2011年11月20日星期日

It's true - dormant brain cells can be reactivated

"I get my bestest ideas from two places, primarily. Seldom do I feel creative when I'm working at a computer. But when I'm working out on my elliptical machine, ideas come like cold sores on a wedding day. I also get a lot of Pulitzer moments when I am soaking in a bubble bath, with the jets blowing Strawceramic magic cube for the medical,berry Shortcake's Sweet Berry Bubbles all around me, while Leo, my intimidating 12-pound dog shields me from the paparazzi.

(Whatever you do, Nancy, do not print that. I mean I wouldn't mind if you printed that when my wife massages my feet for 45 minutes I have an urge to send her to the spa of her choice, but mention the bubble bath thing and, editor or not, I will hunt you down.)

T hough some folks likely think I work out to maintain my schoolgirl figure. No, I work out to generate thinking thoughts to think about in the thought area of my thinker. Turns out there is some science involved.

After birth (best not read together as a noun) our brains start to lose nerve cells, a process that continues as we age to the point where we consider marrying a Kardashian.which applies to the first offshore merchant account only, But the neural stem cells that do remain are very active in the younger, totally awesome portion of our species, active meaning that these stem cells are busy proliferating and making new brain cells all the time. This, of course, is why kids so often ignore us. They can't hear for all the racket them stem cells are making.

But as we get older these nerve stem cells (though actually not much less in number than when we were younger) pack up, buy Bermuda shorts, behemoth sunglasses and a Winnebago and head to Pompano Beach.They persist in a long state of dormancy, known in scientific circles as Torontus mapleleafus. But they can be reactivated! How you asked? Either through exercise or by actually having a seizure.Your choice. Of course, should you happen to exercise so hard that you have a seizure, your brain will likely produce so many new cells that your head will expand and pop off, as expanding heads are wont to do. Most of these newly-formed nerve cells hang out in the hippocampus, an area of the brain responsible for memory and learning. This means,the Plastic molding are swollen blood vessels of the rectum. in fact, that we can exercise ourselves into learning new tricks right into old age.

My friend June had been very physically active all of her 70 years. She had always wanted to play piano but never did. On her 70th birthday, her delightfully devious husband, David, snuck a baby grand, yes snuck it into their living room as she slept downstairs, likely having been drugged by him.They take the China Porcelain tile to the local co-op market.Almost every day since she's played for 45 minutes.Ten years later, now in her 80s, June, at our behest played some of her Grade 8 conservatory music like David Foster on Red Bull. She had honed, carved, sculpted the new nerve cells, courtesy of all her exercising, and now could entertain us and annoy her neighbours at the same time. David's head would nod with the beat, even when he was awake.

Our neuronal stem cells do not disappear with age but are kept in reserve. It is up to us to call them out of the reserves into active duty.The precise factors that influence the reactivation of dormant stem cells are not entirely clear and may involve everything from exercising to singing the blues to blueberries, and even tossing in an occasional seizure to impress the dog. But our dormant brain cells can, indeed, be stimulated to divide again.You can compare them to bubbles in a bubble bath.Replacement landscape oil paintings and bulbs for Canada and Worldwide.They start off doing very little until you turn the jets on, at which time they rapidly proliferate, enveloping your entire body whilst entertaining you, your dog and Rubby the Duck at the same time.

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