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Protein Vs. Longevity: Japanese Team Finds The Fountain Of Youth By Refining Gym-Rat Bro-Science

Filed Under: Aging

Protein Vs. Longevity: Japanese Team Finds The Fountain Of Youth By Refining Gym-Rat Bro-Science
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Get Your Debate-Team Helmets On! This Time? Protein Calcs!:
In the constant race we all run to either lose weight or keep it off, many of us find the key is diet.

For a number of reasons it’s been the biggest subject in the health & wellness space, since well forever really.

If you’ve veered anywhere near the gym-bros of the exercise crowd, you’d know that among the strange elixirs they drink like BCAAs and grape juice with creatine, they also focus a lot on protein.

Not only have recent studies shown that protein & creatine are really the only two things you need to build muscle, besides exercise,

But changing the amount of protein in your diet might have even more benefits than the swole gains, yo…

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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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Muscle Vs. Inflammation: The Magic Chemistry Of Muscle And Exercise May Be A Great Anti-Inflammatory

Filed Under: Exercise

Muscle Vs. Inflammation: The Magic Chemistry Of Muscle And Exercise May Be A Great Anti-Inflammatory
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Exercise Vs. Inflammation. Medication-Grade Results Thanks To Muscle:
In every age where society tries to move forward, there is usually a conflict.

It happens between what we think we “know” now, what we’re learning, and how much of the “old” is considered invalid.

We’ve done multiple posts here on HT about how ancient man wasn’t so stupid after all,

Including one about a medieval recipe that kills modern super-bugs.

Even further back in history than that or OG medicinal-foodie Hippocrates, society has worshiped people who were fit & lean.

But why? What is it that we intuited since the dawn of time that wasn’t just tied to brute strength? Maybe it was something more.

Researchers from Duke University think they might have an answer…

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Energy Vs. Fatigue In Your Gut Microbes: That Case Of The Mondays Might Be All Down To Your Diet

Filed Under: Nutrition

Energy Vs. Fatigue In Your Gut Microbes: That Case Of The Mondays Might Be All Down To Your Diet
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Energy & Fatigue Might All Be Products Of Nutrition And Gut Microbes:
A lot of times, we can get saturated with advice that can seem too common.

But there are a few things we might try to remember about that.

The advice can be common because it works, it’s been curated by history, and stood the test of time for good reason.

The second part is a bit sneakier. Advice can become common through repetition and we get inured to it.

When really there is a lot more to it than a bored mind would understand at face-value.

And a team from Texas A&M is finding out some surprising new ways that, “Eat a high-quality varied diet.” and “You are what you eat.” really do bring a lot more to the table than just the basics they seem to suggest…

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Intermittent-Fasting And A Few Clever Nutrition Hacks Might Make Losing Weight A Little Bit Easier

Filed Under: Thinking Out Loud, Weight Loss / Fat Loss

Intermittent-Fasting And A Few Clever Nutrition Hacks Might Make Losing Weight A Little Bit Easier
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Intermittent-Fasting Plus A Few Clever Hacks Could Make Weight-Loss Easier:
Every once in awhile I end up in a conversation about nutrition & weight-loss.

So as a change in pace, I thought I’d share a few things I’ve learned over time.

There are several studies to back this up, but some of it is just personal experience.

A lot of this comes from changing everything I was doing when I got a little bit chubby and needed to lose weight myself.

-Which I did to the tune of more than 40 pounds and 10+% body fat over the span of about 10 months, using only nutrition and without exercise.

So if that kind of thing is your cup of tea, then read on…

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Inflammation & Brain Health: Stanford Docs Find Cell-Switch To Reverse Age-Based Cognitive Decline

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

Inflammation & Brain Health: Stanford Docs Find Cell-Switch To Reverse Age-Based Cognitive Decline
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Inflammation’s Effect On Brain Health. Finding The De-Aging Switch:
So we all learned in the Neal Barnard post on diet, that certain foods can work against your brain, but some can work for it, too.

And as time goes by, and we all take our fish oil, we’re finding out that one of Dr. Neal’s minor notes is actually a big deal.

Inflammation.

In that video, he shares a very interesting way to deal with it using diet.

And it turns out that more people might need that help according to a new report on brain health…

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Depression & Anti-Inflammatories: Can NSAIDs Like Advil Succeed Where Anti-Depressants Fall Short?

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry

Depression & Anti-Inflammatories: Can NSAIDs Like Advil Succeed Where Anti-Depressants Fall Short?
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Depression Vs. Anti-Inflammatory Meds. Surprisingly Encouraging!
Frequently, SCIENCE will get the idea that it knows everything.

And for a long time, it decided that it understood psychology’s problems and how to medicate them all perfectly. But that’s not always true.

For example up until recently, Science had no idea exactly how Prozac worked, just that it did.

(it was actually encouraging neurogenesis among other things)

And a Chinese team just confirmed that Depression might not only be a chemical-imbalance, but something Big Pharma wasn’t even thinking about in 1972…

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Inflammation vs. Intermittent – Fasting: The Newest Miracle Diet Has A Few More Tricks Up Its Sleeve

Filed Under: Highlights, Popular Diets

Inflammation vs. Intermittent – Fasting: The Newest Miracle Diet Has A Few More Tricks Up Its Sleeve
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Intermittent-Fasting & Inflammation. Another Unexpected Miracle:
Weight Loss seems like -The- universal health problem. Everyone talks about it.

Because of that, we’ve got supermarket checkout lines stuffed with BS celebrity fad-diets that are supposed to get you down to 6% bodyfat in 8 weeks.

So as a result, most diet plans tend to get a bad rap.

But a recent spin on a very old way of eating has cropped-up with some impressive new supporting-evidence,

And some work by Mount Sinai researchers is making Intermittent-Fasting look amazing one more time…

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