From: Andrew Johnson
Date: 2010-08-04 10:43:02
Attachments : Ironically (or not), this stresses me out – although it’s actually quite funny in a way. Poor woman (in the photo). From: Kathy Roberts [mailto:weerkhr@pacbell.net] Sent: 04 August 2010 00:33To: Undisclosed-Recipient: ;@smtp126.sbc.mail.sp1.yahoo.comSubject: Stressed? You Need a Genetically-Engineered Herpes Virus Vaccine! After early setbacks, the Stanford team has adapted a herpes virus to carry engineered ‘neuroprotective’ genes deep into the brain to neutralise the rogue hormones before they can cause damage. The virus is now shown to work on rats. www.dailymail.co.uk/… Jab that could put a stop to stress without slowing us down By Rachel QuigleyLast updated at 10:32 AM on 2nd August 2010 Forget the age-old remedies of yoga, meditation or popping pills. Relieving chronic stress could soon be as simple as having an injection, according to scientists. Academics say they are close to developing the first vaccine for stress – a single jab that would help us relax without slowing down. After 30 years of research into cures for stress, Dr Robert Sapolsky, professor of neuroscience at Stanford University in California, believes it is possible to alter brain chemistry to create a state of ‘focused calm’. The future: The cure for stress could be converted into a vaccine and mean big changes for society. Picture posed by models Professor Sapolsky claims he is on the path to a genetically engineered formula that would remove the need for relaxation therapies or prescription drugs. Chronic stress, as opposed to everyday worries, is linked to illnesses ranging from diabetes to heart attacks. Professor Sapolsky, who first observed the damage caused by stress on animals in Kenya, has been studying hormones called glucocorticoids, which are part of the body’s immune system and help fight cancer and inflammation. All mammals produce these hormones, which help them deal with a threat – often by running away. But Professor Sapolsky has observed that, while a zebra will turn off the stress chemicals after escaping from a lion, modern man not only produces too many glucocorticoids in response to everyday alarms but cannot turn them off afterwards. He says the hormone becomes toxic both biologically, by destroying brain cells and weakening the immune system, and socially, when people continue to snap at their friends or family hours after the original cause of tension has vanished. After early setbacks, the Stanford team has adapted a herpes virus to carry engineered ‘neuroprotective’ genes deep into the brain to neutralise the rogue hormones before they can cause damage. The virus is now shown to work on rats. ‘To be honest, I’m still amazed that it works,’ Professor Sapolsky told Wired magazine recently. He warned that human trials are years away, but added: ‘We have proved that it’s possible. We can reduce the neural damage caused by stress.’ Last week, a Stanford University colleague, who called the potential vaccine ‘the Sapolsky shot’, said: ‘In humans this engineered virus would short-circuit the neural feedback caused by stress, that lingering feeling of tension after a crisis has passed. ‘It would leave you fresher and ready to deal with another threat, so you can maintain your drive, but with more focused calm rather than bad temper and digestion. ‘This could change society.’ Professor Sapolsky’s preparatory work was published last October by the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Of course, until the vaccine has been completed, those feeling overstretched will have to resort to more tried and tested methods. Last week, Professor Sapolsky left Stanford to take his own ‘proven medicine’ for stress: He turned off his email and is spending August with his family. ___________________________________________ The brains ability to produce stress hormones has allowed this species to survive through countless disasters, wars, diseases, etc. Stress is a natural part of man’s biological condition and taking it away would have severe consequences on humanity. Then when I discovered that this herpes virus actually kills neurons (brain damage), it all started to make sense… This is about changing humanity, think the BORG on star trek. One more example of our current human condition trying to treat a symptom instead of looking to a cause. – David, Sydney, 3/8/2010 15:56 Click to rate Rating 1 Report abuse Here it comes MK ULTRA for the masses. We’re soon to all be subjects of mind control by the establishment. Let’s all become zombies. – Christian, California, U.S.A., 3/8/2010 15:50 Click to rate Rating (0) Report abuse From the article: To be honest, I’m still amazed that it works, -‘ Professor Sapolsky told Wired magazine recently. Remember to do the slightly Simpson-esque Mad professor accent. I think I’ve lived with severe stress bouts for long enough to be convinced that it’s not going to be productive to try and alter my deeply embedded brain structure and time served function by pharmaceutical company dabblings. “Anger is an Energy”. – PIL ( Public Image Ltd) that is. – Graham, Dumfries, Scotland., 3/8/2010 15:17 Click to rate Rating 1 Report abuse A virus that can alter a man’s DNA. Well that’s the smartest thing humanity’s ever thought off….’28 days later’ anybody? – Mr Me, Devon England, 3/8/2010 14:00 Click to rate Rating 4 Report abuse I think the idea of messing with the whole strukture of the brain is the worst thing that could happen to the planet! Headache happens – when the body needs to rest. Stress and its symptoms occur, when the particular person should slow down things. But that seems to be excactly, what “THEY” dont whant. These crazy DICTATORS – one has to say it!!! – want us to work an not winche about it. Slavery – thats what you call it. Jesus people WAKE UP!!! Do something about it – this is YOUR life – protect it!! – Engelstädter Lisa, Germany, Passau, 3/8/2010 13:24 Click to rate Rating 12 Report abuse Are you stressed? Don’t worry, just roll up your sleeve and take this shot. We can over-ride your body’s natural defences which have served well for thousands of years. After all, you have to get back on your tax-wheel until your 70! We can’t have dissent!! We thought the fluoride and aspartame would work! Never mind, just roll up your sleeve and go to sleep…. – antidote, London, 3/8/2010 12:24 Click to rate Rating 13 Report abuse The faulty logic in some of the arguments I’m reading here is that “because we are so stressed out, this is a wonderful drug.” The presumption is that this drug is the best or only way to cure stress. I know this to be false, as I have been practicing self-hypnosis for nearly a decade and have zero to no stress… and this has even been true while I was unemployed, going through a difficult relationship, etc. Stress is a result of sensory input and thoughts. Change your life (sensory input) and your thoughts, and you will notice a reduction in stress. Take a pill or vaccine, but change nothing in your life or thoughts, and you will be a zombie… physically relaxed, yet trapped in the same miserable situation that caused the stress in the first place. This is just an extension of the mind-numbing, dangerous anti-depressants that are ruining so many lives. – Sean, Atlanta, GA, 3/8/2010 12:09 Click to rate Rating 11 Report abuse this was in brave new world. soma. – andrew, new york city, new york, 3/8/2010 11:45 Click to rate Rating 18 Report abuse Wonderful! We will be quite relaxed about being directed to the exit booths, so calm, so happy. – tom bowden, perth australia, 3/8/2010 10:20 Click to rate Rating 13 Report abuse This is one of the scariest things I have heard in a long time. A shot for stress. Change the whole biology of your brain for stress. If you really thing this is good, you are crazy. We have plenty of EXTREMELY successful methods to handle stress. Plus, don’t you think stress occurs in us for a reason. THIS IS PLAYING GOD TO THE EXTREME! – Jim, Topeka, KS, 3/8/2010 9:54 Click to rate Rating 23 Report abuse Absolutely wonderful! Well done Dr. Sapolsky. – Mistress76uk, UK, 3/8/2010 6:12 Click to rate Rating 35 Report abuse If you paranoid Luddites prevent this miracle drug from coming into use, you will be contributing to millions of deaths per year, not to mentions the billions of people suffering needlessly from excessive stress responses generated by our primitive monkey brains. We are not living in the world our bodies evolved to handle, so obviously changes are needed. We can either go back to living in the stone ages in the jungle (which would probably please many of you) or we can change our bodies to adapt to the modern world. I pray we make the right choice. I’d really rather not live in a mud hut and watch my children die of dehydration and influenza, and I’d also rather not die from a heart attack at 50. This drug offers a hope of having the best of both worlds. God bless you, Doc. – Mike, Dallas, TX, USA, 3/8/2010 0:46 Click to rate Rating 27 Report abuse Ah yes… Orwell would be nodding his head in grim recognition of this ever so helpful ‘development’. The thin end of the wedge is always presented as being for the greater good. And don’t forget Huxleys ‘Brave New World’. Along comes the latest opiate of the masses to quell the stress of the modern nightmare. Sush, go back to sleep little workers – all is well. (And don’t forget to drink up your genetically modified milk from cloned cows). – Anne, London, 2/8/2010 23:13 Click to rate Rating 37 Report abuse Sign me up for the test jab – stress is ruining my health. If I can’t have the jab, would somebody please shoot my boss? – PB, No longer in the UK, 2/8/2010 14:26 Click to rate Rating 4 Report abuse Why not develop an injection that wipes your mind out and just leaves your body working, working, working. – Marie., Lancs, 2/8/2010 14:18 Click to rate Rating 22 Report abuse Oh well lest not give stressed people a bit more relaxation, a holiday or a cut in hours, lets give them a jab and they they can keep working until they drop dead. – Marie., Lancs, 2/8/2010 14:04 Click to rate Rating 28 Report abuse So glad to see that more folk are waking up to the big pharma scam – it warms my heart it does and gives me hope for the future. 🙂 – Rosie, Yorkshire, 2/8/2010 13:36 Click to rate Rating 28 Report abuse Hahaha! Not a chance, not a chance! Watch out people, there’ll be more vaccines on the way. It’s the depopulation agenda. Be afraid, be very afraid! – Marie, Liverpool, England, 2/8/2010 11:35 Click to rate Rating 24 Report abuse This is a joke surely…The only people this riduculous jab should be given to is the people developing it….imagine their stress levels, not only are they completely wasting their time and I would imagine a great deal of money but they have totally lost the plot .. – jeanie, Essex Uk, 2/8/2010 10:23 Click to rate Rating 12 Report abuse Just another way to suppress our brains in hope that we will accept the latest steps in the totalitarian tiptoe (AKA New world order). This is to try and subdue us and contain discontent in order to stop us dissenting against ‘the agenda’ and they want you to pay for it! Don’t fall for this nonsense and be the cattle they want you to be… Incase you hadn’t looked around yet… the New World Order is not conspiracy theory anymore, but conspiracy FACT. Look at what the governments are doing, the banks, the corporations, conglomerates, world organizations. It’s all for THEM and their hunger for power and wealth. There’s nothing in any of it for us. What’s more, they know that WE know, but they’re just doing it anyway!!! Wake up folks. There’s a war on for your MIND. – V, UK, 2/8/2010 9:33 Click to rate Rating 18 Report abuse Just another small step for the Depopulation agenda – Donovan, Norfolk England, 2/8/2010 8:52 Click to rate Rating 23 Report abuse Can my Autistic daughter be the first PLEASE! – gill mead, westbury uk, 02/8/2010 08:37 As someone with autism, I find your attitude disgusting to be honest. If you genuinely do have an autistic daughter then maybe you need to MAKE THE EFFORT to see what you can do to change or lessen the things in life that stress her out, instead of filling her full of drugs. I might not enjoy having autism but it doesn’t mean I want a virus injected into my brain so I can be more convenient for everyone else. – Linda, Scotland, 2/8/2010 3:42 Click to rate Rating 16 Report abuse 30 years of research! I think he’s missed the boat. New research supports humanistic therapies to help people suffering from stress and its companion depression. Will this wonder drug then prevent people being stressed by sexual abuse and trauma to the point where it will no longer be reported or dealt with by society? It will certainly make us more compliant and controllable. We already have vaccinations that do more harm than good. What if this component is added to vaccinations without our knowledge. You don’t think it possible? Tell it to the american soldiers that were infected with swine flu in the sixties. No, it did not become a pandemic then either but some of the soldiers developed neurological problems from the vaccine. – Chris, Battle, 2/8/2010 3:39 Click to rate Rating 18 Report abuse This is a step too far. Today’s life is too complicated, too much technology, too much emphasis on things material and “keeping up with the Joneses” (no offence to the Joneses). To quote the poet William Henry Davis – What is this life if full of care, we have no time to stand and stare? The real remedy for stress is for everyone to take stock of their lives and only keep what they really need rather than what they think they want or “this season’s must have.” (I’d love to see that phrase abolished). Bringing in a chemical to change the mindset of perfectly healthy people is a mistake. – Rose, Ireland, 2/8/2010 3:14 Click to rate Rating 30 Report abuse With may be of help to people who suffer from Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome (CPPS) which is pain the pelvis caused by stress in the body. This drug could have massive benefits to so many people. Speed up human trials please! – Gary, Cardiff, UK, 2/8/2010 2:10 Click to rate Rating 26 Report abuse Hmmm, mind control on a mass scale? Will this become compulsory I wonder, all of us in a permanent state of ‘focused calm’. We’ll all be so much more compliant, like little drones. Is it only me who thinks this could be the start of something more sinister? I’ll stick to my yoga and herbal de-stressors, ta very much! – Unperson, somewhere in Oceana, UK, 2/8/2010 1:56 Click to rate Rating 39 Report abuse Oh what a shame so many rely on stress to get benefits – in my view a bit of stress does you good! How long before a jab to make us vote for certain party’s? – Christine, England a country betrayed!, 2/8/2010 1:23 Click to rate Rating 12 Report abuse Where the next step is, from making the millions of couch potatoes and sheeple who automatically accept the everyday unlawful – we are going to put you further into a robotic state – we are going to replace that part of your mind to believe all we are doing is good for you – So welcome to Aldus Huxleys Brave New World (order) – P Ronald, Mountain Ash, Mid Glam, 2/8/2010 0:51 Click to rate Rating 66 Report abuse Can my Autistic daughter be the first PLEASE! – gill mead, westbury uk, 2/8/2010 0:37 Click to rate Rating 18 Report abuse I think I’ll pass on a GM herpes virus that turns off the immune system! – lulu, bristol, 2/8/2010 0:12 Click to rate Rating 42 Report abuse Stress is your body’s way of telling you something is wrong. Turn it off and people are far less likely to make the changes that were the underlying causes of the stress in the first place. It’s like diet meds, even if they work and by reducing obesity, cut certain health risks, by making it so that you don’t have to change your eating and exercise habits, they reduce the chances of you making real positive changes. Maybe it has value, I don’t know. But I just think we’re too reliant on the whole “pill for every ill” way of thinking, rather than addressing the root cause of problems these days. Preventative medicine is still the best way. – Linda, Scotland, 1/8/2010 23:45 Click to rate Rating 50 Report abuse If anyone really wants to be injected with a virus which invades the brain and permanently alters brain chemistry, please go ahead! I think I will give it a miss though. I think being stressed is rather less harmful. There are still millions suffering from dependence on tranquillisers and benzodiazepines prescribed in the 70s and 80s, and these only caused temporary alterations to brain chemistry. – The History Man, France, 1/8/2010 23:28 Click to rate Rating 49 Report abuse I wonder if that would also help M.E., as the condition causes the body to way over produce the stress hormones even when there are no stressful conditions, which causes extremely painful headaches that can’t be shifted with headache tablets, extreme fatigue ad tiredness all the time, the inability to sleep well, very bad muscle pains, etc, etc, etc. If tjis really could step down the production of stress hormones, it could possibly be a tool to at least help reduce some of the symptoms a bit, for what is an extremely nasty condition, currently without any treatment available to even alleviate the symptoms on any level at all.. – Barry, Shevington, 1/8/2010 23:23 Clic Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/…
