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Birth Month & Disease Risk. Your Horoscope = Your Health?:
As much as we’d like to think so, Science is not new.
Mankind has been trying to solve problems using their best guess since the beginning of time.
Sometimes that involved explanations using natural phenomena, like the stars.
And although people haven’t put much stock in Astrology since the Tarot-card-reading days of the 1600s,
A new take on this old system may prove the prior wisdom correct, in surprising ways…
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Music May Magically Boost Your Immune System:
Many times, because it’s always there just laying around like a lazy basset hound, we can take our minds for granted.
And perhaps underestimate them; until they cause a problem.
But on the benefit-side, our minds can also help in more ways than we might think.
If you’ve ever had a favorite workout-song that you always thought got you supernaturally pumped-up, you may not have been imagining things.
And researchers at McGill University and the Max Planck Institute are finding out it doesn’t just make you more active, it may even make you healthier…
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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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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 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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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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Winter 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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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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