Health & Wellness Weblog With Tips And Hacks | HealthTrekker
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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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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And Now For Something Completely Different:
Somehow in their infinite-power, Wired has managed to wrangle the best doctor ever to answer some health questions.
“The Hangover”-series crazy-man, Ken Jeong!
And although he’s a bit more serious here than in his roles as Mister Chow, or Ben Chang on cult-hit TV-show “Community”, he’s still a lot of fun…
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A Tool That Changes You As You Use It:
In this video, ASAPScience takes us through everyone’s favorite internet distraction besides cat-videos: Social Media.
It’s so popular that 1/3 of the whole world, and almost 60% of the US uses it.
And it turns out that this basic-human-need amplifier is not just a fun curiosity. It’s an application that rewires not just the internet, but also parts of You…
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There Is More Than 1 Type Of Meditation:
There is a lot of talk recently about Mindfulness.
That is: Meditating really hard on your immediate-present and not letting stray thoughts take over. -The Eckhart Tolle stuff.
And while there is nothing wrong with this type of meditation, another type more similar to Zoning-Out is also important to your mental abilities, and your mental health…
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Get Your Fix Of Go-Go Juice While You’re On The Go:
We’ve all been there once or twice. No time for anything; even the AM-Jumpstart.
The morning coffee is a ritual, a checkin with yourself, and also the crucial happenings down at the passive-aggressively-staffed local café.
But sometimes you either had a night out, a night in, Jason-Bourne-grade post-drunk-amnesia, or you’re just running terribly late.
Well Nootrobox is about to solve all only one or two of those problems with their magical new Brain-Dyn-O-Mite: Go Cubes!…
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?:
We tend to think that people with a certain level of severe brain injuries or dysfunction are gone & officially Brain Dead.
And though miraculous stories like “Finding Emilie” point to some type of survival even in a “Locked-In” scenario,
Past a certain threshold of function was considered, perhaps for mercy’s sake, the end of the line.
Well, in what just might be some of the most ethically-sketchy experiments not done by world-war totalitarians, a few doctors decided to test that hypothesis.
And they just got approval…
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Timothy Leary Was Right:
Across history, many people have turned to psychoactive substances for a variety of reasons; many times to effect a deeper change instead of just a temporary high.
Among that list of “shamanistic” drugs like Salvia, Psilocybin, Ayahuasca and DMT, LSD has always been the good-old standby.
Now SCIENCE! is discovering it’s not just for stoners & dropouts. LSD and its siblings may actually rewire the brain and in the process, also fix some other problems.
And a recent brain-imaging study by The Imperial College of London is showing us how…
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Blood Is Only Part Of The Solution:
Awhile ago, we told you how our old friend Elizabeth may have really been onto something age-defying in her own dark-ages nutbar kinda way.
Well in a second round of science catching-up, researchers have found another interesting follow-up to that original Bathory hack.
What the Mayo Clinic docs discovered is an interesting Filter-based alternative to simply getting the odd pint from a young person.
-And it all hinges on a type of cell in our body called, Senescent Cells…
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Ever feel like after last night’s over-40 drinking-binge you were barely making it through your day?
And though you were still technically on your feet, you felt like you were “half-asleep”?
Well thanks to MIT’s researchers, we’ve found out you were more right than you know…
Get Your Fix Of Go-Go Juice While You’re On The Go:
