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The Internet’s Effects On Your Brain: Heavy Use Changes Neurology, Esp. If You’re Young

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The Internet’s Effects On Your Brain, The Matrix Has You:
A lot of the time, when we think of health-hazards, the first thing that comes to mind is something like Saturated Fat or Excess Sugar,

Or if you’re really plugged-in, Diesel Exhaust near big cities and highways.

But that gets into things less-explored because it’s easy to ignore what’s around us.

And just like the stealthy air-pollution from engines that are supposed to save fuel,

Other positive initiatives can end up having negative consequences.

And if a team from Western Sydney is right, The Internet itself might be making us less-healthy. No, the irony is not lost here on HT…

Anxiety And Microbes: Free Your Gut & Your Mind Will Follow, With Diet Changes + Probiotics

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Anxiety, Gut Microbes & Nutrition, Unexpected Improvements:
Tracking down any kind of health-hiccup can be a bit of a trial, no matter what it is.

And one of the most difficult things to fix is your mind, where the recommendations become less obvious.

As SCIENCE improves, it’s finding increasingly strange evidence and solutions.

Like the kind of stuff the crazy Meditation crowd has been telling us for the past few thousand years.

And the best friends of the Meditators are the Yoga & Yogurt wingnuts, who just might be on to something, if a review by Chinese doctors is right…

Body Fat And Brain Shrinkage: Obesity May Put Even Your Brain Health Into A Vicious Cycle

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Body Fat, Obesity And Brain Shrinkage, A Vicious Cycle:
Weight loss is something that comes with a lot of challenges and motivations.

Most of which starts with looking better, and maybe eventually even feeling better.

And while many of us just assume that excess bodyfat is an unsightly-inconvenience,

Science is finding out that it’s a lot more problematic than just looks.

And if you need to lose fat, then the study by Ilona Dekkers at the University of Leiden will make you want to put your running-shoes right on,

Because excess-bodyfat affects a lot more than just your looks…

Electrical Brain Stimulation: Frankenstein Your Forehead For Improved Working-Memory

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Electrical Brain Stimulation For Memory. IT’S ALIIVE!!!:
In 1894, Pierre DeCoubertin coined the Olympics Motto: Faster, Higher, Stronger.

To an extent, non-Olympian humanity is constantly trying to do something similar.

And as our population becomes both older, and also more focused on mental-work,

The importance of being a lifelong Cognitive Athlete, or at-least maintaining fitness in that area becomes increasingly-apparent.

And a team at Boston University is showing that science previously-dismissed as Frankensteinian hokum can actually improve mental-performance…

Mushrooms And Cognitive Decline: The Fungus Among Us May Help Protect Your Brain

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Mushrooms & Cognitive Decline. Could Odd Nutrition Help?:
SCIENCE! cured Polio, but it hasn’t solved all the health problems out there yet.

Hence, all the nutbar alternative therapies that can at-times have a spotty record.

So until the time a company like Biogen finally cures Alzheimer’s,

Researchers are left trying to find any good habits associated with better-outcomes.

And in a mix of folksy-sounding ancient medicine coupled to new research that may confirm old suspicions,

A Singapore team may have found yet another thing you can do to try to stave-off cognitive-decline before it happens…

Cat Parasites And Mental Illness: Schizophrenia Linked To Toxoplasma From Outdoor Cats

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The Toxoplasma Cat Parasite & Mental-Illness. Research On A Weird Road:
The search for the roots of disease is taking some weird turns, as we’ve found out.

Some of the biggest mysteries we have in that area seem to involve our minds.

What makes them tick incorrectly and is every problem just a chemical imbalance?

And while your cat may be far crazier than you think,

A team of Danish researchers is finding out just how much they might be making you crazy, too…

Alzheimer’s And Gingivitis: Failure To Floss Brings More Headaches Than Just Your Grumpy Dentist

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Alzheimer’s & Gum Disease, Revenge Of The Dentists!:
When medicine doesn’t seem to work as well as it should,

Lots of people go looking for all kinds of crazy anecdotes on the internet.

That’s where you get all the supplement-remedies, including the iffy ones.

Similarly, when trying to decipher an uncrackable illness,

Even Science ends up going down some pretty weird roads.

In the latest few rounds of Alzheimer’s research, it’s getting even weirder. Teams of doctors have been chasing down viruses,

And now Microbes as a possible cause and cure…

Loneliness By Age Group: Different Times Of Life May Make The Epidemic Even Worse

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Loneliness By Age, Risks Increase Across Lifespan:
Many people feel lonely in their day-to-day lives.

That feeling seems particularly keen around the holiday time of year, when everyone’s supposed to be happy, joyous, perfect, and above-all, Together.

Any deficit in those areas can make a person feel terribly-isolated.

It turns-out Science has found this peak-feeling may be even more difficult for people of 3 particular age-groups…

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The Internet’s Effects On Your Brain: Heavy Use Changes Neurology, Esp. If You’re Young

Anxiety And Microbes: Free Your Gut & Your Mind Will Follow, With Diet Changes + Probiotics

Body Fat And Brain Shrinkage: Obesity May Put Even Your Brain Health Into A Vicious Cycle

Electrical Brain Stimulation: Frankenstein Your Forehead For Improved Working-Memory

Mushrooms And Cognitive Decline: The Fungus Among Us May Help Protect Your Brain

Cat Parasites And Mental Illness: Schizophrenia Linked To Toxoplasma From Outdoor Cats

Alzheimer’s And Gingivitis: Failure To Floss Brings More Headaches Than Just Your Grumpy Dentist

Loneliness By Age Group: Different Times Of Life May Make The Epidemic Even Worse

Gastroenteritis, Stomach Flu Cure May Have Been Discovered By Clay-Eating Cheeky-Monkeys

Yasmina Rossi Is The New Queen Of The Silver Foxes! 59 Year-Old Model & Grandmother Shows Us Mortals What Age-Defying Really Looks Like

Calorie-Restriction’s Mousechurian Candidate: Ancient Chinese Secret Creates Mighty-Mouse With Mighty-Brain

15 Benefits Of Beer, Backed By Science That Is 60% Bulls**t, -But Keep Drinking Just In Case...

Brain Benefits Of Turmeric-Like Curry Spice Might Help Your Mind Repair Itself, Chillax, Then Take Over World