Dr Darryl's Blog

I recently came across a unique proposition by a nutritionist (Jane Cole-Hamilton) from Ontario in Canada. In order to relieve stress, you need to know which brain hemisphere is stressed. Note the following:

If you feel depressed or emotional overwrought, your stress is in the right hemisphere -- the creative, emotional, holistic side.
The remedy? Switch to your matter-of-fact left hemisphere by doing maths, writing factual prose or organising. The emotional right brain will calm down.

If you feel time-stressed and overburdened, the left hemisphere is involved.
The remedy?  Switch to your right brain by singing, playing music or playing sport.

Maybe it's worth a try next time...

David Waters is a fortunate young man. At 24 years, he had only months to live, but received the heart of a 17 year old teenager Kaden Delaney who died in a car crash. A life-saving gesture of kindness. (Reported in the "Sunday Mail," Dec 27, page 13.)

However, straight after the transplant, David Waters reported a desire for Burger Rings. "That's all I seemed to want to eat after my surgery" he said. "I never used to eat them before."

Six months after the operation, the Delaney family made contact with David who asked if the donor Kaden had ever liked Burger Rings. The response from the family was that Kaden "loved" Burger Rings.

Scientists have long theorised that the brain is not the only organ to store memories or personality traits, and that memory can be stored in other parts of the body such as the heart. This has been termed "cellular memory."

For the record, David's craving for Burger Rings lasted about three weeks before slowly disappearing.

But don't be fooled, you have memory in parts of your body you never dreamed of!