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Science Was Wrong Again!:
We just learned that Science was wrong about adults not being able to grow new brain-cells.
In this video, Dr. Neal Barnard shares Dietary-changes that can actually improve your brain,
And most importantly help avoid Alzheimer’s, the disease that killed his father.
Having watched that whole process, he ranks it as one of the last things you’d ever want to happen.
So, here’s his list of 5 research-backed tools that may make a surprising difference…
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The Fountain Of Youth:
Since the time of the alchemists, the ancient Egyptians, and the epic of Gilgamesh, one of our main goals was to transcend the impermanence of existence.
And in that time, people have tried all kinds of nutty concoctions & medieval procedures to try. (leeches do kinda work, btw)
More recently, the advent of stem-cell science has been joined by another major discovery: the “rewritable” part of our DNA script.
Well, a Salk Institute team combined them with a Nobel-Prize-winning discovery to give Father Time a swift kick in the butt. -Or at least one that lasts a few decades…
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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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Fast Progress In The Research World:
So just a few short years ago, civilians and celebrities all around the country rejoiced in good-natured bullying of their friends & colleagues.
And even though the premise was: either dump the bucket of ice water over your head or donate, many people went the torture-route anyway. -You know, for “fun”?
Despite this, that challenge raised $115 million dollars to fight the disease.
And then something amazing happened with a very small percentage of that money.
-The power of You did more than just fund something…
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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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-And one day, maybe Super-You. Or your super-grandkids.
So a short while ago, Chinese researchers pulled-off some of the first gene-modifications with that new technique from “BREAKTHROUGH”.
What they did with it is to create a new generation of dogs with a very uncommon trait: Super Muscles.
What it could mean for us one day is another set of radical changes; maybe whether we like it or not…
-Except this time, it just might work.
Everyone’s done this type of amateur Sherlock Holmes evaluation since they were born. But now, at the intersection of a facial-recognition technologist, a doctor, and Big Data, the studies might just prove both true and useful.
What Face My Age’s technology does…
15 years ago, the human DNA code was sequenced by groups led by Craig Venter and Francis Collins.
Well now we have another first. In a set of more than 20 published papers, the human Epi-Genome has now been decoded for at least 120+ different types of tissue.
Why is this important?
It turns out that the genetics of every sickness you could get or not, and every type of tissue your body could make or function…
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Hmm. Note to Self: Rich=Good.
Second Note to Self: Must stop sleeping with supermodels and eating caviar; not neccessarily life-prolonging.
More of a reminder checklist backed up with a few medical quotes and a slide show. This Forbes article is a bit on the simplistic side.
The quality part is the few references to what ignoring this rather basic advice could lead to…
