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Music And Your Immune-System: How Positive Vibes Make You Happy & Healthy

Filed Under: Disease

Music And Your Immune-System: How Positive Vibes Make You Happy & Healthy
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Music May Magically Boost Your Immune System:
Many times, because it’s always there just laying around like a lazy basset hound, we can take our minds for granted.

And perhaps underestimate them; until they cause a problem.

But on the benefit-side, our minds can also help in more ways than we might think.

If you’ve ever had a favorite workout-song that you always thought got you supernaturally pumped-up, you may not have been imagining things.

And researchers at McGill University and the Max Planck Institute are finding out it doesn’t just make you more active, it may even make you healthier…

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Fast Carb Revelation? Whole Grains Might Definitively Be Better For Your Weight

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

Fast Carb Revelation? Whole Grains Might Definitively Be Better For Your Weight
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A Light At The End Of The Tunnel:
So for a long time now, we’ve all been told a few conflicting things.

1) Fast-carbs are bad for you and make you fat.

2) Eat whole-grains because they’re good for you.

But studies have thus-far been less than entirely-conclusive.

Especially since the whole-grainiest people also have the healthiest habits.

But that’s all changed, because a recent study went the extra methodology mile and found something very interesting about the parts we’ve been missing…

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The Economic Impact Of The Common-Cold And 3 Types of Sick People You Should Avoid

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Disease, Sex, Meds, Rock n Roll

The Economic Impact Of The Common-Cold And 3 Types of Sick People You Should Avoid
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The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year!:
Around the colder months of the year, we all get a set of mixed-blessings.

Lots of fun new Winter sports, several new if inconvenient paintjobs on the landscape by Mother Nature that make everything a quiet wonder to observe.

And the inevitable disruptions in our body’s internal-balance that make us get sick in all kinds of glorious post-new-years-eve-vomit-jamboree ways.

Well CollegeHumor and U.Michigan have each gone their own unique ways to show us the different shades of awful this productivity-sapping season can go…

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Have Some Yogurt With That Salad! Because Fiberless Western Diets Ruin Your Health. -And Your Grandchildren’s Too.

Filed Under: Disease, Nutrition

Have Some Yogurt With That Salad! Because Fiberless Western Diets Ruin Your Health. -And Your Grandchildren’s Too.
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How Soon Is Now?:
So we recently learned that the modern western diet undernourishes our insides & probably results in health problems that come from probiotic deficiencies.

But they’re not just your health problems for now.

Because Justin & Erica Sonnenburg found out something else about your body’s helpful microbes; and the news only gets worse.

They discovered that once a creature loses these microbes…

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Fire Up The Fiber! Get That Apple-A-Day! Because You’re Actually Eating For Two. -Trillion

Filed Under: Disease, Nutrition

Fire Up The Fiber! Get That Apple-A-Day! Because You’re Actually Eating For Two. -Trillion
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There Are Bigger Problems Than Just Big Carbs:
So for at least awhile now, a few decades after the 80’s low-fat high-pasta big-hair crazy-times, people have been warned about both the burgers, fries & snacks-style western diet, and also getting too many sweets & “fast” carbs.

Well, now we can add another demerit to the western diet: Health problems that come from probiotic deficiencies.

Because the fiber in your food isn’t just there to keep you functioning, there’s a lot more to it. Read on…

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Shot Heard ‘Round The World: New Ebola Vaccine ~100% Effective

Filed Under: Bio-Tech, Disease, News, Noise

Shot Heard ‘Round The World: New Ebola Vaccine ~100% Effective
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[-at least in early trials]
So, forget the miracle cure-stories of the Georgia doctor and the Texas nurse; for now.

A group of medical aid organizations from the United Kingdom, Norway & France made it all possible,

-Crunching a normally years-long process down to 12 months or less to get Merck’s vaccine out there and save at least 4,000+ people…

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AncientBiotics: “Eyesalve” Remedy Does In-Fact Fix Styes. -Oh Yeah, And Also Just Happens To Kill Superbugs 1,000 Years Later

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Disease, Sex, Meds, Rock n Roll, Video

AncientBiotics: “Eyesalve” Remedy Does In-Fact Fix Styes. -Oh Yeah, And Also Just Happens To Kill Superbugs 1,000 Years Later


So I guess the old guys kicking around back 1,000+ years ago weren’t so dumb after-all.

First Plato, Seneca, Pythagoras, DaVinci, Hasselhoff, and now a guy named Bald. -Who wrote something called a Leechbook. One of the earliest medical textbooks known.

I know, I know, whenever you hear about old remedies you think of alchemy, bloodletting, witches & Monty-Python. -But not so fast…

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Hygiene Hypothesis FTW, Part V: Chance & Social-Network Helps Revolutionize Peanut & Food Allergies

Filed Under: Disease, Nutrition

Hygiene Hypothesis FTW, Part V: Chance & Social-Network Helps Revolutionize Peanut & Food Allergies
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Chalk another one up for The Hygiene Hypothesis and good old-fashioned Chance.

In a somewhat-risky move, scientists have found a way to help children who weren’t already allergic to peanuts to stay that way.

And the lead doc got the idea when he noticed his faraway friend’s patients had much fewer allergies. -Because giving peanut-snacks to babies over there was something they just do.

So after testing them first to make sure no fatal reactions would occur,…

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