Dora and Fatih REWARD FOR LIFE ®
-REWARD IDEAS
-BENECEPTION (medial reward body-mind pathways ...BEN qi jing shen) > nociception (lateral reward BIAO) ((real ben = why ben -> biao))
-reward are instinctive NEEDS (genetical+epigenetical) to be accomplished
...since or a need is accomplished or ...it raises till convertion (dopa-beta-hydroxilase and habenula) to stress pathways
->reward are DUTIES for health of people and society
->rewards are RIGHTS for health and wellbeing
-REWARD STRATEGIES
1. diet
2. fitness
3. shen soul (mind)
4. love life
5. sleep
6. extra rewards
REWARD FOR LIFE 针
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Reward projects and concepts: reward for salutogenesis
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-epigenetics and reward
-reward as need, right, duty ... fulfillment
-reward positive gap basis for salutogenesis: RM > RL
-common reward concepts: RL nociception, RM beneception
-from occidental to oriental medicine from the reward point a view
-REWARD STRATEGIES (Dora and Fatih (c))
(1) diet
(2) fitness
(3) mind
(4) love life
(5) sleep
(6) extra rewards
...and the right to reward according to common needs
reward is a right and a duty
cfr all our texts, articles, books and so on
-epigenetics and reward
-reward as need, right, duty ... fulfillment
-reward positive gap basis for salutogenesis: RM > RL
-common reward concepts: RL nociception, RM beneception
-from occidental to oriental medicine from the reward point a view
-REWARD STRATEGIES (Dora and Fatih (c))
(1) diet
(2) fitness
(3) mind
(4) love life
(5) sleep
(6) extra rewards
...and the right to reward according to common needs
reward is a right and a duty
cfr all our texts, articles, books and so on
2015/11/19
REWARD integrated strategies
Dora Dragoni, MD etc
REWARD integrated strategies
(protected and included in
-Creative Commons 4.0
-my PhD project
-all my previous 12 articles, and writings)
...a part from getting a measure of stress quantity and quality
this has to be however balanced with positive rewarding lifestyle, based on:
1) DIET:
- nutrition: occidental basis, TCM ideas, Ayurveda ideas
- fitness: occidental exercises, qi-gong, yoga asana
2) MIND
- mental training techniques
- mindfulness
- zen practice
- mantra
3) AFFECTIVE LIFE
5) ANY KIND OF WELLBEING PRACTICE
- time with pets
- massage
6) eventual CAM techniques
2015.11.19
D.D.
F.D.
REWARD integrated strategies
(protected and included in
-Creative Commons 4.0
-my PhD project
-all my previous 12 articles, and writings)
...a part from getting a measure of stress quantity and quality
this has to be however balanced with positive rewarding lifestyle, based on:
1) DIET:
- nutrition: occidental basis, TCM ideas, Ayurveda ideas
- fitness: occidental exercises, qi-gong, yoga asana
2) MIND
- mental training techniques
- mindfulness
- zen practice
- mantra
3) AFFECTIVE LIFE
5) ANY KIND OF WELLBEING PRACTICE
- time with pets
- massage
6) eventual CAM techniques
2015.11.19
D.D.
F.D.
....
ayurveda,
dopamine,
mediterrenean diet,
mental training,
Projects,
reward,
TCM,
Turkiye,
wellness
2015/11/13
CAM and Reward for Wellness - International Journal of Complementary & Alternative Medicine - MedCrave
http://medcraveonline.com/IJCAM/IJCAM-01-00035.pdf
Volume 1 Issue 6- 2015
Nutritionist, Acupuncture fellow at AMAB, Italy
*Corresponding author: Dora Dragoni, Medical Doctor,
Acupuncture Fellow (3rd/3 year), Personal Trainer, Mental
Trainer, Nutrionist, AMAB, Italy, Tel: +39 338 5085731;
Email: dora.dragoni@studio.unibo.it
Received: October 21, 2015 | Published: October 26, 2015
Keywords: Reward; Wellness; Health; CAM; Stress; Acupuncture; Ayurveda; Diet; Nutrition; Fitness; Mental training; Epigenetic; Affective life; Lifestyle, Right to health; Prevention; Longevity
Abstract Review Article
CAM strategies are at the same time ancient healing strategy systems, since
ayurveda is 5000 years old and Traditional Chinese Medicine with acupuncture is
3000 years old, so they are proved to be effective and safe, …and they are also a
new care approach, since occidental world still asks if they are really scientifical
despite the evidence, the millennary effectiveness, the thousands of studies and
researches, and the fact that people are using them more and more.
CAM are called alternative in comparison to the official therapies systems, such
as drugs and surgery. Antonovsky starting from 1979 underlines how, in a correct
salutogenetic approach, to create health we should at first rule the lifestyle,
manage a good diet (nutrition and physical activity), then proceed toward light
caring treatments, passing then to acupuncture and such kind of medicine
methods, and only in late stages recur to artificial molecules or even more.n
It’s simple to understand that, as World Health Organization declares “health
is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the
absence of disease or infirmity” [1], so from that it derives this observation:
relieving symptoms in some ways doesn’t correspond to creating wellness.
Reaching a well-being global condition is an autonomous process that each
person can live, thanks to therapists and all those who want to participate with
an active and positive role into others lives.
CAM are indeed lots of healing systems: Traditional Chinese Medicine
(acupuncture, chinese fitotherapy, tui na massage, qi-gong, dietetic), ayurveda
(yoga, mantra, use of spices and dietetic culture, therapeutical massages); but
also integrated therapies, that are: diet, from the greek world δίαιτα that means
lifestyle, particularly nutrition and physical activity, mindfullness and relaxation
techniques (from mental training to any oriental zen form of meditation), and
even simply understanding that affective life has a main role into our daily
routine, becoming of course able to apply this need to our daily habits.
The latest studies focus on reward system, the brain pathways and nuclei involved
in the perception and feeling of positive signals and emotions, related to our main
needs and istincts, such as food, sex, reproduction, parental behaviours. It is
known that when medial paths prevale we have a good mood, positivity, wellness
and pleasure perceptions. But in case of stress conditions dopamine is converted
into cathecolamines and lateral ways are prevalent, with a global stressful mood
and all the organic consequences that derive from that: Mayo Clinic on its site
[2] publishes that stress is strictly related with all the most diffused diseases,
such as cardiopathies, gastrointestinal dysfunctions (these two can also be called
dysautonomias), allergies and autoimmune disorders, reumatologic diseases,
headache/migraine, insomnia, and all the mood and sex dysfunctions. So it’s
important to prevent stress, managing it creating wellness daily habits and
situations.
In this article I talk about the characteristics and functions of all main CAM (as I
said: nutritional and fitness suggestions, acupuncture, ayurveda, mind relaxation
tips, and affective life approaches), underlining their neuroscientific and global
mechanisms of action: acting on reward system as well, they are able not only
to relieve stress, symptoms and pain, but they also can improve in great ways
our well-being global condition, and with the wellness feeling that derives from
that: we are stronger (getting the so called “resilience”, the ability to overcome
obstacles), able to face in the better and most positive ways our life, managing it
how we want.
....
acupuncture,
ARTICLES,
ayurveda,
dopamine,
fitness,
mental training,
reward,
stress,
TCM,
wellness
2015/10/20
2015/10/10
11) ARTICLE: Diet, Health and Wellness (2015.10.07)
http://medcraveonline.com/JNHFE/JNHFE-02-00073.php
Keywords: Diet; Nutrition; Lifestyle; Wellness, Health; Reward; Fitness; Mediterranean diet; Italian Cuisine; Turkish cuisine; TCM; Food culture; Ayurveda; Multi-Strategies; Right to food
Opinion
Volume 2 Issue 5 - 2015
Diet, Health and Wellness
Dora Dragoni*
Nutritionist, Acupuncture fellow at AMAB, Italy
Received: October 7, 2015 | Published: October 7, 2015
*Corresponding author: Dora Dragoni, Medical Doctor, Nutritionist, Personal Trainer, Acupuncture Fellow at AMAB, Italy, Tel: +39 338 5085731; Email:
Citation: Dragoni D (2015) Diet, Health and Wellness. J Nutr Health Food Eng 2(5): 00073. DOI:10.15406/jnhfe.2015.02.00073
Keywords: Diet; Nutrition; Lifestyle; Wellness, Health; Reward; Fitness; Mediterranean diet; Italian Cuisine; Turkish cuisine; TCM; Food culture; Ayurveda; Multi-Strategies; Right to food
Abstract
Food is part of us: it is nutrients, tastes, and flavours…and it is one of the basic social ways we spend time with others. So it is important to know conscious approaches to it, to choose wisely how we eat, to regulate our diet at better, to have healthy and pleasant foods, and to prefer social eating solutions.
No matter if we are in fit or we want to improve our BMI, we should choose healthy foods, like organic ones, we should balance our diets with the best proportions of nutrients, and we should know which flavours adapt to our way of being (according to traditional chinese medicine, for example); or in case of diabetes, or other dysmetabolisms, we should even more pay attention to our nutrition and lifestyle, in order to stay in the better equilibrium. Even pregnancy, infancy, and sport habits need particular attentions, since all are physiological situations in which diet has an important role.
Understanding how considering our daily and weekly nutrition is the first step. Then we should choose the foods, amongst the healthiest, that fit best to our preferences. And moreover it would be important to have an overall global lifestyle: having a regular physical activity, in order to get to fitness body and mind conditions, and try to train with daily relaxation and mindfullness techniques as well, like yoga, zen practices, or maybe others based on concentration or even visualization. In case of some dysfunctions we could recur to CAM strategies: complementary and alternative medicines are considered more and more important and worth (like acupuncture, fitotherapies, mental training and so on).
The basis could be the mediterrenean diet, declared in 2010 “intangible cultural heritage for humanity” by Unesco, and typical of mediterrenean countries: the world “diet” comes from the ancient greek world “diaita” that means “lifestyle” indeed. So preferring complex carbohydrates (at lower glycemic index), white meats, fish (rich in omega-3), some fresh cheese, and lots of vegetables and fruits (for vitamins and fibers), dry fruits and nuts (containing omega-6), adding some herbs and spices as well (I can say that for some cultures, like ayurveda, they are a real healing system), evitating sweets and fats (helping in such a way metabolism), and reducing coffee as well, is the ‘nutrition side’; to this we should also have a daily sport activity and if we can find some time to relax at sun it would be great for our body and mind as well - vitamin D is related to higher fertility rates according to recent studies.
In conclusion we can underline the relationships between nutrition, lifestyle, emotions and reward system, the brain pathways involved in the modulation of stress and in the wellness perceptions and feelings, that are the basis for healing, resilience and health: even World Health Organization declared that health is not the absence of diseases but it has to be the complete body and mind well-being.
2015/03/30
9) ARTICLE - "Stress & health: wellness for body and mind" [2015.04.01]
Stress & health: wellness for body and mind
KEY WORDS
KEY WORDS
wellness, stress, reward,
acupuncture, psychotherapy
ABSTRACT
Well being means for sure to manage stress
conditions. Understanding what is stress, and how to prevent, is the first
point. Then we should improve our life styles: such as diet and physical
activity. Of course how we feel is important too, our surroundings and the
related emotions. Some advanced techniques can always help: for example,
acupuncture and psychotherapy.
More and more scientific studies and wellness
systems are examining the interactions between stress and well being, and are
trying to understand and to find some ways of treatment to be and stay at our
best.
But what is stress? Stress is a physiological
response that our body has in order to overcome a problem. It can lead to
maximal parameters in order to fight at best during a particular occasion.
Of course it has biological bases: his central
regulations take place in hypotalamus. The hormone released for such response
is the CRH, that provoques the production and secretion of another hormone, the
ACTH, from the pituitary to all our body. From that we have the production of
cortisol, secreted by adrenal glands.
The effects of stress are a lot: at first we have
an increase of the blood pressure, and of glycemia. Furthermore a chronical
stress condition leads to toxicity: due to the hyperglicemia, and determined by
the catabolic inbalance this can have as consequence, and a cellular oxydation
(resposible even of cancers).
Another consequence is that the ormonal
equilibrium disbalances toward stress hormones and not of physiological ones:
deriving from that, the mood symptoms and the sexual and social dissatisfaction.
It is common known that the immunitary system is
damaged by stress molecules: it can become both hyperactive and then
disregulated. Many diseases are spreading in these dacedes: autoimmune diseases
particularly (type 1 diabetes, reumathoid arthritis, celiac disease). Flogistic
alterations are also found in depression, so psicho-neuro-immuno-endocrinology
is becoming one of the sciences helping us understanding how we are.
Some studies are explaining how headache is
related to a raised amout of request to our brain (with till a 300% blood flux
in brain), that cannot always face to such conditions from a metabolic point of
view and the disbalance leads to molecular lacks: acting on opioids could help
(as the acupuncture headache preventive treatment contributes to demonstrate).
Even Mayo Clinic has focused the attention on the
correlation between stress and many common and diffused diseases, such as:
headache, gastric symptoms, some chest and heart disfunctions (called also
“dysautonomia”), the trend to get colds and flus, psychological disregulations,
being often angry and dissatisfied, have an unsatisfactory affective and sexual
life.
The point to pay attention is that, by regulating
our mind and ways of living, we can manage stress conditions, preventing them
and solving them as well.
Acting on the REWARD system (neural pathways),
that counteracts stress, can be done at many practical levels:
•
DIET – many studies are done about sugar
reduction or even deprivation: after 40 days rats see the first benefits in how
they feel and behave with better blood parameters at first. We should avoid
hypercalorical diets, and introduce always 1,5 liters of water at least; prefer
vegetables and fruit, to guarantee the correct amount of fiber intake
•
SLEEP – a good regular sleep is one of the main
elements to improve to reduce the stress amount. We always say that 7 hours of
sleep are a good quantity, or even more
•
PHYSICAL ACTIVITY – doing a fitness training
everyday for at least 45 minutes is good in inducing both relaxation and
improvement of physical body shape (from which happiness). It is known that
physical activity is good in the prevention of Alzheimer disease, and it acts
both at a mental and somatic level
•
RELAXATION TECHNIQUES – we can distress our mind with
yoga sessions or tai chi trainings. Even meditation, in every form, is useful
to relax mind and soul. Mental training could help particular needs, such as
those of sport persons, based on both relaxation and visualization
Of course we could also manage stress
consequences in great ways:
•
ACUPUNCTURE – this very old system involves
amazing theories developed through centuries in Asia (mainly in China, but also
in Japan and Korea), and it is proved by the newest studies understanding how
the stimulation of the opiate system, by needling specific cutaneous points,
leads to a rebalancing of many molecules, particularly hormones and
neurotransmitters
•
PSYCHOTHERAPY – if well done, and taking in
consideration the whole person, it can help you find a good mind approach to
life after a stressful period (particularly if there are even body symptoms,
that can be a physical expression of a more general spiritual bad feeling).
Helping your psyche and mind will bring you more happiness, a better social
life and a satisfying sexual life: of course love and sex are the main keys to
see life in the right way, they bring to the increase of many molecules, such
as oxytocin, that are related to how we approach to other people, and they of
course also act at body level, by reducing pain and inflammation, and on the
whole by improving how we feel and we are.
www.mayoclinic.org
Maciocia, The foundations of chinese medicine
Dragoni D., Reward Pathway and Metabolism,
Neuroscienze.net
....
acupuncture,
ARTICLES,
reward,
stress,
wellness
2015/03/26
2015/02/09
acupuncture & insomnia
http://www.healthcmi.com/Acupuncture-Continuing-Education-News/1426-acupuncture-beats-drug-for-sleep
2014/03/03
acupuncture & reward
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24288658
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17906602
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16565594
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15850733
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2575345
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3032850
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6125996
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2982220
http://en.doctmag.com/unconventional-medicine/A-new-method-for-treatment-of-obesity-according-to-Traditional-Chinese-Medicine/
...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17906602
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16565594
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15850733
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2575345
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3032850
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6125996
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2982220
http://en.doctmag.com/unconventional-medicine/A-new-method-for-treatment-of-obesity-according-to-Traditional-Chinese-Medicine/
...
2013/04/16
8) ARTICLE - cervello ordinato - ordered brain [2013.04.16]
The Orderly Brain
INTRODUCTION
Interaction in the context of therapeutic improvement
is based on the understanding of the points to be solved in the perspective
that should be obtained.
Brief therapy entails the patient’s greater
understanding of the problem to be solved. Classic therapy involves and implies
a series of situations that patient and therapist have to understand and solve;
see reality.
The developments in the context of improvement concern
a few points
-deterrences
-ways to arrive at the implementation of decision
making
-empowerment
-
the so-called brain programming evolution of neurolinguistic programming
-dissociations
The various “mental levels” are conditioned by correct
thoughts; see types of rewards chosen after a series of obvious considerations;
see therapeutic solutions.
If therapy is not carried out (see best choices) there
would be somatizations to be resolved; see ideas carried out.
DETERRENCES
Deterrences can usually be placed at the cortical
level.
They obviously derive from a processing path carried
out by the person under induced self- or hetero-hypnosis.
Metaphor is always a valid tool for not explicitly
revealing problems that the patient might not have understood or has not processed
completely or not in an entirely personal way.
After analysing the case with the therapist and
through self-reprocessing, we reach a solution that the patient is able to
carry out; see surrounding conditions.
At that point deterrence becomes a work tool for
therapist and patient.
Brief therapy is a consequence of this.
DECISION MAKING
The decision making process is carried out (see
dopaminergic pathways going from mesencephalic reward pathway to cortex).
In the simplest cases, it is an automatically carried
out system, in others it entails rapid processing, in still others it involves
interaction with the therapist, which for the most part achieves the final
solution.
EMPOWERMENT
This system typically involves the processing of a
plan parallel to the therapeutic plan in which the somatising patient
strengthens him/herself towards a balance that resolves or improves the
pathological picture.
It turns into internal medicine or metabolic therapy
when the patient becomes aware of the pathology and of the problem to be
solved.
Thus diabetics and those with metabolic disorders must
understand how to improve their condition.
E-health medicine, whether we are talking about
self-management of the therapeutic diagnostic picture or self-regulated
information of the pathology towards healing, seems more and more to be the
solution for pathological cases.
Thus empowerment involves stabilisation of the
pathological case towards a condition of balance in the situational complex.
FROM NLP TO BRAIN PROGRAMMING
A therapeutic development consists of the reduction in
verbal reaction at the moments when the patient tries to process his/her
condition. This means that the therapist solves cases that are either similar
to each other or correlated in the resolution method.
The patient’s prayers could be seen as expressive mode
in cases in which religiosity is strongly experienced.
It is true, however, that the patient who expresses
him/herself often on his/her own problems appears to have processed the
situations that he/she experiences in a mature way.
At the same time, the therapist can compare cases
without obviously correlating them to avoid taking for granted that a
deterrence is always valid in each case.
Brain programming should not be interpreted as a form
of exorcism, which is always negative, rather it should be interpreted as a
quick and effective solution for synchronously carrying out deterrences.
Negating forms of ironic telepathy between doctor and
patient, we arrive in any case at the understanding of the case; see mental
order that doctor and patient must have.
The patient processes problems in a personal way. And
the therapist, having experienced a process of elaboration of his/her own
conditions, knows how to solve, in reality, the problems and resolved crucial issues
of the patient or of the person who turns to him/her to carry out what he/she
knows and how.
DISSOCIATIONS
Conscious dissociations are, on the other hand, those
for which, in cases of simply solved problems, there will always be gaps
remaining between solved problem and way in which the solution was carried out.
Possible dissociations should be reassociated; see
possible therapist therapist comparisons and comparisons with the literature
pertaining to cases.
CONCLUSION
Physical activity as therapy/non-therapy remains the
best key for protecting physical metabolic balance, and it should be placed
alongside verbal forms of improvement of the person.
No therapy is ever finished even though all
deterrences and forms of empowerment are always the resolution key to be
carried out in the best way possible.
- Reward pathway and decision making, Academic
press by Jean Claud Dreher.
- Empowerment
conference proceedings (Denmark 2012)
- Riccardo Arone
di Bertolino – L’ipnosi per un medico, La Martina
- Dora Dragoni – Reward
pathway & motricidade, Neuroscienze
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