In cranial electrotherapy stimulation (CES), microcurrent levels of electrical stimulation are passed across the head via electrodes clipped to the ear lobes. After successful clinical use of CES with fibromyalgia patients in our clinic, it was decided to test these...
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Focus Factor Side Effects
Focus Factor® bottle, not equal to symbol, fresh fruits, vegetables and nuts Focus Factor is a memory booster that provides supplemental nutrition to help you feel sharper and more alert. The ingredients of Focus Factor are vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin D, vitamin E,...
Endorphines, CES and Aging Process
Depleted supplies of "feel good" transmitters means it will be impossible for you to feel happy, upbeat, motivated or on track. You will feel just the opposite: A decrease in energy and interest, feelings of worthlessness and a pervasive sense of helplessness to...
Common Applications of CES (Cranial Electrotherapy Stimulation)
Granted these exceptions, CES proves effective in many applications. In the western culture depression and anxiety seem the most common psychological problems of normal people in normal life. In both cases, clinicians distinguish between reactive and obscure...
What Does the Food You Eat Have to Do with How Your Brain Functions?
What does the food you eat have to do with how your brain functions? Turns out an awful lot. While we’ve always known that what we eat affects our bodies and how we look, scientists are also learning more and more that what we eat takes a toll on our brains. Yes,...
Do You Know That Microcurrent Can Tighten Your Skin?
Microcurrent, a popular treatment for aging skin, uses low level electrical current to trigger the body’s natural skin enhancement chemicals at a cellular level, giving skin therapists an effective tool against the signs of skin aging. While alternative medicine...
Pressure and Stress
Efforts, challenges, threats, or perceived threats or damage (physical and/or psychological) puts pressure on our biosystem. We thrive on various pressures to experience, adapt, survive, learn, and to live. Muscles can develop from putting pressure on them and they...
Stress Related Disorders— A Non-drug Alternative
Central-nervous-system agents today constitute the fastest growing sector of the pharmaceutical market, accounting for 31% of total sales in the United States. In 2001, of the twenty-five drugs with the highest retail sales, eight were psychotropic, those treating...
Cranial Electrotherapy Stimulation as a Treatment for Anxiety in Chemically Dependent Persons
60 inpatient alcohol and/or polydrug abusers (mean age = 33.9) volunteered for this double-blind study. 30 were given CES, 10 sham CES, and 20 served as normal hospital routine controls. Dependent measures of anxiety were the...
Quantity and Quality of Sleep May Act as Fountain of Youth in Old Age
"Why do some people age more 'successfully' than others?" UC Berkeley researchers think sleep is one of the factors. As people get older, they sleep less and wake up more frequently. But does that mean older people just need less sleep? Not according to UC Berkeley...