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The Joys of Cross-Contamination:
So as children go back to school, one of the joys that comes with the territory is sickness.
Schools, ball-pits, & daycare-centers are like stock-exchanges for millions of short little typhoid-marys, infecting eachother with God knows what.
And as other scientists from Duke and IC-L have mystifyingly said before,
That may actually not be such a bad thing…
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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 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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A Famous Man Once Said, “We Create Our Own Demons”:
In this video, Kurzgesagt, or “In-A-Nutshell” talks about the future of antibiotics and a few of the problems that are already beginning.
In a very Matrix-y reversal of what’s going on into an idea, they say it this way: Most of Humanity right now is collaborating on the engineering of a Superbug.
And if we don’t change in several ways, the consequences of our actions will let Nature’s worst machines win…
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Blood Is Only Part Of The Solution:
Awhile ago, we told you how our old friend Elizabeth may have really been onto something age-defying in her own dark-ages nutbar kinda way.
Well in a second round of science catching-up, researchers have found another interesting follow-up to that original Bathory hack.
What the Mayo Clinic docs discovered is an interesting Filter-based alternative to simply getting the odd pint from a young person.
-And it all hinges on a type of cell in our body called, Senescent Cells…
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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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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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[-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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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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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,…
