Roxane Cohen Silver, PhD, the University of California, Irvine
http://www.webmd.com/balance/features/emotional-wellbeing-benefits-of-adversity
Researchers have found that a lack of sleep diminishes your attention and concentration, thereby affecting your problem solving abilities. Without adequate rest, you cannot learn well. It also keeps you from “consolidating” memories, so you cannot remember what you learned from day to day.
http://health.yahoo.net/experts/dayinhealth/10-surprising-sleep-facts
http://news.menshealth.com/the-happiest-people-in-america/2012/03/02/
While Steve Prefontaine became one of the most decorated long-distance runners of his generation in college, few remember how bad Prefontaine was in high school. Prefontaine could barely run a race during his freshman and sophomore years of high school, but was determined to change course during the summer of his junior year. His work ethic led him to become one of the most popular athletes of the 1970′s, though his untimely passing in 1975 was described as the “end of an era,” for distance runners. His spirit lives on with the inspirational quote, “To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.”
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QUICK FACTS ABOUT NEGATIVE IONS AND HUMAN HEALTH
1) “Negative ions increase the flow of oxygen to the brain; resulting in higher alertness, decreased drowsiness, and more
mental energy.”
- Pierce J. Howard, PhD, author of The Owners Manual for the Brain: Everyday Applications from Mind Brain Research and
director of research at the Center for Applied Cognitive Sciences in Charlotte,
N.C.
2) Negative ions are beneficial to the human body in four major ways – “Economy Daily News”
- Strengthen the functions of autonomic nerves
- Reinforces collagen (tissues that are resilient and tension-related)
- Improves the permeability of the cell’s prototype plasma
- Strengthens the body’s immune system
3) “Negative ions speed up oxidation of seratonin (5-hydroxtryptamine) in the blood. This is well known to have far reaching
effects on mood, pain relief and sexual drive.”
- John Heinerman, Ph.D
4) Negative ion treatment has proven to be successful in reducing the overproduction of serotonin, and therefore successful in alleviating depression in some cases.
- Kreuger, 1957.-Peakpureair.com
5) The higher level of negative ion treatment proved to be as effective against SAD as antidepressants, such as Prozac and Zolof, but without the side effects of these drugs.
- Finley, 1996-Peakpureair.com
6) Negative ions improve asthma and other respiratory conditions.
- Kroger Pharmacy
7) Negative ions may decrease the severity of depressive symptoms (including the reverse neurovegetative symptoms of hypersomnia, hyperphagia, and fatigability).
- The Good Drug Guide
8) Negative ions aid in cellular regeneration promoting youthfulness and longevity.
- John Heinerman, Ph.D
If you want to exercise before work but aren’t a morning person, try this trick: For a set period—say, 4 weeks—force yourself to get up 15 minutes earlier than normal and do any type of physical activity (walking, for instance). “Make it so easy that you don’t even have to change into your workout clothes,” says John Raglin, Ph.D., an exercise researcher. As you near the end of the 4 weeks, you’ll have a new habit and will then be able to progress to greater amounts of exercise.
Read more: http://www.menshealth.com/mhlists/100-best-fitness-tips/Get_Up_and_at_Em.php?page=4#ixzz1lAYUygu4
Sir William Jones
Effects of Positive & Negative Ions on People
Study by: Jerusalem University
Dr Felix Sulman, head of the Applied Pharmacology department at Jerusalem University, conducted experiments with positive and negative ions on a cross-section of people. (his subjects were two groups of men and women between twenty and sixty-five) When left for about an hour in a room that contained an overdose of positive ions they became irritable and fatigued. Yet the same people confined for the same period of time, in air containing an overdose of negative ions, showed a pattern of brainwaves that suggested increased alertness and relaxation. He tested their alertness and work capacity by various means. All of them scored significantly higher, during and immediately after, their exposure to increased levels of negative ions.
Dr Sulman also undertook a study of “weather sensitive” volunteers and showed that, during the time of the Sharav winds, their bodies would produce up to ten times their normal level of serotonin – a hormone associated with stress. He found that, in effect, they were being poisoned by their own serotonin, causing migraines, hot flushes, irritability, pains around the heart, difficulty in breathing and a worsening of bronchial complaints, anxiety and irrational tension. Also a slowing of reactions was observed. Interestingly, it was discovered that in many people, the body’s initial response to positive ions is to produce adrenaline and noradrenaline – the “fight or flight” hormones – which produces short-term euphoria but eventually leads to a condition of exhaustion. (It is this condition that is thought to affect insects and animals into restless activity as the positive ions build up before a storm.) The research also showed that exposure to positive ions can trigger an over-production of histamine, which most people will immediately recognize as the body chemical that aggravates allergies. Statistically it was found that 25% of the population are quite strongly affected by levels of ions in the air. Of the remainder, 50% are affected considerably, although 25% do not appear sensitive at all.
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