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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…
[NSFW, for language & some subject-matter]
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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[ok wait, that didn’t sound ~Exactly as good as the original by Hippocrates; … -whatever. Close enough for government work. Moving on…]
-For many of us who have done any kind of research about health, it can be a difficult and obscure endeavor.
Oftentimes there are answers hidden in odd contexts, making it difficult to separate vapor from substance; with lots of trial and error. It can feel at times, a very lonely wilderness.
-Especially when the standard, “Antibiotics, Bloodwork & Stethoscopes” approach doesn’t have all the answers…
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Micronutrients, like all the thousands of little mineral compounds you get from fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds are probably a lot more important for health than they’re given credit for.
So, in one of the first studies, if not The First, to look at how much people are getting across a range of several countries, -at least of some more widely-known compounds, The Euros are beginning to flunk.
-Especially as they move a little closer in their diets to what we eat here…
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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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Supplement Safety Concerns Get The Ratings Site They Desperately Need:
Wondering what the actual hell is in the special herbal supplements, energy drinks, or even vitamins you just took?
Well professional chemist, Neil Thanedar is about to provide that valuable service to anyone who wants to sign up at his new site.
Labdoor.com is about to get out there and become the Consumer Reports of the supplement industry.
Paired with real-product buying,…
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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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-Ok, I just made that product name up. But it’s a good one, eh?
Anyway, the ultimate use for this treatment will probably be limited to plastic-surgery spot-improvements,
But Dr. Ouliana Ziouzenkova of Ohio State University and her team have come up with an injectable substance that remodels fatty tissue, ~dissolving it in a way.
What it does is to use a very unique type…
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