HealthTrekker - Health And Wellness Tips
Health & wellness tips + hacks. -Backed by !SCIENCE! and studies, not bros & Voodoo. Why just survive when you can thrive? Become "The Better You", 1% at a time – starting today. If you're already healthy & want to nerd-out on how to get even more rad, HT is the place for you.
-Because using supercomputer-reverse-engineering, what they found out about how our the neurons in our brains connect was by far, the simplest and Goddammit, the most cat-like way possible…
Or: Why does that adorable little walking demilitarized-zone suddenly decide he has to be on the COMPLETE OTHER SIDE OF THE HOUSE??,
IMMEDIATELY!
Answer: It’s Random!…
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And in-keeping with the recent theme of Mind/Brain, NPR,
And the inspirational invention of thought-to-text fMRI computer-brain-interface by Bettina Sorger and her team,
A [love] story that will absolutely destroy every single last gram of public composure you thought you had.
Better sneak off and find yourself a private spot where you can just bawl your eyes out and not be embarrassed…
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Not JUST a 2-legged, 1-dimensional, walking plot device ala much of the ‘character dialogue’ in “Dune”,
Not JUST a way to better pretend your pornographer-teddy-bear has come to life,
Not JUST a way for Emma Stone to reveal her true feelings in a romantic comedy about the highschool crush she doesn’t have the guts to talk to;
Something much more serious…
Scientists, even the great ones at MIT are now poking their greasy mechanic’s fingers through the Matrix into our very souls.
Memory today; who knows what tomorrow.
In a set of experiments carried out on mutant mice designed to have light-sensitive neurons, scientists at MIT were able to re-trigger a memory they’d previously created,…
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…
Holy Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Batman!
Smack My Bitch Up, Hans!
So the brain isn’t a “bowl of spaghetti”?
The awesome handiwork of The Spanish Leonardo Da Vinci aside,
The team of MRI-packing researchers from Harvard, MIT, BU, etc. led by Van Wedeen has come up with a new connection-map, or connectome of the brain,…
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Okay, so there are about 4 levels of brain-wave frequencies.
Going from Highest to Lowest frequencies, they are: Beta, Alpha, Theta and Delta.
Those Greek names correspond to 10+Hz, 8-10Hz, 4-8Hz, and 0-4Hz.
Aside from the hippie, crunchy-granola crowd stinking up the local dreadlocked-patchouli hoe-downs at Jack Johnson’s Honolulu Dookie Ranch,
And deliberately enjoying the smell of their own farts in San Francisco,
A few different groups of people, thanks largely to our Buddhist friends, have gotten involved in Meditation…
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AND NO, IT IS NOT BECAUSE YOU ARE SO HOT. -or because ‘Momma said ,’knock you out”
OK, OK, YOU -ARE- HOT, BUT NOT -THAT- HOT.
… now help me the eff up, alright?!!
Alright, aside from all the hotness; mine included, doing something for yourself -Starting Now, that few Americans seem to be able to, might just save you from the above exclamation, when you start growing old…
