Keep Your Brain As Sharp As a Samurai Sword
NASA astronauts were having problems with headache, nausea, and vomiting.
Up to 40% of the astronauts were experiencing these symptoms of "Space Adaptation Syndrome" within a few days of launch.
NASA's medical team went to work to discover what was happening.
What they learned can help you back here on earth.
Your brain cells are very, very finicky Brain cells are more metabolically active than practically any other cell in your body.
That's why, more than any other organ, your brain needs a precisely controlled inner environment in order to work right.
The concentration of sodium, calcium, glucose, and every other chemical substance has to be exactly regulated.
The pressure inside your skull has to be precisely controlled too.
Out in space, without gravity, the job of controlling skull pressure is a lot harder.
It turns out that the astronauts with space adaptation syndrome had more rigid skulls, less able to adapt to pressure changes.
When the pressure built up inside their cranium, their brain function deteriorated.
Their skulls lacked compliance.
It turns out that having too hard of a head isn't a good thing.
Meanwhile, back on planet earth Poor control of pressure in the skull is a phenomenon that can happen back on earth, too.
And when it does, a range of symptoms can emerge.
Often they're subtle.
Anyone who's had a blow to the head is at risk.
And in some people, poor skull compliance begins in infancy or childhood when the brain is growing at a phenomenal rate.
Testing for poor skull compliance isn't a routine medical screening test, and a typical physician lacks familiarity with this condition.
So there's little likelihood that your medical doctor will send you for the expensive high-tech tests that NASA used to measure skull movement down to the micrometer.
Fortunately, a few physicians in this country (mostly doctors of chiropractic but a few osteopaths and others as well) specialize in the hands-on healing arts.
With highly developed skills in palpation (obtaining diagnostic information through the sense of touch) an experienced practitioner can get a good idea if poor skull compliance is contributing to your problems.
There's an entire method of manual therapy - craniosacral therapy - that focuses on palpating the slight movements of the skull bones as they accommodate to changes in intracranial fluid pressure.
When these adaptive movements are blocked, various flavors of health havoc result.
Craniosacral therapy uses the gentlest possible treatment methods to restore normal skull adaptability and reverse the effects of poor adaptation to pressure changes.
Craniosacral therapy can be effective for both common and exotic health problems.
From chronic pain to balance problems.
Migraine, TMJ syndrome, brain trauma.
Depression and anxiety.
Tremors and Tourette syndrome.
Frozen shoulder and carpal tunnel syndrome.
And lots more.
Find a craniosacral therapist in your community.
Or contact Dr.
Lavine at drlavine@askdrlavine.
com for more information.
Up to 40% of the astronauts were experiencing these symptoms of "Space Adaptation Syndrome" within a few days of launch.
NASA's medical team went to work to discover what was happening.
What they learned can help you back here on earth.
Your brain cells are very, very finicky Brain cells are more metabolically active than practically any other cell in your body.
That's why, more than any other organ, your brain needs a precisely controlled inner environment in order to work right.
The concentration of sodium, calcium, glucose, and every other chemical substance has to be exactly regulated.
The pressure inside your skull has to be precisely controlled too.
Out in space, without gravity, the job of controlling skull pressure is a lot harder.
It turns out that the astronauts with space adaptation syndrome had more rigid skulls, less able to adapt to pressure changes.
When the pressure built up inside their cranium, their brain function deteriorated.
Their skulls lacked compliance.
It turns out that having too hard of a head isn't a good thing.
Meanwhile, back on planet earth Poor control of pressure in the skull is a phenomenon that can happen back on earth, too.
And when it does, a range of symptoms can emerge.
Often they're subtle.
Anyone who's had a blow to the head is at risk.
And in some people, poor skull compliance begins in infancy or childhood when the brain is growing at a phenomenal rate.
Testing for poor skull compliance isn't a routine medical screening test, and a typical physician lacks familiarity with this condition.
So there's little likelihood that your medical doctor will send you for the expensive high-tech tests that NASA used to measure skull movement down to the micrometer.
Fortunately, a few physicians in this country (mostly doctors of chiropractic but a few osteopaths and others as well) specialize in the hands-on healing arts.
With highly developed skills in palpation (obtaining diagnostic information through the sense of touch) an experienced practitioner can get a good idea if poor skull compliance is contributing to your problems.
There's an entire method of manual therapy - craniosacral therapy - that focuses on palpating the slight movements of the skull bones as they accommodate to changes in intracranial fluid pressure.
When these adaptive movements are blocked, various flavors of health havoc result.
Craniosacral therapy uses the gentlest possible treatment methods to restore normal skull adaptability and reverse the effects of poor adaptation to pressure changes.
Craniosacral therapy can be effective for both common and exotic health problems.
From chronic pain to balance problems.
Migraine, TMJ syndrome, brain trauma.
Depression and anxiety.
Tremors and Tourette syndrome.
Frozen shoulder and carpal tunnel syndrome.
And lots more.
Find a craniosacral therapist in your community.
Or contact Dr.
Lavine at drlavine@askdrlavine.
com for more information.
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