Babies- Safe Cosmetics – Get the facts whats in baby products

From learning how to smile to taking their first steps, babies grow on a daily basis, and the first three years of life are the most critical for development[1]. During this vulnerable time, it is important to limit babies’ exposure to chemicals linked to adverse health effects so that every baby has the chance to develop into a healthy adult.

http://www.safecosmetics.org/get-the-facts/whats-in-my-products/people/babies/

Babies, just like grown-ups, are exposed to many toxic chemicals via personal care products throughout the day including sunscreens, ointments, oils, shampoos and soaps. Many of these products are easily absorbed through the skin into the blood stream, and babies are at least ten times more vulnerable to the chemicals in these products than adults.[2]

Products of Concern– Shampoo, soap, conditioner, body wash, wipes, lotion, bubble bath, baby oil and sunscreen.

Chemicals of Concern– 1, 4-Dioxane, formaldehyde, formaldehyde-releasing preservatives, fragrance, phthalates, parabens, octinoxate, benzophenones, ethanolamines and nitrosamines.

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The Physics of Life, Evolution and the Endocannabinoid System by Dr Bob Melamede, Program Director Phoenix Tears Foundation, Denver CO,

The Physics of Life, Evolution and the Endocannabinoid System by Dr Bob Melamede Program Director Phoenix Tears Foundation, Denver CO,

The earth is constantly bombarded by electromagnetic waves that in conjunction with the heat of the earth have powered the chemical conversions that led to the emergence of life. Nobel laureate Ilya Prigogine pioneered a new form of physics known is far from equilibrium thermodynamics. His work is based on the concept that flowing energy naturally organizes matter. Flow dependent dissipative structures naturally form because they generate more entropy to their surroundings than would occur in their absence. Hence they are consistent with the second law of thermodynamics. Consequently, for the first time in human history, we have a theoretical framework for understanding life, its emergence and it’s evolution.

The emergence of life from the inorganic prebiotic “soup” was a far from equilibrium phase change, as was/is also the case with the emergence of new species or their disappearance with extinction. With the evolution of vertebrates, a new homeostatic mechanism appeared, the endocannabinoid system. The endocannabinoid system homeostatically regulates all human body systems (circulatory, digestive, endocrine, immunological, neuromuscular, skeletal, reproductive and skin) from conception until death!

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Rationally Designed 2-in-1 Nanoparticles Can Overcome Adaptive Resistance in Cancer

Rationally Designed 2-in-1 Nanoparticles Can Overcome Adaptive Resistance in Cancer. ACS Nano, 2016; DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.6b00320

Math, biology and nanotechnology are becoming strange, yet effective bed-fellows in the fight against cancer treatment resistance. Researchers have engineered a revolutionary new approach to cancer treatment that pits a lethal combination of drugs together into a single nano particle.

Math, biology and nanotechnology are becoming strange, yet effective bed-fellows in the fight against cancer treatment resistance. Researchers at the University of Waterloo and Harvard Medical School have engineered a revolutionary new approach to cancer treatment that pits a lethal combination of drugs together into a single nanoparticle. The approach the bioengineers took was to build a single nanoparticle, inspired by computer models, that exploit a technique known as supramolecular chemistry. This nanotechnology enables scientists to build cholesterol-tethered drugs together from “tetris-like” building blocks that self-assemble, incorporating multiple drugs into stable, individual nano-vehicles that target tumors through the leaky vasculature. This 2-in-1 strategy ensures that resistance to therapy never has a chance to develop, bringing together the right recipe to destroy surviving cancer cells. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160623150159.htm

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Reversal of cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s disease

Reversal of cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s disease

http://www.impactaging.com/papers/v8/n6/abs/100981a.html
Easton Laboratories for Neurodegenerative Disease Research, Department of Neurology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Novato, CA 94945, USA

Alzheimer’s disease is one of the most significant healthcare problems nationally and globally. Recently, the first description of the reversal of cognitive decline in patients with early Alzheimer’s disease or its precursors, MCI (mild cognitive impairment) and SCI (subjective cognitive impairment), was published [1]. The therapeutic approach used was programmatic and personalized rather than monotherapeutic and invariant, and was dubbed metabolic enhancement for neurodegeneration (MEND). Patients who had had to discontinue work were able to return to work, and those struggling at work were able to improve their performance. The patients, their spouses, and their co-workers all reported clear improvements. Here we report the results from quantitative MRI and neuropsychological testing in ten patients with cognitive decline, nine ApoE4+ (five homozygous and four heterozygous) and one ApoE4-, who were treated with the MEND protocol for 5-24 months. The magnitude of the improvement is unprecedented, providing additional objective evidence that this programmatic approach to cognitive decline is highly effective. These results have far-reaching implications for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, MCI, and SCI; for personalized programs that may enhance pharmaceutical efficacy; and for personal identification of ApoE genotype.

http://www.impactaging.com/papers/v8/n6/abs/100981a.html

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Non Toxic Weed Control

It’s been said that weeds are just plants whose virtues have not yet been discovered. True plant vegetable gardens and pull up that lawn,
But if you’re tired of waiting to find out what those virtues are, you might want to use one of these homemade herbicides instead of the chemical versions.
Many common weeds can be either food, medicine, or unwanted visitors to the garden, depending on the varieties and how you view them. But if you’ve eaten all of them you can, and you still need to get rid of weeds in your yard, it’s far better for you, your soil, and your local waterways to choose a more environmentally friendly herbicide than those commonly found in the home and garden center.
Strong chemical herbicides, pesticides, and fungicides can end up polluting our drinking water, our groundwater, and surface water, so it’s important to consider the longer term effects of using them, and to instead make the choice to use a gentler herbicide, which won’t contribute to the larger issue of water contamination.

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The race to create super-crops. Old-fashioned breeding techniques are bearing more fruit than genetic engineering in developing hyper-efficient plants by Natasha Gilbert

The race to create super-crops. Old-fashioned breeding techniques are bearing more fruit than genetic engineering in developing hyper-efficient plants by Natasha Gilbert

“Researchers are trying to combine old-fashioned breeding with a variety of high-tech methods, using a computer model that simulates natural selection to work out what combination of root characteristics will boost crops’ performance under nutrient stress and also identifying genetic markers for useful root traits, which should help to indicate whether plants’ offspring have the desired genes and should speed up the breeding processes”

http://www.nature.com/news/the-race-to-create-super-crops-1.19943#/

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