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Exercise And Epigenetic Magic: How A Little Workout Makes Lots Of Small Changes Add Up To Something Big!

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry

Exercise And Epigenetic Magic: How A Little Workout Makes Lots Of Small Changes Add Up To Something Big!
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Exercise & Epigenetics. Changing Your Routine Changes You From The Cells Up:
Sometimes beauty is a lot more than skin-deep.

But we often feel out the context in which something is expressed, and then instinctively accept that notion as the whole truth about it.

That’s one of the ways we can make assumptions about exercise.

It’s just there to vaguely get us in some kind of shape, burn some amount of calories, and hopefully lose us some weight, right?

Or is it something more? Like The Hawthorne Effect, which says you can’t even measure a system without affecting it?

Washington State researchers think they may have the beginning of an answer…

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Almonds & Exercise: Make Your New Year’s Workout Recovery Easier With Some Helpful & Healthy Biochemistry

Filed Under: Weight Loss / Fat Loss

Almonds & Exercise: Make Your New Year’s Workout Recovery Easier With Some Helpful & Healthy Biochemistry
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Almonds & Exercise. Ease The Pain Of New Habits With A Biochem Hack:
Part of everyone’s New Year’s Resolutions usually turn out to be Lose Weight & Get Into Shape.

But as the spectre of that strange space between Christmas & New Year’s Eve still hangs around, let’s get a little weird.

There seem to be a few main problems with New Year’s Resolutions about the basics of health.

Like the one where people refuse to lose weight by counting calories (even though it works), because it’s hard.

The other problem with “New Year’s Health” is that discipline is hard and exercise seems even harder.

But a weird little bit of biochemistry might make it a bit easier…

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Injectable Blood Compounds From Running And Cardio Exercise Boost Brainpower In Mice, Maybe You Too!

Filed Under: Aging

Injectable Blood Compounds From Running And Cardio Exercise Boost Brainpower In Mice, Maybe You Too!
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Blood Compounds From Running Reduce Inflammation And Boost Brainpower:
In the US and the First World, we really don’t seem to get a lot of exercise.

That’s such a problem that just about every health organization in the US is begging us to get more.

One of the other downsides to our lethargy is that even if exercise won’t fix a bad diet,

It’s fantastic for your health, as we’ve said here several times.

In fact, cardiovascular exercise like running and possibly plain-old walking might just fight or prevent Alzheimer’s.

But a Stanford team might just be on the way to changing the benefits we can all get from “exercise”…

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Starting Exercise In Middle Age: It Really Is Never Too Late To Make A Positive Change

Filed Under: Aging

Starting Exercise In Middle Age: It Really Is Never Too Late To Make A Positive Change
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Starting Exercise In Middle Age. Late Is Better Than Never:
Many of us do what we can to Get healthy.

And then after that, comes the part about Staying healthy.

For example, getting down to a good weight is great for avoiding complications.

But Exercise is even better.

But as scientists study things we thought we knew about, they’re finding-out more things we didn’t.

This is especially-true for the NCI work that found the old saying “Use it or lose it.” might actually be true…

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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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Weight-Loss Innovation Continues. Increased Fat Metabolism & Stamina Possible Through “Diet In A Bottle” Alchemy

Filed Under: Weight Loss / Fat Loss

Weight-Loss Innovation Continues. Increased Fat Metabolism & Stamina Possible Through “Diet In A Bottle” Alchemy
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Exercise Holy Grail Is Close At Hand:
Weight-loss via exercise is a concern for many of us at one time or another.

And the shocking thing is that it’s surprisingly difficult.

You may also find that fat is unexpectedly-hard to burn off with exercise alone,

-That you really need nutrition on your side too.

Millions of people have gone still further and turned to supplements to see if the process could become even one small bit easier.

Well, SCIENCE! has come to the rescue, and research doctors are creating the next wave of exercise-in-a-bottle that make workouts almost obsolete…

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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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Having A Bad Day Or Week? 10+ Mental Breaks To Get Through It + BONUS 4! With Dr. Mike Evans. You Can Do It! [Video]

Filed Under: Mind/Brain, Video

Having A Bad Day Or Week? 10+ Mental Breaks To Get Through It + BONUS 4! With Dr. Mike Evans. You Can Do It! [Video]


10+ Tips To Help Yourself Get Through Tough Times:
So in this video, Dr. Mike asks, “What if You’re Having A Tough Day, Or Week?”

You might be sad, anxious, regretful, overworked, temporarily-flummoxed, etc.

And there are many real Sources to consider, like: Depression/Anxiety, & also many involved-Solutions like: Problem-Solving, Stress-Management, Mindfulness Meditation, or Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy.

BUT! Sometimes people want the most easy & simple “get through the day/week”-type advice, just to simply make it through.

So here’s what he says are his best “Easy-Version” tips…

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