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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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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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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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Light Exposure Vs. Mood: Brown Researchers Find Light Gets Into Your Brain In Many Unexpected Ways

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Light Exposure Vs. Mood: Brown Researchers Find Light Gets Into Your Brain In Many Unexpected Ways
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Light Exposure & Mood. Getting Into Your Brain In New & Unexpected Ways:
Let’s take a moment to appreciate the fact that just like cats, we are all solar-powered.

The sun is out and we’re all getting enough vitamin d for a change.

Hopefully it’s doing us some good, and we’re not getting too much exposure.

But in a while things will change, and people most sensitive to sunlight are really going to notice its absence.

-After they come down off a 3-day pumpkin-spice bender of course.

And while SCIENCE so far has only vitamins, anti-depressants, and fancy light-boxes for those affected,

They might just get a lot more help in the future if Brown University researchers have anything to say about it…

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Zen And The Art Of Meaningful Productivity. Yale Team Formula: How To Get Into The Flow State Of Mind

Filed Under: Mind/Brain, Video

Zen And The Art Of Meaningful Productivity. Yale Team Formula: How To Get Into The Flow State Of Mind
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How To Get Into The Flow State Of Mind, According To Yale:
We all want to do things that are fun on occasion.

We may even want to do something as crazy as live a meaningful life, or do a job that we love that pays us as we both live and create that meaningful life.

One of the big components of course is that job, and the type we all admire most is when people seem to be at their apex.

Whatever they do, if they are almost like the Olympic athletes of that job and completely at-one with it,

That sets off a chain-reaction in our minds we immediately see as meaningful.

And Yale researchers think they’ve just cracked the code…

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People Who Think Leisure Is Wasteful Have Worse Mental Health. -All Work And No Play Makes Jack A Dull Boy!

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

People Who Think Leisure Is Wasteful Have Worse Mental Health. -All Work And No Play Makes Jack A Dull Boy!
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People Who Hate Leisure Are Miserable. (+yes, these people do exist):
Haven’t seen enough YouTube videos on the toxicity of “Hustle Culture” (no, not that disco dance from the 70s) yet?

Well, look no further!

Now there are a set of studies out on the general psychological profile in it, so take THAT Gary Vaynerchuck and Ali Abdaal!

Recent work by OSU, Rutgers, & Harvard researchers shows people who take themselves too seriously to have fun are also at-risk for several other problems.

And besides the risk of being a colossal buzz-kill at every possible event in life, those might turn out to be -not- just psychological problems, either…

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Nutrition Vs. Depression: Adding Mushrooms To Your Diet Can Help Mood, & They Don’t Have To Be Magic!

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

Nutrition Vs. Depression: Adding Mushrooms To Your Diet Can Help Mood, & They Don’t Have To Be Magic!
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Mushrooms & Depression. Eating The Right Fungus Helps Your Mind!:
With Big Data and Machine Learning, there is every chance that today’s healthcare will look prehistoric in about 100 years.

And to look forward, we sometimes start by looking back; and remembering that ancient man was not really stupid.

Some crazy folk-healing witch living on the edge of a forest 1700+ years ago likely used some pretty weird stuff to fix people’s health problems.

That weird stuff probably also worked.

So in another chapter of what be called a Superfood, researchers are finding out that another weird thing might have a few more health tricks up its sleeve than anyone in the past 1700 years imagined (except witches)…

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Gratitude’s Health Benefits: The Pilgrims Were Right. Being Thankful Can Make Your Life & Health Better!

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

Gratitude’s Health Benefits: The Pilgrims Were Right. Being Thankful Can Make Your Life & Health Better!
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Gratitude, Optimism, & Quality Of Life. You Could Live Better & Longer!:
With the end-of-year holidays upon us now, that means at least one thing.

We all survived Thanksgiving with our weird, and probably-alcoholic relatives.

Which bring us to an important point: Many holidays try to emphasize at least some good personal qualities.

Especially when it comes to remembering people who had almost nothing and risked it all to try to start over.

Those people were genuinely thankful for every tiny bit of something they had.

And that’s not just an exercise in “woo-woo”. SCIENCE! has found real benefits…

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