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My experiments with pyramid model

by

Dr.Surekha Bhat,

Assistant Professor in Biochemistry,

Melaka Manipal Medical College,

Manipal 576104

INDIA

e-mail: surekha.bhat@manipal.edu

My experiments with pyramid model

Huge square based structures tapering from sandy vastness towards the infinite
sky, with tremendous powers being preserved from a time beyond
understanding- these are the pyramids of Egypt, the oldest and largest standing
constructions of man. Pyramids, modelled after the great pyramid of Giza, are
being used all over the world as an anti-stressor, meditation centre and a wound
healing promoter. Claims of pyramid energy promoting relaxation gain a lot of
significance in this age of civilization and modernization, where stress, the word
seems to rule the tongues and thoughts of all classes and ages of people in
todays world! Students are stressed by exams, graduates by the mad race for
jobs, employees are stressed by frustrating work situations, parents by childrens
unending demands and the aged are stressed by relationship difficulties.
Although optimal levels of stress and oxidative stress are necessary for normal
functioning of the body, prolonged stress can cause regulatory disturbances and
pathological changes in the body.

My interest for pyramids mainly developed through already ongoing pyramid

research studies in our institute, Melaka Manipal Medical College (Manipal
Campus), Manipal, India. My colleague, Dr.Bharathi, in the department of
Physiology, under the guidance of Dr.Dilip Murthy, Professor in Physiology in
our institute at that time, was getting encouraging results in her experiments
involving housing of mice in wooden pyramids to study the effects of the same on
learning and behaviour. Significant findings were also being reported by our other
colleague, Dr.Surekha R Kamath, also in the department of Physiology, working
with rats to study the effects of housing in pyramids on wound healing, under the
guidance of Dr.S Gurumadhva Rao, who was then a Professor in Pharmacology
in our institute and also Registrar of our university, Manipal Academy of Higher

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Education, a deemed university. Earlier in 1997, Dr. B G Subba Rao,

Department of Physiology, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, had published a
paper reporting improved wound healing when rats were housed in pyramids. All
the above individuals and the initiative taken by them in pyramid research,
inspired me to study the effects of pyramid exposure on parameters of
Biochemistry, which was my specialization. With further encouragement by
Dr.Nandini H K and Dr.Shashikala, my senior colleagues, I finally took up
pyramid research. The research work was conducted under the guidance of Dr.
P Gopalakrishna Bhat, Professor in Biochemistry, Kasturba Medical College,
Manipal and the co-guidance of Dr. K Dilip Murthy. Also involved in the work right
till the end was my co-worker, Dr.Guruprasad Rao, my colleague in
Biochemistry.

We made an attempt to SCIENTIFICALLY assess whether housing in the

pyramid alters the status of stress and oxidative stress in rats in their home
cages as well as in wire mesh restrainers. We used plasma cortisol as an
indicator of neuroendocrine stress, erythrocyte TBARS as an indicator of lipid
peroxidation and erythrocyte GSH levels as well as erythrocyte GSH-Px and
SOD activities as indicators of antioxidant defence. A square box of similar
dimensions as the pyramid was also used in the study to determine if the shape
of the pyramid was responsible for its beneficial effects.

Results of the study:

We have arrived at the following conclusions from our studies:

Duration of pyramid exposure is an important factor to be

considered during experiments.

The north-south alignment of the pyramid is crucial for its

expected effects and a shift in this alignment does affect
the results as reported by pyramidologists.

Housing caged rats in pyramids decreases

neuroendocrine as well as oxidative stress in young and
old rats of both genders. However, gender specific
variations are seen in these beneficial effects of the
pyramid. While pyramid exposure lowers basal levels of
plasma cortisol to a greater extent in male rats than in
females, oxidative stress is lowered to a greater extent in

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female rats.

Pyramid exposure causes significantly more body weight

gain in adult and old female rats but not in male rats.

Housing in pyramids during chronic restraint attenuates

stress induced increase in neuroendocrine and oxidative
stress in the adults. Thus, pyramid acts as an effective
anti-stressor during stress.

Pyramid is more effective in decreasing neuroendocrine

stress and lipid peroxidation in the cool season than in the
hot season. Pyramid housing is more effective in
increasing antioxidant enzyme activity in the hot season
than in the cool season. Body weight gain is significant
following pyramid exposure in both seasons, the
significance being more in the cool season.

The shape of the pyramid, and not mere enclosure, is

responsible for the above mentioned beneficial effects of
housing rats in the pyramid, since similar beneficial effects
have not been observed in a square box of similar
dimensions.

Significance of the study

Sitting under a pyramid can be an effective technique for

stress management. Pyramid shaped rooms can be built
in residences or recreation centres as a relaxation area.

Pyramids can be used for non invasive treatment of

diseases in which the role of free radicals and reactive
oxygen species has been implicated. Many
pyramidologists have already claimed that they have
cured many such diseases. This study is a scientific
support to their claim.

Preliminary studies in this work suggest that duration of

pyramid exposure is an important factor, and that
uneasiness claimed by subjects due to over exposure
has to be kept in mind during pyramid therapy.

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According to Hans Selye, stress is essentially reflected by the rate of all the wear
and tear caused by life. Although we cannot avoid stress as long as we live, we
can learn a great deal about how to keep its damaging side effects, distress, to a
minimum. To those who choose to derive the claimed and proven benefits of
pyramid exposure, the pyramid offers some promise of serving to minimize
distress. The small replicas of the timeless, huge square based structures
towering towards infinity on the sandy lands of Egypt, seem to assure us that
they can rule over our stress, that which is ruling the tongues and thoughts of
people of all ages and all regions of the world, in this age of civilization and
modernization!

Publications:

Surekha Bhat, Guruprasad Rao, K. Dilip Murthy, P Gopalakrishna

Bhat. Effect of housing rats within a pyramid on stress parameters.
Indian Journal of Experimental Biology 2003; 41: 1289-1293
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?CMD=search&
DB=pubmed

Surekha Bhat, Guruprasad Rao, K. Dilip Murthy, P Gopalakrishna

Bhat. Housing in pyramid counteracts neuroendocrine and oxidative
stress caused by chronic restraint in rats. Evidence Based
Contemporary and Alternative Medicine 2006

http://ecam.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/nel049v1

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