Thank Alex, my channel is growing steadily.

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This videos are also helping me to understand what happened to me. This feels like medicine!

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I’ve seen studies correlating anxiety and depression with increased activity in the rear part of the brain (posterior cortex) and that by increasing activity in the frontal cortex (anterior cortex) including the anterior cingulate cortex ACC we can reduce anxiety and depression. Practicing meditation brain training that exercises and strengthens your task positive network and frontal cortex combats depression and anxiety.

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Yes that’s right, it’s not a secret, my explainer videos are explaining therapeutic options and possible solutions; I earn my living as a therapist/practitioner and showing people exactly how to perform these exercises and exactly which brands, doses and combinations of supplements is what I do on a 1-2-1 bases with clients. When I made my first videos on KZfaq I wasn’t sure how the channel and my practice would evolve. I’m currently working on developing is forming the techniques into online video courses that people can buy at an affordable price, the courses will have full detailed explanations of exactly how to do everything. I need to see how that works out and may add regular live streaming group sessions. I’m sorry for how long it’s taking me to develop these thing, I have other unrelated things going on in my life that have cause demands on my time, realistically I expect to launch the 1st course by my the end of January 23; if you are interested in knowing when that happens you could send me an email so I have your address and I’ll let you know.

Yeah, anxiety is torture, sorry it’s making life and work hard for you. It would take about 20-30 mins a day for 3-7 months doing brain training to reengineer the wiring in your brain to reduce your anxiety by perhaps 30-50%

@@NaturalMentalHealthTreatments I sent you an email! I still acknowledge that I am emotionally strong in a way since I am still managing to get the work done.

Basically yes but BDNF is not the only neurotophic factor so think broard spectrum. I fear you may down-playing the difficulty of eliminating inflammation, just how much work that takes; I see people all the just want to know how to boost BDNF and not put in the foundation ground like 50 hours of switching off the HPA axis brain training and not getting the diet to where it needs to be, pretty good diet just doesn't cut it when it comes to changing neuroplasticity. Think of building a building but you haven't laid the foundations properly, how long will it last; laying the foundations is maybe a bit boring but... SSRIs may down-regulate dopamine activity and this seems to have spored misunderstanding about boosting one or the other. Basically, the 2 are separate and it's not a thing with the strategies I use, I've had high dopamine and low serotonin many times with my bipolar, you definitely want the moderating effects of serotonin to control the impulsivity of dopamine. This discussion has drifted miles away from the contents of the video, I'll be making vids on these topics in due course but if you want to go over this stuff, continue the conversation and work out a strategy for yourself consider booking an appointment with me.

@@NaturalMentalHealthTreatments perfect thanks for your response :) i do know though that the enzyme used to make Serotonin from 5htp and dopamine from L dopa is the same one. if i take 5htp i get a definite dopamine lowers affect. thanks for your reply though :) my diet is huge in colourful vegetables. a few limited colourful fruits... i limit meat but eat organic meat, i get a lot of my protein from beans and lentils :) i try practise mindfulness meditation for the HPA axis suppression. i was just interested to know if more BDNF (or other growth factors like NGF) = faster healing or whether there was a limit :) your information and knowledge is amazing thanks for providing all this :)

@@JC-ko1bp I've seen mindfulness fail to dampen down the HPA, its engaging the same circuits.

Whatever the origin, weather due to an obvious real world experience/event or not obviously connected to real world experiences you are still left with anxiety/depression that you want to treat and understanding how to change the default mode vs task positive network balance can be an additional useful therapeutic approach. One important consideration is that the brain grows in response repeated exercise in the structures and circuits that get worked repeatedly. Imagine a person that had a traumatic experience or traumatic childhood, then they met the perfect therapist and remodelled/proceeded/changed all the negative memories and psychology from the past, you would still be left with the legacy of a brain that grew and developed the threat/pessimism circuits, there is long lasting legacy rewiring effect that still needs to be changed. What’s great is that the brain can be stimulated to rewire relatively quickly with an intensive cause of meditation brain training. The adult brain responds rapidly to new/novel exercises that are intense (take up all our attention) and done regularly. My therapeutic strategy is to dismantle mental health problems from as many angles or approaches as possible, change the psychology/memories, change the wiring, change your neurotransmitter balance, change your gut microbiome etc. etc. until you achieve your health goals.

@@NaturalMentalHealthTreatments 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽PERIODT SIR⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ do you have any experience with working with severe brain fog (from anxiety disorders but prob mainly trauma as well) symptoms? Can mediation help with that?

For brain fog the first goals are reducing inflammation in the brain and body. Inflammation in the body attacks and weakness the blood brain barrier and if the BBB is to permeable you an get a terribly foggy brain. Traumata and anxiety can significantly contribute to this by over activating the HPA axis and diminished activity in the vague nerve. This causes increased inflammation in the body and brain. In my practice I use intensive meditation and other brain training techniques to change activity in the HPA and vagus nerve. Cleaning up your diet and building a supper healthy microbiome should also add to the treatment. There’s a lot of self-help things you can do to transform your health.

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Even though this not well understood how or why it works meditation still does reduce anxiety and specifically reduce activity in the fear detection systems of the brain such as the amygdala. Studies show meditation alters connections in the brain increasing some and interestingly decreasing others. If you try to work out how the brain works by applying logic you never get an understanding, I’v been studying brains since 1981 and my logical assumptions about the brain and how the treatments I was using actually worked almost invariably turned out to be wrong. Biological systems often work in counter intuitive ways; it’s sometimes said biological system work with fuzzy logic, in the most complex systems expected logical outcomes are even more unreliable, and the human brain is the most complex structure known. So I’ll repeat it, whatever the mechanism we can dampen down the fear/threat detection system and default mode network and reduce anxiety with meditation; any lack of understanding or contradictory theories about the mechanism doesn’t change that. Like you years ago I thought that norepinephrine was just involved in stress/threat detection and too much norepinephrine activity would worsen anxiety but this turned out to be another simplistic view of the brain that was wrong. Real world results in my practice showed giving dopamine/norepinephrine increases either didn’t affect anxiety or maybe sometimes helped it, furthermore increasing norepinephrine with drugs does not cause or increase anxiety see: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4780187/ Norepinephrine is not just involved in negative stress activity, it just as much gives us courage and low risk concern, low norepinephrine activity is also involved IN anxiety. There are some systems in the brain that work the opposite way to what you expect, for example if a norepinephrine sensitive synapse is connected to a sedating gabinergic system, stimulating norepinephrine activity ends up inhibiting the gabinergic system; the detailed cross wiring of the brain is mind bogglingly complicated. Another nice thing to know that we are sure about is that when it comes to stimulating neuroplasticity change the brain responds to Novelty/newness, intensity and regularity. An anxious persons brain has already grown overactive fear/threat detection systems, these systems will be or become mature and often not changing significantly, but by combining novelty+intensity+regularity techniques to stimulate opposing effects in the brain we can stimulate very rapid neuroplastic change in ways that we want. The anxiety states become no longer novel but the meditation states are. Why meditation can result in a reduction of activity an synaptic connections is not understood at this time, I try to avoid making up theories about how the brain works but... maybe conservation of energy/resources is involved, it costs biological system energy to grow and maintain systems, ...long tern threat/random unpredictable stress rapidly reduces the sensitivity of the amygdala to GABA and the effects last for months/years, so it seems the brain has a sophisticated system of changing itself to up-regulate and down-regulate it’s residual threat detection level not just in the short term but also creating long term changes; perhaps meditation taps into this and assists a down-regulation reset. Dam it I’v just done it again and made up a hypothesis about the brain, exactly what I keep saying we should try not to do. All that matters is what would an course of meditation do for you, I hope you can keep an open mind to it despite the lack of solid scientific explanation, give it a thorough go and see what happens. Good luck with your healing journey.

@@NaturalMentalHealthTreatments thanks so much for your reply. can physical exercise have the same effects. i got told physical exercise is brilliant for up regulating anti stress systems like serotonin and gaba. and it seems true as so many people seem to "cure" their anxiety through exercise. i personally know people who suffered terrible anxiety who say they are cured now from long term exercise. to the point they dont need exercise now and theyre still cured. so will this work in similar ways ?

Yes exercise has proven anti anxiety effects, it also boosts neuroplasticity. I’m not aware of research that exercise prioritises neuroplastic change to GABA and serotonin moe than say dopamine, but again what maters more than understanding the mechanics is knowing that it can be therapeutic ad seeing if it can help your individual case. Not all exercises work the same, there’s little to no evidence that strength triaging is helpful but this may be because it’s hard to study, try persuading mice to lift weights. There’s lots of evidence vigorous airobic/cardio reduces anxiety and if it’s primarily a boost in BDNF/neuroplasticity you want then HIIT high intensity interval training that has the biggest effect. What I do in my practice is recommended people do is take a stack of calming neuroplasticity boosting remedies 1 hour before doing a meditation session, then do a HIIT session just before the meditation, to boost neuroplasticity and increase the results/changes stimulated by the meditation. It’s can be a tough battle to overcome a mental health problem, shifting neuroplasticity in a positive way and rewiring the brain significantly requires a strong concerted effort, so to maximise your chances of success through everything at it including the kitchen sink (that might not translate into other languages, how does throwing a kitchen sink help?). Use a stack of natural remedies to boost neuroplasticity focusing the effects on Gabinergic and serotonergic systems, add HIIT and cardio exercise, apply self-directed neuroplastic rewiring with intense meditation brain training (intense meaning hyper focus in the meditation not intensive multiple day all day courses that can occasionally make people worse), after say 6 months of that add exposure desensitisation and CBT. After a years work you could have really made a massive reduction and this can continue to progress over the next years. Mild and moderately severe cases can fully resolve, extremely severe cases may not fully resolve but still achieve worthwhile relief or sadly little to no benefits. Just give it your all and see what happens...

Not yet, but I’m just about to start teaching these meditation techniques online. To get notified when I start send me an email so I have your addresses.