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Scary Self-Medicated Side-Effects, Batman! Some Surprisingly-Common Drugs Can Damage Your Brain, Memory, & Key-Functionality

Filed Under: Sex, Meds, Rock n Roll

Scary Self-Medicated Side-Effects, Batman! Some Surprisingly-Common Drugs Can Damage Your Brain, Memory, & Key-Functionality
victorian medicine snake oil bottles on modern pharmacy counter


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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Shot Heard Round The World: Good-Vibrations Innovation Looks Extremely Promising As Alzheimer’s Fix

Filed Under: Bio-Tech, Gadgets, Mind/Brain

Shot Heard Round The World: Good-Vibrations Innovation Looks Extremely Promising As Alzheimer’s Fix
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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…

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The Brain’s Alzheimer’s-Fighting Sewer-System Has Been Discovered! Holy Super Mario!

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

The Brain’s Alzheimer’s-Fighting Sewer-System Has Been Discovered! Holy Super Mario!
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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…

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Sherlock Doesn’t Need To Know The Earth Goes Round The Sun And Neither Should You. -Because Your Brain Forgets On-Purpose

Filed Under: Disease, Mind/Brain

Sherlock Doesn’t Need To Know The Earth Goes Round The Sun And Neither Should You. -Because Your Brain Forgets On-Purpose
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John: […]Or that the earth goes around the sun.
Sherlock: Oh God, that again! It’s not important!
John: Not important? It’s primary school stuff! How can you not know that?
Sherlock: Well, if I ever did, I’ve deleted it.
John: “Deleted it”?
Sherlock: Listen. This is my hard-drive, and it only makes sense to put things in there that are useful. Really useful. Ordinary people fill their heads with all kinds of rubbish, and that makes it hard to get at the stuff that matters! Do you see?

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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The Failed Cognitive Decline Study -That You Should Pay Attention To Anyway

Filed Under: Disease, Noise, Thinking Out Loud

The Failed Cognitive Decline Study -That You Should Pay Attention To Anyway
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So there was this study on diseases that got published for some mad reason in-spite of the fact it didn’t work.

And that is one of the best. mistakes. ever.

So: they tried to say Herpes causes cognitive decline in people as they age, but the thunderous statement eventually came out in the results that [and I quote],

“IB was not associated with cognitive decline over time.”,

and the even sneakier one,…

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Omega 3s May Help Lower Brain Disease Risk. …Omega 2s? -Feeling Jealous And Neglected. 4s Not So Damn Smug Anymore, Are They?

Filed Under: Aging, Mind/Brain, News, Nutrition, Vitamins/Supplements

Omega 3s May Help Lower Brain Disease Risk. …Omega 2s? -Feeling Jealous And Neglected. 4s Not So Damn Smug Anymore, Are They?
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In a study of 12 1,200 people, Columbia researchers have come up with at least an association between Dementia/Alzheimer’s and Omega 3 intake. -One that’s been hinted at many times before.

It turns out that people who get more were observed to have lower incidence of the “Doddering Granny” varieties of brain disease.

And in a strange-for-medecine interesting turn…

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Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Banana: Memory Loss Un-Lossed In Monkeys. -De-Stressed, Cheekier, Roger Moore-ier Monkeys InDaHouse!

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

Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Banana: Memory Loss Un-Lossed In Monkeys. -De-Stressed, Cheekier, Roger Moore-ier Monkeys InDaHouse!
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… wait; -what the hell was I; -dammit, I JUST had it!

erm, Okay what was I just talking about? It was right before we;

Ever had that? –Then you have a lot in-common with our closest genetic relatives in the animal kingdom.

Even monkeys get the blues start feeling that “slipped my mind” -thing as age goes on. -Mostly written-down to a decline in working-memory…

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Musicians Get It Up & Keep It Up -For Longer … No, Not That. -Their Mental Acuity, Silly!!!

Filed Under: Aging, Disease, Mind/Brain, Signal

Musicians Get It Up & Keep It Up -For Longer … No, Not That. -Their Mental Acuity, Silly!!!
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Afraid of Alzheimers?

-I know I am. But I also fear Supernovas. Go figure, Buck-Fifty, coffee, moving on:

Well, at least we can thank public education for doing their best/worst to fatten up the coffers of drug companies,

-by getting music programs out of schools.

Because if you want to still be sharp after age 83,…

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