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Supplement Contamination Saga: 800 Weight-Loss, Muscle-Building, Male-Enhancement Pills Contained Hidden Dangers

Filed Under: Vitamins/Supplements

Supplement Contamination Saga: 800 Weight-Loss, Muscle-Building, Male-Enhancement Pills Contained Hidden Dangers
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Supplement Contamination Of All Types Is An Under-Researched Danger:
In-terms of product safety it seems if something is sold at a store, then it’s safe.

You might also get the idea that because governmental organizations like the FDA test all kinds of things for safety,

That they also test Supplements, too.

Well, as some researchers from Well, as some researchers from California are finding out, there is a lot more risk in them than you might think.

Including all kinds of stuff that’s not even supposed to be there…

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Low-Dose Alcohol May Clean Your Brain, Reduce Dementia Rates By Helping The System Work Better

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

Low-Dose Alcohol May Clean Your Brain, Reduce Dementia Rates By Helping The System Work Better
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The Right Dose Of Alcohol May Actually “Clean” Your Brain:

Here we go again! Alcohol and the health space have an increasingly love/hate relationship, that’s becoming more hate/hate as time passes.

One study after another comes out; 2 Drinks a day is safe. Then 1. Then none. Then,

Well, to add more fuel to the fire Stanton Peele started awhile back,

A team of Danish researchers hanging out on the canals of Copenhagen getting hammered on Tuborg came up with a great new idea.

Alcohol is actually beneficial to you, and it just might reduce one of the conditions we can’t yet fix…

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Drinking Young Blood Is A Bad Idea And Won’t Give You The Same Benefits As The Transfusion Studies

Filed Under: Aging

Drinking Young Blood Is A Bad Idea And Won’t Give You The Same Benefits As The Transfusion Studies
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The Benefits Of Young-Blood Transfusion Don’t Come From Drinking It!:
So since the time of the alchemists, Ponce DeLeon, and probably even before the Ancient Egyptians,

Immortality and Eternal Youth have been among mankind’s fondest fantasy-goals as many of you might guess.

But thanks to some very silly editors and the internet,

An old-wives’-tale with a tiny shred of truth has been recently-circulated in a stupid, yet seasonally-appropriate game of “Telephone”. -Drinking human blood…

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Air Pollution & Your Brain Health: What You Can’t See Can Still Hurt You. And Not Just Your Lungs

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

Air Pollution & Your Brain Health: What You Can’t See Can Still Hurt You. And Not Just Your Lungs
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Air-Pollution & Your Brain Health, UK Researchers Fight The Good Fight:

So we all try to stay as healthy as possible in our habits.

These often include forays into the follies of nutrition & exercise.

And white Saturated Fat is an easy evil to avoid because it’s right on food labels,

Other threats are much harder to stay away from.

And it turns out some strange but important work is being done by our cousins in the UK and also China on the impact of air-quality on your brain,

You certainly won’t believe the results; or look at a city-bus the same way ever again…

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Eggs Vs. Your Heart Health: Eating One A Day Might Not Be Such A Cardio-Bomb After All

Filed Under: Nutrition

Eggs Vs. Your Heart Health: Eating One A Day Might Not Be Such A Cardio-Bomb After All
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Eating Eggs And Heart-Health, The Research Changes Again:

Diet recommendations have an unfortunate history of moving all-over the place.

Which is odd, because we’ve been eating to stay alive and healthy, you’d think scientists could get it right.

Nowhere is this more true than for individual food-items, like an Egg.

We used to think they were fine. Then we were told they were heart-disease hand-grenades.

But some researchers in China just came out with an interesting case for them not being so bad after-all…

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Salt Vs. Your Gut Microbes: High Blood-Pressure Is Only The First Problem…

Filed Under: Nutrition

Salt Vs. Your Gut Microbes: High Blood-Pressure Is Only The First Problem…
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Salt Intake Wrecks Blood-Pressure, And Your Gut Microbes Too:
So the more we study, the stranger the discoveries get about things like diet and your body’s microbes.

This is especially true for the odd finding that not all probiotics are helpful.

More discoveries keep rolling-in about nutrition too, like Western Diets being rough on your hair, your skin, and many other parts of you.

But now, researchers are finding the old diet recs for blood-pressure might be accidentally helping in interesting ways you never imagined…

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Hair-Loss, Gray Hair, And Skin-Damage From Western Diet Cured By New Cell-Cleaning Drug

Filed Under: Aging

Hair-Loss, Gray Hair, And Skin-Damage From Western Diet Cured By New Cell-Cleaning Drug
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A Hair-Loss Cure That Doesn’t Mess With Hormones:
So in the process of trying to improve yourself, you run into several challenges.

Change your diet, your exercise, maybe even vitamins & supplements.

But what about your Appearance?

As we said before, healthy-faces actually Do indicate good overall health,

So, What if you could heal yourself from the outside-in? -Starting with your hair.

Well that’s what a team from Johns-Hopkins set out to find, and the potentially far-reaching results might surprise you…

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Zombie Cells And Your Brain: Dementia Symptoms Eliminated With Drano-Like Brain-Cleaner

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

Zombie Cells And Your Brain: Dementia Symptoms Eliminated With Drano-Like Brain-Cleaner
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Zombie-Cells Removed From Brains, Dementia Gone. Holy Cortex, Batman!:
So aging presents all kinds of difficulties and reductions in abilities.

And Science doesn’t just ask “Why?”, but also “How can we fix it?”

The question is more stark for neurodegenerative-diseases like Alzheimer’s, where people lose their entire -Selves- as a result.

Recently, one avenue Science explores as a solution to many problems, is the existence of senescent or “Zombie”-cells.

And a research team out of the Mayo Clinic found a way to combine that promising frontier in health, with one of mental-aging’s biggest boogeymen…

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