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Instead. Jefferson agreed with research which suggests that there exists a waking center within some nerve cells in the brain stem and basal ganglia called "retic-ular formations." Sleep comes when this waking center is deactivated, probably by enzymes. But how this happens is unknown...
...most patients, the old-fashioned basal metabolism test is a mild form of torture, but that would be no reason for discarding it if it were a consistently accurate test. The fact is that it is far from reliable, and four Navy researchers have come to the conclusion that in big medical centers with facilities for handling radioisotopes. it should be replaced by the "atomic cocktail...
...doing too much, said Dr. Matsner, the well-meaning physician may defeat his own purpose. The taking of basal body temperatures for many months, daily vaginal smears and repeated tissue tests can provoke anxiety that leads to tension and to spasm of the fallopian tubes. "By the time a woman gets through with these tests," Dr. Matsner said, "she is so tense that conception is impossible. The poor girl is thinking of exact times and methods, instead of relaxing and letting nature take its course. The couple's sex life should not be regulated by the calendar or dictated...
...attributed their obesity and sterility to the same cause-a childlike desire to be taken care of. "We have often noted," said Dr. Kroger, "that these neurotic women state that they 'will do anything in the world to get pregnant,' yet when given diets and basal body temperature charts, they find many rationalizations for not dieting and keeping the monthly record." The last thing in the world that they really want, he contended, is weight reduction and the normal ovarian function which could make pregnancy possible...
...basal temperature chart, Dr. Farris concedes, in his Human Fertility and Problems of the Male (The Author's Press, White Plains, $5), has some value in determining the most likely time for conception. But he insists that it is often inaccurate, that its use may hinder, rather than help, conception. The most accurate way to find out when an egg is about to be released, says Dr. Farris, is to use a test he developed as head of Philadelphia's Wistar Institute of Anatomy & Biology...