From the doctor...From Discover Magazine re dopamine receptors

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it is interesting that all this information re dopamine and evening

primrose oil comes up now...and what's also interesting is that in

a Discover magazine which my son brought over to my place, i

discovered a short article related to the topic...i tried to just

scan it in and use "textbridge", but the print job on the magazine was

too terrible and the computer couldn't "read" it.

 

So i will type out parts of it manually...

 

a recent study by researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New

York "shows that drug addicts and the chronically obese share a

similar shortage of receptors for dopamine, one of the brain chemicals

that help stimulate feelings of Pleasure.

 

Physician Gene Jack Wang and Psychiatrist Nora Volkow of Brookahven,

along with their colleagues, injected a mixed group of obese people

and those of normal weight with a radioactive chemical that binds to

dopamine receptores, then examined the subjects brains with PET scans.

Obese people had fewer receptors overall, and the disparity increased

with a higher boy mass index. the same researchers had preciously

ovserved a similar paucity of dopamine receptors in scans of the

brains of drug addicts.

 

As with cocaine or heroin, eating causes the body to produce

dopamine. In normal brains, routine pleasures such as watching asunset

also releases dopamine. Researchers hypothesize that brains containing

fewer receptors are less sensitive to everyday joys. "It's like living

your life in Grey," says Volkow. "if other stimuli aren't powerful

enough to activate those reward circuits, you're going to get

something that will, and food will do it." Drugs that boost the

production of dopamines show promise of breaking the cycle of

overating in animal tests. Such tratments are far from FDA approval,

however, and Volkow cautions that human behaviour may limit theri

efficacy. For now, she recommends a familiar but proven alternative:

 

EXERCISE!!!!, which not only releases dopamine, but seems to INCREASE

the number of receptors in the brain over time..."

by Fenella Saunders.

 

So there you have it from the "official" guys...

 

i thought that was interesting too!!! i know that if i don't get any

exercise over time, i start feeling really bad...and even get MORE

migraines...(apparently serotonin is also related to exercise...so

they say...but perhaps dopamine is a problem around Migraines too,

which they may not have addressed yet...because what was said seems

"familiar" in the ways that one has felt at times...the "grey" life...

 

mostly this is in the fall and winter though...so i've always

associated it with SAD...Seasonal Affective Disorder...but for all i

know there could be more to it!!

 

In that Mother's Divine Love

and in Her Service,

as ever,

Your own Self,

 

visvanathan

 

Om Amrtesvaryai Namah!!