About the prospective relation of Neurobotics with sport
Modern intensive care interventions leave behind lots of handicapped victims from wars all over the world, from accidents of sports that have become more and more dangerous, from land mines or simple accidents, be it in traffic or household or let’s think about the billions of stroke patients. In former days we would have died, or survived as neglected cripples (the old term that stands for the notion that life as a handicapped is not worth living). Today this attitude has changed on a broad scale, to be handicapped is seen as problem one can learn to deal with, life turned into a manageable condition. Science has got its share in this change of values.
If you only think about the “Challenged Athletes Foundation”, h ow many people, kids and adults need artificial limbs. Continue Reading →
Before I am going to post the second part of my quite challenging text (some may call too difficult and abstract) on neurobotics and its future potential for sport, I want to give you break 
… Listen to the clarity of John Cleese‘s words. What he is talking about has got a lot to do with neuroscience. It is let’s say neuroscience in the wild. Continue Reading →
Some thoughts about Neurobotics, a very young science
and its prospective relation to sport, Part 1
Inspired by Yoky Matsuoka*
Technologies play an essential role in sport. More and more sophisticated devices are available to record parameters from inside the body and from the outside. Since the controversies around the South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius before the Olympic games in 2008 the term techno doping became a familiar term. His protheses are not yet more than skillfully made mechanical legs with a high impact on energy and power release. He is for the time being probably the most famous example of how fuzzy the borders between the man and the machine have become. In the following I want to talk about another dimension of men being interwoven with a technical device. Continue Reading →
Biestmilch proudly presents its first guest author Anna Sophie Bernstein.
Her publication gives an interesting approach to the intake and effects of magnesium. Obviously magnesium can dampen inflammatory processes, and thus lower the risk of developing diabetes type 2. As I see it, it is probably not magnesium alone, but a combination of factors that leads to the antiinflamatory impact of this ion. Nevertheless, Sophie makes a good point and magnesium has to be seen as a player in the endless game of preventing diseases. Continue Reading →
Ever since I am working and in the same time struggling with science, with the notions wrong or right attached to it, I was confronted with the terms complex and complicated. Usually science is received as complicated, equals difficult to understand or not understandable. But if you are familiar with a topic, the perspectives change. If somebody is able to reach you with his thoughts, ideas, facts, one name it… complicated things dissolve and become transparent equals simple or relatively simple. Continue Reading →
They all make of biestmilch what it currently is, they guarantee change and innovation, and they are bolstering my back! Thank you all! Continue Reading →
To work on authentic content is an awkwardly shaped creature for our brain. It takes energy, and the brain consumes already 25% anyway, without performing a special job. Our journey to Hawaii took its toll, brain activity is still low .
Since I am involved with Biestmilch I did quite some searches on the gut-brain axis. I learned a lot about the interactions between gut and brain, I learned that there is a hard-wired connection between the brain and the gut, and that there are myriads of soluble factors synthesized by the nervous and by the immune system that influences our well-being in every moment of time.
The presentation by Heribert Watzke gives an inspiring view on the importance of cooking (= transformation of food) for energy production and expenditure and the avenues the skills of cooking have opened to us humans. Continue Reading →
There has been a long break on my blog here, sorry for that. Some of you may know the reason for my silence. I am in Kona on the Big Island since 10 days, days that have been extremely busy and stressful. My brain is like blown empty due to all the different features that it has to digest. Writing becomes a demanding task in situation like this. But I’ll try now.
There are only 2 and half days left until race day night, for many a sleepless night. Moving through Kona makes you feel the tension building up more and more. This can bring about more problems for your immune system, and hamper your capabilities to cope with stress. Continue Reading →
