Aquabed Therapeutics- Integrative Healthcare

22/02/2025

Babies in the womb can signal to their mothers for extra food using genes from their dads.

This fascinating mechanism, uncovered by scientists at Cambridge, involves a paternal gene that influences hormonal signals from the placenta. Essentially, the fetus uses this gene to manipulate the mother's body into releasing more nutrients, creating a "nutritional tug of war" where the mother must balance the needs of the growing fetus with her own health and future reproductive potential.

The placenta plays a key role in this process, acting as a communication hub between the fetus and the mother. By releasing specific hormones, the placenta signals the mother's body to prioritize the baby's growth, ensuring it receives sufficient glucose and fats.

This intricate system is orchestrated by imprinted genes, which can be switched on or off depending on whether they are inherited from the mother or the father. Paternal genes tend to promote fetal growth, while maternal genes tend to limit it, reflecting an evolutionary balance between the needs of the offspring and the mother's survival.

One such paternal gene, Igf2, provides instructions for making a protein similar to insulin that promotes fetal growth and development. When this gene is deleted in the placenta's signaling cells, the mother doesn't release enough nutrients into her circulation, resulting in growth restriction in the fetus.

This reveals the crucial role of Igf2 in regulating the mother's metabolism and ensuring adequate nutrient supply to the developing baby.

Learn more: https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/unborn-babies-use-greedy-gene-from-dads-to-remote-control-mums-into-feeding-them-extra-food

20/12/2023

https://www.sciencealert.com/brain-autopsies-suggest-a-new-culprit-behind-alzheimers-disease

Analysis of human brain tissue reveals differences in how immune cells behave in brains with Alzheimer's disease compared to healthy brains, indicating a potential new treatment target.

07/12/2023

Exciting data correlating glial cell activity and aggression.

"The fiber photometry method revealed that intracellular Ca2+ levels in cerebellar glia decreased or increased in conjunction with the superiority or inferiority of the fight, respectively. When the combat broke up, the researchers observed 4 to 6 Hz theta band local field potentials in the cerebellum, along with a sustained increase in Ca2+ levels in the glia."

This study highlights the role of the cerebellum, specifically the Bergmann glial cells in the cerebellar vermis, in regulating aggression.

11/11/2023

09/01/2023

Exciting news!

The human brain is a ridiculously complex organ that doesn't give up its secrets easily.

05/11/2022

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The diaphragm is not just a 'breathing muscle'. It is also a postural, lymphatic, digestive, cardiac, urinary, and birthing muscle.

If we don't understand those other functions, we won't identify causes of breath dysfunction that are driven by those other systems. What if your vocal dysfunction arises from chronic IBS? What if your breathing pattern never recovered from a difficult labor? A good practitioner should widen their perception of diaphragm function, and use that multi-system lens during assessment and treatment.

As this excellent review by Kocjan et al (2017) says:

"The diaphragm is mainly recognised as the primary respiratory muscle of the body responsible for about 80% of all of the respiratory work in normal tidal breathing. However, like other structures in the human body, the diaphragm muscle has more than one function. By modulation of intra-abdominal pressure, it is related with postural stability, and assists in micturition, defecation and parturition. It is also important for cardiac function and lymphatic flow... emesis, swallowing and as an anti-reflux barrier."
https://journals.viamedica.pl/advances_in_respiratory_medicine/article/view/ARM.2017.0037/41543

We'll be developing this lens in Saturday's online/in-person class -- Neurofascial Approach to the Diaphragm, Breath & Vocal Column.

We'll blend hands-on manual therapy, compelling breath/voice practice, and of course, a solid neurofascial anatomy of the diaphragm, pericardium, and larynx. We hope you can make it!

Details:
Neurofascial Approach to the Diaphragm, Breath, & Vocal Column
Saturday, Nov 5th - 11:00am-5:00pm
In-person class: 6hrs/$130
Access to online materials (live or on your own time): 3hrs/$60.
For more info and to sign up: https://bit.ly/32uJXAM

IMAGE: Bourgery and Jacob, 1862

13/09/2021

It's always great to read past articles by John E. Upledger, DO, OMM. This article talks about the treatment journey of Anselmo, who become quadriplegic with a spastic condition of his muscular system after being in a serious collision at the age of 9. This case offers solid confirmation of just what is possible when you help restore motion at all levels; restore the trophic influence of motor nerves; establish dural membrane release within the cranial vault and spinal vertebral canal; and enhance motor cortex and brainstem function.

The body is a symphony of motion. On every level, our greatest promise for health is achieved when our body parts, from cellular to gross, are free to move in harmony with one another. CranioSacral Therapy is especially effective at

30/08/2021

An article worth re-reading: Helping the Brain Drain: How CranioSacral Therapy Aids ADD/ADHD
By John Upledger (DO, OMM), Tad Wanveer (LMT, CST-D),

Go to Upledger.com Research, Articles & Case Studies or http://ow.ly/lOIK50FZCo3

01/06/2021

Remembering with gratitude all who have lost their lives for our freedoms.

15/03/2021

Exciting!

For the millions of us plagued by hypersensitive, overactive, or downright abusive immune systems, it can feel like you're constantly fighting your own physical self.