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I`ve been wondering just how is it thier DNA does not deteriate like ours and most other organisms do. That stuff about meristematic cells being like animal stem cells seems a big part of the answer. These are important research topics. Wouldn`t it be nice to have such a system as a part of our makeup. Thank for this informative answer. ...Dr.Syntax

around 230 million years. To this day covering more land mass than any other plant group. As JillSwift pointed out in another thread some of these trees live to be over 5,000 years old. The Giant Redwood and the Bristlecone Pine. How on Earth did certain individual plants that cannot move or change thier location manage to survive all the droughts,fires,insect infestations,microbial infection, and such for 5,000 years. More importantly why don`t they deteriorate the same way other organisms do with age? Maybe under the right conditions they are potentially immortal. What is about them that seems to defie all the usual explanations for aging. The same may be true for some of the longest lived animals. Certain tortoises and turtles. Some sharks. Some of the oldest species having the longest lives. Looking for answers. ...Dr.Syntax ... Post Script: The : Encyclopedia of Britannica says conifers first appeared between 359 million to 299 million years ago. The World Wide catastophic events that occurred over those many eons boggles my mind. There is some discrepency as to what were the earliest seed producers. May not have been conifers.

I think you are doing all the right things and that it is working for you. You`re doing good,don`t get discouraged. These are life saving/prolonging changes you are making. I`ve been struggling with this myself and it can be very hard to lose weight. Also, I expect you are adding to your muscle tissue. Much of what added to your overall weight has changed from unhealthy fat tissue to healthy muscle mass. Also,large boned people`s ideal BMI is more than that for thinner boned people. ...Dr.Syntax Merged post follows: Consecutive posts mergedI think you are doing all the right things and that it is working for you. You`re doing good,don`t get discouraged. These are life saving/prolonging changes you are making. I`ve been struggling with this myself and it can be very hard to lose weight. Also, I expect you are adding to your muscle tissue. Much of what added to your overall weight has changed from unhealthy fat tissue to healthy muscle mass. Also,large boned people`s ideal BMI is more than that for thinner boned people. ...Dr.Syntax

You can argue what ever you want. How could a prey animal`s ability to feel terror not aid it as a survival trait ? Prey animals in particular need the ability to sense danger and respond quickly. Also, all animals require the ability to sense pain to avoid injurying themselves the same as we do. Or to avoid using an injured limb to allow it to heal. Things like that. ...DS Merged post follows: Consecutive posts merged I will argue that it is this terror response to imminent danger that triggers the neccessary biological chemical entities to be released,pumped into the endangered animals body to maximze it`s ability for fight or flight. There are numerous systems involved in this proccess. Adrenaline and cortisol are well known neurohormones involved in this process. ... Dr.Syntax

I guess you could try ebay also check the web by google searching: used dialysis machine. You never know what you might find. ...DS Merged post follows: Consecutive posts mergedI did a google search using the words: used dialysis machines. There are a very many results that popped up. Results from around the World,. It would probably be helpful for you to specify where you are from. Many hospitals are getting rid of older models and you might possibly do better going through one of them. I don`t know. I saw some being offered for as little as $400 and didn`t spend that much time looking. Of course you need to ensure that it is working correctly. Hope that helps. ...Dr.Syntax

Glucose can be combined with other molecules to create ATP but glucose itself does not contan any ATP. Proper wording is a useful skill to work on. Especially if you are going to be writing scientific papers and such. ...ds

Being: airborne, transmittable through insect bites, sexually transmittable, ones transmittable from eating meat or vegetables,ones that infect through drinking water. Poop related ones. ...ds

the World`s population can be brought under control, I don`t see how any of the problems facing us can be resolved. ...DS

Dr. Janov`s therapy is based on sound scientific principles. There is absolutely nothing supernatural or mystical and such that has anything to do with Primal Therapy. ...ds I am tired of arguing with you. I don`t enoy it. You believe whatever you want as to Primal Therapy. ...Dr.Syntax

I would wish to add that victums of trauma are immediately negatively impacted whether they consciously recall the event or not. In those cases where there is no or only partial recall the event is stored in it`s entirety as an imprint. These imprints can be stored throughout the entire nervous system and express themselves in many ways: nervous ticks,drug addiction,ulcers,high blood pressure,sleeping disorders,depression,phobias,migraines,eating disorders, and on and on. The point being these imprints live on inside the person exerting a negative force,stress hormones and such until and unless that person can reconnect with the repressed event in a way that allows for the emotional reliving of the event in a truly curative manner. Simply talking about it or understanding it better resolves nothing. There is an answer to all this and it is called Primal Therapy. If you are interested in that simply google: primal therapy+janov or simply: primal therapy. There is a lot available on the web regarding Primal Therapy. Here is a link to Arthur Janov`s Primal Center: http:http://www.primaltherapy.com/SEO/primal_theory_overview.shtml . ...Dr.Syntax

I am wrong. The thalmus and hypothalmus have very little to do with each other. ...Dr.Syntax Merged post follows: Consecutive posts mergedThe thalmus and hypothalamus have very little to do with each other. Sorry for this misleading,very inaccurate posting. ...Dr.Syntax

I finally found a site that is not overly complex and that I can link to. Link to: From tounge to nose to brain : http://www.Tastescience.com/abouttaste2.html

I found informative and a bit surprising:" In both mamals and people, the frontal cortex reduces responses to stimuli that elicit fears, but it increases suffering from pain. Fear operates in a low more primitive brain system than pain. The prefrontal cortex wich is the most highly evolved brain region helps an animal to control it`s reactions to fear provoking stimuli, but heightens pain perception. It has the opposite reaction on fear and pain. " Since no references were provided I asssume it was the speakers` remarks. Thier names are Temple Grandin and Mark Deesing at: The American Board of Veterinary Practitioners Symposium 2002 web address : http://www.grandin.com/welfare/fear.pain.stress.html . They then go on to give examples of different experiments done on the brains of animals and back when they did lobotomies on people to explain some interesting aspects of what removing or disconnecting a certain aspect of the brain results in. Behavioral changes, things like that. It`s not a long read and I think there is a lot to learn there about how brains function. ...Dr.Syntax Merged post follows: Consecutive posts mergedI do wish to add that it is Professor Temple Grandin PHD whose list of accomplishments and awards are truly impressive. She is a rare person who both cares about animals and actually does what she can to help insure that animals destined for slaughter are handled more humanely. Ways of ensuring they die quickly and ways to minimize the terror they experience prior to dying. She works with the slaughter houses to do what she can to minimize thier suffering. Her resume is at: http://www.grandin.com/professional.resume.html This is the caliber of person who put together that research ...Dr.Syntax

ability to respond to stimuli. Even fish and chickens have evolved the capacity to feel pain, fear and terror. And when we consider cattle and pigs wich have highly evolved brains able to experience pain,dread,terror much the same as humans do, there seems not much of a point to be made by saying plants are capable of responding to stimuli as if that was the equivilent of what a cow or pig suffers when it is killed for slaughter. Some animals have highly evolved brains and nervous systems including pigs and cows. Plants do not. ...Dr.Syntax

But surely your list of processes that increase genetic diversity would have to include sexual reproduction. If I am wrong please explain how. ...Dr.Syntax Merged post follows: Consecutive posts merged Every process you listed as neutral in fact increases genetic diversity. I don`t like being hard on people but where did you get this information ? Is some creationist literature your source ? Whatever, ...Dr.Syntax

When sufficient trauma occurs the thalamus does not allow portions of, or the entire event to connect with those portions of the brain where conscious memories are stored. They are shunted off to the places in the mind and body where blocked imprints get stored. They do not rest there peacefully. Until and unless they can be felt and connected in a healing way they exert a never resting pressure into the nervous system. This is a very real form of stress and is damaging in many ways to all who live with this condition. I believe Primal Therapy offers the only real resolution for this condition. I don`t know if you were refering to my " morning after " comment or not as to positive emotions and trauma. The original posting did ask if it was possible for a very positive emotion or something like that to cause amnesia. Something like that. Anyway, this morning after effect was the only thing I could think of that might have such an effect. Of course I do not think positive feelings are blocked as a normal function of the brain. Anyway enough of that. I appreciate your response. ...Dr.Syntax

I think your conclusions are correct. There is not that much difference between us and other animals, at least the more highly developed ones. After all we are animals also. I wish you well with your work. ...Dr.Syntax

All sensory input to the brain,except the sense of smell connects to the thalamus for preliminary processing. See http://www.changingstates.co.uk/brain_function.html for further information regarding that. The sense of smell alone has it`s own special organ called the olfactory bulb. This organ is further divided and has two seperate pathways on to other portions of the brain. One of these pathways,the accessory olfactory bulb, leads to the hypothalamus and the amygdala where the axons are thought to influence aggressive and mating behavior. For more on this go to http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Olfactory_bulb#encyclopedia. I find it very intriguing that this one sense`s input is processed so very differently by our brains and the brains of so many other organisms. I believe it is the primary or only way many vertabrates have of locating each other for sexual reproduction. Well, whatever, Dr.Syntax

Thank you Jill Swift, I did not realize that. I`ll keep that in mind in any future postings. ...Dr.Syntax Merged post follows: Consecutive posts merged I made no claims as to preconceptions. I offered no explanations for what occurred. In concluding that posting I stated: " I don`t know what to make of it to this day". Also, it was my girlfriend who thought it was a ghost. I never said I agreed with her. I didn`t and don`t know what to make of it. ...DS

with penicillin. Three of which discussed making insulin. And yet you pick me alone out to accuse of being off topic for mentioning BHT. ...ds

nationally recognized organizations. It`s focus is on the overall impact of trauma/stress on the brain. Amnesia is one of the aspects discussed. The web address is : http://www.lawandpsychiatry.com/html/hippocampus.htm . It`s a fairly short but scholarly article with references. Much of what it discusses is specifically emotional pain/trauma. ...Dr.Syntax

Sorry to disagree with you GDG, But is well documented that extremely traumatic events, both physical and psychological often lead to a sort of partial amnesia with a very many people. I am speaking of partial amnesia, or an inablity to remember events surrounding the traumatic event. Not the sort of total amnesia where people forget who they are. ...Dr.Syntax

Dear The Clairvoyant, Thank you for your thoughtful response. I really do appreciate it. ...Dr.Syntax Merged post follows: Consecutive posts merged descibed an incident in my life that I knew of no scientific explanation for. That is what the original posting asked for. Also I noticed you only partially quoted me.You left out the part about why do so called scientists seek out this section of the forum [ pseudoscience/speculation ] to find postings to ridicule. After all this is the pseudoscience/speculations section. What right does anyone have to demand the rigors of scientific evidence in this section. And why is it people such as yourself feel such a need to belittle and ridicule people such as me ? Merged post follows: Consecutive posts mergedAlso in this merging process my responses are getting edited to the point of leaving out crucial portions of what I am saying. Such as I informed FUZZWORD that I had made no claims and offered no theory as he claimed I did. I responded to the original posting as requested by the original poster. ...Dr.Syntax

insane_alien, In case you did not notice,the topic broadened as the thread progressed as is often the case. Insulin,herbal remedies,making soap and such were discussed. My mention of BHT for use as an anti-viral seemed in line with where the thread had progressed. ...ds