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Weekend Warrior With A Packed Schedule During The Week? You Could Be Healthier Than You Think!

Filed Under: Exercise

Weekend Warrior With A Packed Schedule During The Week? You Could Be Healthier Than You Think!
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Could Exercise Be Both Weirder And Simpler Than We Thought?:

One of the hardest questions to ask yourself is, “Am I doing enough?”

If the answer is No, then how do you catch up?

The behavioral-economics answer is: Baby-step progress that just keeps going.

But a lot of people, can feel like they’re boxed-in by their schedule.

And how many aspirations fall victim to the, “I don’t have time right now.” excuse?

For exercise, some people decide to take the crazy route to catching up and obeying Tim Ferriss’ caution, “If it doesn’t get scheduled it doesn’t get done.”

And their community, even some at-risk members, just got a big boost from a Harvard team’s work…

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The Voodoo That You Do. How Intermittent-Fasting Plans Can Affect Muscle & Fat-Loss In Surprising Ways

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry

The Voodoo That You Do. How Intermittent-Fasting Plans Can Affect Muscle & Fat-Loss In Surprising Ways
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Has SCIENCE! Finally Found The One Plan To Rule Them All?:

The more things change, the more they stay the same!

Just recently, we discussed how people will torture themselves in interesting ways to accomplish their health goals,

Just like we did with crazy body-rollers, face-electrocutors, and tanning-bed forerunners ~100 years ago,

Same as it ever was: Live longer, Look better, Get healthy, & Lose Weight!

Well, now that we have something a bit closer to real SCIENCE!, instead of the “snake oil” from back then,

Researchers are finding valid data where there was once only quackery.

And this last bit shows once more that a recent “magic plan” for weight-loss pretty much is magic!…

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Exercise’s Other Hidden Superpower: Transforming Your Entire Structure, -Including Your Body-Fat!

Filed Under: Exercise

Exercise’s Other Hidden Superpower: Transforming Your Entire Structure, -Including Your Body-Fat!
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Super-Structure! Another Wildly-Unexpected Benefit Of Exercise:

Imagine this: You’ve been hitting the gym regularly for years,

Watching and maybe hoping the numbers on the scale will slowly but surely drop.

You feel pretty great, and you know you’re doing your body a lot of good.

-Even if you don’t look like Chris Williamson just yet.

But what if I told you that your dedication to fitness is doing more than just burning calories and using muscles?

What if it’s actually changing the very nature of your body, even the non-muscular parts, making them work for you instead of against you?…

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Everyday Plutonium. How One Of Mankind’s Worst Ingredients (Sugar) May Be Killing You. One Cell At A Time.

Filed Under: Aging

Everyday Plutonium. How One Of Mankind’s Worst Ingredients (Sugar) May Be Killing You. One Cell At A Time.
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The Phantom Menace Of Sugar In Your Diet:

We’ve talked about Freakonomics-type stuff here before in any of the “Stealth Health” posts.

But sometimes, things you might need to know get weirder than that.

Because there are good things that are really easy to forget like hydration and mindset.

There are other things that can be much more dangerous, though. Sort-of like living in a house that has black mold you don’t know about.

Still worse than that is a risk that’s been glossed-over with some kind of marketing varnish or PR-massaging.

It looks like a team from UCSF may have found another addition to this list…

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The Freaky Benefits Of Lean Muscle Mass Can Go Straight To Your Head. -And Last For A Lifetime!

Filed Under: Exercise

The Freaky Benefits Of Lean Muscle Mass Can Go Straight To Your Head. -And Last For A Lifetime!
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Business Isn’t The Only Source Of Freakonomics. Now Gyms Are Too!:

A couple of themes that keep coming up in the H&W space are 1) How interconnected everything is.

And 2) How much deeper things go than just face-value.

For example, there are supplements for every specific you could think of. But most of them affect several things.

Researchers are also finding out pretty much everything that’s good for your heart is also good for your brain.

So it’s not surprising another team is finding out exercise is good for WAY more than just weight-loss and looking buff at the gym…

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Sunlight Exposure Vs. Multiple Sclerosis: 30+ Minutes A Day Could Reduce Childhood Risk By 50%+!

Filed Under: Disease

Sunlight Exposure Vs. Multiple Sclerosis: 30+ Minutes A Day Could Reduce Childhood Risk By 50%+!
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30+ Minutes Of Sunlight For Children & Adolescents Can Reduce MS Risk:
One of the great things about ongoing research is that it helps uncover things we never could have imagined.

Many times we think we’re “right”, when it’s really just our best guess.

As a doctor friend once quoted from his first professor, “Half of what we’re about to teach you is wrong. The problem is we don’t know which half.”

In that quest for knowledge, !SCIENCE! can lead to some pretty weird and freaky territories and conclusions.

And in the health space, there are not too many things freakier than diseases we haven’t cured.

But if researchers from ANU & UCSF have anything to say about it, the lifespan of one disease may have its days numbered…

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Learning Skills Vs. Training Intervals: Turbocharge Your Brains With The Freakonomics Of Cadence

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

Learning Skills Vs. Training Intervals: Turbocharge Your Brains With The Freakonomics Of Cadence
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Learning Skills And Training Intervals. Effective Study Is Freaky:
Part of a good, full life is lifelong learning.

And that is something that doesn’t just end with high-school or college.

Whatever it is, self-improvement reading, sudoku, new languages, authoritative lute-shredding, we’re all “graduate students” of a sort.

So of course, one of the things we try to do is make learning easier and faster.

Like with brain-pow supplements like phosphatidylserine or l-theanine.

But if the NDS’s research team has anything to say about it, we might have just gotten concrete insight on an even more-powerful tool to turbocharge your brain…

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Getting The COVID Vaccine Might Not Make You Completely Safe Until July, So Keep Wearing Your Mask

Filed Under: Disease

Getting The COVID Vaccine Might Not Make You Completely Safe Until July, So Keep Wearing Your Mask
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Getting Vaccinated For COVID. We’re Not Safe Until Everyone Is:
So the world has been gripped by the Coronavirus pandemic for almost a year now.

And through that time, we’ve mostly learned to follow the right health-safety practices that protect other people according to the CDC.

By some kind of miracle, we got 2 COVID vaccines in just over 8 months, and 2 more on-deck shortly thereafter.

Even better, people are starting to get vaccinated in increasing numbers and case-counts are falling for the moment.

But even with people getting their shots, another spectre may be popping-up…

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