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Exercise And Epigenetic Magic: How A Little Workout Makes Lots Of Small Changes Add Up To Something Big!

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry

Exercise And Epigenetic Magic: How A Little Workout Makes Lots Of Small Changes Add Up To Something Big!
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Exercise & Epigenetics. Changing Your Routine Changes You From The Cells Up:
Sometimes beauty is a lot more than skin-deep.

But we often feel out the context in which something is expressed, and then instinctively accept that notion as the whole truth about it.

That’s one of the ways we can make assumptions about exercise.

It’s just there to vaguely get us in some kind of shape, burn some amount of calories, and hopefully lose us some weight, right?

Or is it something more? Like The Hawthorne Effect, which says you can’t even measure a system without affecting it?

Washington State researchers think they may have the beginning of an answer…

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Almonds & Exercise: Make Your New Year’s Workout Recovery Easier With Some Helpful & Healthy Biochemistry

Filed Under: Weight Loss / Fat Loss

Almonds & Exercise: Make Your New Year’s Workout Recovery Easier With Some Helpful & Healthy Biochemistry
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Almonds & Exercise. Ease The Pain Of New Habits With A Biochem Hack:
Part of everyone’s New Year’s Resolutions usually turn out to be Lose Weight & Get Into Shape.

But as the spectre of that strange space between Christmas & New Year’s Eve still hangs around, let’s get a little weird.

There seem to be a few main problems with New Year’s Resolutions about the basics of health.

Like the one where people refuse to lose weight by counting calories (even though it works), because it’s hard.

The other problem with “New Year’s Health” is that discipline is hard and exercise seems even harder.

But a weird little bit of biochemistry might make it a bit easier…

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Celebration’s Health Benefits: The Right Milestone Rituals Aren’t Just Fun, They May Be Good For You, Too!

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

Celebration’s Health Benefits: The Right Milestone Rituals Aren’t Just Fun, They May Be Good For You, Too!
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Celebration & It’s Health Benefits. Have Yourself A Merry Little Win-Mas!:
So to end the year, let’s go with something that’s a little bit lighter.

There may not be as many double-blind, placebo-controlled, gold-standard studies on this, but it’s something humanity’s been doing for awhile, so it can’t be all bad, right?

Okay there really are bad parts of it, like Holiday Weight Gain, and releasing endotoxin into your body as a result of binge-drinking.

But the other components of celebrating at parties turn out to be pretty great for you! Who knew?

The party-animals at Indiana University, that’s who! Let’s dive in…

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Muscle Vs. Inflammation: The Magic Chemistry Of Muscle And Exercise May Be A Great Anti-Inflammatory

Filed Under: Exercise

Muscle Vs. Inflammation: The Magic Chemistry Of Muscle And Exercise May Be A Great Anti-Inflammatory
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Exercise Vs. Inflammation. Medication-Grade Results Thanks To Muscle:
In every age where society tries to move forward, there is usually a conflict.

It happens between what we think we “know” now, what we’re learning, and how much of the “old” is considered invalid.

We’ve done multiple posts here on HT about how ancient man wasn’t so stupid after all,

Including one about a medieval recipe that kills modern super-bugs.

Even further back in history than that or OG medicinal-foodie Hippocrates, society has worshiped people who were fit & lean.

But why? What is it that we intuited since the dawn of time that wasn’t just tied to brute strength? Maybe it was something more.

Researchers from Duke University think they might have an answer…

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Purpose Vs. Living Longer: The Mix Of Career And Meaning Could Be Much Healthier Than You Think!

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

Purpose Vs. Living Longer: The Mix Of Career And Meaning Could Be Much Healthier Than You Think!
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The Magic Of Purpose & Living Longer In A Healthy Career:
When we think of what makes up good health, a lot of the time “eat right & exercise” is what comes up.

But as any Taoist or businessman might tell you, there is both risk and opportunity on many sides of many equations.

So this brings us to something a little bit more “out there”.

Just as researchers are discovering that psychology can impact health, say in the form of stress,

They’re also finding that woo-woo things like meditation can impact it too.

Still further and deeper than that is something much more personal that teams like those from BU and others find can make a difference to the length and quality of your life, too…

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Omega 3s + Brain Structure: I Think Therefore I Am What I Eat. The Deep Benefits Of EPA, DHA, & Fish Oil

Filed Under: Vitamins/Supplements

Omega 3s + Brain Structure: I Think Therefore I Am What I Eat. The Deep Benefits Of EPA, DHA, & Fish Oil
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Omega 3 & Your Brain’s Structure. Thinking Better From The Ground Up:
A lot of the best behavior we can engage in one way or another is a type of Investment.

Because it’s not just great to enjoy your capabilities for today; you also might like to keep them into the future, right?

Well, you’re not “officially in-shape” at one point and never have to go back to the gym afterward.

So to retain our abilities, we need habits to keep at it with the hope of some accrual and future pay-off.

One of the most powerful routines we have besides exercise is nutrition.

And a UTSA team is finding out some of the nutritional recommendations everyone’s Mom used to hand out are really good for the long term…

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Education Vs. Brain-Aging: MRI Scans + Studies Show Black Holes And Revelations For University-Graduates

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

Education Vs. Brain-Aging: MRI Scans + Studies Show Black Holes And Revelations For University-Graduates
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Education & Brain-Aging. Black Holes & Revelations Confirm Old Adage:
Health nerds like us want to do whatever we can to live longer and better.

That’s pretty-much what everyone at HealthTrekker and similar channels are all about.

But whether you’re listening to Drs.: Neal Barnard, David Sinclair, Rhonda Patrick, or others,

The other thing we want to do is not just keep our physical health in shape as we go,

But to stay as sharp as we can mentally for as long as we can, too.

So as you might imagine, a research team from UZH is finding ways in which some really old advice on “keeping in shape” is being proven right yet again…

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Nordic Diet Benefits: Berries, Fish, + Oils May Make This “Mediterranean Of The North” Eating Plan A Life-Saver

Filed Under: Nutrition

Nordic Diet Benefits: Berries, Fish, + Oils May Make This “Mediterranean Of The North” Eating Plan A Life-Saver
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Nordic Diet Benefits. Quality Ingredients, Fish, Berries, & Oils FTW:
There are several ways to improve your health through diet.

This is a popular route because 1) People hate math, so they won’t count calories even though it works,

2) They like to eat according to themes, because the idea is easier and the possibility that a notion or picture can overcome strict details is appealing.

An endless stream of diets became popular because of this like Keto, MIND, DASH, Mediterranean, South Beach, Carnivore, Bananavore, you name it.

Well there is another diet that westerners are trying in increasing numbers, and if the non-fad-based studies are correct, it may present another alternative to the endless parade of wacky plans for the math-averse…

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