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

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

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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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The Alcohol Dementia Link: Drinking’s Long-Term Tradeoffs Might Hurt Your Brain In Subtle Ways

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The Alcohol Dementia Link: Drinking’s Long-Term Tradeoffs Might Hurt Your Brain In Subtle Ways
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Alcohol Linked With Dementia, The Odd Effects Examined:
While alcohol can be a lot of fun, science keeps finding reasons for us to be cautious.

And also to think very seriously about moderation.

For example, drinking to excess can result in endotoxin-related inflammation.

But still more consequences loom over the horizon as we progress through life.

And of all people, Power-Drinking British researchers are now reporting on the association between Alcohol and Dementia…

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Heart Rejuvenation: Crazy Texas Researchers Prove Dr. Seuss Right, Increase Healthspan With Serious Cardio Exercise

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Heart Rejuvenation: Crazy Texas Researchers Prove Dr. Seuss Right, Increase Healthspan With Serious Cardio Exercise
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Heart Rejuvenation, Un-Grinching Your Ticker With The Right Program:
Active health is a great thing to have, and the younger you are, the better it is.

So then what must we do to not just live longer, but also better as we go?

If you haven’t got style, you don’t have anything, right?

So fitness researchers decided to go after one of the top 3 most-dangerous risks to your health head-on.

And their improvements on heart-health, even for people past middle-age, are really encouraging for all of us…

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Do Dogs, Cats, And Pets Improve Health? Of Course They Do, Right? Researchers Disagree, Decide To Shoot Old Yeller Anyway [Video]

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Do Dogs, Cats, And Pets Improve Health? Of Course They Do, Right? Researchers Disagree, Decide To Shoot Old Yeller Anyway [Video]


Pets Improve Health, Really Are Man’s Best Friend:
In our search for increasingly better health, we sometimes go to odd-extremes.

Some of those destinations can seem pretty far away,

But more-strangely, many may turn out to be right beside you,

In a form you never even expected.

A few Swedish researchers found in some cases, that strange form is the 4-legged furry little blighter we call “Man’s Best Friend”.

And in this video, Seeker/DNews gets into all of it; -almost…

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Dark Leafy Greens Not Just For Salad, Improve Quality Of Life With Long-Term Brain-Health POWAH!

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Dark Leafy Greens Not Just For Salad, Improve Quality Of Life With Long-Term Brain-Health POWAH!
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Dark Leafy Greens Unjustly Pigeonholed By Hippies:
When we talk about something in only one context, that can get stuck in our brains.

For example when it comes to staying healthy as you age, most people think of prescription meds and light walking.

Getting fit before you get “old” is where people usually hear about Exercise.

Most people get information about nutrition only for Weight-Loss,

And you never hear about it concerning Health Quality-Level long-term.

Well Martha Clare Morris’ team set out to find how you can benefit even-more from that under-researched aspect, and the results are stupefying…

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Face Yoga Exercises Really Are A Thing!, May Actually Make You Look Younger!, Crazy Carole Maggio Was RIGHT! Also: Mats & Pants Not Required…

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Face Yoga Exercises Really Are A Thing!, May Actually Make You Look Younger!, Crazy Carole Maggio Was RIGHT! Also: Mats & Pants Not Required…
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Here’s to the crazy ones! Even The Face Exercisers:
So one of the themes anyone researching health/wellness hacks runs into is that some of the ideas seem a little bit “out there”.

And one of those that did in a very funny way was Carole Maggio’s 80s-fantastic, “Facercise”.

Short of Kristen Wiig re-enacting an aerobics video from the same era, it’s probably one of the funniest wellness-style vids you’ll ever see.

And like many of the more “out-there” innovations, it all seemed like a joke.

-Until someone did a study…

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The Probiotic Fountain Of Youth. Eat An Activia, -BOOM, You’re Wolverine! All Because Of Tiny Gut Bacteria.

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The Probiotic Fountain Of Youth. Eat An Activia, -BOOM, You’re Wolverine! All Because Of Tiny Gut Bacteria.
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You Think Activia’s Great? Wait Till You Try This!:
Probiotics that improve health have been the focus of fancy yogurt commercials we’ve all seen once or twice.

Some of them have verged on uncomfortable disclosures by Jamie Lee Curtis on the exact details of her very own G-I functionality. Fascinating.

But fewer people will have read up on the human microbiome & all the strange interactions science is learning about the bugs on us & in us.

And a team in Texas used modern DNA-wizardry to find out something even more interesting. One day, it just might save your life…

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