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GOOD NEWS…You are programmed to be healthy…sickness is an unnatural state

Because health is such a personal priority doesn’t always mean that others should care as much; although, the simple case can be made that the more heathy rules are abided, the more our society will have manifold benefits.

As a serious health advocate, I like to pass on some serious wellness considerations from several wellness advocates. (You can read more stories here — all highly curated and professionally edited.)

— Maintain weight control.

Count this integer for overall wellness to exercise, eat well and practise other healthy behaviors. This can add up to 20 years to a person’s potential time on this planet.

— Protect your immune system.

Daily stress and the Western diet often filled with processed food, sugar, and alcohol that can also activate the immune system’s response as chronic inflammation that is the cause of many serious diseases. Protect its natural immune function before it attacks you for the wrong reasons.

— Try some mindfulness meditation.

This is a key component to overall mental health and physical wellness. You are a being that, at your root, is consciousness. Mindfulness affords you the opportunity to encounter this true nature of your existence.

— Just move more. Just take it to heart.

The bulk of the benefits come with as little as 22 minutes of daily effort and it’s never too late to start. Studies systematically show that running and recreational sports are beneficial. The body can stay resilient and adaptive with good nourishment.

— Start preventing dementia today.

Some signs of mild cognitive impairment precede dementia before settling into the long-term cognitive disease like Alzheimer’s. If only there was a pill for early prevention but there isn’t.

However, there are ways to help slow the progress. The key is how to manage your lifestyle — exercise, diet, stress management, sleep habits, no tobacco, intellectual stimulation, and consistent social engagement. Consistent lifelong insights increases levels of wisdom.

— Get your meds straight.

Some older adults over-medicate with 3 or more prescription medications, some take medication they no longer need, some don’t take an prescriptions. Maintain communication with your doctor to use medicine you need to reduce symptoms or feel better day-to-day.

— Cultivate a little empathy.

Some feel our world has a severe shortage of empathy especially among men. Surveys find that many are unwilling to engage because they think it’ll mean actually doing something. Empathy isn’t always actions…it’s about looking at things from the perspective of others with some understanding.

— If you have kids, really listen to them.

Parenthood is helping little humans become fine big humans by staying attuned to their desires, needs and challenges as well as being aware of your own feelings and motivation…and it’s easy to screw up. Perfection is not required. While some of life’s mishaps and tragedies can’t be prevented, a safety net can be provided with love, flexibility and empathy.

— Embrace frozen fruits and veggies.

Have you wondered if frozen products retain the nutrients as well as fresh products? Yes, frozen fruit and vegetables have nutrient-preserving technology behind them. Blueberries are picked ripe, flash frozen at the spot, less than 24 hours from picking.

— Speak up against sexual assault.

Unwanted and clearly sexualized touching is inexcusable that creates shame, fear and anger. A quick emotional response is appropriate to manage negative thoughts.

— Still, expect plenty of hardship and grief.

There are three things you can’t escape in life: Death, taxes and … hardship. Life is harder for some than others with challenges, disappointment, overwhelming loss and how to deal with grief. There is no “normal” process, no prediction3 and no five stages. It’s personal.

— Get some proper, deep sleep.

Sleep is essential to next-day energy, reduced stress, and long-term physical health and mental well-being. You need higher-quality sleep, which happens only if you spend sufficient time in the critical stage of deep sleep, or what scientists call slow-wave sleep. Something to learn more about.

My Personal Favorite Health Resource

Respect Nature’s Nutritional Powerhouse as the source, synergy and maintenance of healthy diet and aging wellness...

— Bioscience Research

New science of bio-nutrition shows that most chronic long-term diseases are based on cellular degeneration because of poor nutrition versus infections best treated by drugs.

Research continues that cells need essential micro-nutrients daily to provide metabolic energy, bodybuilding and protection against oxidative damage or disease.

— Single cells and Cellular Nutrition

Millions of cells must be regenerated every minute of every day based on a balance of micro-nutrients from food for energy, building, repairing and immune system competence at the individual cell level.

Given total nutrients and a strong immune system, your body has amazing healing properties of its own with respect to its cellular integrity. You have an inborn potential for abundance and regeneration with responsibility to maintain cellular functions and structures with food choices.

In fact, the health of a single cell holds the micro-balance or synthesis between wellness stability and the disease process.

SUMMARY

Wellness is the desire to stay healthy and avoid disease causing factors.

Nothing is more worthy of a refocused alignment than new changes based on bioscience research to better understand and provide for a healthy body that can avoid diseases with proper nutrition and immune defense.

If nothing else, we are aware at all levels that health care is in crisis mode open to new concepts for optimal care management of chronic cellular dieseases caused by inflammatory factors and lack of healthy bioavailable nutrients.

Nutrition that respects the cellular perspective must be shouted from the rooftops to understand why good food choices are necessary for right biochemical connections to preserve health and avoid disease. The individual cell must be respected with the right nutrients to avoid oxidative stress and protect natural immunity.

Questions and comments are always important. Let’s talk about your wellness plans and healthy goals.

Mary (Annemarie) Berukoff

info@newbetterchoices.com

250 304 9710 PST

PS: Ask me about my important choice of Daily Drops dietary supplements with 20+ years of clinical research in cellular bioavailability. Personal immunity is key.

 

New Research on How Social Media Affects Adolescent Brains is a Sad Confirmation and Serious Call-out

New Research on How Social Media Affects Adolescent Brains Is a Sad Confirmation and Serious Call-out

The research on social media and how the PARTS OF THE BRAIN react to it is still in the early stages. While these studies reflect an effort toward better understanding the effects of social media on different parts of the brain, there’s still a lot of progress to be made. https://online.king.edu/news/psychology-of-social-media/

Our society’s reality is that nearly 95 percent of teens in the U.S. have access to a smartphone and almost 75 percent of teens have at least one social media account, exposing teens to both health risks and benefits. These  platforms are open ended ways to connect with peers, information and resources but also run the risk of cyber bullying and other hyped up digital aggression.

Just think, it has been only about 20 years since the internet revolution began invading so many economic, social, personal and psychological levels. Because it is so recent, there hasn’t been enough time to study the effects of this social disruption and experimentation.

But the good news is that new proper scientific research is now starting to examine the context and content surrounding social media use and how combinations of different stimuli can trigger different reactions. The rumors have come home to roost that long-term social media exposes the brain to certain adaptive behaviors.

Here are a few  examples of ongoing research into how social media affects the brain’s functions in adolescents:

A. One study showed the connection to the individual’s reward system. Using MRI technology, researchers noted that the brains of adolescents while browsing Instagram, showed greater activity in neural regions implicated in “reward processing, social cognition, imitation, and attention” especially if they had many “likes” versus a few. This is worrisome to activate the brain’s reward system capable of abuse similar to gambling or narcotic drugs.

The same study noted connection to the brain’s sensory, decision-making and emotional processing areas. Certain areas reacted noticeably when teenagers felt excluded from online groups, chats, or events. This correlates with the teenagers’ pressure to belong to peer groups versus bullying or ostracism. 

B. JAMA Psychiatry (September 11) outlined two types of behaviors with greater risk for mental health issues:

1. Internalizing behavior which involves social withdrawal, difficulty coping with anxiety or depression or directing feelings inward

2. Externalizing behavior includes aggression, acting out, disobeying or other observable behaviors.

C. A six-year study tracked over 3800 students in Montreal as they watched TV, browsed social media or played video games which found that the teens who spend too much time on social media or watching television become notably more depressed, lonely and sad.

In fact, an increase of as little as one hour of social media interaction from normal levels would result in a measurable increase in depression. (original investigation published in the journal JAMA Pediatrics July 15, 2019)

“We found an association between social media and depression in adolescence,” reads the report. “Based on the upward social comparison, it may be that repeated exposure to idealized images lowers adolescents’ self-esteem, triggers depression, and enhances depression over time. Furthermore, heavier users of social media with depression appear to be more negatively affected by their time spent on social media, potentially by the nature of information that they select.”

Thankfully, this research on social media and how the parts of the brain react to it is now happening, but still in the early stages and requires much more progress, especially as associations over time such as longitudinal studies over a period of few years.

Who can answer how the brain will change after ten years of social media immersion?  What happens if these internal and external feelings are not addressed or re-mediated promptly enough? What happens if feelings of exclusion remain unresolved?

 How can we set reasonable boundaries, maintain an offline / offline  balance or intervene when symptoms appear?

This is highly relevant and important CALL-OUT 

 Keep researching, offer solutions to protect our teens. 

Certainly, our teenagers are worth our time because we need to trust their maturation into the next generation. Who will advocate especially for our teen girls to stop their exploitation on the internet as science confirms the re-patterning of their adolescent brains?

Recently, in my first podcast interview I mentioned the new study of social media psychology. I plan to do more research to share its tenets.

I look forward to any further podcast interviews with these questions and discussions:  

1. How has social media robbed teen girls from the normal rites of passage between child and adult?
2. There have been studies done on the development of the brain in adolescents. How does the adolescent brain process differently than the adult brain?
3. In your book, there are many learning points. What would you say is the number one learning point in the story that can help teens change their internet habits?
4. What is the main reason teen girls don't want to give up their internet time?
5. Why do you use symbols as main characters, as antagonist vs protagonist?
6. You talk about a superpower to manage time. What is the superpower tool to make smart choices versus decisions or habits? 
7. How can parents help their teen daughters to reduce their social media time?
8. How is it possible that fake Selfies can affect our deeper cultural values?
9. Do you really think that some kind of education can help fix this problem re addiction?
10. What lesson plans help to practice some of the new ideas or concepts in this story?

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What kind of questions would you ask? Do you hope that scientific research will help to find a better solution?  What bothers you about the teenage sub-culture?

I look forward to talking with you. Together, with science,  we can find a timely solution.

Sincerely,

Annemarie Berukoff

Here is the YouTube link to my first podcast interview...comments welcome

Resources: Note many researchers were supported by training grants from the National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse, and Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

...Department of Mental Health at the Bloomberg School

...Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

...September 11 in JAMA Psychiatry

...https://online.king.edu/news/psychology-of-social-media/

...https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/article-abstract/2737909?guestAccessKey=7f0019bd-f2eb-4dc1-a509-cd5bc2444a79&utm_source=For_The_Media&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ftm_links&utm_content=tfl&utm_term=071519