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In this podcast, Leonard and Robert have a fascinating info-packed talk about:
1) Biochemistry
2) Metabolic syndrome
3) Excess insulin
4) Calorie-starvation
5) Mixed hypothalamus signals
6) Fatty liver disease
7) Vicious-circles
8) Wrongly-demonized fats…
Here’s a great video by ASAP Science to show you what 200 calories looks like.
It’s also a pretty good primer on the different Calorie-Densities of the foods you’re probably eating.
And while you’re thinking about them, remember: Processed, Take-out, and Restaurant foods will likely have a lot of extra calories you don’t really need.
One example is the difference between…
Well, with all the very serious, researchy Sheldon-Cooper “Multi-Dimensional-Math” crap going on in “normal” science, it’s nice to know that a few health-technologists can get down to some Real Damn Business!
These intrepid code-monkeys have finally put those analytical chops to some good and,
Decoded the DNA of The world’s most popular Cocoa Beans!
So, perhaps …
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So two years ago Stanley Hazen published a paper saying the compound TMAO is linked to heart disease.
When mice were fed more of it, their risk for atherosclerosis went up.
It turns out the stuff is created when gut bacteria break down some foods.
So in a new study, Stanley makes this mental leap: Red Meat is something people eat, passes through the gut, and is associated with heart disease.
-Maybe there’s something in there that gets turned into that TMAO from 2 years ago?…
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And while we’re on the subject of Alcohol,
Who Else but The New Yorker could do such a monster article on Drinking and Hangovers? -I have no damn good answer for that.
Ok; besides: “Ernest F****** Hemingway”,…
Nevertheless: Hop on over and be blown away by the entire geopolitical cavalcade that is Joan Acocella’s Magnum Opus,
From feeling like Gregor Samsa when you wake up,
To:..
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Damned if I missed trying this on New Years and Superbowl Sunday, but it is SO On-Deck for the next round of Human Guinea-Pig trials, likely on or before St. Patrick’s Day.
Thanks to the hard-working researchers at The Institute of Medical Science and Jeju National University in Korea, 40% of which may have less-efficient ADH enzyme,
I’m trying asparagus definitely before, possibly during, and maybe even after tactical drinking-sorties/jager-bombing-of-Dresdens…
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Chalk another one up for the “Horny Scientists Study Sex, File Results Under Captain Obvious Department”.
Stuart Brody, Petr Weiss and their cult of Kinsey-following-hound-dogs at the University of West Scotland [who would not let yours-truly tag along, DAMMIT]
Conducted a noble experiment on our favorite species: WOO-MAAAN!!!, doing our favorite activity: “Ye Olde How’s your father?”, and come up with some guessable-yet-Fantastic results…
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It’s probably something similar to the research showing both black and green tea affect enzymes involved in Alzheimer’s,
but Yun Bai and his team at the Third Military Medical University in China have found that the chief polyphenol in Green Tea, called EGCG, helps new brain cells grow in a central region crucial to the brain’s ability to adapt to change.
+and also navigate mazes…
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