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Well I tried a little experiment; putting an ice cube on the carotid artery. That should cool the blood flowing to the brain. But it didn't produce the same effect as yawning. The yawn produces an instant effect. But the ice produced no effect even though I held it there for a minute.

I think the problem lies with the blood not being able to leave the brain, returning to the heart. You can see it with my face it is so red. When they opened my veins my face returned to a paler, normal colour.

HappyPoet wrote:

Cece wrote:I have shared that I fell on my head when I was sixteen? HappyPoet posted a link in another thread to look up UCC docs and there is one in my area

Cece, so glad there is an AO chiro near you. Here is the post you mention: http://www.thisisms.com/forum/chronic-c ... ml#p177701]

Yawning as a brain cooling mechanism - cool find, Cece ;)

Depending on how you fall, you might also pop a valve?

dania wrote:I think the problem lies with the blood not being able to leave the brain, returning to the heart. You can see it with my face it is so red. When they opened my veins my face returned to a paler, normal colour.

Mine allowed my face to be redder. So did several other people's. ???

I think the blockages are never in the same places with all of us. I too have heard that some people the get more colour after treatment. Mine is so obvious, that the blockages are not allowing the blood to return to the heart. As well as being very red, my face is swollen. And both disappeared hours after treatment and reappeared when I restenosed.

According to Gallup and Gallup, our brains, not unlike computers, operate more efficiently when cool, and yawning enhances the brain’s functioning by increasing blood flow and drawing in cooler air.

What about the increasing blood flow part of the quote above? I wonder how that works, exactly. This is from the article I linked on the other page.

Interesting experiment with the ice cube.

My face is less puffy, but with more natural color, since my procedures. My lips are still really pale though. I had thought that could have been related to my CCSVI. Who knows, maybe my external jugulars are blocked. Or maybe my autonomic nervous system is still righting itself. It has been unexpected to have improvements, such as in sweating, months after the procedure.

From what people are saying, the can see something as being an occasional trigger for something like the phenomenon I used to get: remission, for a short time (minutes or hours) of a disabling paralysis. I called these my "moments of physical clarity", or something like that.

The thing I take from this is that something is being obscured or masked, and that the nervous pathway may still be intact. If, as in my case, there has been too much time elapsed, a brain phenomenon comes into play where the brain is always reusing the most unused resources, because they are in short supply. So what happens is the neurons that aren't in use anymore are used for something else (use it or lose it), and you will eventually lose the abilities you once had, even if the masking stops. Re-teaching, and re-learning, will then be necessary, and even muscles will be atrophic.

Another reason that time as always, is of the essence.