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Cancer ‘Vaccine’ By Stanford Researchers Looks Promising, Works Like Immunotherapy Special Forces

Filed Under: Disease

Cancer ‘Vaccine’ By Stanford Researchers Looks Promising, Works Like Immunotherapy Special Forces
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Experimental Cancer Treatment Works Like A “Vaccine”:
One of the oldest forms of treating a serious disease is the idea of a Vaccination.

Give your body a weak microdose of something, let it react & “learn” the disease to respond to it full-force if it ever happens for real.

For the most serious problems out there, a 1-shot-deal sure looks like a dream fix.

Unfortunately, when it comes to The Big C, most of the experimental fixes we get are putting some concentrated stuff on extracted-cells in a petri-dish.

But that’s not what Ron Levy’s team did at Stanford, and the results are cautiously promising…

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Holiday Weight-Gain: The Good News And Bad News. Seasonal Coincidences In Timing, Or Are Humans Just “Perfectly” Lazy?

Filed Under: Weight Loss / Fat Loss

Holiday Weight-Gain: The Good News And Bad News. Seasonal Coincidences In Timing, Or Are Humans Just “Perfectly” Lazy?
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Holiday Weight Gain Helps You Remember The Good Times:
So one of the great things about the beginning of a new year is the renewal and a fresh look at yourself.

The other great news is that you’re fatter than last year thanks to all the awesome holiday parties you went to.

Jumping into a new gym as a result can be an interesting experience!

But as the stats suggest, average people don’t make all the progress they want.

And strangely-enough, that might not be a problem…

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Face Yoga Exercises Really Are A Thing!, May Actually Make You Look Younger!, Crazy Carole Maggio Was RIGHT! Also: Mats & Pants Not Required…

Filed Under: Aging

Face Yoga Exercises Really Are A Thing!, May Actually Make You Look Younger!, Crazy Carole Maggio Was RIGHT! Also: Mats & Pants Not Required…
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Here’s to the crazy ones! Even The Face Exercisers:
So one of the themes anyone researching health/wellness hacks runs into is that some of the ideas seem a little bit “out there”.

And one of those that did in a very funny way was Carole Maggio’s 80s-fantastic, “Facercise”.

Short of Kristen Wiig re-enacting an aerobics video from the same era, it’s probably one of the funniest wellness-style vids you’ll ever see.

And like many of the more “out-there” innovations, it all seemed like a joke.

-Until someone did a study…

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#FitnessFail Is a Hashtag Anyone Who Ever Set A Goal Can Relate To. So Let’s All Laugh At 30 Embarrassing Moments From Twitter To Feel Better!

Filed Under: Exercise

#FitnessFail Is a Hashtag Anyone Who Ever Set A Goal Can Relate To. So Let’s All Laugh At 30 Embarrassing Moments From Twitter To Feel Better!
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Fail Your Way To Fitness Success!:
We’ve all had the unenviable joy of joining the crowd to New Year’s Resolutions, often for fitness.

It lets you remind yourself of how much further you have to go,

And also gets you to take stock of just how hard the holiday hors d’oeuvres and drinks hit you over the past few months.

Because we all end up failing a bit, even on our way to success, Jimmy Fallon asked Twitter users for help…

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Unused Exercise Equipment In Home Gyms. How To Beat The 1.6 Billion Dollar A Year Fancy-Coat-Rack Industry [Video]

Filed Under: Exercise, Video

Unused Exercise Equipment In Home Gyms. How To Beat The 1.6 Billion Dollar A Year Fancy-Coat-Rack Industry [Video]


Happy New Year!:
Say hello to questionable gym memberships and your soon-to-be unused home exercise equipment!

And the video & the comment are funny because they’re true.

This isn’t one of Cracked’s Honest Commercials, but it’s still right.

Especially if a Consumer Reports survey is to be believed,…

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Raw Water, A Dangerous Health Fad Goes At Least 1820s-Retard. Or: Stupidity In The Time Of Cholera

Filed Under: Stupid Health Tricks

Raw Water, A Dangerous Health Fad Goes At Least 1820s-Retard. Or: Stupidity In The Time Of Cholera
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Raw Water’s Risks Shouldn’t Be Part Of “Pick Your Poison”:
Ok, so the non-medical, non bloodwork+antibiotics+mris world of wellness & supplements occasionally gets a little weird.

And that weirdness usually comes from one place:

California.

Well, this time it’s more of the same.

And their new ideas on water are positively mad…

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Catching Colds & Flu Because Of Cold Weather. 4 Stealth Factors That Might Prove The Myth… [Video]

Filed Under: Disease, Video

Catching Colds & Flu Because Of Cold Weather. 4 Stealth Factors That Might Prove The Myth… [Video]


catch cold flu from cold weather blue and white frost on glassWinter Is The Season Of Giving…:
You can catch a cold or flu from being cold, right?

There is actual “cold” in the air and if you stick your hand out, you can catch some?

So, ever since we were little, we’ve been told to bundle-up in the winter.

-Or you’ll catch a cold.

Well in this video, ASAPScience explores a few of the myths on how you really do…

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Different Emotions From Alcohol: Welsh Researchers Track Down The Specific Psychology Of Spirits, Hopefully Black-Out, Cause International Tornadoes In-Process…

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

Different Emotions From Alcohol: Welsh Researchers Track Down The Specific Psychology Of Spirits, Hopefully Black-Out, Cause International Tornadoes In-Process…
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Pick Your Poison:
As you wade through the sea of feelings and alcoholic drinks at the end-of-year festivities, or festivities at any time,

You may pick one or another for an emotional, contextual, or even marketing-“appropriate” reason.

And though people have laughed-off the idea of different drinks doing different things,

And the Cthulhulian-mythos of “Tequila Drunk”,

Science is figuring-out that those ideas may not be such old-wives’ tales after all…

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