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NY1’s Jamie Shupak Discovers How To Let Food Be Your Drugs And Let Friends Be Your Dealers

Filed Under: Disease, Other, Vitamins/Supplements

NY1’s Jamie Shupak Discovers How To Let Food Be Your Drugs And Let Friends Be Your Dealers
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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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Europeans Low On Vitamin D And Other Micronutrients

Filed Under: Nutrition, Vitamins/Supplements

Europeans Low On Vitamin D And Other Micronutrients
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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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Screw Pepsi. Take The Better Drinking Challenge: Asparagus For Hangover!

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

Screw Pepsi. Take The Better Drinking Challenge: Asparagus For Hangover!
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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 Testing Gets Some Important New Internets And Reviews From Chemistry Ninjas

Filed Under: Vitamins/Supplements

Supplement Safety Testing Gets Some Important New Internets And Reviews From Chemistry Ninjas
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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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Green Tea Chemical Grows New Brain Cells For Beloved Videogame Character

Filed Under: Mind/Brain, Nutrition, Vitamins/Supplements

Green Tea Chemical Grows New Brain Cells For Beloved Videogame Character
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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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Forget Exercise. Lose Fat With Injecti-Cise!

Filed Under: Bio-Tech, Sex, Meds, Rock n Roll, Vitamins/Supplements, Weight Loss / Fat Loss

Forget Exercise. Lose Fat With Injecti-Cise!
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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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DECEPTIVE ADVERTISING!: Keep 32 Would Only Let You Keep 28, DAMMIT!

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Bio-Tech, Nutrition, Vitamins/Supplements

DECEPTIVE ADVERTISING!: Keep 32 Would Only Let You Keep 28, DAMMIT!
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(if you’ve had your wisdom teeth out)

In a vein similar to our wily friends on Long Island, Jose Cordova, heir to the Chrysler Cordoba Fortune and Erich Astudillo have discovered an interesting molecule that fights cavities.

But unlike “Cavistat”, the Chilean scientists aren’t introducing a molecule-set that reinforces teeth.

It supposedly kills off Streptococcus Mutans, the bacteria that creates the greatest number of…

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DANGER WILL ROBINSON!: AS10 Antioxidant Drink Lost In Space. -And Not By NASA.

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

DANGER WILL ROBINSON!: AS10 Antioxidant Drink Lost In Space. -And Not By NASA.
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So, thanks to the research of Keith Cowing over at SpaceRef, we now know that the claims by Ameriscience that NASA had developed antioxidant softgels for the skin were incorrect.

Keith also goes on to note that the doctor whose alleged quotes were circulated is unpaid, uncontactable, works in the Family Practice & Preventive Medicine departments, and the only thing a person with that name ever published on Astro-Nautery was…

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