“GABA” stands for “Gamma Amino Butyric Acid,” a neurotransmitter long known for its relaxing, anticonvulsant (meaning “anti-seizure”) activity. We have certainly found ways to increase its presence with drugs that operate on, well, “lateral pathways” to increase its presence quantitatively. Unfortunately, these usually involve addictive substances, like benzodiazepines, which are pretty heavily addictive for most folks.
I am really glad those loveable Brits at U. Cambridge are saying they help “repress” unwanted thoughts. This is to me, a direct validation of Freudian Thought. We “repress” thoughts, and this seems to be linked to the way we do so. Read more on The Function Of GABA…
Filed under Alternative Medicine, medicine, Mental Illness, News, Research by on Jun 13th, 2018. Comment. 
You probably haven’t heard of low-dose naltrexone, but it could help you.
You may not even have heard of regular naltrexone. Read more on Low-Dose Gives A Big Boost…
Filed under Alternative Medicine, Doctors, life, medicine, News by on Jun 12th, 2018. Comment.
Here it is — I strongly recommend downloading the video.
It must be true, because it is presented by Robin Roberts, apparently anchorhuman of ABC’s Good Morning America.
Whether it is a prosthetic hand for a little girl or someday a human heart made of human heart type cells that beat, this application of 3d printing is to me the most dramatic use of computer technology on humans yet. Read more on 3D Printing Is Changing Medicine…
Filed under Alternative Medicine, medicine, News by on Jun 5th, 2018. Comment.
There is another Estelle Goldstein on Linked-In who is listed as an Independent Health, Wellness and Fitness Professional in the Greater Philadelphia Area. This is NOT me! If you have sent a Linked-In request to this person (probably from searching for my name) please send to my current Linked-In address:
CURRENT — ORANGE COUNTY
https://www.linkedin.com/in/estelle-toby-goldstein-6b469059/
There is also a legitimate — but old and outdated — profile on Linked-In at
https://www.linkedin.com/in/estelle-toby-goldstein-6a8580b/
If you want to be on my current network, please send a new request to the current profile listed above.
Sorry for any confusion.
Filed under Alternative Medicine, News by on May 26th, 2018. Comment.
She is confused and hurts but does not want to take the time to change her antidepressant now.
She tells me that all of her doctors, her pain management doctor and now her new consultation endocrinologist, are doing more and more of the same thing and it is making her worse. Read more on Doctors and Knowledge…
Filed under Diagnosis, Doctors, medical errors, medicine, News by on May 22nd, 2018. Comment.
Remember Portugal? A very long time, ships left from there to explore the Americas and stuff.
In the late 1990’s, about one percent of their population was addicted to opioids. They had all kinds of criminal type drug programs, and at least as bad a drug program as America could imagine in its worst nightmares. Read more on How To Get Rid Of Opiate Addiction…
Filed under Addictions, Government, News, politics, prescription drugs, Substance Abuse by on May 22nd, 2018. Comment.
Anyone who still believes California is the land of “swimming pools and movie stars,” needs to spend a couple of hours at a DMV (Department of Motor Vehicles) office pretty much anywhere in the state.
Whether you make an appointment (and none is generally available before the date when a party gets mandated to show up) or not, there are lots of activities available while you sit in those “contour chairs.” Read more on Waiting At The DMV…
Filed under Government, military, News by on May 21st, 2018. Comment.
The depth of psychiatry deals with the entrails — the innards.
The world of psychiatry of the deepest personal thoughts is a world of fantasies of murder and fantasies or death and they are deep, so very deep, that sometimes people don’t even know that they think about them. Read more on It Sounds Like A Joke But —…
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The easy part is the FDA congratulating itself for an initial effort in 2004 to diminish the use of antidepressants in children and adolescents by adding the black-box warning that such medication may increase suicidal ideation.
Equally easy is blaming physicians who treat children and adolescents for becoming “inured” to warnings. Read more on More Kids On Antidepressants…
Filed under depression, medicine, News, Psychiatrists by on May 18th, 2018. Comment.
I often think of Emma Bovary.
In 1856, Gustave Flaubert’s first novel was helped along in sales by a trial for obscenity. And yet the school of thought Flaubert embodied was called “literary realism.” Read more on Literature and Psychology…
Filed under Alternative Medicine, Brain, Diagnosis, Disease, medicine, News, Psychology by on May 17th, 2018. Comment.