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The Probiotic Fountain Of Youth. Eat An Activia, -BOOM, You’re Wolverine! All Because Of Tiny Gut Bacteria.

Filed Under: Aging

The Probiotic Fountain Of Youth. Eat An Activia, -BOOM, You’re Wolverine! All Because Of Tiny Gut Bacteria.
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You Think Activia’s Great? Wait Till You Try This!:
Probiotics that improve health have been the focus of fancy yogurt commercials we’ve all seen once or twice.

Some of them have verged on uncomfortable disclosures by Jamie Lee Curtis on the exact details of her very own G-I functionality. Fascinating.

But fewer people will have read up on the human microbiome & all the strange interactions science is learning about the bugs on us & in us.

And a team in Texas used modern DNA-wizardry to find out something even more interesting. One day, it just might save your life…

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Is Organic Food Really That Much Better For You? -Or Could It Actually Be Worse? [Video]

Filed Under: Disease, Nutrition, Video

Is Organic Food Really That Much Better For You? -Or Could It Actually Be Worse? [Video]


Is The Organic Premise Right In The First Place?:
So, lots of people believe in food that’s decomplicated and grown in ways similar to those of 100 years ago as the path to good nutrition.

And recently, Organic seems to have taken that place at the grocery store for people who don’t hit up the farmers’ markets.

Many people even think that Organic means No Pesticides at-all and that it’s more natural, less dangerous to you and the environment, and ultimately healthier.

But is any of that true? -In this video, ASAPScience decides to find out…

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Fast Carb Revelation? Whole Grains Might Definitively Be Better For Your Weight

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Nutrition, Weight Loss / Fat Loss

Fast Carb Revelation? Whole Grains Might Definitively Be Better For Your Weight
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A Light At The End Of The Tunnel:
So for a long time now, we’ve all been told a few conflicting things.

1) Fast-carbs are bad for you and make you fat.

2) Eat whole-grains because they’re good for you.

But studies have thus-far been less than entirely-conclusive.

Especially since the whole-grainiest people also have the healthiest habits.

But that’s all changed, because a recent study went the extra methodology mile and found something very interesting about the parts we’ve been missing…

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Have Some Yogurt With That Salad! Because Fiberless Western Diets Ruin Your Health. -And Your Grandchildren’s Too.

Filed Under: Disease, Nutrition

Have Some Yogurt With That Salad! Because Fiberless Western Diets Ruin Your Health. -And Your Grandchildren’s Too.
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How Soon Is Now?:
So we recently learned that the modern western diet undernourishes our insides & probably results in health problems that come from probiotic deficiencies.

But they’re not just your health problems for now.

Because Justin & Erica Sonnenburg found out something else about your body’s helpful microbes; and the news only gets worse.

They discovered that once a creature loses these microbes…

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Fire Up The Fiber! Get That Apple-A-Day! Because You’re Actually Eating For Two. -Trillion

Filed Under: Disease, Nutrition

Fire Up The Fiber! Get That Apple-A-Day! Because You’re Actually Eating For Two. -Trillion
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There Are Bigger Problems Than Just Big Carbs:
So for at least awhile now, a few decades after the 80’s low-fat high-pasta big-hair crazy-times, people have been warned about both the burgers, fries & snacks-style western diet, and also getting too many sweets & “fast” carbs.

Well, now we can add another demerit to the western diet: Health problems that come from probiotic deficiencies.

Because the fiber in your food isn’t just there to keep you functioning, there’s a lot more to it. Read on…

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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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