The Health Weblog
A Lose-Lose Situation Reverses?:
So for the longest time now, Science has painted a pretty static picture. After about 18-25 you only get worse, right?
Well teams of researchers are finding you don’t have to get stuck.
In-fact, the brain-map is changeable. And research is showing you can Improve it,
Not just with supplements or Lumosity, but by doing something science said was impossible.
Growing new freaking brain cells, baby!…
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Retro Approach To New Info Pays Off:
In the field of research, The New rules the roost. What’s old is considered obsolete.
And nowhere is this more obvious than the search for cures to diseases.
Both The How & The Why seem so complex, the Solution must be something supercomputer-complex, & supercomputer-new, also.
Well, in a strange turn of events, an English team took the recent trend of Inflammation being implicated in many diseases, including Alzheimer’s,
And ran with it, back to a 2,000+ year-old fix that looks like the start of a new cure…
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Not All Substitutes Are Equal:
All cheekiness aside, we just did a post on the sexy people over at Eater’s test of the newest vegetable-only burger, by Impossible Foods.
But one of the ideas we raised at the end was: Maybe it tastes close now, maybe even identical in the future,
-But does it give you the same-or-better Nutrition when you take everything into consideration?
Well, one of Red Meat’s components is a salt called Creatine. And sciency-researchers are finding out some very interesting brain-stuff about its new best friend…
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Reefer Madness Perhaps Not So Mad After All:
Now I know the stoner-crowd has a rep for being a bunch of hippie-dropouts who will use just about any pseudoscience available to defend their habit.
Because they want their drugs and that’s all there is to it. -Munchies be damned.
Well buckle-up Amanda Bynes, because !SCIENCE! just dropped one of the dankest jams in-favor of THC since the invention of the cannabinoid-receptor 600 million years ago.
(not counting any of the Magnum Opuses by Messrs. Cheech & Chong)…
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No Such Thing As A Free Lunch…:
So for awhile now, not counting the snake-oil-soaked 1800s & 1900s, we’ve been living in an era of a drug for almost every ailment, right down to a mild sniffle.
Recently it seems more and more of them are available without a prescription.
Though they’re usually ignored, the Side-Effects of both types can be a real problem.
And once again, people like our pal Yasmina Rossi who try not to take anything unless it’s a dire circumstance are looking like psychic geniuses.
Because this time researchers have discovered a new problem with drug side-effects; -and your Brain…
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Ever feel like after last night’s over-40 drinking-binge you were barely making it through your day?
And though you were still technically on your feet, you felt like you were “half-asleep”?
Well thanks to MIT’s researchers, we’ve found out you were more right than you know…
For a little while now, people have been hacking their own brains with something called tDCS, or electrodes on the scalp, trying to enhance their mood and mental functioning.
-But the potentially-dangerous bro-science practice has had spotty results, until now.
Because a company called Thync has pooled a team of experts to change all that.
When their engineers & doctors looked at all the different effects and the conflicting studies surrounding the noggin-zaps, from improvements on…
With all the recent bad news about sleep-problems being more serious than we thought before, here’s a bit of good news:
Coffee may be helping your brain in ways we didn’t previously know.
In this instance, a group of about 160 non-coffee-drinking adults were given pills while studying a series of images. One group got caffeine in those pills, and the other got placebos.
It turns out the caffeine group did noticeably-better on a certain type of deep-memory test 24 hours later.
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Yassalab
Well it turns out that high-functioning-sociopath Sherlock! & your brain have something in-common.
For the first-time, researchers have discovered that it has a Protein, named after one of the world’s most awesome swordsmen –or cats as the case may be, that purposely-destabilizes synapses between some neurons in your brain, Actively making you more-likely to Forget…
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U-Basel
Scientists, even the great ones at MIT are now poking their greasy mechanic’s fingers through the Matrix into our very souls.
Memory today; who knows what tomorrow.
In a set of experiments carried out on mutant mice designed to have light-sensitive neurons, scientists at MIT were able to re-trigger a memory they’d previously created,…
