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More Longevity Magic! Weightlifting Helps Zombie-Cell Clean Up With Tiny Trash Collectors

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More Longevity Magic! Weightlifting Helps Zombie-Cell Clean Up With Tiny Trash Collectors
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The Biochemistry Of Weightlifting’s Benefits Is Anything But Simple:

The straw-man. A gross oversimplification. Easy. Cheap. But inaccurate.

That’s how a lot of us deal with some ideas. It’s easier to oversimplify just so we can understand.

But the tradeoff is nuance and sophistication for speed and forward momentum.

And for decades, it seemed as if exercise nuts and gym-rats were just glorified meat-heads.

We also thought the exercise they did was just as one-dimensional. Overachieving for dimwit-narcissists.

But we were all wrong…

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Exercise’s Other Hidden Superpower: Transforming Your Entire Structure, -Including Your Body-Fat!

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Exercise’s Other Hidden Superpower: Transforming Your Entire Structure, -Including Your Body-Fat!
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Super-Structure! Another Wildly-Unexpected Benefit Of Exercise:

Imagine this: You’ve been hitting the gym regularly for years,

Watching and maybe hoping the numbers on the scale will slowly but surely drop.

You feel pretty great, and you know you’re doing your body a lot of good.

-Even if you don’t look like Chris Williamson just yet.

But what if I told you that your dedication to fitness is doing more than just burning calories and using muscles?

What if it’s actually changing the very nature of your body, even the non-muscular parts, making them work for you instead of against you?…

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The Freaky Benefits Of Lean Muscle Mass Can Go Straight To Your Head. -And Last For A Lifetime!

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The Freaky Benefits Of Lean Muscle Mass Can Go Straight To Your Head. -And Last For A Lifetime!
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Business Isn’t The Only Source Of Freakonomics. Now Gyms Are Too!:

A couple of themes that keep coming up in the H&W space are 1) How interconnected everything is.

And 2) How much deeper things go than just face-value.

For example, there are supplements for every specific you could think of. But most of them affect several things.

Researchers are also finding out pretty much everything that’s good for your heart is also good for your brain.

So it’s not surprising another team is finding out exercise is good for WAY more than just weight-loss and looking buff at the gym…

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Weightlifting’s Brain Benefits Surprise. So If You Lift, You Don’t Have To Be A Meat-Head After All!

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Weightlifting’s Brain Benefits Surprise. So If You Lift, You Don’t Have To Be A Meat-Head After All!
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The Amazing Biochemistry Of Muscle & Exercise Strikes Again!:
Most of us were raised to believe quicksand and sharks in swimming pools would be daily hazards in adult life.

Similarly, we were also raised to think that we’re born with a certain number of brain-cells and do nothing but lose them thereafter.

That may be true for “Florida Man”, but it’s not so for everyone else.

Dr. Sandrine Thuret showed us all a few years ago that we can grow new brain cells, with cardio and especially running.

The only downside to her results was that it appeared weight-lifting exercise didn’t help.

A team from IU looks like they might have a little light at the end of that tunnel…

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Exercise Vs. Prescription Meds For Depression & Anxiety. A Suprisingly-Strong All-Natural Remedy Wins!

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Exercise Vs. Prescription Meds For Depression & Anxiety. A Suprisingly-Strong All-Natural Remedy Wins!
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You Can Actually Run Away From The Dark Clouds Of Depression & Anxiety:
For some time now, psychologists and sufferers alike have been trying to decode the puzzles of Anxiety & Depression.

How can we fix them and why do they happen in the first place.

Well, at least more than the Lao Tzu quote on it tells us.

And quite recently, there have been some real controversies over whether or not the medications we have for them even really work; or how.

Given all the wandering-about with different doses, types, and figuring out treatment-resistant problems, who could blame them?

As you might have guessed, some rockstar (sorry, Paul Stanley!) researchers looked into many different ways to treat these mental health problems, and they came back with one really promising answer…

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

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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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Coronavirus Pandemic Got You Sitting All Day? !SCIENCE! Figures Out How To Offset The Damage To Your Health

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Coronavirus Pandemic Got You Sitting All Day? !SCIENCE! Figures Out How To Offset The Damage To Your Health
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Social Isolation From The Pandemic Makes Sitting Damage More Likely:
So the coronavirus pandemic has affected us all in many ways.

From self-quarantine & isolation, to social-distancing & facemasks,

It’s changed a lot about life all over the world.

And although we’ve done a good job of adapting, things are still weird.

One of the stranger things we’re faced with is a product of that isolation and also remote work.

But luckily enough, science has found a solution to the health-destroying effects of long-term sitting…

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Running & Longevity: A Little High-Quality Cardio May Lower Your Risk Of Premature Bucket-Kickage

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Running & Longevity: A Little High-Quality Cardio May Lower Your Risk Of Premature Bucket-Kickage
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Running & Longevity. Kick-Up The Cardio, Not The Bucket!:
When most people think about their health, it’s almost always about weight-loss.

And as we’ve shown many times before, Nutrition is king when it comes to that.

The question then becomes, “Why Exercise?” “Isn’t that just for vain gym-rats?”

As PE programs seem to dwindle away from schools and we get fatter as a nation, those might seem like increasingly-valid questions.

But as Science progresses, it finds new proof for old ideas; Ex: Food-as-Medicine.

And an Australian team just found out some concrete info on why you might want to consider getting back into exercise…

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