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Repairing Your Brain Cells: Discoveries About Brain-Aging Also Come With A Fix!

Filed Under: Aging

Repairing Your Brain Cells: Discoveries About Brain-Aging Also Come With A Fix!
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Repairing Brain Cells As They Age, New Discovery, New Hope:
So a lot of us worry about losing our abilities, or marbles, as time goes on.

We’d all like to stay healthy as we do age, reflected in that new-ish term, “Healthspan”.

Which flies in the face of the old ideas that say there’s not much you can do.

Especially for the most important part of you, Your Brain.

Well some researchers from California and Canada present a Bad News, Good News scenario in their new work,

And if they’re right, may just prove the old ideas about brain-aging almost completely wrong…

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Cat Parasites And Mental Illness: Schizophrenia Linked To Toxoplasma From Outdoor Cats

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

Cat Parasites And Mental Illness: Schizophrenia Linked To Toxoplasma From Outdoor Cats
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The Toxoplasma Cat Parasite & Mental-Illness. Research On A Weird Road:
The search for the roots of disease is taking some weird turns, as we’ve found out.

Some of the biggest mysteries we have in that area seem to involve our minds.

What makes them tick incorrectly and is every problem just a chemical imbalance?

And while your cat may be far crazier than you think,

A team of Danish researchers is finding out just how much they might be making you crazy, too…

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Alzheimer’s And Gingivitis: Failure To Floss Brings More Headaches Than Just Your Grumpy Dentist

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

Alzheimer’s And Gingivitis: Failure To Floss Brings More Headaches Than Just Your Grumpy Dentist
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Alzheimer’s & Gum Disease, Revenge Of The Dentists!:
When medicine doesn’t seem to work as well as it should,

Lots of people go looking for all kinds of crazy anecdotes on the internet.

That’s where you get all the supplement-remedies, including the iffy ones.

Similarly, when trying to decipher an uncrackable illness,

Even Science ends up going down some pretty weird roads.

In the latest few rounds of Alzheimer’s research, it’s getting even weirder. Teams of doctors have been chasing down viruses,

And now Microbes as a possible cause and cure…

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Diet Danger: Eating Fried Food Daily Could Increase Your Risk Of An Extra-Crispy Early Death

Filed Under: Nutrition

Diet Danger: Eating Fried Food Daily Could Increase Your Risk Of An Extra-Crispy Early Death
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Fried Food Dangers. Your Health Is Getting Smoked:
One of the problems many of us have is deciding how to help ourselves through diet.

This can involve anything from fad-diets to crazy movie-star weight-loss plans,

To something as simple as just trying to get less sugar.

But recently, it seems that some food may be damn-near poisonous.

Especially with the revelations about harmful chemicals in fast-food packaging materials.

And to add to that list of risks, a team from the University of Iowa is discovering that deep-fried foods may be particularly dangerous…

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Reversing Wrinkles: Smoothing Out Your Skin Could Soon Be A 1-Pill Reality With Help From Babies

Filed Under: Aging

Reversing Wrinkles: Smoothing Out Your Skin Could Soon Be A 1-Pill Reality With Help From Babies
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Wrinkles Could Be Removed With Accidental New Discovery:
So one of the problems people have as they get older, is that as much and as many ways they try to improve themselves,

Sometimes, their outside appearance doesn’t catch-up with how they feel inside.

Even though for many self-improvers and age-defiers the idea that “Age Is Just A Number” absolutely-applies.

Well, some researchers at UCSD have found the next step in the journey to making your outside look as good as your inside…

Note Please: The proposed-fix does not involve installing babies on your face.

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What Animal Do You Even Lift? As Part Of Your Fitness Resolutions, Answer This Important Question

Filed Under: Exercise

What Animal Do You Even Lift? As Part Of Your Fitness Resolutions, Answer This Important Question
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What Animal Do You Even Lift? -If You Lift…:
We all try to make ambitious New Year’s Resolutions,

Because a great deal of us are self-improvers, especially the visitors to this site.

And after you have found the answers to the important questions you ask yourself every New Year,

Like, “Do You Even Lift?”,

The next one should definitely be, “Which Animal?”…

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Dry January Health Benefits: A Little Tea-Totaling Temperance Could Fix More Than Just The Holiday Bloat

Filed Under: Nutrition

Dry January Health Benefits: A Little Tea-Totaling Temperance Could Fix More Than Just The Holiday Bloat
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Dry January Benefits. Temporary Discipline, Lasting Health:
Towards the end of every year at the holiday season, we all seem to have a few drinks.

And while that’s fine, it’s the excesses that cause problems.

A little bit of fun can sometimes spiral out of control and have unforeseen consequences.

But a relatively new program launched in the UK a few years ago is seeing some interesting results,

And the study data is stacking up to back those results up….

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Loneliness By Age Group: Different Times Of Life May Make The Epidemic Even Worse

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

Loneliness By Age Group: Different Times Of Life May Make The Epidemic Even Worse
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Loneliness By Age, Risks Increase Across Lifespan:
Many people feel lonely in their day-to-day lives.

That feeling seems particularly keen around the holiday time of year, when everyone’s supposed to be happy, joyous, perfect, and above-all, Together.

Any deficit in those areas can make a person feel terribly-isolated.

It turns-out Science has found this peak-feeling may be even more difficult for people of 3 particular age-groups…

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