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Less Is More? Could Hunger And Other Types Of Restriction Be The Keys To Longevity & A Healthier Life?

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry

Less Is More? Could Hunger And Other Types Of Restriction Be The Keys To Longevity & A Healthier Life?
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Does The Road Of Less Excess Lead To The Palace Of Life-Extension?:
So if the magazine, “Mens Health” re-hashes a headline onto every cover saying, “How [celebrity dude] Got Six-Pack Abs And You Can Too!”,

Then every other health magazine has a recurring cover of the Yoga/Salads/Actress/Fabletics horsewomen of the Apocalypse.

But if you look around a little bit, all kinds of interesting work is showing health & wellness is about a lot more than AG1 and Instagram protein ads.

A few of the most interesting ones have shown that we’re all full of trillions of little clocks.

In a weird irony, the seemingly-endless search for non-Ozempic-based weight loss collided with that fact and may be getting us a lot closer to the fountain of youth…

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That Kimchi Habit Could Save Your Life! How You Might Live Longer If Your Food Has The Right Probiotics

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry

That Kimchi Habit Could Save Your Life! How You Might Live Longer If Your Food Has The Right Probiotics
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If An Addiction To Lifeway Kefir Is Wrong, I Don’t Wanna Be Right:
So ever since Jamie Lee Curtis tried to show America her gastro-intestinal tract for Activia, we’ve had a renaissance in the field of probiotics.

But in the recent years, there have been some well-reasoned critiques of some as being ineffective.

So what are we supposed to make of all these special bugs that allegedly help us in a variety of different ways?

Are the naysayers right, or are the yogurt saleswomen who are “experiencing technical difficulties” the ones on the right track?

Well, considering we know very little about them, let’s take our lead from a study out of China that focuses on something we all want to do.

-Live a lot longer than average…

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Could Music Actually Be Exercise For The Brain That Works Better Than Cross-Words, Sudoku, Or Lumosity?

Filed Under: Aging

Could Music Actually Be Exercise For The Brain That Works Better Than Cross-Words, Sudoku, Or Lumosity?
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It’s Time To Pick Up The Flugelhorn & Join Your Local Jazz Band!:
So except for Juggalos, I think many of us want to improve as time goes by and to retain as much of our capabilities as possible.

Faygo and face-paint are mercifully off-the-menu for most upright-walking mammals. -Except Lemurs.

So to do this, there are nutritional components, supplements, and others, with of-course physical exercise being the 800 pound gorilla in the room.

But are there other things we could do to keep our marbles, like sudoku, cross-words, or social-networking?

Or is dopamine-driven curiosity the key?

Well, researchers from China are finding some very interesting quirks about an old human activity that might help, too…

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Broccoli A Superfood? I Have A Gut Feeling The Study’s Right And It Protects You From The Inside Out

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry

Broccoli A Superfood? I Have A Gut Feeling The Study’s Right And It Protects You From The Inside Out
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Quit Sake-Bombing Your Guts And Eat Your Broccoli Instead!:
So unfortunately in the health & wellness space, the term Superfood is as overused as a pair of gas station flip-flops in the southern US.

Especially after the blow-up of Açaí failing to triple your metabolism and burn off all your fat just because it’s from Brazil.

So sometimes we can be a little bit wary of using an overused term.

But ever since we found out An Apple A Day really does keep the doctor away, some of the advice we would’ve gotten from Mom about things like eating our vegetables doesn’t seem that far off-base anymore.

And as SCIENCE gets weirder and more in-depth, it too is finding out that once again, Mom was right.

In the case of Broccoli, this might actually make a huge difference…

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Junk Food Vs. Your Brain: How Sugary UPF Food Alters Your Wiring And Makes You Hate The Healthy Stuff

Filed Under: Nutrition

Junk Food Vs. Your Brain: How Sugary UPF Food Alters Your Wiring And Makes You Hate The Healthy Stuff
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I’m Addicted To You, Snack Food! Don’t You Know That You’re Toxic?:
It seems as time goes by, we’re hearing about the influence of ultra-processed foods at an increasing rate.

Whether it’s a tribe in the Amazon that develops obesity and other health problems a year after Nestle drops off a shipment.

Or the increasing amount of “Junk Food” that Westerners are eating as obesity rates rise.

The insidious part of it is these fast & cheap foods are chockablock with all kinds of things that are just not healthy.

Like weird additives, fats, and high-concentrations of dietary crack cocaine.

And some researchers from the US & Germany are finding out that’s only where the problems start…

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Exercise Vs. Prescription Meds For Depression & Anxiety. A Suprisingly-Strong All-Natural Remedy Wins!

Filed Under: Exercise

Exercise Vs. Prescription Meds For Depression & Anxiety. A Suprisingly-Strong All-Natural Remedy Wins!
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You Can Actually Run Away From The Dark Clouds Of Depression & Anxiety:
For some time now, psychologists and sufferers alike have been trying to decode the puzzles of Anxiety & Depression.

How can we fix them and why do they happen in the first place.

Well, at least more than the Lao Tzu quote on it tells us.

And quite recently, there have been some real controversies over whether or not the medications we have for them even really work; or how.

Given all the wandering-about with different doses, types, and figuring out treatment-resistant problems, who could blame them?

As you might have guessed, some rockstar (sorry, Paul Stanley!) researchers looked into many different ways to treat these mental health problems, and they came back with one really promising answer…

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Heavy Metal Strikes Again! This Time It’s In Your Dark Chocolate And That Could Be A Slayer Of Your Health

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry

Heavy Metal Strikes Again! This Time It’s In Your Dark Chocolate And That Could Be A Slayer Of Your Health
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Dark Chocolate Gets A Valentine’s Day Massacre, Thanks to CR:
In general, we like to think that the things we buy at the store are safe.

And every day we put a lot of trust in producers to that effect.

But once in awhile, a piece of research comes out to call that into question.

Not that this one is as crazy as the work showing most chemicals we use are not thoroughly-tested.

But it’s close, as an investigation in the recent past by Consumer Reports put a real spectre over this year’s Valentine’s Day.

Because the dark chocolate a lot of people were going to exchange turned out to have unsafe levels of heavy metals in it.

The story gets still worse because even though CR’s print article just went out, these investigations have been going on for years…

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Meditation’s Effect On Gut Health. Ancient Asian Secret Proves Mind Over Microbes Not Just A Fantasy

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

Meditation’s Effect On Gut Health. Ancient Asian Secret Proves Mind Over Microbes Not Just A Fantasy
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Meditation Vs. Gut Health. Maybe Ancient Practices Were Pretty Clever After-All?:
A doctor friend once told me that when he went to his first lecture class the professor started it with this statement,

“Half of what we’re about to teach you is wrong. The problem is, we don’t know which half.”

How many times have people turned to supplements, kung fu, ufos, etc. to fix a problem that wasn’t getting solved in the standard way?

Probably more than once. Even with their less-than-great record of success.

So it will come as no surprise that as modern science advances, it occasionally circles-back to what used to be ancient superstition.

And a small team from China is making the case yet again, that meditation is a kind of magic…

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