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Hi.

Dr. Minkoff.

I want to talk to you about neurotransmitters today.

Now, what does that mean?

Neurotransmitter.

So, "neuro-" is nerve.

"Transmitter" is move something along.

The way the nervous system works

is there are nerves coming from the brain

or nerves coming from the body to the brain

and there are relay points

where one nerve has to go to another nerve

and transmit a message.

And the neurotransmitter

is the messenger particle.

The messenger molecule

where that occurs.

And this area of a nerve is called a synapse.

That's where they meet.

So, if I prick my finger

and that nerve goes up to my spinal cord,

it's going to meet another nerve

which is going to take it to the brain,

and then the brain is going to make a decision

and it's gonna go back down to another nerve,

transmit a message and go back this way.

Now, neurotransmitters

are actually small little molecules

and they're made from amino acids.

Their basic particles are amino acids.

And basically there's 2 groups of neurotransmitters.

There's what we call inhibitory, which are calming ones,

and which slow down or block

this one going to here

and the other category is excitatory

and they speed up or increase

the amount going on.

So, in someone who's feeling very agitated,

if we measure their level of neurotransmitters,

we will find that the excitatory ones,

dopamine, epinephrine, norepinephrine, glutamate,

they're up!

Or they may be normal

but the inhibitory ones may be very, very low.

So, if you don't have enough of these,

you might be anxious or you might be depressed.

And if you have too much of these, you might be jacked up.

Now,

these all have to do with how we feel.

Now, almost all of the serotonin in the body

isn't even made in the brain,

it's made in the gut.

And it's made in the gut

if the bacteria in the gut are the right bacteria.

So, if you took antibiotics

a couple times this year,

chances are the bacteria in your gut

are not going to be the ones

that allow your body,

allow your cells in your intestine

to make serotonin,

then you're gonna have low serotonin.

And you may be depressed or anxious.

In fact, there's I think a 17% or 20% chance

that after one course of antibiotics,

a person will feel depressed

or will feel anxious

because those things aren't getting made.

Dopamine is made in the brain

but it's also made in the kidney.

So, if you have chronic problems with any of these organs,

it may inhibit the amount of

neurotransmitters that you have.

Also nutrition plays a huge role in this.

If you have a protein deficient diet

or an intestine that isn't digesting protein,

and you don't get amino acids in,

you're gonna have low neurotransmitters.

And we find this really commonly in older people.

Where breakfast might be a bowl of Cheerios

and lunch might be a bagel with some butter on it

and dinner, who knows?

And they're gonna be protein deficient.

They're gonna be amino acid deficient.

These are all made out of amino acids

and they're gonna be

sluggish, depressed, can't sleep,

and it's on a nutritional basis

Okay?

Now,

this area has been a huge area for pharmaceutical research.

Now,

if this is a nerve, which is a serotonin nerve,

and you're deficient in serotonin

then when the particles go across here,

there may not be enough of them

to stimulate this thing to go.

Now, the body preserves these.

So, the way it's supposed to work is

this guy says, "Go."

He sends the serotonin particles,

they're little packets

and they go across and they hit this membrane

and they stay there for a very brief period of time

and then this guy to save the particle,

so he doesn't have to make new ones,

is he sucks them back up.

There's actually a suction pump

at the end of this nerve

that goes "poof" and then sucks them back up.

Now,

there's a whole class of drugs,

which in attempt to get

the saratonin, this guy to go,

person's depressed.

Okay?

Their serotonin is low.

So, they give a drug called an SSRI.

Serotonin, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor.

It's a drug that poisons the pump

or the suction pump

that sucks it back up.

And so these particles stay in here

because the pump

is poisoned.

And then,

this guy goes

and that works for a while

but then this guy gets numb to it

and it doesn't work.

Okay?

Or

there's so much going on,

this isn't selective for any one nerve,

this affects the whole body.

Affects all the nerve cells in all of the body.

And we have all these episodes of these crazy killers.

Many of them are on these kind of drugs

because when you start damaging this

very delicate

regulatory system,

who knows what will happen.

In one in every some thousand

will take a gun and go to a school

and kill a whole bunch of people.

So, these are very, in my estimation,

you're playing with fire.

Because you have no idea what's going to happen.

Now, I know,

because we can measure levels of these

in people, in urine,

that I have never seen a person on an SSRI drug

that had a normal serotonin in their body.

Because it doesn't help the body make more serotonin.

All it does is poison the serotonin pump.

So, it's better

if we can get the body to make more serotonin.

To make more GABA.

To make more dopamine

if this is deficient.

And then you get actual restoration of function.

And if you come to someone like me,

we'll measure these things and we have supplements

where we can get these to go up.

If you can't, there's a really good book

called The Mood Cure.

Her name is Julia Ross

where she takes you through, okay,

these symptoms go with GABA.

Here's how you would take some GABA,

it's over-the-counter,

and see how you respond to it.

You open up the capsules.

You put them underneath your tongue.

In 15 minutes, you'll know.

"Oh man, I'm not as anxious as I used to be."

That's actually working!

Where you could help yourself

to actually get this improved

so that you don't have,

if you're anxious or depressed

or sleep or things like that

or a lack of drive,

where you can actually help yourself feel better.

So, this is a delicate system in your body.

These things can be measured and supplements are available.

Non-drug supplements are available

to help people balance these things.

And if you have access to it,

I'd suggest you do that.

If you don't,

pick up this book.

I think it's really good.

Many, many people have used her technology

and they've improved themselves.

So that you can get the balance that you're looking for,

along the way, you better look into your intestine.

Make sure you have enough probiotics.

You're eating enough amino acids and enough proteins

because these are all part of this picture

in order to get this system back working.

We have an epidemic today of depression and anxiety.

Billions of dollars are spent on drugs

for serotonin and probably even more like,

Xanax and Valium.

These drugs are all GABA drugs.

They don't raise the GABA levels

but they poison.

They pretend that they're GABA

to try to get you better function.

So, pay attention to the diet.

Pay attention to your gut

and

with nutrition and with supplementation,

if you're suffering from one of these things,

you can help yourself

and

I think this book is really good.

Okay?

Hope this helped.

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Rival PDP, APC Supporters Disrupt Ilorin Convention​

Supporters loyal to the Senate president's faction of the PDP in Kwara State and those loyal to the APC gubernatorial candidate, yesterday, disrupted the Ilorin Emirate Progressive Descendant Union (IEDPU) annual convention.

The event which took place at the Emir of Ilorin's forecourt was going on smoothly until the supporters of  Senate President Bukola Saraki started shouting 'Sai leader,' 'Sai Saraki,' 'Sai Atunwa,' while supporters  of the APC gubernatorial candidate, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq popularly called Atunwa, also interrupted by  singing the slogan of their party, 'Otooge,' meaning "enough  is enough.

This happened when Atunwa was invited to the podium by the organisers to make his donation and launch the year almanac of the union before the whole venue became rowdy.

The incident forced the Emir of Ilorin, Alh Ibrahim Sulu- Gambari to leave the venue of the event in anger. Atunwa was however shouted down by supporters of Saraki who were at the venue of the occasion.

Some of Saraki's supporters were heard saying nobody could intimidate the Senate president in Ilorin. All attempt by the organisers to restore normalcy so as to continue with the programme proved abortive.

The IEDPU national executive council members led by  their president, Ambassador Sheikh- Usman Abdulaziz, later went into the palace to apologise to the Emir.

The IEDPU's calendar, a major source of revenue generation for the union could not be launched because of the unfortunate development.

In a statement yesterday, the APC candidate described what transpired as disappointing, embarrassing and antithetical to good moral Ilorin is known for.

"The development at  the IEDPU programme where touts and street urchins shouting 'Sai Bukky' disrupted a community event is disappointing, embarrassing and antithetical to good moral and ethics for which Ilorin community is known," the statement signed by Alhaji Rafiu Ajakaye, said.

"Apart from reminding everyone of the desperation for which the evil status quo in Kwara is known, the sad event clearly points at the extent to which the parasitic gangs will go in the coming months to continue to keep Kwara and its people down.

The Saraki camp of the PDP was yet to comment on the issue at the time of filing this report.