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Barral came naturally to his vocation. "My grandmother was a healer, and I always liked to touch people," he says. Working as a physical therapist before receiving his osteopathic training in England, he discovered that each internal organ has a capacity to cause pain to the spinal column, whereas conventional osteopathic thinking assumed the opposite. "At the time nobody was talking about manipulating organs," he recalls, "but I kept seeing patients with aches and pains that I could relieve simply by kneading their organs...
Opioid painkillers, which include morphine and heroin as well as prescription products like Percocet, Percodan and Vicodin, are so dangerous because they are so seductive. They work by throwing up roadblocks all along the pain pathway from the nerve endings in the skin to the spinal cord to the brain. In the brain these drugs open the floodgates for the chemical dopamine, which triggers sensations of well-being. Dopamine rewires the brain to become accustomed to those benign feelings. When an addicted person stops taking the drug, the body craves the dopamine again...
...Seeking to curb the epidemic and restore consumer confidence, the E.U. has adopted a series of draconian measures. Among the requirements: all untested cattle older than 30 months must be purchased and destroyed; high-risk materials like brains, spinal matter and tonsils must be eliminated from the food chain; and animal feed containing meat and bone meal, widely suspected of spreading the infection, must be banned and existing stocks destroyed...
Developed by a former Romanian ballet dancer, gyrotonics is popular among dancers and athletes, but it has also been used in Germany to help elderly patients with osteoporosis and spinal injuries. Mastering the machine isn't easy or inexpensive: it typically requires six to 10 one-on-one lessons, at $45 to $75 an hour. A smaller, foldable home version will be introduced in two months (available on www.gyrotonic.com) with an instruction video. Target price: a measly...
...first cases appeared in humans; the disease was re-christened yet again as a "new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease" (VCJD) because it resembled an existing illness whose cause is unknown. The new disease was probably caused by eating beef containing brain or spinal tissue from mad cows, since human cases invariably turned up in countries with BSE problems...