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Now We Know Why Vegetarians Sound So Dumb & Dizzy. It’s Because Creatine Boosts All Different Kinds Of Brain POWAH!

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Mind/Brain, Nutrition, Vitamins/Supplements

Now We Know Why Vegetarians Sound So Dumb & Dizzy. It’s Because Creatine Boosts All Different Kinds Of Brain POWAH!
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Not All Substitutes Are Equal:
All cheekiness aside, we just did a post on the sexy people over at Eater’s test of the newest vegetable-only burger, by Impossible Foods.

But one of the ideas we raised at the end was: Maybe it tastes close now, maybe even identical in the future,

-But does it give you the same-or-better Nutrition when you take everything into consideration?

Well, one of Red Meat’s components is a salt called Creatine. And sciency-researchers are finding out some very interesting brain-stuff about its new best friend…

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If You’re Too Rushed To Even Go To Starbucks, Your Problem Is Now Solved: Enter GoCubes! -Regular Hexahedrons Of Nootropic-Caffeine Brainsplosion!

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Mind/Brain, Nutrition, Vitamins/Supplements

If You’re Too Rushed To Even Go To Starbucks, Your Problem Is Now Solved: Enter GoCubes! -Regular Hexahedrons Of Nootropic-Caffeine Brainsplosion!


 
gocubes by nootrobox chewable coffee main page product screenshot with headerGet Your Fix Of Go-Go Juice While You’re On The Go:
We’ve all been there once or twice. No time for anything; even the AM-Jumpstart.

The morning coffee is a ritual, a checkin with yourself, and also the crucial happenings down at the passive-aggressively-staffed local café.

But sometimes you either had a night out, a night in, Jason-Bourne-grade post-drunk-amnesia, or you’re just running terribly late.

Well Nootrobox is about to solve all only one or two of those problems with their magical new Brain-Dyn-O-Mite: Go Cubes!…

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After Long Marketing Battle, FDA Approves “Female Viagra”. -Yay?

Filed Under: News, Noise, Sex, Meds, Rock n Roll, Vitamins/Supplements

After Long Marketing Battle, FDA Approves “Female Viagra”. -Yay?
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Drug researchers have been trying for at least as long as regular Viagra for men to make a version of the same for women.

Sometimes, they’ve even gone as far as testing regular Viagra on women for the same effects.

And of course, results were inconsistent.

Well, just a few days ago, the FDA approved the newest drug-salvo in that pleasure war, Addyi.

But unfortunately, if it’s a victory at all, it’s a Pyrrhic one…

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Video: VitaPerk, Two Great Things Together: Vitamin-Power And Coffee

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Mind/Brain, Video, Vitamins/Supplements

Video: VitaPerk, Two Great Things Together: Vitamin-Power And Coffee


 
Why should the Red Bull and Monster guys get to have all the fun and profit?

The now-insolvent 50 Cent helped give you vitamins in your water. Red Bull gives you wings.

…So why not put a little more kick into the drink most Americans use for a boost anyway?…

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Honor Code Fail: The Houseplant In Your Echinacea And The Laxative In Your Mood-Booster

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Stupid Health Tricks, Vitamins/Supplements

Honor Code Fail: The Houseplant In Your Echinacea And The Laxative In Your Mood-Booster
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We’ve blogged about contamination here and here before, but this development seems even more audacious than before.

And Look, we all know (at least here on HT) that selecting & taking supplements is a bit of a Bro-Science. -Or if we’re Really honest, it’s Amateur Human-Guniea-Pig Biochemistry Gambling.

Well, thanks to what we’re learning from NY AG, Eric Schneiderman, and Canada’s University of Guelph, the truth is a lot worse than that…

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Starbucks AHOY! -Science Discovers Yet Again That Coffee Is Awesome, This Time: Saving Your Skin

Filed Under: Aging, Better Living Through Chemistry, Disease, Nutrition, Vitamins/Supplements

Starbucks AHOY! -Science Discovers Yet Again That Coffee Is Awesome, This Time: Saving Your Skin
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Coffee and Tea drinking have been linked [perhaps a little tenuously at times] to a whole host of health benefits, like this, this, and this.

Well now we can add another one to that growing list.

It also turns out that coffee may prevent some cancer; on your skin; -seriously.

In a study of 400,000+ participants over about 10 years, taking into account diet and some environmental factors, drinking up to 3 cups of coffee a day was associated with a 10% reduction in…

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Move Over Blueberries & Acai, New Purple Superfood INDAHOUSE!

Filed Under: Bio-Tech, Nutrition, Vitamins/Supplements, Weight Loss / Fat Loss

Move Over Blueberries & Acai, New Purple Superfood INDAHOUSE!
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Now, when you visualize something after hearing the word, “Superfood”, you probably imagine some impossibly-expensive super-bean from the north shore of Bali, the darkest part of the Amazon, the bleakest steppes of Maine blueberry-country, or Gwynneth Paltrow’s blog.

But the scientists at Rutgers had a different idea: What if you could make a superfood out of something common, that normal people eat every day without a second thought…

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John Oliver Reminds Us To Take Supplement Claims With A Grain Of Salt, Even From The Great And Powerful Oz

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Video, Vitamins/Supplements, Weight Loss / Fat Loss

John Oliver Reminds Us To Take Supplement Claims With A Grain Of Salt, Even From The Great And Powerful Oz


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We’ve all heard the crazy claims. -Don’t do anything involving Hard Work, Research, Discipline, or Nutrition; -Just Pop a Pill! And Let Chemistry Do The Work For You!!!

Oliver doesn’t stop the funny to explain the ephedra issue very well, and he certainly does tee off on a doc trying to fill his hour of content. Unfortunately, that content sometimes seems aimed at the people who read the National Enquirer for diet-tips in the checkout aisle.

-And then put it back without paying.

But really; -Let’s face it. This is all really about…

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