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Mushrooms And Cognitive Decline: The Fungus Among Us May Help Protect Your Brain

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

Mushrooms And Cognitive Decline: The Fungus Among Us May Help Protect Your Brain
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Mushrooms & Cognitive Decline. Could Odd Nutrition Help?:
SCIENCE! cured Polio, but it hasn’t solved all the health problems out there yet.

Hence, all the nutbar alternative therapies that can at-times have a spotty record.

So until the time a company like Biogen finally cures Alzheimer’s,

Researchers are left trying to find any good habits associated with better-outcomes.

And in a mix of folksy-sounding ancient medicine coupled to new research that may confirm old suspicions,

A Singapore team may have found yet another thing you can do to try to stave-off cognitive-decline before it happens…

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Starting Exercise In Middle Age: It Really Is Never Too Late To Make A Positive Change

Filed Under: Aging

Starting Exercise In Middle Age: It Really Is Never Too Late To Make A Positive Change
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Starting Exercise In Middle Age. Late Is Better Than Never:
Many of us do what we can to Get healthy.

And then after that, comes the part about Staying healthy.

For example, getting down to a good weight is great for avoiding complications.

But Exercise is even better.

But as scientists study things we thought we knew about, they’re finding-out more things we didn’t.

This is especially-true for the NCI work that found the old saying “Use it or lose it.” might actually be true…

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Nutrition And Brain-Function: Starting Mediterranean Diet Early Preserves Brainpower With Age

Filed Under: Nutrition

Nutrition And Brain-Function: Starting Mediterranean Diet Early Preserves Brainpower With Age
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Mediterranean Diets & Brain-Health, Start Early & Reap The Benefits:
For many people, the main focus of their health-maintenance efforts is on diet.

If you’ve been to any checkout aisle, plans of all types are pretty popular.

But regardless of which one they choose, most people are after them for one reason:

Weight Loss.

That’s a good problem to solve first, but scientists are finding out you may need a good diet for more than one reason.

They might make a difference not just in how good you look,

But also in how well your body and most-importantly, Your Brain runs…

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Counting Calories: UVM Study Shows Key Weight-Loss Method Works Even If You’re Not Perfect

Filed Under: Weight Loss / Fat Loss

Counting Calories: UVM Study Shows Key Weight-Loss Method Works Even If You’re Not Perfect
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Calorie Counting, Unfairly-Maligned Method Works; Easily!:
If you’ve seen any of the countless infomercials on TV or walked by any supermarket checkout,

You’ll know that Weight Loss is one of the biggest problems people face.

Fad diets are everywhere. Lemon-water-hot-sauce-cleanses; Keto, Paleo, etc…

And whatever madness Christian Bale is going through at the moment.

But one of the most-straightforward plans was a big deal back in the 70s.

No, I don’t mean margarine, I mean Calorie-Counting. And if a UVM team is right, that largely-abandoned “fad” could actually work…

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Japanese Herb May Slow Down Aging: I Guess The Samurai Were Immortal After-All

Filed Under: Aging

Japanese Herb May Slow Down Aging: I Guess The Samurai Were Immortal After-All
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Japanese Herb Ashitaba May Slow Down Aging, Ninjas, & Other Problems:
So since the beginning of time, people have been trying to live longer & better.

Many quests including those for Health have been based on some kind of “Holy Grail”.

Repair the damage, cure the big diseases, then live to 100 and beyond.

But what if you’re not an immortal gorgeous Corsican vampire like our pal Yazemeenah Rossi?

Well, SCIENCE! by an Austrian team just found out some folk herbal medicine may be the next step in that quest…

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Repairing Your Brain Cells: Discoveries About Brain-Aging Also Come With A Fix!

Filed Under: Aging

Repairing Your Brain Cells: Discoveries About Brain-Aging Also Come With A Fix!
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Repairing Brain Cells As They Age, New Discovery, New Hope:
So a lot of us worry about losing our abilities, or marbles, as time goes on.

We’d all like to stay healthy as we do age, reflected in that new-ish term, “Healthspan”.

Which flies in the face of the old ideas that say there’s not much you can do.

Especially for the most important part of you, Your Brain.

Well some researchers from California and Canada present a Bad News, Good News scenario in their new work,

And if they’re right, may just prove the old ideas about brain-aging almost completely wrong…

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Cat Parasites And Mental Illness: Schizophrenia Linked To Toxoplasma From Outdoor Cats

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

Cat Parasites And Mental Illness: Schizophrenia Linked To Toxoplasma From Outdoor Cats
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The Toxoplasma Cat Parasite & Mental-Illness. Research On A Weird Road:
The search for the roots of disease is taking some weird turns, as we’ve found out.

Some of the biggest mysteries we have in that area seem to involve our minds.

What makes them tick incorrectly and is every problem just a chemical imbalance?

And while your cat may be far crazier than you think,

A team of Danish researchers is finding out just how much they might be making you crazy, too…

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Alzheimer’s And Gingivitis: Failure To Floss Brings More Headaches Than Just Your Grumpy Dentist

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

Alzheimer’s And Gingivitis: Failure To Floss Brings More Headaches Than Just Your Grumpy Dentist
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Alzheimer’s & Gum Disease, Revenge Of The Dentists!:
When medicine doesn’t seem to work as well as it should,

Lots of people go looking for all kinds of crazy anecdotes on the internet.

That’s where you get all the supplement-remedies, including the iffy ones.

Similarly, when trying to decipher an uncrackable illness,

Even Science ends up going down some pretty weird roads.

In the latest few rounds of Alzheimer’s research, it’s getting even weirder. Teams of doctors have been chasing down viruses,

And now Microbes as a possible cause and cure…

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