As published in Eden Magazine August 1, 2017, page 62
What if you could light up your brain – become more creative, productive, focused, motivated? Suddenly write that proposal, brief, or marketing idea, and do it brilliantly! Come up with new creative solutions to the problems stymieing your business, and implement them with incisive verve!
If there was a way to instantly wake up your brain to its nearly unlimited potential… you would leap on it….
So jump on a whole body vibration (WBV) machine and wake up that sleepy brain! When you are standing on the vibrating plate of a WBV machine, every neuron in your body will automatically shoot signals through your body and into your brain at the same rate that the machine is vibrating, 20-50 times per second.
This massive neurological stimulation triggers a cascade of beneficial effects for your nervous system. Immediate effects include rapidly rising levels of two neurotransmitters, molecules in your brain that are essential to communication between neurons. The first, serotonin, is a neurotransmitter in your brain that contributes to sounder sleep and feelings of mastery, pleasure, and relaxation. This is the same neurotransmitter that is targeted by prescription antidepressant drugs such as Prozac and Wellbutrin, as well as many street drugs such as marijuana, cocaine, and Ecstasy. WBV is a natural, safe, rapid, nonaddictive, and legal way to increase serotonin.
The second, norepinephrine, is both a neurotransmitter and a hormone, and low levels of this essential molecule have been linked to depression and low energy. Norepinephrine (along with epinephrine) underlies the fight-or-flight response, giving the body sudden energy in times of stress. It increases the heart rate, triggers the release of glucose from energy stores, increases blood flow to skeletal muscles and oxygen supply to the brain, and can suppress nerve inflammation.
Studies done on rats have shown rapid increases in serotonin levels with WBV.[1] Although physical measurements of brain serotonin levels can only be done in animals (as brain tissue samples must be taken), anecdotal evidence of increased serotonin and norepinephrine levels with WBV in humans is strong. Hundreds of my clients, and many thousands of users around the world, report rapid and dramatic improvements in mood, energy, and sleep within days of beginning vibration. As of July of 2017, Googling “whole body vibration improves mood” resulted in 660,000 hits. My clients also report increased motivation, focus, and activity levels.
In addition, exercise has been shown to be the most important factor for brain health, leading to increased neural cell growth and strength. In fact, the latest research is that nothing helps your brain develop and stay healthy more than exercise. A 2012 New York Times magazine article, “Jogging Your Brain,” states, “For more than a decade, neuroscientists and physiologists have been gathering evidence of the beneficial relationship between exercise and brainpower. But the newest findings make it clear that this isn’t just a relationship; it is the relationship. . . . Exercise, the latest neuroscience suggests, does more to bolster thinking than thinking does.”[2]
Neurogenesis is the creation of new neurons in the brain and throughout the body. This was once thought to happen only before birth, but it is now known that, at a slower pace, neurogenesis in at least the brain does continue throughout life. Neurogenesis allows for brain “plasticity,” meaning that the brain can continue to grow and change throughout life, making new neural connections that allow you to not only learn new skills and knowledge but also to increase your ability to learn, think creatively, and change.
Research showing this connection between exercise and the brain has primarily been done with aerobic exercise. However, similar neurological and muscular processes are involved with weightlifting-type exercises, to which whole body vibration is most similar. Perhaps WBV, with its massive neurological stimulation, will eventually be found to stimulate brain development even more effectively than other forms of exercise.
I can personally testify as to the benefits of whole body vibration for your brain. I spent forty years telling people that I couldn’t write, that I had terrible writer’s block and was too depressed and repressed to write. This was true, for forty years. Writing was a nightmare, to the extent that I dropped out of a high-school course because I had to write a term paper and I majored in biology at college, because I liked the subject but also because you didn’t have to write papers.
Despite exercise, good schools, and interventions of many types, I didn’t improve for many years. But from the time I started vibrating about 12 years ago with the best type of whole body vibration (see previous articles, my website, and/or my books) I have written two books and many articles. And as one of those books is the best-selling book in the United States on this worldwide booming health and wellness system, I am happy to say that my once abysmal financial picture has brightened considerably.
If you too would like to increase your creativity, productivity, learning potential, and income, I recommend you vibrate your way to success.
[1] M. Ariizumi and A. Okada, “Effect of Whole Body Vibration on the Rat Brain Content of Serotonin and Plasma Corticosterone,” European Journal of Applied Physiology and Occupational Physiology 52, no. 1 (1983): 15–9.
[2] Gretchen Reynolds, “Jogging Your Brain,” New York Times magazine, April 2012, 46.
