, their love is unconditional and when you get to have someone to be by your side, you can always count on them. There are even dogs...

Dog’s unconditional love amidst circumstance of Asperger’s Syndrome #StopYulin2015

I agree with Ynarra (June 2015 article from amazetify) that dogs are one of the sweetest animals in the planet (they’re number one). No matter who and what you are, their love is unconditional and when you get to have someone to be by your side, you can always count on them. There are even dogs that are trained to take good care of people who really needs help like those with illnesses and disability known as ‘service dogs’. This clip is about the story of Danielle Jacobs, a woman with Asperger Syndrome, a “milder” form of autism spectrum disorder. 

People with Asperger’s are often intelligent and high-functioning but have problems socializing with others and may exhibit repetitive behaviors, and so they need somebody to calm them when they're having meltdown and that always happens to Jacobs. In the video, Jacobs can be seen crying and striking herself repeatedly in the head and chest, but good thing is her service dog, Samson, is always alert and calms her down as possible as he could. (from Amazetify blog)

For the sake of knowing, here’s an article from WebMD:

What Are the Symptoms of Asperger's Syndrome?

The symptoms of Asperger's syndrome vary and can range from mild to severe. Common symptoms include:

Problems with social skills: Children with Asperger's syndrome generally have difficulty interacting with others and often are awkward in social situations. They generally do not make friends easily. They have difficulty initiating and maintaining conversation.

Eccentric or repetitive behaviors: Children with this condition may develop odd, repetitive movements, such as hand wringing or finger twisting.

Unusual preoccupations or rituals: A child with Asperger's syndrome may develop rituals that he or she refuses to alter, such as getting dressed in a specific order.

Communication difficulties: People with Asperger's syndrome may not make eye contact when speaking with someone. They may have trouble using facial expressions and gestures, and understanding body language. They also tend to have problems understanding language in context and are very literal in their use of language.

Limited range of interests: A child with Asperger's syndrome may develop an intense, almost obsessive, interest in a few areas, such as sports schedules, weather, or maps.

Coordination problems: The movements of children with Asperger's syndrome may seem clumsy or awkward.

Skilled or talented: Many children with Asperger's syndrome are exceptionally talented or skilled in a particular area, such as music or math.