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Walnuts And Heart Health: Unexpected Benefits That Begin With The Magic Of Your Gut-Instinct

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Walnuts & Your Heart. A Strange Benefit That Starts Elsewhere:
When people talk about Nutrition, a lot of times it just seems to deal with the basics.

But here at HT, we are all about trying to go for the extra few percent that might make a big difference over time.

And along with the researchers who study it, that means hunting for small benefits in overlooked places.

This is nowhere better-exemplified than the search for SuperFoods.

And though similar evidence has come before, a PSU team discovered even stranger proof that adding nuts to your diet might just be a small miracle…

Beauty Sleep: Scientific Findings On Body-Structure Changes Might Support Olde-Timey Advice

Filed Under: Aging

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Beauty Sleep. Classic Health-Indicator Gets Some Science Respect:
To err on the lighter side of things this time, we have another installment of HealthTrekker’s “Old Myths That Turn Out To Be True”-series.

A long time ago, there used to be a pseudo-science called Phrenology.

It said you could tell who someone was by the bumps on their skull.

And a new, actually-legit version of that idea for Faces is the tease that leads to the newest science-based discovery,

That Manchester researchers have found yet another indicator of health & good life choices and practices, in your face…

Soybean Oil & Brain Health: Most Widely-Used Food Oil May Have Stealth Metabolism & DNA Impact

Filed Under: Nutrition

Soybean Oil Vs. Brain & Metabolism. Micro Changes, Macro Consequences:
The App Store has a fun smartphone & tablet game called, “Fruit Ninja”.

As SCIENCE! focuses on smaller threats, people who study nutrition are finding things you might call “Food Ninjas”.

They appear unexpectedly, wreck the place, and then disappear into the night.

Just like Ninjas, they can be found in ordinary places we used to think were safe.

Like every item we see in a store that we assume is health-ninja-free.

But as fate would have it, UCR has discovered another heavy-rotation food component that just might shuriken the hell out of your body…

Milk Fat Vs. Aging: The Weird Science Of How Something That Always Seemed Healthy May Not Be

Filed Under: Nutrition

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Milk Fat Levels Vs. Aging. Cellular Research Finds Stealth Threats:
Sometimes when researchers go hunting, they can approach things from increasingly-unexpected directions.

And even though SCIENCE would seem a pretty arithmetic endeavor,

It makes sense that they need to get increasingly-creative to find new solutions.

And so just the way we hear of more discoveries in the genetic-testing field from companies like 23 And Me,

One such scientist found a cellular-level health-risk in one of the most unexpected places of all…

Green Tea & Lifespan: Ancient World Ritual Becomes Modern Key To Living Longer & Better

Filed Under: Nutrition

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Green Tea & Living Longer, Old-World Antioxidants, Modern Benefits:
A few of the interesting ways we can think about wellness are:

Why do we do what we do, or have-done? and What’s Old Is New Again.

For some reason, humanity has fallen into certain habits in many places,

Or has old superstitions that everyone thinks were nothing but old wives’ tales.

And it’s from those two areas of thought we often find ancient man wasn’t really stupid,

Those habits formed for good reason; -which a team from the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences is proving once again…

Inflammation & Dementia: Special Drugs & Barrier Repair May Slow Or Reverse Brain Aging

Filed Under: Aging

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Inflammation Vs. Dementia: Can Special Anti-Inflammatories Slow It Down?:
They say in Math, 1+1=2 and in Biology, 1+1=5.

That just might be true for some of the strange ways that researchers find a solution.

Because among the health problems we might face, Dementia is a big one.

And many solutions from big companies have been tried, with notable failures.

So what’s a researcher to do, give up hope and shut down their division like a few biotechs have?

Nope. Not if you’re Daniela Kaufer and Alon Friedman. You don’t quit; you get weird. And a big part of the solution might one day be as simple as popping an Advil…

Stress & Aging: SCIENCE! Finds Out How Too Much Speeds-Up Your Decline + Possible Target For Fix

Filed Under: Aging

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Stress & Aging. How Too Much Accelerates Your Body-Clock:
The Fountain Of Youth is an old but seductive myth.

In fact, the idea is one of the main focuses of this site; because finding it is the journey we’re all really on.

How do we fix our problems and live for as long as possible, through improved and advanced science?

Because Aging is The King of all health problems.

And as-such, will probably be the last one to get solved, if at-all.

And to that end, researchers in Poland & UNSW just found a big piece of the puzzle…

Finding Meaning In Life: The Discovery That Could Help You Be Happier, Healthier, & Live Longer

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

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Finding Meaning In Life: A Discovery That Might Help You Live Better:
A lot of the time when we think about health, it can seem fairly nuts & bolts.

But ancient-science has always said there was more to it.

And the more crazy health & wellness sites you read, the more you hear from that point of view.

But since it’s so far-off from the daily, pedestrian, trudge,

Most people might think it’s both a silly and elusive idea that there might be more.

So one more out-there study this time by UCSD, adds another link in the chain connecting lowly body to lofty mind, and it’s appropriate for just this time of year…

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Walnuts And Heart Health: Unexpected Benefits That Begin With The Magic Of Your Gut-Instinct

Beauty Sleep: Scientific Findings On Body-Structure Changes Might Support Olde-Timey Advice

Soybean Oil & Brain Health: Most Widely-Used Food Oil May Have Stealth Metabolism & DNA Impact

Milk Fat Vs. Aging: The Weird Science Of How Something That Always Seemed Healthy May Not Be

Green Tea & Lifespan: Ancient World Ritual Becomes Modern Key To Living Longer & Better

Inflammation & Dementia: Special Drugs & Barrier Repair May Slow Or Reverse Brain Aging

Stress & Aging: SCIENCE! Finds Out How Too Much Speeds-Up Your Decline + Possible Target For Fix

Finding Meaning In Life: The Discovery That Could Help You Be Happier, Healthier, & Live Longer

Gastroenteritis, Stomach Flu Cure May Have Been Discovered By Clay-Eating Cheeky-Monkeys

Yasmina Rossi Is The New Queen Of The Silver Foxes! 59 Year-Old Model & Grandmother Shows Us Mortals What Age-Defying Really Looks Like

Calorie-Restriction’s Mousechurian Candidate: Ancient Chinese Secret Creates Mighty-Mouse With Mighty-Brain

15 Benefits Of Beer, Backed By Science That Is 60% Bulls**t, -But Keep Drinking Just In Case...

Brain Benefits Of Turmeric-Like Curry Spice Might Help Your Mind Repair Itself, Chillax, Then Take Over World