The Health Weblog
Crapping-Out At The Biochem Casino:
As we’ve said before about Supplements, many fads are largely untested.
And because of that, trying them is like gambling.
If you’re going to give something with sketchy research a very serious try,
You’d better be confident in your common-sense & Chem-Fu.
The latest casualty of actual SCIENCE? –Coconut Oil…
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Science Was Wrong Again!:
We just learned that Science was wrong about adults not being able to grow new brain-cells.
In this video, Dr. Neal Barnard shares Dietary-changes that can actually improve your brain,
And most importantly help avoid Alzheimer’s, the disease that killed his father.
Having watched that whole process, he ranks it as one of the last things you’d ever want to happen.
So, here’s his list of 5 research-backed tools that may make a surprising difference…
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No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. -Or Dessert:
In the war on Fat, science has spent decades on an antidote to one main offender.
-Sugar.
Because it’s not fat that makes you fat, it’s all the stuff that ruins your blood-sugar & insulin.
And one thing all phony-sugars had in-common, is that they were a bit iffy on what exactly their compounds did once inside your body.
Now we can add a possible link to stroke & dementia to their resume, but previous research may explain why…
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Retro Approach To New Info Pays Off:
In the field of research, The New rules the roost. What’s old is considered obsolete.
And nowhere is this more obvious than the search for cures to diseases.
Both The How & The Why seem so complex, the Solution must be something supercomputer-complex, & supercomputer-new, also.
Well, in a strange turn of events, an English team took the recent trend of Inflammation being implicated in many diseases, including Alzheimer’s,
And ran with it, back to a 2,000+ year-old fix that looks like the start of a new cure…
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Reefer Madness Perhaps Not So Mad After All:
Now I know the stoner-crowd has a rep for being a bunch of hippie-dropouts who will use just about any pseudoscience available to defend their habit.
Because they want their drugs and that’s all there is to it. -Munchies be damned.
Well buckle-up Amanda Bynes, because !SCIENCE! just dropped one of the dankest jams in-favor of THC since the invention of the cannabinoid-receptor 600 million years ago.
(not counting any of the Magnum Opuses by Messrs. Cheech & Chong)…
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No Such Thing As A Free Lunch…:
So for awhile now, not counting the snake-oil-soaked 1800s & 1900s, we’ve been living in an era of a drug for almost every ailment, right down to a mild sniffle.
Recently it seems more and more of them are available without a prescription.
Though they’re usually ignored, the Side-Effects of both types can be a real problem.
And once again, people like our pal Yasmina Rossi who try not to take anything unless it’s a dire circumstance are looking like psychic geniuses.
Because this time researchers have discovered a new problem with drug side-effects; -and your Brain…
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Don’t let the internet-myths & exaggerations stop you. Unlike a vitamin or a drug, there will probably be insufficiently-concentrated amounts of each substance in one single beer to have a serious effect.
→So your only recourse is to just go pro & make sure to start drinking more! -For the rest of your life.
Besides believe it or not, drinking alcohol really does have actual health benefits.
Anyway, just in-case there is a grain of truth to long-term repeated-exposure benefits, and supported by the best study links we could find…
Researchers at Australia’s Queensland Brain Institute have come up with a novel application of an old tool that might seriously impact the lives of people suffering from one of the worst diseases imaginable; -Alzheimer’s.
“Breakthrough” might even be the word used to describe it.
Though he hasn’t yet discussed the inspiration for what is basically a Physical trick instead of a pharmaceutical one, something lead Dr. Jurgen Gotz & his team to think that of all things, an old ultrasound box could be used on something as fragile as the brain, maybe even as a miraculous cure…
Scientists have known about one of the brain’s cleaning-systems for awhile. But they have long speculated there is more going on.
Well, technology has finally put the tools in-hand to prove them right.
Through a new technique called two-photon microscopy, the Rochester team was finally-able to observe what they always believed.
And their observations prove another point science has made for awhile: they can’t figure it all out yet, but good sleep is Absolutely-Crucial to good health…
Well it turns out that high-functioning-sociopath Sherlock! & your brain have something in-common.
For the first-time, researchers have discovered that it has a Protein, named after one of the world’s most awesome swordsmen –or cats as the case may be, that purposely-destabilizes synapses between some neurons in your brain, Actively making you more-likely to Forget…
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