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Bathroom Hand Dryer Risks: High-Speed Hand-Dryers Are Category 4 Bacteria Tornadoes

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Bathroom Hand Dryer Risks: High-Speed Hand-Dryers Are Category 4 Bacteria Tornadoes
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Bathroom Hand Dryer Risks, High-Speed Bacteria Everywhere:
Just like anyone else, your Mom probably told you to do a lot of things.

Eat your greens, wear clean underwear for a car-accident, and wash your hands.

And given harrowing stats like 30% of New Yorkers infected with H.Pylori from public handrails, Mom was definitely right about a few things.

And though non-Mom Science tries to advance humanity, every once in awhile it takes us backward,

This time specifically with the invention of the public bathroom hand-dryer…

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Seeing The Same Doctor And Living Longer: Stealth-Defense Against Surprise-Visits From The Grim Reaper

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Seeing The Same Doctor And Living Longer: Stealth-Defense Against Surprise-Visits From The Grim Reaper
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Does Seeing The Same Doctor Help You Live Longer, Like A Medical Shield?:
In the search for good health, many people go to great lengths.

And this site is all about the different avenues people look down for fixes and improvements.

While things like nutrition, vitamins, supplements and biotech research are some of those,

There are also a few “Stealth Factors” out there, that are frequently overlooked.

And UK researchers found a big piece of that puzzle, hidden in the most obvious place of all; -your doctor’s office…

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Flies On Food: Sick DNA Research Finds Insects More Dangerous To Your Summer Picnic Than Previously Thought

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Flies On Food: Sick DNA Research Finds Insects More Dangerous To Your Summer Picnic Than Previously Thought
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Flies On Food Making You Sick, The Disgusting Truth:
Summer and the warm months of the year are a great time of year to enjoy the outdoors.

Along with all the activities we plan for that time, we end up smearing & spraying all kinds of chemicals on us to deal with the sun and also Bugs.

And on that note, one of the best parts of Spring+Summer has a brand new warning.

Because it turns out that especially for Outdoor Eating of any kind,

Researchers found that Flies are much more dangerous than anyone thought before…

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Cancer ‘Vaccine’ By Stanford Researchers Looks Promising, Works Like Immunotherapy Special Forces

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Cancer ‘Vaccine’ By Stanford Researchers Looks Promising, Works Like Immunotherapy Special Forces
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Experimental Cancer Treatment Works Like A “Vaccine”:
One of the oldest forms of treating a serious disease is the idea of a Vaccination.

Give your body a weak microdose of something, let it react & “learn” the disease to respond to it full-force if it ever happens for real.

For the most serious problems out there, a 1-shot-deal sure looks like a dream fix.

Unfortunately, when it comes to The Big C, most of the experimental fixes we get are putting some concentrated stuff on extracted-cells in a petri-dish.

But that’s not what Ron Levy’s team did at Stanford, and the results are cautiously promising…

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Catching Colds & Flu Because Of Cold Weather. 4 Stealth Factors That Might Prove The Myth… [Video]

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Catching Colds & Flu Because Of Cold Weather. 4 Stealth Factors That Might Prove The Myth… [Video]


catch cold flu from cold weather blue and white frost on glassWinter Is The Season Of Giving…:
You can catch a cold or flu from being cold, right?

There is actual “cold” in the air and if you stick your hand out, you can catch some?

So, ever since we were little, we’ve been told to bundle-up in the winter.

-Or you’ll catch a cold.

Well in this video, ASAPScience explores a few of the myths on how you really do…

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Stopping Alzheimer’s & Even Reversing It May Be Possible With A Forgotten Drug. What’s Old Is New Again!

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Stopping Alzheimer’s & Even Reversing It May Be Possible With A Forgotten Drug. What’s Old Is New Again!
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What’s Old Is New Again!:
So one miracle drug that reversed Alzheimer’s Disease in trials is something we’ve told you about before.

We’ve also told you about another miracle drug that’s a little more famous.

Well researchers at the Gladstone Institutes are throwing us another curveball that’s like a combination of the two strangely-enough.

A not-so-famous cousin of a drug we all know may have surprising beneficial properties similar to both of these…

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Getting Sick At Work. “The Office Microbiome” Is A New Take On Sick Building Syndrome

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Getting Sick At Work. “The Office Microbiome” Is A New Take On Sick Building Syndrome
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Perhaps Not Modern Enough:
So before he got sick at the office, Edna Mode’s favorite architect Mies Van Der Rohe got beaten to the punch by era-defining skyscraper, “Lever House” in 1952.

The minimalist giant-steel-ice-cube International style went gangbusters and was copied just about everywhere.

Then a few decades later, we all inherited an accidental invention from these sealed curiosities: Sick Building Syndrome.

But today with the advent of the Human Microbiome, safety experts are finding something even more sinister: The Office Micro-Biome…

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Dirt Is Good. This Time, For Kids! Dr. Jack Gilbert Gives Us Even More Reasons

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Dirt Is Good. This Time, For Kids! Dr. Jack Gilbert Gives Us Even More Reasons
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The Joys of Cross-Contamination:
So as children go back to school, one of the joys that comes with the territory is sickness.

Schools, ball-pits, & daycare-centers are like stock-exchanges for millions of short little typhoid-marys, infecting eachother with God knows what.

And as other scientists from Duke and IC-L have mystifyingly said before,

That may actually not be such a bad thing…

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