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Probiotics Might Not Be The Only Thing In Your Gut! The Ability To SEE THE FUTURE Might Be As Well!

Filed Under: Stupid Health Tricks

Probiotics Might Not Be The Only Thing In Your Gut! The Ability To SEE THE FUTURE Might Be As Well!
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And Now For Something Completely Different! Seeing The Future:

Neurology & Psych researchers including Bill Murray and The Oracle At Delphi have been doing future-insight research for quite awhile now.

In the 90s, Professor Dean Radin at U. Nevada ran EEG experiments showing negative images caused subject’s reactions before they were even seen.

They were later replicated at least 30 times.

Professor Julia Mossbridge has been recording prophetic dreams since she was 7 and also believes most people are capable of something similar.

Their explanation? Time and information are non-linear and can move any direction via quantum mechanics.

-Which all sounds utterly-fascinating. Until you dig a little deeper…

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Junk Food Vs. Your Brain: How Sugary UPF Food Alters Your Wiring And Makes You Hate The Healthy Stuff

Filed Under: Nutrition

Junk Food Vs. Your Brain: How Sugary UPF Food Alters Your Wiring And Makes You Hate The Healthy Stuff
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I’m Addicted To You, Snack Food! Don’t You Know That You’re Toxic?:
It seems as time goes by, we’re hearing about the influence of ultra-processed foods at an increasing rate.

Whether it’s a tribe in the Amazon that develops obesity and other health problems a year after Nestle drops off a shipment.

Or the increasing amount of “Junk Food” that Westerners are eating as obesity rates rise.

The insidious part of it is these fast & cheap foods are chockablock with all kinds of things that are just not healthy.

Like weird additives, fats, and high-concentrations of dietary crack cocaine.

And some researchers from the US & Germany are finding out that’s only where the problems start…

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The Internet’s Effects On Your Brain: Heavy Use Changes Neurology, Esp. If You’re Young

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

The Internet’s Effects On Your Brain: Heavy Use Changes Neurology, Esp. If You’re Young
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The Internet’s Effects On Your Brain, The Matrix Has You:
A lot of the time, when we think of health-hazards, the first thing that comes to mind is something like Saturated Fat or Excess Sugar,

Or if you’re really plugged-in, Diesel Exhaust near big cities and highways.

But that gets into things less-explored because it’s easy to ignore what’s around us.

And just like the stealthy air-pollution from engines that are supposed to save fuel,

Other positive initiatives can end up having negative consequences.

And if a team from Western Sydney is right, The Internet itself might be making us less-healthy. No, the irony is not lost here on HT…

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Zombie Cells And Your Brain: Dementia Symptoms Eliminated With Drano-Like Brain-Cleaner

Filed Under: Highlights, Mind/Brain

Zombie Cells And Your Brain: Dementia Symptoms Eliminated With Drano-Like Brain-Cleaner
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Zombie-Cells Removed From Brains, Dementia Gone. Holy Cortex, Batman!:
So aging presents all kinds of difficulties and reductions in abilities.

And Science doesn’t just ask “Why?”, but also “How can we fix it?”

The question is more stark for neurodegenerative-diseases like Alzheimer’s, where people lose their entire -Selves- as a result.

Recently, one avenue Science explores as a solution to many problems, is the existence of senescent or “Zombie”-cells.

And a research team out of the Mayo Clinic found a way to combine that promising frontier in health, with one of mental-aging’s biggest boogeymen…

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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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Back To The Future!: Old Drug Provides New Benefits In Fight Against Alzheimer’s

Filed Under: Aging, Better Living Through Chemistry, Disease, Mind/Brain, Sex, Meds, Rock n Roll

Back To The Future!: Old Drug Provides New Benefits In Fight Against Alzheimer’s
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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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Video: Doctor Ken Jeong Answers The Internet’s Most Pressing Medical Questions

Filed Under: Disease, Featured, Video, Vitamins/Supplements

Video: Doctor Ken Jeong Answers The Internet’s Most Pressing Medical Questions


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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Video: ASAPScience Lists A Few Of The Ways Social Media Is Changing The Structure Of Your Brain

Filed Under: Mind/Brain, Video

Video: ASAPScience Lists A Few Of The Ways Social Media Is Changing The Structure Of Your Brain


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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