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Low-Dose Alcohol May Clean Your Brain, Reduce Dementia Rates By Helping The System Work Better

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

Low-Dose Alcohol May Clean Your Brain, Reduce Dementia Rates By Helping The System Work Better
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The Right Dose Of Alcohol May Actually “Clean” Your Brain:

Here we go again! Alcohol and the health space have an increasingly love/hate relationship, that’s becoming more hate/hate as time passes.

One study after another comes out; 2 Drinks a day is safe. Then 1. Then none. Then,

Well, to add more fuel to the fire Stanton Peele started awhile back,

A team of Danish researchers hanging out on the canals of Copenhagen getting hammered on Tuborg came up with a great new idea.

Alcohol is actually beneficial to you, and it just might reduce one of the conditions we can’t yet fix…

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Air Pollution & Your Brain Health: What You Can’t See Can Still Hurt You. And Not Just Your Lungs

Filed Under: Highlights, Mind/Brain

Air Pollution & Your Brain Health: What You Can’t See Can Still Hurt You. And Not Just Your Lungs
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Air-Pollution & Your Brain Health, UK Researchers Fight The Good Fight:

So we all try to stay as healthy as possible in our habits.

These often include forays into the follies of nutrition & exercise.

And white Saturated Fat is an easy evil to avoid because it’s right on food labels,

Other threats are much harder to stay away from.

And it turns out some strange but important work is being done by our cousins in the UK and also China on the strange impacts of air-quality.

You certainly won’t believe the results; or look at a city-bus the same way ever again…

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Zombie Cells And Your Brain: Dementia Symptoms Eliminated With Drano-Like Brain-Cleaner

Filed Under: Highlights, Mind/Brain

Zombie Cells And Your Brain: Dementia Symptoms Eliminated With Drano-Like Brain-Cleaner
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Zombie-Cells Removed From Brains, Dementia Gone. Holy Cortex, Batman!:
So aging presents all kinds of difficulties and reductions in abilities.

And Science doesn’t just ask “Why?”, but also “How can we fix it?”

The question is more stark for neurodegenerative-diseases like Alzheimer’s, where people lose their entire -Selves- as a result.

Recently, one avenue Science explores as a solution to many problems, is the existence of senescent or “Zombie”-cells.

And a research team out of the Mayo Clinic found a way to combine that promising frontier in health, with one of mental-aging’s biggest boogeymen…

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Loneliness Health Risks: Being Alone Is Depressing, But Can Social-Isolation Actually Kill You?

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

Loneliness Health Risks: Being Alone Is Depressing, But Can Social-Isolation Actually Kill You?
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Can Extreme-Loneliness Hurt Your Health?:
Thanks to sites like Farcebook and Twitter, we may be more connected than ever.

But in what’s called “The Social Media Paradox”, Loneliness has actually doubled since the 1980’s

Adding up to almost half of adults saying they’re lonely.

So should you be worried if you’re part of that group?

And as one interesting thread on Quora asks: If taken too far, Can Loneliness end up killing you?…

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Short Vacation Health Benefits: Do You Really Need Two Weeks To Make A Positive-Impact?

Filed Under: Highlights, Mind/Brain

Short Vacation Health Benefits: Do You Really Need Two Weeks To Make A Positive-Impact?
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Short Vacation Health Benefits, Is 4 Days As Good As 14?:
When we think about time-off from work, it seems like a mandatory large-scale production.

And certainly, that comes to mind when we think about Summer Vacations.

Huge blocks of time that have to be set aside months ahead and taken all at once.

Like temporarily going into a Jason Bourne state, forgetting who you are, and living someone-else’s life. -Just without all the fistfights.

But what if I told you that SCIENCE! has some different ideas about that? Especially how long you need to be gone…

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Loneliness, Sleep-Loss, And Social-Anxiety: The LCD Screen’s Weird-Science May Be Ruining Your Life

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

Loneliness, Sleep-Loss, And Social-Anxiety: The LCD Screen’s Weird-Science May Be Ruining Your Life
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Loneliness, Sleep, And That Weird LCD Light:
So when a simple, understandable problem happens, Science is pretty quick to step-in and fix it.

But when people start experiencing stranger things, the process gets more complex.

And something along those lines is happening with an epidemic of psychological symptoms centered around Loneliness.

But a few studies by Universities at Berkeley, Toledo, and San Diego State might just put the steps of that puzzle together…

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Brain Size Evolution: Accidental Mutations Give Humans X-Men-Like Brainpower 3x Our Closest Cousins

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

Brain Size Evolution: Accidental Mutations Give Humans X-Men-Like Brainpower 3x Our Closest Cousins
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Human Brain Size Explanation. Chance Evolution Of 3 Mutations:
So the quest to know ourselves has been a long one.

Whether it’s the different projects directed at AI, or tracing all the brain’s connections,

Something about humanity is always searching for a type of mirror.

-Especially when that research proves we are not really 99% the “same” as a chimpanzee, or even 50% banana.

One of the biggest puzzles is how/why we all have such big Brains compared to other animals,

And in a strange X-Men-level twist of accidents, science just found out a big piece…

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Sleeping In On The Weekend: Can Changing Your Alarm-Clock For Two Days Change Your Life, Or Ruin It?

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

Sleeping In On The Weekend: Can Changing Your Alarm-Clock For Two Days Change Your Life, Or Ruin It?
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Weekend Sleep, Does A Few Extra Hours Actually Do Anything?:
Cats can teach us many things. Most especially, the value of Sleep.

As Science tries to become as wise as cats, it too is discovering the extreme value of getting a good night’s sleep. And all the problems from not getting one.

Whether you’re trying to solve the Night Owl / Standard Work Day conundrum with Sara Mednick’s recommended naps, or fixing your other weekly sins.

Researchers in Sweden took the idea of a Daily nap and ran with it to try fixing the most-serious problems from sleep-debt, and the answers are cautiously-surprising…

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