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The Accidental Awesome Of Hidden Learning Creates Brain Training Game That Actually Fights Dementia!

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

The Accidental Awesome Of Hidden Learning Creates Brain Training Game That Actually Fights Dementia!
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Persistence FINALLY Breaks “The Lumosity Curse”. -With Actual Data!:

Ok, so everyone who was ever forced to take music lessons, spit out your retainer and go kiss your parents.

Not only might they have conferred some of Zamfir’s magic of the pan flute upon you.

But they might have just saved your very mind back in middle-school!

And there might also be a certain argument for their video-game generosity, too.

Because not only have some of those games proved helpful for different types of cognitive-boost,

A JHU team just found one very important exception to “The Lumosity Letdown”…

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Left Turn: When The Preservatives In Food Aren’t The Contamination. But The Article On Them Actually Is

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry

Left Turn: When The Preservatives In Food Aren’t The Contamination. But The Article On Them Actually Is
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What Happens When The Magic In The Study Is Hidden By Darker Arts?:

So people in the know here will not be surprised by this. But, short story:

Through some odd coincidence one summer, I got reactive-arthritis.

Probably the result of buying lox or prosciutto at the deli counter.

When I found out how this works and how you can’t avoid it, I was stunned to think, “But I thought if they sold it in the store, it was safe!”

We all make that assumption. On the shelf == someone vetted this! Right? -Every time we step into a store or supermarket.

Where we promptly dismiss oldey-timey nutrition wisdom. But sometimes the things grandma might say turn out to be the smartest.

And there’s a French team with 100,000+ subjects and years of data who would suggest that too; until…

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Don’t Go Too Hard At The X-Games, Bro. Because That Energy Drink Could Actually Shorten Your Lifespan

Filed Under: Vitamins/Supplements

Don’t Go Too Hard At The X-Games, Bro. Because That Energy Drink Could Actually Shorten Your Lifespan
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It -Is- Possible To Go Too Extreme, Especially With Liquid Supplements:

Sometimes without knowing it, we can live in a world of unintended-consequences.

Even something as silly as the lame chemistry class jokes about how little water it takes to kill you try to hint at it.

Some of those problems can hide right inside the food we eat, the beverages we drink,

Or the things we think are safe because they sell them in a store.

Well watch out, extreme sports fans, neuro-hackers, and coffee-achieving gym-bros!

Because a team from UGA & Hong Kong is finding out that if you try to burn too hot, there might be consequences…

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The Chemicals Between Us. How Some Of Your Favorite Fatty Foods Are Killing You, Starting With Your Brain

Filed Under: Nutrition

The Chemicals Between Us. How Some Of Your Favorite Fatty Foods Are Killing You, Starting With Your Brain
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Evolutionary Drives Amok. Too Much Of A Good Thing Can Be Deadly:

The modern marvel of mass production is a funny thing.

Henry Ford and Samuel Colt basically created the entire middle-class of the world, starting with the US.

But that manufacturing miracle also started killing us, because survival can sometimes get weird.

It’s almost the same reason why it’s easy to get fat. Because we’re engineered to survive a famine.

And part of that engineering involved eating some things that we now get way too much of,

But a Japanese University thinks they might just be able to save us from ourselves…

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Ab-ra Cadabra! Weightlifting’s Magical Chemistry Means Incredible Things For Your Looks And Lifespan!

Filed Under: Exercise

Ab-ra Cadabra! Weightlifting’s Magical Chemistry Means Incredible Things For Your Looks And Lifespan!
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Exercise Is A Powerful “Drug”. That Keeps Getting Truer With Time:

So even though the show “Aerobicise” was a masterpiece, not all thinking in the 1980s was genius.

For example: Exercise is just simple movements that do simple things.

But it seems the Ancient Greeks were cleverer than Ron Harris.

It was their idea that The Ideal Man, should be both yoked and shredded.

And since it was Aristotle who solved nearly-everything when it comes to personal psych, anxiety, friends, etc.

We shouldn’t be surprised that their keen intuitive sense caught-on to another implicit truth.

-That modern researchers are just catching up to, with surprising work on just how good weightlifting can be for you…

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The Aztecs Knew Something About Cocoa You Do Not. And You Just Might Live Longer If You Get Some

Filed Under: Aging

The Aztecs Knew Something About Cocoa You Do Not. And You Just Might Live Longer If You Get Some
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The Old “Magic Elixir” Name Might Be Right, Especially For Anti-Aging:

No matter who you are, it’s tough to live a life without at least some kind of problems or complication.

What’s even worse is to have a problem you didn’t know about.

So, some of the best things you can do are to get into great general habits.

Because things like regular exercise and great nutrition can help head-off a lot of stuff before it even starts.

The list of problems exercise reduces or helps you avoid is pretty impressive.

So is the one that nutrition helps with as well.

And the team at Mass-General Brigham is finding out that chocolate might help you avoid a very sneaky hidden problem over time…

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Pocket Full Of Kryptonite. How Ultra-Processed Foods Impact Your Health In Weird Ways. Especially For Men.

Filed Under: Nutrition

Pocket Full Of Kryptonite. How Ultra-Processed Foods Impact Your Health In Weird Ways. Especially For Men.
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Tiny Biohazards Are All Around Us, Just Like The Matrix:

So, Kurt Vonnegut came up with this wild idea for something that could freeze all water on earth beyond thawing, called Ice-9.

And in a weird way, it seems like Microplastics are becoming something like an Ice-9.

They’re another pervasive pollutant you just can’t get rid of.

Unfortunately, the party doesn’t stop there.

Because not only are we finding out Ultra-Processed Foods are bad for you.

They’re also apparently bad in new & more-terrifying ways each time a new study comes out…

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Vitamin D Vs. Longevity. Can The Sun-Shine Vitamin Light Up Your Life Or Make It Fall On Black Days?

Filed Under: Vitamins/Supplements

Vitamin D Vs. Longevity. Can The Sun-Shine Vitamin Light Up Your Life Or Make It Fall On Black Days?
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Living Longer By Starting With Some Very Important Little Stuff:

If there’s one thing HealthTrekker-type people want to do, it’s to slow the aging process!

We all want to live longer lives, and better ones while we’re around.

Why else would we spend the money on healthier food and supplements?

Well hold your horses there, because a handful of pills is sometimes the right answer and sometimes the wrong one.

But for now, buckle-up because an Augusta University? team found another longevity hack you might use!…

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