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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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The Canola Alzheimer’s Connection: 17 Things To Consider About A Study That Says It Exists

Filed Under: Nutrition

The Canola Alzheimer’s Connection: 17 Things To Consider About A Study That Says It Exists
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Canola & Alzheimer’s, Can A Seed-Based Cooking Oil Cause Pain In The Brain?:
Most of us make an effort to eat healthy, especially if you’re a regular HT visitor.

And except for excess sugar, you would think that if it’s sold at a store, it’s safe.

It usually appears that way. But that might just be for the short-run.

And since diet-studies are notoriously hard to do, it’s very difficult to know about the long-run.

But a recent Temple University test may have you reconsidering much of the processed or low-cost foods you eat, and even the way you cook…

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Superagers Avoid Brain-Shrinkage With Mysteriously Sharp Memory, Young Mindset. Maybe You Can Too… [Video]

Filed Under: Aging, Video

Superagers Avoid Brain-Shrinkage With Mysteriously Sharp Memory, Young Mindset. Maybe You Can Too… [Video]


Super-Agers Prove Ancient Wisdom On Brain Youth:
Aging is only a state of mind [or brain] is something wise men have been saying for thousands of years.

And we all hear about the increasing number of examples to the contrary about Alzheimer’s & Dementia a bit too much of late.

But buried in the mountains of discouraging anecdotes on what seems like inevitable mental decline are some gems.

And in this video, Seeker talks about the rare brain-athletes called, “Super-Agers” who may one day save us all from that fate…

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Stopping Alzheimer’s & Even Reversing It May Be Possible With A Forgotten Drug. What’s Old Is New Again!

Filed Under: Disease, Mind/Brain

Stopping Alzheimer’s & Even Reversing It May Be Possible With A Forgotten Drug. What’s Old Is New Again!
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What’s Old Is New Again!:
So one miracle drug that reversed Alzheimer’s Disease in trials is something we’ve told you about before.

We’ve also told you about another miracle drug that’s a little more famous.

Well researchers at the Gladstone Institutes are throwing us another curveball that’s like a combination of the two strangely-enough.

A not-so-famous cousin of a drug we all know may have surprising beneficial properties similar to both of these…

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Fitness Freakonomics! Exercise Pays Several Surprising Benefits Far Into The Future

Filed Under: Aging, Exercise, Mind/Brain

Fitness Freakonomics! Exercise Pays Several Surprising Benefits Far Into The Future
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The Best Time To Plant A Tree…:
So we hear a lot about the benefits of exercise & nutrition.

And though people are slowly finding that nutrition is actually the weight-loss king,

Exercise all by itself turns out to be the king of many other things.

But we never really seem to learn about When we should do it.

So for this reason, researchers got together and found out another really interesting thing about its many undiscovered benefits…

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Coconut Oil Is Risky BS After-All. This Is Why Health-Fads Are Dangerous:

Filed Under: Mind/Brain, Nutrition

Coconut Oil Is Risky BS After-All. This Is Why Health-Fads Are Dangerous:
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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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Video: Dr. Neal Barnard On The Power Of Food To Save Your Brain From Alzheimer’s & Dementia

Filed Under: Aging, Better Living Through Chemistry, Mind/Brain, Video

Video: Dr. Neal Barnard On The Power Of Food To Save Your Brain From Alzheimer’s & Dementia


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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Diet Sodas, Artificial Sweeteners Possibly Correlated w/ Increase In Stroke, Dementia. And The Missing-Piece As-To Why…

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry

Diet Sodas, Artificial Sweeteners Possibly Correlated w/ Increase In Stroke, Dementia. And The Missing-Piece As-To Why…
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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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