Their bodies did not seem to realize that they had become heavier, presumably because of the low levels of osteocytes, and the animals remained artificially plump.
The implication of this result is that healthy bones seem to sense changes in body mass and then somehow initiate alterations to appetite and eating that can return the body to its previous weight, says John-Olov Jansson, a neuroscientist at the University of Gothenburg who led the study.
He and his colleagues call the bones’ sensor a “gravitostat,” which is triggered by body weight bearing down on bones, a result of the inexorable pressures of gravity.And they suspect, he says, that a similar gravitostat exists in people.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/17/well/move/how-our-bones-might-help-keep-our-weight-stable.htmlThe possibility could help to explain why sitting for hours is associated with obesity, he continues. When we sit, much of our body weight is supported by cushions rather than bones, leaving our skeletons unaware of how much we actually weigh and whether that amount has changed or should change.
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Professor Davidson: In regards to our "distant prehistory" the San
Bushmen original human culture still exists and before contact, as
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas details, the culture had no warfare, no rape,
no homosexuality and no masturbation. Marshall Thomas points out this
culture of the trance dance training is from before human language
developed!! And for example the Pygmy culture has very similar training
as the San Bushmen and DNA science shows they split about 70K years ago.
There are many books on the San Bushmen culture - all the males were
required to train in "staying power" through trance dance celibacy and
fasting. Dr. Bradford Keeney is the only "master healer" in the Bushmen
culture - who is not from the Bushmen. But there are specific
psychophysiological reasons for their training that then got maintained
in Chinese and Indian cultures - the yogic meditation and Tai Chi, etc.
So anthropologists have studied - how in fact our original culture was
much more sophisticated than modern humans - in terms of doing spiritual
healing and maintaining peace.
The Way of the Bushman: Spiritual Teachings as told by the Elders
N/um, Change, and Social Work by Drs. Bradford and Hillary Keeney pdf
Megan Biesele,
Women like meat: the folklore and foraging ideology of the Kalahari Ju/’Hoan
(Witwatersrand
University Press, 1993).
Mathias Georg Guenther,
Tricksters and trancers: bushman religion and society
(Indiana University Press,
1999).
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas,
The harmless people
(Random House, Inc., 1989) and
Rupert Isaacson,
The Healing Land: The Khoisan and the Kalahari Desert
(Grove Press, 2004).
Richard Katz,
Boiling energy: community healing among the Kalahari Kung
(Harvard University Press, 1984).
Marjorie Shostak,
Nisa: the life and words of a !Kung woman
(Harvard University Press, 2000).
the Bushmen book Healing Makes Our Hearts Happy.
The Past and Future of !Kung Ethnography: Critical Reflections and Symbolic Perspectives. Essays in Honour of
Lorna Marshall
, edited by Megan Biesele, with Robert Gordon and Richard Lee
Trance Cure of the !Kung Bushmen pdf
by Richard Lee
Some healers try to hoard n/um
Education for Transcendence - Richard Katz pdf
somebody invented or composed (this) music and then they took it with them.”
Interview with Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, Paula Gordon Show (Peterborough, New Hampshire, July
19, 2008).
N/um, Change, and Social Work by Drs. Bradford and Hillary Keeney pdf
Megan Biesele,
Women like meat: the folklore and foraging ideology of the Kalahari Ju/’Hoan
(Witwatersrand
University Press, 1993).
Mathias Georg Guenther,
Tricksters and trancers: bushman religion and society
(Indiana University Press,
1999).
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas,
The harmless people
(Random House, Inc., 1989) and
Rupert Isaacson,
The Healing Land: The Khoisan and the Kalahari Desert
(Grove Press, 2004).
Richard Katz,
Boiling energy: community healing among the Kalahari Kung
(Harvard University Press, 1984).
Marjorie Shostak,
Nisa: the life and words of a !Kung woman
(Harvard University Press, 2000).
the Bushmen book Healing Makes Our Hearts Happy.
The Past and Future of !Kung Ethnography: Critical Reflections and Symbolic Perspectives. Essays in Honour of
Lorna Marshall
, edited by Megan Biesele, with Robert Gordon and Richard Lee
Trance Cure of the !Kung Bushmen pdf
by Richard Lee
Some healers try to hoard n/um
Education for Transcendence - Richard Katz pdf
Eland Bull trance dance ritual during first female menstruation at New Moon - oldest language
“There are things about the antiquity of the Bushmen’s culture that we didn’t know. A musicologist found very important music which was used at a woman’s first menarche called ‘elan music’ (honoring the fat-rich antelope). This ‘elan music’ was also present in other language groups of other Bushmen language groups and also the noun-less speakers who are not exactly Bushmen but they’re related. This means that way back before these groups diverged,somebody invented or composed (this) music and then they took it with them.”
Interview with Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, Paula Gordon Show (Peterborough, New Hampshire, July
19, 2008).
“The !Kung San of southern Africa, for example, seek to heal rifts in
personal relationships within the community using music and repetitive
dance movement to trigger trance states. Many religions have practices
such as chanting and fasting that invoke similar mental states: blinding
light bursts within the head….It is easy to see how this activity could
have been extremely beneficial to our ancestors, uniting the group,
discouraging free riders, and so increasing the chances that individuals
would survive and reproduce more successfully.”
Professor Robin Dunbar,
How Many Friends Does One Person Need? Dunbars Number and Other
Evolutionary Quirks
(Harvard University Press, 2010), passim
Professor Robin Dunbar,
How Many Friends Does One Person Need? Dunbars Number and Other
Evolutionary Quirks
(Harvard University Press, 2010), passim
In other words, our brains have evolved to promote survival and reproduction – originally in the pre-state, pre-tribal primate bands of distant prehistory. These tasks involve multiple parts of the cortex and amygdala, thalamus and hypothalamus, and so forth. There is one area of the brain that is particularly important in keeping instinct from running amok – the prefrontal cortex. Slow to mature (it is not fully on line until one’s mid-twenties) it is this part of the brain that exercises “executive function.” It encourages you “to do the right, though perhaps harder, thing.” The Role of Culture
Despite the fact that the physical manner in which most individuals experience these primitive and instinctual drives is similar, culture makes a difference in how aggression and sexual urges are expressed.
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