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How smartphone addiction affects brain function and mental health

November 16, 2023 -

According to a recent study published in Computers in Human Behavior, problematic smartphone use can cause cognitive impairments, poor sleep quality and depression. The study authors noted that although problematic smartphone use generally correlates with screen time, high screen time alone does not necessarily cause adverse effects. Smartphone use only becomes problematic when it starts to interfere with daily life.

In an article published in EXCLI Journal, Sehar Shoukat ...

How to deal with bad eating habits: Understanding sugar addiction

September 22, 2023 -

Sugar cravings can affect your overall health and may cause different complications like obesity and diabetes. Experts are still only beginning to understand the nature of sugar addiction, but studies have revealed that sugar raises dopamine levels.

In a 2005 article published in the Journal of Neuroscience, scientists reported that binging daily on sugar "repeatedly releases dopamine in the accumbens shell [a section of the brain affected by dopamine]." The findings ...

Gut bacteria can influence your mood, thoughts, behavior and brain

August 02, 2023 -

Reputable scientists like Dr. Michael Gershon, dubbed the father of neurogastroenterology, believe that humans have a second brain in the gut.

With the brain and the gut working in a bi-direction, they could affect each other's functions and significantly impact anxiety, cognition, depression and stress, as shown in the study published in the journal Nutrition Reviews.

This explains why antibiotics that disturb the gut microbial ecosystem can cause neuropsychiatric ...

Tim Arrigo: RESILIENCE is the only way to overcome an ADDICTION

August 08, 2023 -

"The only way to really overcome an addiction is through resilience. The problem is: It's very hard to treat," he told Jeff Dornik during the Aug. 1 episode of "The Jeff Dornik Show."

"You have to be a very resilient human being. The problem is, you can't teach resilience and you can't teach spirituality. I can tell you about … resilience and spirituality [and] I can pray with you. But I can't force you or make you have a relationship or an experience with God."

According ...

Psychopathic behavior on the rise as society descends into freefall collapse

January 23, 2024 -

Over the past 10 years, there has been a dramatic uptick in mass violence and theft across the country. The advent of social media is fueling these types of incidents, which can now be organized quickly and efficiently online with large numbers of people.

Riots, looting and other uncivil behavior are fast-becoming a hallmark of the New America, which is basically a third-world country where the gap between the haves and the have-nots is growing exponentially, due in ...

Overconsumption of high fructose corn syrup-rich foods causes health problems, addiction

2 months ago -

HFCS was first developed in 1957 by biochemists Richard O. Marshall and Earl R. Kool. The pair discovered an enzyme capable of isomerizing dextrose to fructose. The process of producing it efficiently and economically was introduced about 20 years later by Japanese scientists.

Also known as glucose-fructose syrup or high fructose maize syrup, HFCS is a liquid sweetener made from corn starch and a preservative made by changing the carbohydrate glucose in corn starch to another ...

The US government has lost all legitimacy with its increasingly psychotic behavior

January 21, 2024 -

(Article by J.B. Shurk republished from AllNewsPipeline.com)

Of course not. Then why should a man in makeup and a dress be given extra legal rights to sue anyone who sees through his delusions? Why should rational men be expected to allow mentally unstable men to use public restrooms with their wives and daughters? Why should parents be expected to entrust their children’s welfare with psychologically troubled men who have sought out jobs at schools, amusement parks, ...

Tech firms developing and deploying AI that can deceptively MIMIC HUMAN BEHAVIOR

October 05, 2023 -

According to a report by the nonprofit consumer organization Public Citizen, such tasks include aggressively marketing products and services; dispensing dubious medical and mental health advice; and potentially ensnaring users in toxic relationships with machines.

"The tech sector is recklessly rolling out AI systems masquerading as people that can hijack our attention, exploit our trust and manipulate our emotions," said Rick Claypool, a researcher for Public Citizen ...

Japan to set up ORWELLIAN pre-crime “behavior detection” technology using AI

July 25, 2023 -

The Japanese National Police Agency (JNPA) has confirmed the move, adding that it plans to conduct tests on these AI-integrated cameras within the present fiscal year set to conclude on March 2024. According to Reclaim The Net, the AI cameras will concentrate on three aspects for its machine-learning pattern recognition – "behavior detection" for suspicious activities, "object detection" for guns and other weapons and "intrusion detection" for the protection of restricted areas....

Missouri Sen. Schmitt asks Defense Department to help Philippines counter China’s “aggressive behavior”

2 months ago -

The former Missouri attorney general made this request in the form of a March 5 letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, a copy of which Fox News shared. "I request the DoD to move quickly to support the Philippines in countering China's aggressive behavior," he wrote. Schmitt also expressed "serious concerns" about the "increasing volume and intensity of confrontations" instigated by Beijing in the disputed area.

According to Schmitt's letter, the March 5 confrontation ...

Finland introduces world’s first phone-free island to study effects of social media addiction

June 27, 2023 -

For the first time, officials in Ulko-Tammio are asking visitors to turn their smartphones off – or better yet, to just leave them at home and enjoy the scenery the natural way.

Located in the Eastern Gulf of Finland, Ulko-Tammio has officially declared itself to be a "phone-free" zone starting this year. The island is visited annually by millions of tourists, so the change is significant.

"The island of Ulko-Tammio, which is located off the coast of Hamina, will ...

Dr. Deborah Mash from DemeRx.com explains how natural IBOGAINE molecule is helping with addiction treatment

May 16, 2023 -

A person can become addicted to just about anything, including refined sugar and video games, as well as the more common vices like alcohol and pharmaceutical drugs. And the good news, according to Dr. Deborah Mash from DemeRx.com, is that there is hope.

Dr. Mash spoke with the Health Ranger in a recent episode of the Health Ranger Report about addiction, and how a naturally derived molecule known as ibogaine is helping people to overcome it without the need for conventional ...

Scientists link LEAD EXPOSURE in early life to higher risk of CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR in adulthood

August 08, 2023 -

The study, published in PLOS Global Public Health, ultimately identified "significant relationships between lead and damaging patterns of behavior" – even when lead blood concentrations were very low. While prior research has found an association between lead exposure and criminal behavior at an entire-population level, this is the first study to examine the individual level of exposure and its effects.

Lead study author Maria Jose Talayero Schettino and her colleagues ...

RFK Jr. blasts U.S. government for its “addiction to war” following $24B aid request for Ukraine

August 29, 2023 -

During an Aug. 22 townhall in South Carolina, he pointed out that this "addiction" of the federal government – alongside the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war – is a major contributor to America's current economic problems.

"One of the big problems we have in our federal government is the addiction to war," RFK Jr. told the crowd. "We've spent $8 trillion dollars on wars since 9/11. If we kept that money home, we would've had childcare for every American; we would have free ...

Ludicrous: Black lawyer wants to legalize crimes to eliminate them “because criminal behavior is just black culture”

February 25, 2024 -

In an appearance on MSNBC's Black History and Culture special titled "Black Men in America: Road to 2024" on Feb. 4, civil rights attorney Ben Crump played pool with MSNBC contributor Charles Coleman Jr. and civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton as they discussed police brutality and the Biden administration’s justice system.

"We can get rid of all the crime in America overnight, just like that," Crump told his fellow guests. "And people ask ‘how attorney Crump?’ – ...

BMJ report claims “behavior interventions” are needed to “reduce vaccine hesitancy driven by misinformation on social media”

February 13, 2024 -

In order to "reduce vaccine hesitancy driven by misinformation on social media," the BMJ wants Big Tech platforms to promote the visibility of what its editors and controllers consider to be "reliable health information," while reducing or censoring the visibility of all else.

The BMJ also wants more "pro-action" on social media platforms "in dealing with the proliferation of misinformation."

In an article the BMJ published about the matter, the authors first ...

Global warming fanatics claim that TERRORIZING school children improves their climate behavior: “Engages them with positive actions”

June 15, 2023 -

According to left-wing professors Russell Tytler of Deakin University and Peter Freebody of the University of Wollongong, both in Australia, "turbo charging" teacher education will help to induce more climate anxiety into the minds and bodies of today's children, causing them to obey the government's climate mandates and alter their climate behavior.

Tytler and Freebody are both of the persuasion that "[t]he case for action on climate change no longer needs to be laid out," ...

FLASHBACK: A timeline of Hunter Biden’s years of drugs, addiction, dildos, arrests and multi-million dollar deals thanks to daddy

June 28, 2023 -

(Article by Jim Hoft republished from TheGatewayPundit.com)

Hunter Biden’s first arrest may have been when he was 18. Hunter was arrested on Jersey Shore related to drug charges in 1988 and had his record expunged.

Many years later and after several stops into drug treatment facilities Hunter joined his father the Vice President on a trip to China in 2013 where Hunter — inexperienced and out of place — was able to secure a $1.5 billion from China for private ...

Bill Gates wants to engineer AI so we can end “polarization” and “save democracy” (control speech, behavior and thought)

January 29, 2024 -

During the interview, Gates and Altman lamented how the U.S. government failed to reign in “polarization” across social media over the past four years. They believe that AI could solve the problem of “polarization” and therefore “save democracy.”

To do this, AI would have to be engineered in a way to control speech and impose lies as facts - brainwashing the population with propaganda and deceiving people until everyone is forced to agree for the sake of "unity."Governments ...

KENNEDY SYNDROME: Macron fears he could be assassinated like JFK

a month ago -

Russia Today (RT) reported on this revelation, citing a separate piece by the Marianne magazine. The weekly news magazine cited multiple sources – including some from the French Ministry of the Interior (MDI). The magazine also reached out to tipsters within the French leader's security detail, as well as Macron's erstwhile bodyguard Alexandre Benalla.

"At home, there is the fear of 'Kennedy syndrome,' that he will end up assassinated," Benalla said, alluding to the late ...