Re: Brain Cell Regeneration

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The meth addicts partially healed. But we have to take an active role

to advance recovery further. I believe this has to be done by

stimulating neuro-regeneration. I suggest taking Lion's Mane, vit-e,

and alcar+ala, and running.

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> I found this on the net, it's from:

> http://www.imminst.org/forum/index.php?act=ST & f=169 & t=13174 & s

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> Now Meth addicts will take their drugs for a number of days and then

> they stop working which means they get the munchies and they fall

> asleep for a few days and this gives their brains a rest. In this way,

> illegal drugs are far less dangerous than the happy pills your doctor

> can prescribe because your brain gets a rest every few days. But just

> the same, methamphetaimine is so powerful that for those three to four

> days the addict is high his brain comes under horrific attack and yet

> after years of abuse his brain can recover. This gives me hope that we

> can too, under the right conditions. I'm working on it.

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> Now methamphetamine takes it one step further. Methamphetamine actually

> will sit here for eight to 12 hours causing this build up of dopamine

> for a much longer period so you experience this positive feeling for a

> longer period of time plus methamphetamine is actually taken into the

> terminal and destroys the nerve terminals.

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> Now luckily for meth users they regrow; however the bad news is they

> take quite sometime and for months meth users are feeling the absence of

> this reward because the reward center of the brain has essentially been

> damaged. Other areas of the brain are also effected. This is an MRI of

> the human brain done here at UCLA and this shows the judgment center of

> the brain in the prefrontal cortex. This is the brain of a meth user

> who's about five days sober and this blue area represents a reduction in

> normal activity, a reduction in blood flow. In essence, this part of the

> brain is shut off and for meth users who are in early recovery, they

> really don't have the ability to make good decisions.

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> You have this sort of worst-case scenario. You have a brain that is not

> producing reward, you're having a lotta craving because you want to feel

> better, and you have the part of the brain that controls judgment not

> working, and so individuals do stupid things that end up with them

> relapsing and going back to using. It's a wonder any meth users ever get

> better, but in fact they do.

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> -- A. Rawson, Ph.D

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> Watch PBS's Frontline: The Meth Epidemic

> <http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/meth/>

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> How Meth Destroys the Body

> <http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/meth/body/>

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> The image below compares the brain of a control, a meth abuser after 1

> and 14 months of abstinence. Still not fully recovered yet -- even after

> 14 months.

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> Brain images of a person who has never used methamphetamine (left) and

> of a methamphetamine user after 1 month of abstinence (center). Lighter

> colors show distribution of dopamine transporters (DAT) in the striatum.

> DAT distribution is reduced in striatum of methamphetamine user. Brain

> image of a methamphetamine user after 14 months' abstinence (right)

> shows substantial recovery of DAT in striatum. Low levels of DAT in

> methamphetamine users were associated with poorer performance on tests

> of memory and motor skills, which did not improve with DAT after lengthy

> abstinence.

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> Image above from here

> <http://www.drugabuse.gov/NIDA_Notes/NNVol17N1/Methamphetamine.html>

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> This post has been edited by nootropikamil: 10-Nov 2006, 12:58 AM

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