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The Sleep-Anxiety Link: How The Feedback-Loop Of Sleep Loss & Debt Crashes Your Brain

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

The Sleep-Anxiety Link: How The Feedback-Loop Of Sleep Loss & Debt Crashes Your Brain
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Chronic Loss Of Sleep Could Give You Clinical Anxiety:
One of the more difficult problems a person could try to solve is anything involving your mind.

And neurochemists are doing their best to create solutions to this every day.

Two of the thornier ones they try to fix for us are Depression and Anxiety.

But perfect pharmaceutical fixes so-far have been elusive, and the ones we get are not without side-effects.

But a recent study by researchers at UC Berkeley is starting to shed a little more light on how Anxiety works and how you might start fighting back against it; even without drugs…

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Exercise May Clean The Brain, Help You Avoid Alzheimer’s, Increase Neurogenesis And Keep You Sharp

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

Exercise May Clean The Brain, Help You Avoid Alzheimer’s, Increase Neurogenesis And Keep You Sharp
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Exercise Cleans Your Brain And Clears Your Mind, Literally:
So there are many problems medicine faces that seem insurmountable.

But every day, Science seems to make a little bit more progress.

For example, some big pharma companies recently had a few failures with their Alzheimer’s drug programs and abandoned them,

But Dr. Rudy Tanzi’s team just found something very encouraging that could mean a fix for the disease, and it may start with a simple thing you keep getting nagged to do…

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Intermittent Fasting And Obesity: Time-Restricted Eating Makes You A Lean, Mean, Circadian Machine

Filed Under: Aging

Intermittent Fasting And Obesity: Time-Restricted Eating Makes You A Lean, Mean, Circadian Machine
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Intermittent-Fasting’s Sneak-Attack On Obesity & Metabolic-Illness:
So losing-weight is a very tough thing, and we seem destined to get fat.

Diets to get a movie-star body are just plain crazy,

Add-on the uncertainty introduced by new Fad Diets that seem to crop-up about every 3 years,

And you could understand how the average person could end-up discouraged, confused; and even-worse, looking nothing like Ryan Reynolds.

But researchers at the Salk Institute have just come-up with another amazing confirmation to the proof in a recent diet trend…

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Supplement Contamination Saga: 800 Weight-Loss, Muscle-Building, Male-Enhancement Pills Contained Hidden Dangers

Filed Under: Vitamins/Supplements

Supplement Contamination Saga: 800 Weight-Loss, Muscle-Building, Male-Enhancement Pills Contained Hidden Dangers
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Supplement Contamination Of All Types Is An Under-Researched Danger:
In-terms of product safety it seems if something is sold at a store, then it’s safe.

You might also get the idea that because governmental organizations like the FDA test all kinds of things for safety,

That they also test Supplements, too.

Well, as some researchers from Well, as some researchers from California are finding out, there is a lot more risk in them than you might think.

Including all kinds of stuff that’s not even supposed to be there…

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Low-Dose Alcohol May Clean Your Brain, Reduce Dementia Rates By Helping The System Work Better

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

Low-Dose Alcohol May Clean Your Brain, Reduce Dementia Rates By Helping The System Work Better
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The Right Dose Of Alcohol May Actually “Clean” Your Brain:

Here we go again! Alcohol and the health space have an increasingly love/hate relationship, that’s becoming more hate/hate as time passes.

One study after another comes out; 2 Drinks a day is safe. Then 1. Then none. Then,

Well, to add more fuel to the fire Stanton Peele started awhile back,

A team of Danish researchers hanging out on the canals of Copenhagen getting hammered on Tuborg came up with a great new idea.

Alcohol is actually beneficial to you, and it just might reduce one of the conditions we can’t yet fix…

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Drinking Young Blood Is A Bad Idea And Won’t Give You The Same Benefits As The Transfusion Studies

Filed Under: Aging

Drinking Young Blood Is A Bad Idea And Won’t Give You The Same Benefits As The Transfusion Studies
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The Benefits Of Young-Blood Transfusion Don’t Come From Drinking It!:
So since the time of the alchemists, Ponce DeLeon, and probably even before the Ancient Egyptians,

Immortality and Eternal Youth have been among mankind’s fondest fantasy-goals as many of you might guess.

But thanks to some very silly editors and the internet,

An old-wives’-tale with a tiny shred of truth has been recently-circulated in a stupid, yet seasonally-appropriate game of “Telephone”. -Drinking human blood…

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Air Pollution & Your Brain Health: What You Can’t See Can Still Hurt You. And Not Just Your Lungs

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

Air Pollution & Your Brain Health: What You Can’t See Can Still Hurt You. And Not Just Your Lungs
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Air-Pollution & Your Brain Health, UK Researchers Fight The Good Fight:

So we all try to stay as healthy as possible in our habits.

These often include forays into the follies of nutrition & exercise.

And white Saturated Fat is an easy evil to avoid because it’s right on food labels,

Other threats are much harder to stay away from.

And it turns out some strange but important work is being done by our cousins in the UK and also China on the impact of air-quality on your brain,

You certainly won’t believe the results; or look at a city-bus the same way ever again…

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Eggs Vs. Your Heart Health: Eating One A Day Might Not Be Such A Cardio-Bomb After All

Filed Under: Nutrition

Eggs Vs. Your Heart Health: Eating One A Day Might Not Be Such A Cardio-Bomb After All
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Eating Eggs And Heart-Health, The Research Changes Again:

Diet recommendations have an unfortunate history of moving all-over the place.

Which is odd, because we’ve been eating to stay alive and healthy, you’d think scientists could get it right.

Nowhere is this more true than for individual food-items, like an Egg.

We used to think they were fine. Then we were told they were heart-disease hand-grenades.

But some researchers in China just came out with an interesting case for them not being so bad after-all…

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