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Afternoon Naps & Mental Agility: A Little Break In Your Day Could Make The Rest Of It Better In Many Ways

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

Afternoon Naps & Mental Agility: A Little Break In Your Day Could Make The Rest Of It Better In Many Ways
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Power Naps, The Pause That Super-Charges You:
If there’s one common-thread we can all agree on, it’s that some things in childhood we hated we end up loving as adults!

Salads, Haircuts, Being Seen With Our Parents, Bathtime, Vegetables, etc.

One of the other childhood compulsories we all loathed that might have been there at home, but was definitely present in nursery school was: Naptime!

Although we might have all dreaded rolling out our silly rugs and staying put in the afternoon for our poor overworked teachers,

More and more scientific reports are finding out they were really onto something…

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Breaking The Winter Blues & More: Can Drinking Hot Cocoa Make Your Brain Smarter & Healthier?

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry

Breaking The Winter Blues & More: Can Drinking Hot Cocoa Make Your Brain Smarter & Healthier?
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Accidentally Brainy: Can Drinking Cocoa Make You Smarter?:
So while Winter is still here, let’s take a short break from our nearly year-long run of coronavirus coverage.

One of the great things that every season brings us is the food and drink that is traditional to it.

And the interesting questions of why we’ve been doing it that way for so long.

One of the best culinary traditions we have from Wintertime is: Drinking Hot Cocoa!

It turns out that depending on what kind you can get, you might be doing yourself a huge favor; and not just your taste buds…

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Exercise May Clean The Brain, Help You Avoid Alzheimer’s, Increase Neurogenesis And Keep You Sharp

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

Exercise May Clean The Brain, Help You Avoid Alzheimer’s, Increase Neurogenesis And Keep You Sharp
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Exercise Cleans Your Brain And Clears Your Mind, Literally:
So there are many problems medicine faces that seem insurmountable.

But every day, Science seems to make a little bit more progress.

For example, some big pharma companies recently had a few failures with their Alzheimer’s drug programs and abandoned them,

But Dr. Rudy Tanzi’s team just found something very encouraging that could mean a fix for the disease, and it may start with a simple thing you keep getting nagged to do…

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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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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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Ladies, Break Out The Dark Chocolate! Gentlemen, Start Your Omega 3s! Because Happiness Really Does Make You Healthy

Filed Under: Aging, Disease, Mind/Brain

Ladies, Break Out The Dark Chocolate! Gentlemen, Start Your Omega 3s! Because Happiness Really Does Make You Healthy
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One Quest Meets Another:
Over time, mankind has set itself many challenges to find purpose & meaning in life.

And one of those big goals is counterintuitive. One that doesn’t necessarily involve outward achievements.

-But Inward ones. All of which lead to it: Happiness.

And once you’re actually surviving, perhaps it’s The Only Goal.

Strangely enough, researchers are finding out some of our dearest desires have significant, yet unexpected side-benefits.

Including, among other things, actually keeping you alive longer…

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Jason Headley’s “F*ck That” Meditation Is Short But Fantastic, Foul-Mouthed Stress-Relief For Your Real Life. [Video]

Filed Under: Mind/Brain, Video

Jason Headley’s “F*ck That” Meditation Is Short But Fantastic, Foul-Mouthed Stress-Relief For Your Real Life. [Video]


The 3rd School Of Meditation We All Needed:
So over the years, we’ve learned a lot about Meditation.

From ancient shamans and their wild claims, all the way to present-day experts like Eckhart Tolle.

And all the while, the discipline has preached a serene, near-wordless detachment in its suggested-state.

It hasn’t been until now that a more purpose-built school for the trials of modern life has taken Meditation into the realm of something practical & liberating.

Jason Headley’s “F*ck That” school of thought…

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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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