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NY1’s Jamie Shupak Discovers How To Let Food Be Your Drugs And Let Friends Be Your Dealers

Filed Under: Disease, Other, Vitamins/Supplements

NY1’s Jamie Shupak Discovers How To Let Food Be Your Drugs And Let Friends Be Your Dealers
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[ok wait, that didn’t sound ~Exactly as good as the original by Hippocrates; … -whatever. Close enough for government work. Moving on…]

-For many of us who have done any kind of research about health, it can be a difficult and obscure endeavor.

Oftentimes there are answers hidden in odd contexts, making it difficult to separate vapor from substance; with lots of trial and error. It can feel at times, a very lonely wilderness.

-Especially when the standard, “Antibiotics, Bloodwork & Stethoscopes” approach doesn’t have all the answers…

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Brain Borked? Fix It With Gel! -Not That Kind, Snooki

Filed Under: Bio-Tech, Mind/Brain

Brain Borked? Fix It With Gel! -Not That Kind, Snooki
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+And BTW, While you’re stuck waiting for those 3-D Printed replacement Brain Parts from before…

Just wiggle on down to So-Car and hit up Dr. Ning Zhang at Clemson; -whose invention should be coming into the mainstream Any Day Now!
(it was supposed to be Late 2012)

 
She’ll check out the severity of your Pro-Wrestling-Ladder-Fall-Concussion, ice your head, inject some Stem-CEllmer’s Glue in there and…

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The Failed Cognitive Decline Study -That You Should Pay Attention To Anyway

Filed Under: Disease, Noise, Thinking Out Loud

The Failed Cognitive Decline Study -That You Should Pay Attention To Anyway
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So there was this study on diseases that got published for some mad reason in-spite of the fact it didn’t work.

And that is one of the best. mistakes. ever.

So: they tried to say Herpes causes cognitive decline in people as they age, but the thunderous statement eventually came out in the results that [and I quote],

“IB was not associated with cognitive decline over time.”,

and the even sneakier one,…

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Cool Little TED-Ed Illustrated Video On How Painkillers Work

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

Cool Little TED-Ed Illustrated Video On How Painkillers Work


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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The DMB Human MicroBiome Project Explores Strange New Worlds With Reefer And Salvia on The Leonard Lopate Show

Filed Under: Bio-Tech

The <strike>DMB</strike> Human MicroBiome Project Explores Strange New Worlds <strike>With Reefer And Salvia</strike> on The Leonard Lopate Show
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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…

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Depressed? Get Outside, Get Dirty And Snort Some Mushrooms

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Disease, Mind/Brain

Depressed? Get Outside, Get Dirty And Snort Some Mushrooms
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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…

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Hot Chicks Sex Kittens With Douchebags On The Fringe: Is Your Behavior Controlled By Parasites Loyal Only To Cats?

Filed Under: Disease, Family, Mind/Brain, Other, Sex, Meds, Rock n Roll

<strike>Hot Chicks</strike> Sex Kittens With Douchebags On The Fringe: Is Your Behavior Controlled By Parasites Loyal Only To Cats?
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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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Quiz: What’s The Largest (Endocrine) Organ In The Human Body? -Nope, Not That Fellas. -It’s Your Bodyfat. Oh Yeah,… It’s Also Probably Killing You

Filed Under: Disease, Featured

Quiz: What’s The Largest (Endocrine) Organ In The Human Body? -Nope, Not That Fellas. -It’s Your Bodyfat. Oh Yeah,… It’s Also Probably Killing You
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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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