Research articles
This section contains a collection of shorter blog style articles on scientific research material.
Drinking coffee before sleep on purpose
Love coffee? Here's a neat way to use it to enhance your focus and alertness better than just what the caffeine alone can do. Caffeine sometimes gets blamed for ill health. But...
Anaesthesia blocks high frequency brainwaves
More evidence that too many high frequency brain waves can cause stress (over-excitation). One common drug does what years of meditation may do. And gives us clues as to how to...
DNA telomeres and ageing – the fountain of youth
Stress really can shorten your life. And science tells us why by looking at our DNA. Specifically by looking at what happens to a protective cell cap called a telomere. Avoiding...
Sleep deprivation hallucinations and serotonin effects
A lack of sleep can effect your brain in the same way as psychedelic magic mushrooms or LSD. That doesn't mean you should stay up all night to have a drug free trip though. Why...
Sugar, intelligence and brain activity
Forget where you put that chocolate? It may be the chocolates fault. An excess of sugar effects your memory and creativity. The science of brain wave activity tells us why. Do...
“I see red” – red light eye therapy update
'I see red' or I saw red, is one of those sayings that people use when they are angry. Red has long been associated with heightened arousal or warnings. Think stop lights and...
Eating a rainbow to help with ADHD
Could there really be a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow? Yeah I know, it sounds weird right. But research into dietary sources of treatment for ADHD have found that...
Gamma stimulation and Alzheimer’s update: Human trials
Back in March of 2015.., brain researcher Li-Huei Tsai of MIT in Cambridge bathed Alzheimer’s suffering mice in 40Hz Gamma flickering light for a hour a day. To her disbelief,...
Dopamine is an antidote to fear & light exposure effects dopamine function
Dopamine is well known as the 'reward' neurochemical as we get a boost of it when we have an experience worthy of praise or pleasure. Research on dopamine's role in the body also...
Control your weight and extend your lifespan with selenium
If only there was a pill that allowed you to eat whatever you want and still be healthy and not get overweight. Well.., there just might be. And it might be simpler than you...
Protect your heart with Light
Another score for our friend light! It's not new to anyone that sunlight exposure is good for health and wellbeing and is responsible for most of the vitamin D production in our...
Intention alters brainwaves
Forgetting on purpose... What???... Research on patients with epilepsy whom had electrodes temporarily implanted near specific regions of the brain show that when we purposely...