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Trees & Mental Health: Specific Types Of Green Spaces May Improve Mind & Body Everywhere

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

Trees & Mental Health: Specific Types Of Green Spaces May Improve Mind & Body Everywhere
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Trees & Mental Health. Specific Green Spaces May Help Mind & Body:
Just like we talked about before, as more data becomes accessible, Science is going to newer and weirder places to find solutions to problems.

The other side of that is science going to similar places to find Benefits, too.

And what does everyone’s Mom keep saying when they’re little? Go outside and play.

Aside from the Exercise, Vitamin D, and the Novelty,

There has always been something about being out in Nature that just seems to do us good.

But what is it? Some Australian researchers may have just figured that out…

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Air Pollution & Depression: Psychological Disorders May Be Linked To What You Breathe

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

Air Pollution & Depression: Psychological Disorders May Be Linked To What You Breathe
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Air Pollution, Depression, & Bipolar. Stealthy Threats Are Hard To Escape:
Science has been trying to decode the origins and fixes to different problems for a long time.

And one set that still baffles researchers to this day is psychological problems.

Where do they come from? Chemical Imbalance? Genetics? Aliens?

The problem for many stealthy health issues is that there are few easy answers or perfect 1-shot treatments.

And in the latest effort to track them down, a team led by U. Chicago is going after mental-illness in an odd place: Air Pollution…

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Optimism & Living Longer: Does A Shift In Your Attitude Also Raise Your Altitude?

Filed Under: Aging

Optimism & Living Longer: Does A Shift In Your Attitude Also Raise Your Altitude?
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Optimism & Increased-Longevity. Does The Mindset Control Matter?:
The more Science progresses, the weirder it seems to get.

And conversely, it often tends to confirm many adages from a long time ago.

Like the one by Hippocrates about food being medicine and it being a better idea to get your vitamins and minerals there.

Well another old adage is one about being young at heart and never acting your age.

And if the work by BU, Harvard and a few others is right, a positive mindset might actually make the difference between a long life and a shorter one…

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Smartphone Games Vs. Stress: Can They Beat Meditation For Happiness & Relaxation, Or Not?

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

Smartphone Games Vs. Stress: Can They Beat Meditation For Happiness & Relaxation, Or Not?
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Smartphone Games Vs. Stress: A Better Decompress Than Mindfulness?:
So we’ve talked about Stress before, and it’s a killer. Worse than sitting.

And so part of the normal hygiene you’d go through for your life is to find a way to clear that out. A popular choice is Cardiovascular Exercise.

But one of the best approaches a person can take is… more than one approach.

Attack a problem from several angles. You aren’t a one-dimensional person, so why act that way?

And for Stress, the reduction procedure most-associated with side-benefits is Meditation. Except there’s a problem…

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Alzheimer’s & TEMT: NeuroEM Gadget May Help Revive Minds Via Electro-Magnetic Brain POWAH!

Filed Under: Gadgets

Alzheimer’s & TEMT: NeuroEM Gadget May Help Revive Minds Via Electro-Magnetic Brain POWAH!
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Alzheimers Vs. TEMT Electromagnetic Brain-Hacking Cap. Another Win?:
The History of Science is full of strange gadgets right back to our earliest days.

We’ve always tried to solve problems or improve some capability with wacky devices.

Whether it’s the surprisingly-advanced tools the Egyptians used to perform surgery,

All the way to Doc Brown’s electrical mind-reading headset from “Back To The Future”

But now, Science is getting a lot more serious about doing good with electricity and magnetism.

And a recent device in that long-parade might be another step in the direction of fixing a serious health problem; possibly without drugs…

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Red Wine Compounds Vs. Depression: A New Treatment Angle From An Ancient ‘Anti-Depressant’

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry

Red Wine Compounds Vs. Depression: A New Treatment Angle From An Ancient ‘Anti-Depressant’
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Red Wine Compounds Affect On Depression: In Vino Veritas?:
So we recently talked about Anxiety & Depression in a post about dogs & cats.

One of the things we discussed was the life-factors we tend to overlook.

In that case it was Stress, and that’s generally there because we tend to just accept it as something we can’t eliminate.

But just as that post found interesting and unexpected solutions in the form of pets,

Researchers continue to find new solutions to Anxiety & Depression in unexpected places.

And if a Buffalo team is correct, the old spectre may just get an even older solution…

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Stress Reduction & Pets: Time Spent Petting Dogs & Cats Makes Your Body-Chemistry Healthier

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry

Stress Reduction & Pets: Time Spent Petting Dogs & Cats Makes Your Body-Chemistry Healthier
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Stress Relief & Pets, Even A Short Time With A Dog Or Cat Is Healthy:
With Depression and Anxiety at all-time highs as common mental-health issues,

Many sufferers of these problems might agree, along with the career-focused people,

That Stress is a major concern in daily-life.

And because it seems to be everywhere, stress-management and reduction is a major-concern, too.

Some people try exercise, yoga, meditation, medication, alcohol, CBD, etc.

But one of the most-overlooked and also most-effective avenues of stress-reduction could actually be laying across your keyboard or dropping a tennis ball at your feet…

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Fantastic Yeasts & Where To Find Them: Lisa Stinson & Scientists Find Comedy Gold In Study Titles

Filed Under: Other

Fantastic Yeasts & Where To Find Them: Lisa Stinson & Scientists Find Comedy Gold In Study Titles
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Fantastic Yeasts! Lisa Stinson Shows Researchers Are Funny Too:
And now for something completely different!

Science has a habit of being very serious all the time.

Especially research that could seriously impact the future of health or humanity.

And in that struggle to solve our problems, I think we all can get stuck being a little Too serious.

Well funny post-doc, Lisa Stinson found out Scientists are funny, too.

And her thread on Twitter is worth at least a few chuckles, even from nerdy research-nuts like HT visitors…

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