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If you ever wondered how Aspirin or Ibuprofen do their thing to blunt the worst effects of your various relatives at the yearly family gatherings,
(ok) before you hit the Wild Turkey,
or just liked learning well-explained technical stuff from cutely-illustrated videos, this basic TED-Ed short is for you.
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Friday’s “Please Explain” segment on WNYC’s “Leonard Lopate Show” was a great episode on the Human Micro-Biome Project and why people die in the Matrix but not Inception.
Guests Dr. Lita Proctor and (the awesomely-named) Dr. Martin Blazer chimed in on how the HMP’s 5-year-mission is to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before sequence a basic microbial dna landscape using a reference set…
After noting an odd unexpected plus to an immune-boosting study on lung cancer patients;
that the inclusion of a certain microbe not only reduced inflammation,
but also Boosted their Mood,
Researcher Chris Lowry and his team got a few ideas for a new study of their own.
So instead of…
It would sure explain a lot of memes.
And if Pinky ever does take over the world, he will surely be succeeded in quick Game-of-Thrones style by the Lolcats;
after they EAT HIM.
SUSPICION! CONNECTION-SEEKING! SHABBY-CLOTHING! SEX-KITTENISM! BRAIN-EROSION! AILUROPHILIA! ANXIETY! FOOLHARDINESS! HERMITAGE! INTREPITUDE! PSYCH-DISORDERS! SOUNDGARDEN LYRICS! –THE SKY IS FALLING!!!
Scientists would never like the idea that a small microbe could go so far as to…
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We have eaten the enemy and he is us; soon, …
Earlier, we put out the idea that Fat Makes You Fatter, and that it’s Stupendously Easy to Overeat.
Well, here’s the thing: More Bad News. It doesn’t just make you fatter.
It turns out fat is not just some passive by-product or senior-prom wallflower, like that foam insulation contractors are always…
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So when he wasn’t drinking, whoring, or writing the filthiest scatological poetry since the advent of the Nation of Germany, and exchanging it back and forth with -His Mother!-,
Mozart was busy getting his Russell-Brandian ass kicked,
by disease.
And doctors,…
Watch What You Eat!:
Emily Deans makes a brilliant leap on nutrition-based psychology.
In yet another salvo against Inflammation, Dr. Emily theorizes a link between that emerging health boogeyman and,
… Psychology.
It turns out the processed-food, ADM-sponsored, corn-oil-based imbalance in our current diet between Omega 6 and Omega 3 can affect not only…
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Inflammation and disease seem to be linked-together in increasing numbers. -For example: diabetes, dementia, Alzheimer’s, arthritis, some cancers, and other sicknesses.
Since many people already take Aspirin on a daily basis to lessen the risk of Stroke, Heart Attack and Cardiovascular Diseases.
–Is there an Aspirin-like Prevention Measure…
(-not really an answer btw, but more of an idea to start a discussion; either here, or with your doctor-)
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