This week at Mental Health Notes, I recommended checking out John La Puma and the book he wrote with Rebecca Powell Marx, Chef MD’s Big Book of Culinary Medicine, as well as I Dose, which claims to be “the perfect Binaural Beats experience.” I also introduced you to Frank Calloway and the Cover America Tour, and then asked you what you thought about Barack Obama’s stance on mental health parity and to share good stories about mental health.
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I ran across an interesting Web site the other day called I Dose, which claims to be “the perfect Binaural Beats experience.”
(If you don’t know what Binaural Beats do, I Dose offers a pretty decent layman’s explanation: “Playing tones with a slightly different frequency to each ear, cause the brain to recalculate the frequency, and to create a new frequency inside the brain. A frequency which doesn’t actually exist outside of the brain.”)
Always eager to tickle my ears with something new, I gave several of the various I Dose tracks a listen (in total there are 11, designed to help …read more