Brain Bugs

According to the National Institutes of Health, there are sixty to seventy million people affected by digestive diseases in the United States. The old proverb tells us “you are what you eat,” and the latest science shows that this may be truer than we even thought. Diet has a profound effect on both physical and mental health. Most of the body’s immune system is in the gut, so pathology and dysfunction in the gut and imbalanced gut flora can cause neuroinflammation and possibly even neurodegenerative disease over time. Featuring contributions from dozens of experts on gut disorders and related physical, mental, and behavioral health, this book will fascinate you as you read about the intriguing world of bad bugs, cytokine storms, and the environment in your belly that influences your brain. From the microscopic world of Clostridium to the complex communities of biofilm, Bugs, Bowels, and Behavior emphasizes one simple fact: The gut is connected to the brain.

In America, the food supply has steadily degraded over the past 150 years. Commercial foods loaded with chemicals, high-fructose corn syrup, trans-fats, and GMOs have taken over the marketplace. Political interests and corporate greed have controlled our diet for decades, leading to an epidemic of degenerative health conditions. Now we can fight back! Bugs in My Brain, Poison on My Plate explains the problem and provides practical solutions for restoring and maintaining your health by using the Morphogenic Field Technique (MFT) to match the energy of your food to the energy field your body. The latest advancement in natural health care, MFT incorporates muscle response testing with energy healing and personalized nutritional protocols. Ideal for practitioners and patrons alike, this book reveals how to access the innate wisdom of the body to create sustainable, affordable, effective health solutions that will lead to a brighter future for us all.

"Beautifully written, eloquently reasoned…Mr. Buonomano takes us off and running on an edifying scientific journey." —Carol Tavris, Wall Street Journal In Your Brain Is a Time Machine, leading neuroscientist Dean Buonomano embarks on an "immensely engaging" exploration of how time works inside the brain (Barbara Kiser, Nature). The human brain, he argues, is a complex system that not only tells time, but creates it; it constructs our sense of chronological movement and enables "mental time travel"—simulations of future and past events. These functions are essential not only to our daily lives but to the evolution of the human race: without the ability to anticipate the future, mankind would never have crafted tools or invented agriculture. This virtuosic work of popular science will lead you to a revelation as strange as it is true: your brain is, at its core, a time machine.

Every Child Can be a Reading Star A little girl likes bugs so much, everyone calls her Bug. Will the bugs like her as much as she likes them? This is an excellent social emotional text for teaching friendship and empathy skills to beginning readers. Bug and the Bugs is part of the Reading Stars series. Reading Star books are for kids at the very beginning of a lifetime love of reading. Each book features less than 50 words and uses repetition to build confidence. Bug and the Bugs is 28 pages long and features 39 different words for your child to master. The words are: a, am, Bernadette, bug, bugs, calls, dad, does, everyone, give, has, I, is, It, lady, like, likes, me, mom, my, name, names, nickname, not, one, pink, real, really, so, still, stink, stinker, stinky, them, this, to, too, who, wing

You were programmed wrong. It's not your fault and the people who raised you didn't know better. As a result, the bugs in your brain are holding you back from what we want. The key is self-worth. By lifting self-worth you change how you think and correct the flawed programming you got as a child. By following the step-by-step process outlined in this book, you can attain your dream life and get what you want. Higher self-worth is an ever-changing pair of glasses that broadens or limits your view of the world, colors every life experience, and propels you to take action or grounds you in stagnation. Self-worth is the foundation of all your choices, all your actions, and all your efforts. It's the power that governs your abilities to overcome self-destructive behaviors. Higher self-worth is the key to your success. In his ground-breaking book, Robert Christiansen details the bugs in your thinking and outlines a simple program that lifts self-worth. The book includes: the importance of self-worth, the techniques to counteract a negative self-image, and the keys to healthy self-esteem and true contentment. There is so much more to life than anxiety and self-doubt. The Bug in Our Brain shows you what truly makes life worth living!

'My first serious blackout marked the line between sanity and insanity. Though I would have moments of lucidity over the coming days and weeks, I would never again be the same person ...' Susannah Cahalan was a happy, clever, healthy twenty-four-year old. Then one day she woke up in hospital, with no memory of what had happened or how she had got there. Within weeks, she would be transformed into someone unrecognizable, descending into a state of acute psychosis, undergoing rages and convulsions, hallucinating that her father had murdered his wife; that she could control time with her mind. Everything she had taken for granted about her life, and who she was, was wiped out. Brain on Fire is Susannah's story of her terrifying descent into madness and the desperate hunt for a diagnosis, as, after dozens of tests and scans, baffled doctors concluded she should be confined in a psychiatric ward. It is also the story of how one brilliant man, Syria-born Dr Najar, finally proved - using a simple pen and paper - that Susannah's psychotic behaviour was caused by a rare autoimmune disease attacking her brain. His diagnosis of this little-known condition, thought to have been the real cause of devil-possessions through history, saved her life, and possibly the lives of many others. Cahalan takes readers inside this newly-discovered disease through the progress of her own harrowing journey, piecing it together using memories, journals, hospital videos and records. Written with passionate honesty and intelligence, Brain on Fire is a searingly personal yet universal book, which asks what happens when your identity is suddenly destroyed, and how you get it back. 'With eagle-eye precision and brutal honesty, Susannah Cahalan turns her journalistic gaze on herself as she bravely looks back on one of the most harrowing and unimaginable experiences one could ever face: the loss of mind, body and self. Brain on Fire is a mesmerizing story' -Mira Bartók, New York Times bestselling author of The Memory Palace Susannah Cahalan is a reporter on the New York Post, and the recipient of the 2010 Silurian Award of Excellence in Journalism for Feature Writing. Her writing has also appeared in the New York Times, and is frequently picked up by the Daily Mail, Gawker, Gothamist, AOL and Yahoo among other news aggregrator sites.

In a futuristic military adventure a recruit goes through the roughest boot camp in the universe and into battle with the Terran Mobile Infantry in what historians would come to call the First Interstellar War

“Excellent. . . . [Buonomano] reveals the intricate limitations and blessings of the most complex device in the known universe.”—The Atlantic The human brain may be the best piece of technology ever created, but it’s far from perfect. Drawing on colorful examples and surprising research, neuroscientist Dean Buonomano exposes the blind spots and weaknesses that beset our brains and lead us to make misguided personal, professional, and financial decisions. Whether explaining why we are susceptible to advertisements or demonstrating how false memories are formed, Brain Bugs not only explains the brain’s inherent flaws but also gives us the tools to counteract them.