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

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Calorie-Restriction’s Brain Benefits: Ancient Chinese Secret Creates Mighty-Mouse With Mighty-Brain
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A Nutritional Proverb For Your Brain:
Ok, the Chinese have an old saying to remember the benefits of calorie-restriction: “Eat until you are seven-tenths full and save the other three-tenths for hunger.”

Now hold that idea, but Bruce-Lee your way over from one culture to the other & witness the brilliance that is Giovambattista Pani and his team at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome.

Because the man, whose first name I cannot pronounce without spraining something in [most of] my face, has chalked up YET ANOTHER win for our old pal,…

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Sitting Too Long Is Killing You, That’s True. But At Least It’s Doing So With Cool Hitchcockian Graphics [InfoGraphic]

Filed Under: Exercise, Featured

Sitting Too Long Is Killing You, That’s True. But At Least It’s Doing So With Cool Hitchcockian Graphics [InfoGraphic]
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Shadow Of A Couch, Death By Furniture:
MBC’s “Sitting Is Killing You” InfoGraphic is a great follow-up to Doc Mike Evan’s video, “23 1/2 Hours”.

You may have seen it around before, but it’s a great and timely reminder.

They didn’t mention it in the visuals, but MB&C’s advice is particularly good for travel. Esp, as a lot of..

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Doc Mike Evans Lays Down The Law On Health In “23 1/2 Hours”

Filed Under: Disease, Signal

Doc Mike Evans Lays Down The Law On Health In “23 1/2 Hours”



It won’t take quite that long to watch,

But you MUST check out this brilliant, cutely-drawn presentation of some great thinking on the single most central practice to benefit the largest scope of your health.

The quantity of studies and data he combs through to find this final intersection…

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Neti-Pot Deaths: Brain Eating Amoebas Kill Two

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Neti-Pot Deaths: Brain Eating Amoebas Kill Two
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Absolutely Terrifying, but so far 2 people have died from a fresh-water amoeba via Neti-Pot nasal irrigation in Louisiana.

IIt turns out it’s MUCH easier for bad things to cross into the brain if they get up in the sinus cavity via your nose.

Both victims died of encephalitis.

There is no way to know if the microbe, or something similar, is in your own water or not without specific testing.

Usually most people don’t read the manual, and…

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GODDAMMIT JUNIOR! Get Upstairs & Play Your Videogames Before You Fail Out Of School!!!

Filed Under: Mind/Brain, Noise, Other

GODDAMMIT JUNIOR! Get Upstairs & Play Your Videogames Before You Fail Out Of School!!!
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In a Study of about ~500 12-year-olds, it turns out playing video games is linked to Increases in Creativity.

Not sure what exactly it is,

But there always seemed to be something about High-School that changed the way peoples’ brains worked,

Right up until they were about 26.

-Probably just excessive preoccupation with the opposite sex.

So in a way this research doesn’t surprise…

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MIT Study: Mindfulness Meditation Masterfully Mediates Muscular Myalgia, Misery, And Messy Mental Melodrama. -It’s Marvelous To Manipulate Your Mentality, Man!

Filed Under: Mind/Brain, Other, Signal

MIT Study: Mindfulness Meditation Masterfully Mediates Muscular Myalgia, Misery, And Messy Mental Melodrama. -It’s Marvelous To Manipulate Your Mentality, Man!
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Okay, so there are about 4 levels of brain-wave frequencies.

Going from Highest to Lowest frequencies, they are: Beta, Alpha, Theta and Delta.

Those Greek names correspond to 10+Hz, 8-10Hz, 4-8Hz, and 0-4Hz.

Aside from the hippie, crunchy-granola crowd stinking up the local dreadlocked-patchouli hoe-downs at Jack Johnson’s Honolulu Dookie Ranch,

And deliberately enjoying the smell of their own farts in San Francisco,

A few different groups of people, thanks largely to our Buddhist friends, have gotten involved in Meditation…

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Thank GOD Sherlock Was +/- A Loner! -Or: ‘Plays Well With Others’ Is Not Just HR==BS

Filed Under: Disease, Mind/Brain, Other

Thank GOD Sherlock Was +/- A Loner! -Or: ‘Plays Well With Others’ Is Not Just HR==BS
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The article & study don’t say it,

But I’m assuming the premise Also extends out to mean [ed: oh, F***! -bad news for me, then; eh?]

That working with people who are less-intelligent but much nicer, is significantly better than working for/with a Brilliant Sociopath.

(Bounce that one off anyone who worked at Apple! :P )

So: Eight hours Sleep, 2+ Hours Commuting & Travel, ~3 Hours Eating, + Various Prep time, == You will be spending almost as much time with your co-workers,…

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