Your Dog Is Healing You

12 minutes of communication with your or any friendly dog immediately

• lowers arterial pressure;
• restores lungs function;
• prevents heart attacks;
• takes out cortisol, neuro hormone of stress;
• improves blood circulation;
• releases endorphins and makes you happy,

according to materials from American Heart Association's scientific sessions, 2005.

Moreover, walking with your friendly dog changes your brain.

The vast colored area on the right diagram shows the region,

where endorphins are released to make you happy!

Happiness, in its turn, protects your heart from attacks and failures.

When your dog feels that you are going to take it for a walk, its joy knows no boundaries.

Dogs read people’s intentions. Did you know that?

Dogs must mark vast territories and sniff to be always healthy.

This is my dog.

This is where we live and walk, to mutual delight.

When you walk together, you start noticing beautiful trifles and surroundings around you, 

including architecture in your residential area.

Your camera will fix them all, to your pleasure.

P.S. If you have no possibility to have a dog, you could ‘rent’ it for week-ends at special places.

Enjoy life!

Dogs are very grateful for your attention and tenderness.

Natalia Levis-Fox

References

1. Hopkins ME, Davis FC, Vantieghem MR, Whalen PJ, Bucci DJ. Differential effects of acute and regular physical exercise on cognition and affect. Neuroscience. 2012 Jul 26;215:59-68. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2012.04.056. Epub 2012 Apr 30.  Read the article from journal
2. Turner J, Exercise-related headache, Curr Sports Med Rep. 2003 Feb;2(1):15-7. Indiana University Center for Sports Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA.

Murphy’s Law: What Women Really Think

If you want to know, what woman really thinks,

look at her and never listen to her!

What does this girl want?

Look at people and enjoy your new capabilities to read people...

You will find a lot of lies!

Natalia Levis-Fox

Murphy’s Law About Embraces and Furs

When a woman tells her man that she is cold,

He thinks that she wants him to hold her tight

She hints at buying a fur coat for her!

Women are tricky!

Do you wear beautiful furs?

Natalia Levis-Fox

Feelings:Power On Snow

Do you feel the power?

Love,

Natalia Levis-Fox

Why Alcohol Is Addicting? (Part II)

Continued from  Part  I

Researchers indicate that the brains of heavy or problem drinkers are changed in a way that makes them more likely to find alcohol pleasant. That greater feeling of reward might cause them to drink too much.

Neuroscientists found that endorphins released in response to drinking bind to a specific type of opioid receptor, the Mu receptor.

The receptor sites "lit up" on PET imaging,

allowing the researchers to map their exact locations.

All these colored areas express mu-receptors and peptides on different brain areas

Opioid receptors are distributed throughout the brain and spinal cord.  They mediate a number of activities including analgesia, species-typical behavior, and reward. Both endogenous opioids, (naturally produced within the body) and exogenous opiates, which are produced outside the body (drugs), produce pain relief and euphoria. The effects are produced by opioids binding to opioid receptors throughout the body.

Mu (opioid) receptors (red) on dopamine containing neuron (green)

(we shall speak about dopamine and its role to our satisfying life and addictions later)

Alcohol kicks natural endorphins off

in orbitofrontal cortex and nucleus accumbens.

Part of endorphins gets into intracellular liquid, thus produces the effect of wellness and high spirits.

Another part of these neurochemicals sits on μu-receptors.

These receptors are situated on the receiving neuron; and commands to relax are running from it to other neurons and chains.

As a result, pleasant sensations are spreading all over the body, relaxing the muscles of your face, neck, back, legs and arms.

You feel nice, sexy, healthy and attractive!

Social fears disappear…

You become friendly and good company…

When the number of natural endorphins in cells is expired through aggressive use of alcohol, some people add and add alcohol to prolong the effect of wellness. In vain! There is nothing remained to release from endorphins containing neurons.

Receptors become angry and demanding…

Some people become 

aggressive 

as other mechanisms are trigged.

But this is another story.

To be continued…

Love,

Natalia Nevis-Fox

Journal References:

1. J. M. Mitchell, J. P. O'Neil, M. Janabi, S. M. Marks, W. J. Jagust, H. L. Fields. Alcohol Consumption Induces Endogenous Opioid Release in the Human Orbitofrontal Cortex and Nucleus Accumbens. Science Translational Medicine, 2012; 4 (116): 116ra6 DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3002902 
2. Schultz W, Tremblay L, Hollerman JR (2000) Reward processing in primate orbitofrontal cortex and basal ganglia. Cerebral Cortex 10: 272-283. doi:10.1093/cercor/10.3.272
3. H. E. Fisher, L. L. Brown, A. Aron, G. Strong, D. Mashek.Reward, Addiction and Emotion Regulation Systems Associated with Rejection in Love. Journal of Neurophysiology, 2010; DOI: 10.1152/jn.00784.2009
4. G. Sescousse, J. Redoute, J.-C. Dreher. The Architecture of Reward Value Coding in the Human Orbitofrontal Cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 2010; 30 (39): 13095 DOI:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3501-10.2010
5. Kringelbach ML., Rolls ET. The functional neuroanatomy of the human orbitofrontal cortex: Evidence from neuroimaging and neuropsychology. Prog Neurobiol, volume 72, pp341-342, 2004.
6. Rolls, Edmund T. and Grabenhorst, Fabian. (2008) The orbitofrontal cortex and beyond: From affect to decision-making. Progress in Neurobiology, 86 (3). pp. 216-244. ISSN 0301-0082.