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Your Brain Health Vs. Time. The Wisdom Of Cats, Parents, & Matadors Confirmed In The Magic Of Naps

Filed Under: Aging

Your Brain Health Vs. Time. The Wisdom Of Cats, Parents, & Matadors Confirmed In The Magic Of Naps
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Grandmas & Pre-K Teachers Were Onto Something All Along!:
I guess as long was we all recognize Gary Vaynerchuck as the Fifth Horseman Of The Apocalypse, we’re all going to get along great here.

Because as any non-Elon tech bro can tell you, it is possible to push yourself too hard and burnout is a real thing.

On the other side of the world, they seem to have a bit less caffeine and some older, odder daily traditions called Siesta.

Maybe it was just socialism or recovery from the hottest part of the day in southern Europe. Like a thirst-quencher Sangria for mind & body.

But it was lost on the “Coffee-Achieving” West, until just recently.

And a team from London and Uruguay is finding out there’s a lot more to naps than anyone outside Portugal, Italy, Greece, or Spain might imagine…

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Light Exposure Vs. Mood: Brown Researchers Find Light Gets Into Your Brain In Many Unexpected Ways

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

Light Exposure Vs. Mood: Brown Researchers Find Light Gets Into Your Brain In Many Unexpected Ways
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Light Exposure & Mood. Getting Into Your Brain In New & Unexpected Ways:
Let’s take a moment to appreciate the fact that just like cats, we are all solar-powered.

The sun is out and we’re all getting enough vitamin d for a change.

Hopefully it’s doing us some good, and we’re not getting too much exposure.

But in a while things will change, and people most sensitive to sunlight are really going to notice its absence.

-After they come down off a 3-day pumpkin-spice bender of course.

And while SCIENCE so far has only vitamins, anti-depressants, and fancy light-boxes for those affected,

They might just get a lot more help in the future if Brown University researchers have anything to say about it…

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The Health Benefits Of Getting Outdoors: The SAD, Dark, Side Of One Of Humanity’s Greatest Inventions

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

The Health Benefits Of Getting Outdoors: The SAD, Dark, Side Of One Of Humanity’s Greatest Inventions
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Getting Outdoors Vs. Your Mood & Sleep. The Heights Of Forest Bathing:
When it comes to keeping yourself healthy, there can be a big difference in philosophies.

For some, health is what you get in a pill after a doctor visit for a problem.

Sort-of like a Biological Mechanic.

But on the other extreme there are ideas focused more on the behavioral end.

Sometimes, they even get close to touching the metaphysical, too.

But as we start getting closer to that end of health, it turns out many researchers find new answers that might have been hidden in plain sight…

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Learning Skills Vs. Training Intervals: Turbocharge Your Brains With The Freakonomics Of Cadence

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

Learning Skills Vs. Training Intervals: Turbocharge Your Brains With The Freakonomics Of Cadence
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Learning Skills And Training Intervals. Effective Study Is Freaky:
Part of a good, full life is lifelong learning.

And that is something that doesn’t just end with high-school or college.

Whatever it is, self-improvement reading, sudoku, new languages, authoritative lute-shredding, we’re all “graduate students” of a sort.

So of course, one of the things we try to do is make learning easier and faster.

Like with brain-pow supplements like phosphatidylserine or l-theanine.

But if the NDS’s research team has anything to say about it, we might have just gotten concrete insight on an even more-powerful tool to turbocharge your brain…

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Afternoon Naps & Mental Agility: A Little Break In Your Day Could Make The Rest Of It Better In Many Ways

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

Afternoon Naps & Mental Agility: A Little Break In Your Day Could Make The Rest Of It Better In Many Ways
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Power Naps, The Pause That Super-Charges You:
If there’s one common-thread we can all agree on, it’s that some things in childhood we hated we end up loving as adults!

Salads, Haircuts, Being Seen With Our Parents, Bathtime, Vegetables, etc.

One of the other childhood compulsories we all loathed that might have been there at home, but was definitely present in nursery school was: Naptime!

Although we might have all dreaded rolling out our silly rugs and staying put in the afternoon for our poor overworked teachers,

More and more scientific reports are finding out they were really onto something…

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Beauty Sleep: Scientific Findings On Body-Structure Changes Might Support Olde-Timey Advice

Filed Under: Aging

Beauty Sleep: Scientific Findings On Body-Structure Changes Might Support Olde-Timey Advice
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Beauty Sleep. Classic Health-Indicator Gets Some Science Respect:
To err on the lighter side of things this time, we have another installment of HealthTrekker’s “Old Myths That Turn Out To Be True”-series.

A long time ago, there used to be a pseudo-science called Phrenology.

It said you could tell who someone was by the bumps on their skull.

And a new, actually-legit version of that idea for Faces is the tease that leads to the newest science-based discovery,

That Manchester researchers have found yet another indicator of health & good life choices and practices, in your face…

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Sleep Deprivation Dangers: Chronic Lack Of Sleep Can Hurt A Lot More Than Just Your Alertness

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

Sleep Deprivation Dangers: Chronic Lack Of Sleep Can Hurt A Lot More Than Just Your Alertness
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Sleep Deprivation & Cognitive-Function. Alertness Is Only The Beginning:
One of the typical habits many people have is operating based on assumptions.

It’s not always a bad idea, because we each come from a context we’re born into, that teaches us a worldview.

And life is already too complex, so we often need a type of shorthand.

Especially for stored-knowledge that gets handed down over time.

But those ideas can often be wrong at the start, or become obsolete with time.

And some researchers from Michigan State are finding out anyone interested in both Health & Productivity is making a huge mistake in their assumptions about sleep…

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Deep Sleep Detox: Your Brain’s Self-Cleaning Rinse Cycle May Prevent Alzheimer’s; If You Sleep Well

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

Deep Sleep Detox: Your Brain’s Self-Cleaning Rinse Cycle May Prevent Alzheimer’s; If You Sleep Well
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Deep Sleep Vs. Dementia, Your Brain’s Detox Cycle May Help:
There are a lot of mysteries still out there in the world for Science to solve.

Whether it’s why nature, people, or even diseases exist in the odd ways they do.

During that investigation some ancient ideas are refuted, or even confirmed in some cases.

But for one part of us, Technology is only in its early stages of being able to confirm those ancient conceptual insights.

And a recent investigation by a BU led team may have just found out a function of sleep that is very important for one of our worst health nemeses…

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