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Repairing Your Brain Cells: Discoveries About Brain-Aging Also Come With A Fix!

Filed Under: Aging

Repairing Your Brain Cells: Discoveries About Brain-Aging Also Come With A Fix!
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Repairing Brain Cells As They Age, New Discovery, New Hope:
So a lot of us worry about losing our abilities, or marbles, as time goes on.

We’d all like to stay healthy as we do age, reflected in that new-ish term, “Healthspan”.

Which flies in the face of the old ideas that say there’s not much you can do.

Especially for the most important part of you, Your Brain.

Well some researchers from California and Canada present a Bad News, Good News scenario in their new work,

And if they’re right, may just prove the old ideas about brain-aging almost completely wrong…

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Air Pollution & Your Brain Health: What You Can’t See Can Still Hurt You. And Not Just Your Lungs

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

Air Pollution & Your Brain Health: What You Can’t See Can Still Hurt You. And Not Just Your Lungs
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Air-Pollution & Your Brain Health, UK Researchers Fight The Good Fight:

So we all try to stay as healthy as possible in our habits.

These often include forays into the follies of nutrition & exercise.

And white Saturated Fat is an easy evil to avoid because it’s right on food labels,

Other threats are much harder to stay away from.

And it turns out some strange but important work is being done by our cousins in the UK and also China on the impact of air-quality on your brain,

You certainly won’t believe the results; or look at a city-bus the same way ever again…

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

Filed Under: 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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The Alcohol Dementia Link: Drinking’s Long-Term Tradeoffs Might Hurt Your Brain In Subtle Ways

Filed Under: Aging

The Alcohol Dementia Link: Drinking’s Long-Term Tradeoffs Might Hurt Your Brain In Subtle Ways
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Alcohol Linked With Dementia, The Odd Effects Examined:
While alcohol can be a lot of fun, science keeps finding reasons for us to be cautious.

And also to think very seriously about moderation.

For example, drinking to excess can result in endotoxin-related inflammation.

But still more consequences loom over the horizon as we progress through life.

And of all people, Power-Drinking British researchers are now reporting on the association between Alcohol and Dementia…

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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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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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Diet Sodas, Artificial Sweeteners Possibly Correlated w/ Increase In Stroke, Dementia. And The Missing-Piece As-To Why…

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Disease, Mind/Brain, Nutrition, Weight Loss / Fat Loss

Diet Sodas, Artificial Sweeteners Possibly Correlated w/ Increase In Stroke, Dementia. And The Missing-Piece As-To Why…
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No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. -Or Dessert:
In the war on Fat, science has spent decades on an antidote to one main offender.

-Sugar.

Because it’s not fat that makes you fat, it’s all the stuff that ruins your blood-sugar & insulin.

And one thing all phony-sugars had in-common, is that they were a bit iffy on what exactly their compounds did once inside your body.

Now we can add a possible link to stroke & dementia to their resume, but previous research may explain why…

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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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Note: For informational purposes only. Should not be construed as medical advice, diagnosis or substitute for professional care.