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a world where we all paint like Picasso, write music like Mozart and
can calculate complex equations like Einstein.
Scientist
Tony Wright, from West Penwith, believes the human race was heading
in that direction until early man’s brain expansion ground
to a sudden and mysterious halt.
Wright,
a plant biologist, says that it all comes down to a change in eating
habits, lifestyle and hormones.
He
believes we all possess latent higher abilities that we could access
- if we followed the right eating and sleeping regime.
Wright’s
theory is a radical reinterpretation of estabilished evolutionary
theory.
He believes that when fruit was the main food for our early ancesters,
its chemical compounds reacted in a unique way with their bodies, boosting
activity in the brain through the modification of hormones and causing
it to develop over successive generations.
“But
when humans were forced out of the receding forests by climatic
changes,”
says Wright, “brain development began to degenerate because
the fruit chemicals were no longer present to maintain the new hormone
environment.
“Humans
also developed general weaknesses in their bodies and immune
systems.”
He
claims that as humans began to eat more savannah and grassland foods
such as seeds, tubers, and meat, they also developed the degenerative
diseases and behavioural disorders that are seen in abundance today.
It
is well documented that certain foods enhance brain function while others
inhibit performance. The benefits of more nutritional eating have been
highlighted by Jamie Oliver and his Feed Me Better campaign.
Wright
believes that the logical left hemisphere of the brain has suffered
the greatest degeneration and that the creative right side of the
brain
is both inhibited by the left and missing essential ingredients to
operate at full capacity, meaning that a suppressed “divine consciousness” really
could exist.
He
was inspired by research conducted by Professor Alan Snyder at The
Centre
For The Mind. Professor Snyder believes that “switching off” the
left side of the brain - through sleep deprivation for example - has
the potential to turn normal people into geniuses.
Wright
has been encouraged by the results of a five-day sleep deprivation experiment
he carried out at Manchester Metropolitan University with Professor
Dave Collins - performance director of the UK Athletics Association.
The experiment suggested that sleep deprivation, in conjunction with
other lifestyle changes, could improve the brain’s functioning.
Professor
Collins said: “Both Tony and his colleague improved performance
on the various tasks that they were set.
“This
contrasts with the conventional wisdom sleep deprivation adversely
affects
performance. Of particular note was their improved performances on
vigilance and reaction time tasks.”
Wright
added: “I realize my theory might challenge a lot of current
thinking, but following my initial experiment at MMU, I’m absolutely
convinced that I’m right.” For more information go
to www.kaleidos.org.uk.
