HealthTrekker - Health And Wellness Tips
Health & wellness tips + hacks. -Backed by !SCIENCE! and studies, not bros & Voodoo. Why just survive when you can thrive? Become "The Better You", 1% at a time – starting today. If you're already healthy & want to nerd-out on how to get even more rad, HT is the place for you.
It may help you get over your persistent fear of needles, or your lack of a trained phlebotomist/sniper’s pinpoint accuracy.
-But watch out, at this little bastard’s peak velocity of 340 meters per second, you just might blow your arm off if you screw up the settings and put it on, “Rhino at 100 Yards”…
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Scientists, even the great ones at MIT are now poking their greasy mechanic’s fingers through the Matrix into our very souls.
Memory today; who knows what tomorrow.
In a set of experiments carried out on mutant mice designed to have light-sensitive neurons, scientists at MIT were able to re-trigger a memory they’d previously created,…
According to a recent study, gum can actually improve your concentration and performance on intensive thinking tasks.
Bad news? -It only lasts for 20 minutes at a time.
It seems as if the studiers didn’t think of trying to replicate the performance-bump with 20 minutes of chewing every 1,2,3, etc. hours to see what the smallest-recovery-interval could be…
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There is a self-obsessed chick-lit Hudson/McConaughey romantic comedy in there somewhere, I just know it…
In a Study of about ~500 12-year-olds, it turns out playing video games is linked to Increases in Creativity.
Not sure what exactly it is,
But there always seemed to be something about High-School that changed the way peoples’ brains worked,
Right up until they were about 26.
-Probably just excessive preoccupation with the opposite sex.
So in a way this research doesn’t surprise…
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The flavonoids in wine and grapes can protect skin cells from death by chocolate UV radiation, says a study by U. Barcelona and the National Research Council of Spain.
Not sure if this study was funded by the Rioja Vintners Chamber of Commerce, but it does make a certain amount of ~sense-ish.
Some sources are reporting that if you Drink Wine or Eat Grapes, it can help.
Erm, I may have read the glaringly-brief Abstracts incorrectly, but I thought the experiments were not carried out on humans, but…
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How these guys weren’t THE MOST POPULAR DUDES IN ALL OF ANCIENT HISTORY escapes me.
George Armelagos and Mark Nelson found something awesome in the bones of ancient Nubians they examined. -Thorough, pervasive, long-term evidence of tetracycline intake!
-WTF?
Yup, they had happened upon a few of the microbes that flourish in their environment, which also…
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Turns out your instincts have been right all along.
Putting your cut finger in your mouth Definitively heals it faster.
The cool part? -Once they’ve isolated the most-responsible compounds, like HST 1&2, et al.,
Then they can be put into…
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