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Joe Rogan Interviews Infectious Disease Expert Michael Osterholm For The Details On Coronavirus

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Joe Rogan Interviews Infectious Disease Expert Michael Osterholm For The Details On Coronavirus


Joe Rogan & Dr. Michael Osterholm The Honest Details About COVID19:
We don’t normally do public health concerns here, but for every rule there is an exception.

So instead of focusing purely on new research for incremental improvements,

We’d recommend instead this video with Joe Rogan and Dr. Michael Osterholm.

In it, they discuss the under-appreciated seriousness of Covid 19.

Some of those concerns include how long it’s is likely to last, what the landscape might look like, and how we might avoid diseases of this type in the future…

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Olive Oil & Living Longer: Deep-Dive Of Mediterranean Diet Finds A Secret Code For Longevity

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Olive Oil & Living Longer: Deep-Dive Of Mediterranean Diet Finds A Secret Code For Longevity
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Olive Oil & Living Longer An Unexpected Find, With A Twist:
A doctor friend once said, “When you finish medical school, they tell you that half of what you just learned is wrong. The problem is, we don’t know which half.”

So a lot of what we think we know is really just general observations and anecdotes.

Like the success of The Mediterranean Diet.

We know it’s one of the best plans out there, but for the “Why?”, we only have educated-guesses.

Until now. Because a UMinn team looked into some of the more interesting benefits and found they come from really odd places…

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Depression & Anti-Inflammatories: Can NSAIDs Like Advil Succeed Where Anti-Depressants Fall Short?

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry

Depression & Anti-Inflammatories: Can NSAIDs Like Advil Succeed Where Anti-Depressants Fall Short?
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Depression Vs. Anti-Inflammatory Meds. Surprisingly Encouraging!
Frequently, SCIENCE will get the idea that it knows everything.

And for a long time, it decided that it understood psychology’s problems and how to medicate them all perfectly. But that’s not always true.

For example up until recently, Science had no idea exactly how Prozac worked, just that it did.

(it was actually encouraging neurogenesis among other things)

And a Chinese team just confirmed that Depression might not only be a chemical-imbalance, but something Big Pharma wasn’t even thinking about in 1972…

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HealthTrekker Makes It To FeedSpot’s Top 200 Health Blogs!

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HealthTrekker Makes It To FeedSpot’s Top 200 Health Blogs!
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HT Hits The Top 200 At FeedSpot. Not WebMD Yet, But Still Great!:
I just wanted to say a heartfelt Thanks to Anuj Agarwal and everyone over at FeedSpot!

HT was recently chosen to be among their list of Top 200 Health Blogs, here.

While we’re not yet in WebMD territory, it’s always nice to be noticed and recognized for good work based on actual research studies!

For those of you who haven’t heard of FeedSpot, they are sort-of an all-in-one solution for the space left by the departure of sites like Google Reader and BlogLines…

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

Filed Under: Nutrition

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…

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

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

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

Filed Under: Nutrition

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

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

Filed Under: Nutrition

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

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