Posts Tagged ‘dietary supplements’

Cooking, Fire and Human Evolution

Did Learning to Cook Push Our Ancestors Toward Modernity? // Intriguing evidence shows that cooking may have been the spark that set human evolution blazing toward higher intelligence and civilization. It has long been a fascinating puzzle to scientists: Why did our apelike ancestors come...

July 26th, 2010 | Evolution | Read More

Can the Peace Drug Help Clean Up the War Mess?

At a conference last weekend, researchers reported positive results on the effectiveness of MDMA in relieving PTSD and talked about psilocybin in reducing stress in late-stage cancer patients By Brian Vastag for Scientific America SAN JOSE, California—Michael Bledsoe’s story begins like that...

April 26th, 2010 | Drug Policy | Read More

Not Feeling Well? Perhaps You’re ‘Marijuana Deficient’

Scientists have begun speculating that the root cause of disease conditions such as migraines and irritable bowel syndrome may be endocannabinoid deficiency. From AlterNet, by Paul Armentano For several years I have postulated that marijuana is not, in the strict sense of the word, an intoxicant. As...

April 19th, 2010 | Drug Policy | Read More

Over the counter “paranormal” drug used by 3.1 million Americans to get high

According to a recent report from the US based on SAMHSA’s National Survey on Drug Use and Health, “…the cough suppressant dextromethorphan (DXM) is found in more than 140 over-the-counter (OTC) cough and cold medications. In 2006 about 3.1 million persons aged 12 to 25 (5.3%) had ever...

April 12th, 2010 | Drug Policy | Read More

Confessions of a ten-a-day man

William Leith used to take painkillers morning and night – for the headaches he had and the headaches he worried he might get. He’s not alone. As the instant-relief market explodes, he investigates: are too many pills too much of a good thing? From the Guardian. When I was growing up in...

February 25th, 2010 | Drug Policy | Read More

Drugs & the Internet: Cyberdellic (R)evolution

This is a transcript of a talk by Charlotte Walsh at Retox Seminar earlier this month: Drugs & the Internet are inextricably and symbiotically entwined. Indeed, the very origins of the Internet are bound up with the exuberant experimentation with psychedelic drugs that took place in Silicon Valley...

February 4th, 2010 | Science & Technology | Read More

Rat Made Supersmart — Similar Boost Unsafe in Humans?

By modifying a single gene, scientists have made Hobbie-J the smartest rat in the world, a new study says. A similar gene tweak might boost human brainpower too, but scientists warn that there is such a thing as being too smart for your own good. Matt Kaplan for National Geographic News For years...

December 16th, 2009 | Science of the Mind | Read More

Feeling Go(o)d: The Physics of Emotion

Even before she was chief of brain biochemistry at the National Institutes of Health, Candace Pert made a breakthrough discovery that changed the way scientists understand the mind-body connection. She found the opiate receptor, the mechanism by which a class of chemicals (peptides) alters the mind and...

December 8th, 2009 | Science of the Mind | Read More

Left in the Dark

While a student at Edinburgh Botanic Gardens and preparing a short dissertation entitled ‘The Genetic Manipulation of Plants’ the subconscious seeds of a revolutionary new theory were sown in Tony Wright’s mind. Over the next 20 years a mixture of scientific curiosity and radical self-experimentation...

November 17th, 2009 | Science of the Mind | Read More

Is your cheeseburger causing global warming?

James Cascio exhibits the growing concern that modern dietary habits are unnatural and unsustainable. In fact the global livestock management industry occupies 30% of the world’s land surface and is responsible for 18% of human-made Greenhouse Gas emissions – that’s 4% more than the...

October 21st, 2009 | Environment | Read More