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Olde-Tyme Wisdom Wins Again?:
There are quite a few sayings about aging and that body of knowledge includes chestnuts like: “Age is just a number.” and “You’re only as old as you feel.”
And other than confirmation-bias or just plain-old self-delusion, those sayings it-seemed were nothing more than musing or philosophy.
But then a strange thing happened, and SCIENCE! stepped in and did something it rarely-does; it gave traditional anecdotal wisdom a pretty fair shake…
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Somebody get Freakonomics’ Stephen Dubner on the phone, because it sounds like an enormous leap, but apparently it’s true.
In a study by U. Penn’s Johannes Eichstaedt, it seems that certain tweets are correlated with people having an increased-risk of heart problems not of the OKCupid variety.
In the spirit of The MicroBiome that makes no man an island, science has found another connection to personal bacteria, and this time it’s linked to cardio-health.
(+strangely, this might even be the way that someone could literally be scared-to-death.)
SO: Part of the massive microbe colony in each of us is made of bacteria that take fat…
So there was this study on diseases, right?
-It got published for some mad reason;
other than the fact it didn’t work.
And that is one of the best. mistakes. ever.
So they tried to support the hypothesis that 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,…
So fast-forward to two years ago.
Stanley Hazen and his team published a paper about the human microbiome saying a compound called TMAO is linked to heart disease.
When mice were fed a diet with more of that substance, their future risk for atherosclerosis went up.
It turns out the stuff is normally created when gut bacteria break down some foods.
So then in the new study, Stanley makes this mental leap.
Red Meat is something people eat, passes through the gut, and is associated with heart disease.
Maybe there’s something in there that gets turned into that TMAO from 2 years ago?…
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…
We have eaten the enemy and he is us; soon, …
Earlier, we put out the idea that Fat Makes You Fatter, and that it’s Stupendously Easy to Overeat.
Well, here’s the thing: More Bad News. It doesn’t just make you fatter.
It turns out fat is not just some…
A Sloth.
Short of Buick-drivers, one of Nature’s slowest creatures.
So slow, in-fact, it’s been said so many things can catch up with them, they are their own ecosystem.
-Like a tiny, fuzzy planet Pluto just chilling in the forest; sippin’ on Gin ‘n’ Juice…
Because of their fur and their, well -sloth; all kinds of different bugs and mosses and microbes live all over and in them; right down to the tiniest of tiny-levels…
(ok, closer to drano, but still…)
In a recently-published study conducted by The Cleveland Clinic, the statin drug Crestor has shown a “reversal of coronary artery disease”.
There are some caveats, but these results are still a semi-watershed event in the history of cholesterol and atherosclerosis treatment…
![No Man Is An Island, But You Are [Now Officially] Your Own Ecosystem. -And Parts Of It May Be Killing You](https://static3.healthtrekker.net/wp-content/uploads/xmenfcvw150.jpg)
