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Health Benefits Of Nuts? Gentlemen! -Start Your Nutcrackers! Super-Charged Study Finds A Super-Food!

Filed Under: Highlights, Nutrition

Health Benefits Of Nuts? Gentlemen! -Start Your Nutcrackers! Super-Charged Study Finds A Super-Food!
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Health Benefits of Nuts. The Search For The Next Superfood Holy Grail
So, ever since the beginning, HT has been about finding that extra hack that can help a lot if done consistently over time. Maybe even change your life.

And nowhere is that quest more symbolized than the hunt for the elusive Superfood.

They may seem like nothing more than drug-like hopes pinned on weird foods, but with things like blueberries & broccoli, the power of selective-nutrition grows as science progresses.

Well, another chapter of that quest looks like it might possibly be opening for another food…

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Elizabeth Bathory Was Right, Part Deux: Sillycon Valley Goes Almost Full-Vampire, Capitalist That-Is

Filed Under: Aging

Elizabeth Bathory Was Right, Part Deux: Sillycon Valley Goes Almost Full-Vampire, Capitalist That-Is
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Why, Gods Of Biochemistry, Why?!!!:
Aging introduces what seem to be a whole host of unfair changes at just about every level of biology.

And depending on your genes & environment, these changes can start becoming noticeable as early as the age of 30.

Unless you’re Elizabeth Bathory, or HealthTrekker’s favorite immortal, Yazemeenah Rossi, these changes can add up fast.

So what do you do if you feel young & you want your body to keep up with your spirit?…

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Vegetarians & Moms Win Again! Green Compounds Like NAD & NMN May Stop Time Or Even Reverse It

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry

Vegetarians & Moms Win Again! Green Compounds Like NAD & NMN May Stop Time Or Even Reverse It
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Another Win For Veggie Fans!:
So in the eternal war of Vegetarians vs. Carnivores, !SCIENCE! has to concede one new point.

As time goes by our bodies seem to get worse, mostly due to unfair biochemical changes like reduced metabolism, lean mass, and just plain old energy.

Well, researchers are coming again to the rescue, with what looks like another cure to several of them.

And it all hinges on that nagging your good ole’ mum leveled at the dinnertime kids: Eat Your Greens!…

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Video: Conan Finds Out Aubrey Plaza Has Staying Young & Aging-Gracefully Both Figured-Out

Filed Under: Aging, Other, Video

Video: Conan Finds Out Aubrey Plaza Has Staying Young & Aging-Gracefully Both Figured-Out


My Favorite Martian:
In addition to being one of the oddest and most sarcastic people on Earth like, you’ve-got-me-so-confused-I-don’t-know-who-I-am-anymore sarcastic,

Parks & Recreation’s Aubrey Plaza has apparently thought a lot about both staying young and how to behave gracefully if/when she ever does get old.

-As Conan O’Brien finds out in this interview…

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Your Mental Attitude About Aging Might Actually Make A Difference

Filed Under: Aging

Your Mental Attitude About Aging Might Actually Make A Difference
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Olde-Tyme Wisdom Wins Again?:
There are quite a few sayings about aging and that body of knowledge includes chestnuts like: “Age is just a number.” and “You’re only as old as you feel.”

And other than confirmation-bias or just plain-old self-delusion, those sayings it-seemed were nothing more than musing or philosophy.

But then a strange thing happened, and SCIENCE! stepped in and did something it rarely-does; it gave traditional anecdotal wisdom a pretty fair shake…

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Video: Apple’s CareKit Is Another Big Step Toward Personal Electronics That Make A Real-Life Impact

Filed Under: Aging, Bio-Tech, Disease, Gadgets, Video

Video: Apple’s CareKit Is Another Big Step Toward Personal Electronics That Make A Real-Life Impact


Personal Electronics Get Even More Personal:
At one time or another, many of us have had a health issue that needed more than just 1 fire-and-forget appointment to the doc.

And resolving it needed follow-up & active participation from you to succeed. -Especially since doctors are very busy, there are only so many hours in the day, and healthcare is already 4x more expensive here than anywhere else.

Well, aside from all the new phones, iPads & watch bands, one of the most interesting & compelling parts of Apple’s “Loop You In” event was something called CareKit…

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Senescent-Cell Cleanup: Watch Out, Elizabeth Bathory! Non-Vampires Increase Lifespan By 25 Percent!

Filed Under: Aging

Senescent-Cell Cleanup: Watch Out, Elizabeth Bathory! Non-Vampires Increase Lifespan By 25 Percent!
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Senescent Cell Cleanup. 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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Back To The Future Of Health & Medicine: Nat Geo’s BREAKTHROUGH Is 6 Episodes Of Future-Awesome

Filed Under: Bio-Tech, Featured, Highlights, Video

Back To The Future Of Health & Medicine: Nat Geo’s BREAKTHROUGH Is 6 Episodes Of Future-Awesome
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Well, Nat Geo has started putting on a new series, and it’s right in-line with just about everything this site would ever hope to be about. -Just in video format.

It’s on Sundays, 9/8C and we’re already starting to get to the good stuff like, “More Than Human”, “Decoding The Brain”, and “The Age of Aging”.

So, while you’re waiting for the next installment, check out their trippily-animated, Hayden Planetarium-meets-Minority Report-On-LSD website.

A linked-list of the major sections is below, to help you sift through & target the content you’d like to check out…

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