Key in a deliberative society is the opportunity to gather in public spaces and discuss ideas. For the first time in eight years of organising events where people share their perspectives in social spaces and discussion is fostered through friendly proximity, where I as a coordinator have had to cancel an event. Read more…
Key in a deliberative society is the opportunity to gather in public spaces and discuss ideas. For the first time in eight years of organising events where people share their perspectives in social spaces and discussion is fostered through friendly proximity, where I as a coordinator have had to cancel an event. Read more…
Come along to The Counting House at 7pm to listen to Mike’s talk. Share a crust of bread, and hear the reflections he has to share…
Title of talk:
Cerebral Diabetes and the Reversal of the Flynn Effect;
What is it, what causes it, what is the impact, and how do we combat it?
By Mike McInnes
Summary of what you would like to talk about:
Recently Professor Lovestone at Kings College, London identified 10 proteins that mark Alzheimer’s 15 years prior to diagnosis. Actually these proteins are markers for cerebral diabetes and they begin not 15 years prior to Alzheimer’s but from the modern foetus, and affect infants, children, teenagers, adults and the elderly – this condition is sugar driven and nothing to do with ageing or genes – although enhanced by each of these. Read more…
A recent initiative of the US National institutes of Health (NIH) to map the human brain was announced. The project has been entitled: “Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN).”
The quotation below is sourced from the NIH: “On April 2, 2013, President Obama launched the BRAIN Initiative to “accelerate the development and application of new technologies that will enable researchers to produce dynamic pictures of the brain that show how individual brain cells and complex neural circuits interact at the speed of thought.” Read more…
Alcohol and the Brain Drain: How to Provision the Brain Before, During and After Alcohol Consumption.
Bullet points of what you would like to cover:
Alcohol lowers cerebral energy metabolism – hence we forget the pleasure of its relaxation.
This may be avoided by forward provisioning cerebral energy reserve prior to and after alcohol consumption.
Honey is the Gold Standard food for selective liver replenishment.
This forward provisions cerebral energy reserve, reduces the risk of low blood glucose (hypoglycaemia) and of the metabolic stress this activates, and reduces risk of all the unpleasant after effects of alcohol consumption.
In addition honey improves the detoxification of alcohol via upgrading alcohol dehydrogenase.
Honey upgrades hepatic (liver) glutathione a vital hepatic antioxidant and important for optimal liver function.
Honey upgrades hepatic nitric oxide, a vital signal for optimal insulin signalling.
Post alcohol honey activates the Honey/Insulin/Melatonin (HYMN) Cycle, a cycle that forward provisions cerebral energy , reduces nocturnal metabolic stress, promotes quality sleep and recovery physiology, protects neurones from energy deficiency, and improves memory consolidation and learning during REM sleep.
Honey is the perfect food to consume prior to and post alcohol consumption.
During the Edinburgh International Festival of August 2012 twenty two talks were given at Leith on the Fringe at the Out of the Blue venue. They were free and open to everyone
Name of speaker
Mike McInnes
Title of Talk
The Consciousness of the Long Distance Runner; The Exercise Theory of Relativity
Bullet points you would like to cover:
The absolute overriding parameter in all exercise and recovery physiology is that of optimally provisioning cerebral energy, via the liver, over and above all other organs and tissues. Failure to optimally provision cerebral energy, via the liver, during each of these two events results in chronic metabolic stress and increased risk of all the metabolic diseases.
Athletes and their coaches are universally ‘liver blind’ and failure to make such provision results in training deficits, poor performance and long term negative health. Read more…
During the Edinburgh International Festival of August 2012 twenty two talks were given at Leith on the Fringe at the Out of the Blue venue. They were free and open to everyone
Name of speaker
Mike McInnes
Title of Talk
Future Sleep: The Nocturnal Fast, Cerebral Energy and the Honey/Insulin/Melatonin (HYMN) Cycle.
Bullet points you would like to cover:
In the west it is customary to retire to bed with a depleted liver and activate, not sleep and recovery physiology, rather chronic nocturnal metabolic stress, the only way the brain may partition glucose in favour of cerebral provision.
This cultural practice results from the universal myth, put about by diet gurus and not challenged by the health professions, that it is unhealthy to ‘eat late’.
Chronic nocturnal metabolic stress rapidly increases risk of metabolic syndrome (diabetes/obesity/heart disease) and alzheimer’s disease.
