For all of us!

Back in September!

Is anyone really this dumb?

I am afraid that in the U.S. there are many people who are.

True elegance

The endocrine system is the ultimate "fine focus" of the body. Taking afferent impulses from the periphery and cortex, these organs monitor and respond to homeostatic parameters on a continuous basis.

It is the endocrine system and its hormones, plus neurotransmitters from other efferent aspects of the neuroendocrine array, that makes us the thinking, FEELING organisms we are.

Be good to your hormones and neurotransmitters today, and don't believe the gigabytes of pseudoscientific "information" about them that floods the Web. The reality is beautiful enough, and the product of millions of years of highly successful evolutionary development!

Afferent v. efferent

The real foodie problem

If the energy put into foodie propaganda and lies such as "lose weight drinking tea" (Oz's latest scam) and antioxidant stupidity were used to actually help reduce caloric intake 
we wouldn't be heading 
toward a 40% obesity rate.

The ONLY way we get input!

Not through magic waves, not through voices of the dead--through our nerve endings.

The ONLY afferent signals we can process are composed of some form of energy--light, heat, chemical, pressure--that is translated into the chemical and electrical energy processed by our nerves.

And we have four efferent pathways, all mediated by the same chemical and/or electrical energy: sympathetic & parasympathetic (autonomic), motor (voluntary), and endocrine (hormonal).

The carefully and successfully evolved neuroendocrine system is elegant and more than sufficient to navigate our complex relationships with each other and our environment--no "magic" need be invoked. And that spark of life--the spiritual part of us--can also be explained by this. 

As to the ORIGIN of it all--"Let there be light!"