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How-to sharpen your mind and energy levels via ROS reduction

This article discusses how you can sharpen your mind and increase energy levels at any age, while minimizing effects of Reactive Oxydative Stress (ROS) and ATP (adenosine triphosphate)--prolonging effects of demyelinating disease on everyday brain and body function. Role of Reactive Oxidative Stress (ROS) and its reduction Bhat Bu-Yang-Huan-Wu Decoction (BYHWD) may combat Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathology and other neurodegenerative diseases, and their early onset, by reducing amyloid-beta (Aβ) plaques and formation, and addressing related energy deficits. AD pathology is associated with reduced levels of adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the primary energy carrier in cells.  Addressed in this research is the following: What diseases and symptoms show signs of amyloid plaques? How are the brain plaques identified? What signs identify ROS buildup? What is known about amyloid plaque loads and disease? How can we dissolve amyloid plaque loads? What diseases show brain plaques on MRI? Wh...
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What's Soul Searching: All over the Map?

Once, not too long ago a colleague of mine, Connie Snyder married the then President & CEO of Microsoft. She's a fantastic woman from my hometown and I never completely answered the question she used to put on my monitor daily: 'Kris, ask yourself Why Are You Doing This?' After Ph.D. schooling, M.S. studies, (Psychology/Counseling) and various other projects of rehabilitating much of the universe: Connie, today I think your message hit me light a lightning rod. And I appreciate the meaning of your Map room :) I always wondered why the people I took on press tours and worked with ended up marrying CEOs or the like. So, with a reflective lens, I've finally decided that in order to best care for my work, I have to first be happy and decide what's best for me! So Melissa Waggener, if you see this article please let Connie know I said hello and give all my best to Ms. French. I miss you ladies. '
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Risk Management in the Banking Sector: Advanced AI

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Risk Control and Management in the Banking Sector: Part II While we may write many dissertations in route to our goal, it is not known, via scholarly frameworks and empirical literature, how individuals, terrorists, and bad actors can mediate AI outcomes by disrupting best practices in the banking sector.  Or was that a misnomer?  Considered are significant recommendations that banks should contribute to and integrate accordingly as advanced AI-driven analytics that proactively detect and mitigate risks. Scholarly literature suggests (Lion, et, al., 2025) banks should invest in and integrate accordingly AI-driven analytics to proactively detect and mitigate risks. Step by step measures include: 1. Machine learning algorithms and predictive analytics, as inductive to research , can analyze vast amounts of data in real-time, identifying (thematic) patterns and anomalies indicative of potential threats.  2. To guarantee adherence to regulatory standards and reduce risk of n...
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Recent L.A. Riots: Parallel Historical Lens

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  Photo Credit: L.A. Violence Following Rodney King Ruling To understand why violent events occur, it is important to evaluate occurrences historically and, to utilize case precedence, as judges would, in order to determine a ruling. (Think ABCs of the empirical cognitive behavioral theory REBT: antecedent, behavior, and consequences.) In this writing, a phenomenology design was utilized, and a method of triangulation was applied. This research method is used to answer specific applicable research questions such as: What caused the most recent L.A. riots, how does it relate to the Rodney King riot, what role does race play in triggering riots, and how are riots a common milieu tactic, and how is the recent January 6 event related, and lastly, how does the body react to traumatic events and for how long? There are two significant events, examined herein as themes, that occurred in Los Angeles, It is not known if these events occurred as retribution to rulings. Not too distant ruling...
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A New Fix: ABCs of REBT & Gestalt Therapy

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  (Photo Credit: Fritz Perls) Albert Ellis developed a therapeutic treatment called Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy (REBT) in the 1950s. REBT is an extension of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) developed by Aaron Beck in the 1960s. These therapeutic modalities are useful in coping with a host of hurt locker challenges from chronic pain, to death, to observing death (such as with military Veterans and police), eating disorders, overcoming violence, grieving loss of a spouse/partner, etc. The Department of Veterans Affairs utilizes these treatment modalities to improve focus, as restructuring negative thought patterns and behaviors, typically for eight weeks.  These treatments are widely used to reframe how individuals feel and think about situations in the current context.  My personal favorite is the ABCs of REBT and I've attached a link to a REBT worksheet below. The ABCs are as follows: A=Event, B=Behavior, C=Outcomes.  Let's use a rhetorical analogy with REB...
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Drug dealers in school neighborhoods

Neighborhood Dealers & School Days In the very recent past, my daughter was attending a local S.W. community high school. This memory is easily recollected, like a still frame in my mind, seeing young kids with backpacks on sitting outside a convenience store a quarter mile from the nearby high school. This occurrence manifested enough times to spark a little more than curiosity.  Observations, thus, were taken a step further. On several additional trips to the high school, it was decided to sit in the car at this convenience mart to write down exactly what was occurring. An individual would exit the store and leave a package nearby a dumpster outside whereby the adolescent picked up the bag. There are two possibilities to describe what was occurring: 1. The store was feeding the school kid—perhaps not cared for at home or 2. The man coming out of the store was dealing drugs 3. Money allegedly had already been exchanged inside the store What is known is the store was clos...
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Narrative Storyteller, Really Tag

This post is a bit like narrative storytelling, but not, from a member of the Department of Public Safety. Accordingly, I will use the nearest proximity rule, and not reflect on developmental theory and trauma, which in reflection proves useful-in not repeating patterns of mistakes, and for many proves useful in solving issues of probable conduct adjustment.  With beneficence, I think of recent artifacts received from some musicians: "Why don't you just heal yourself" and "Not another, blah, blah, blah post". It is not known if these manifestations are of ill intent, nor did they understand who they were speaking with. What is known is behavior of conduct disorder repeats within three years, as aligned with the Deputy Director, and there is nowhere to hide.  Behaviorally, it is vetted via microaggressions and unfortunately, for some, as microaggressions. While inductively and deductively you can manifest similar results either way. Make sense? As a counselor and...
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