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Coffee Vs. Dementia: Can A Few Cups/Day Prevent Brain Rot? Read This Before Freebasing That RedBull!

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

Coffee Vs. Dementia: Can A Few Cups/Day Prevent Brain Rot? Read This Before Freebasing That RedBull!
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Does The Accidental Awesome Of Ancient Biochem Work On Brains?:

Every once in awhile, you can run into a happy accident.

Some things people do might seem random, senseless, or just following a crowd.

But what if there’s actually a good reason; a method to the madness?

There just might be when it comes to some of the food & drink we have.

-Especially the stuff with the weird histories.

And Harvard, Mass General, and MIT teams set-out to find if there was any method behind the world’s most popular drink that is not spelled, “alcohol”…

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Green Tea And Overlooked Vitamin Could Provide Body Armor Against Sneaky Types Of Cognitive Decline

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry

Green Tea And Overlooked Vitamin Could Provide Body Armor Against Sneaky Types Of Cognitive Decline
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The Slow Decline Of Brain Fuel Gets A Shot Of Asian-Powered Nitrous!:

Everybody and their dog in the Health & Wellness space loves to throw around the term, “Superfood.”

But with a reasonable standard, maybe there are really only a few, like blueberries.

Interestingly-enough there are other commonly-consumed food & drink items that might also be called, “Accidental Supplements”.

Some of those might include Tea, Coffee, and Dark Chocolate (esp. 70%+).

Also weirdly, many of these “Accidental Supplements” often get ritualized.

And modern scientists are finding there just might be a little bit more to those hot drink rituals than we thought…

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Start Early! The Weird Association Between Drinking Tea Or Coffee With Mobility (And Longevity) Later On

Filed Under: Aging

Start Early! The Weird Association Between Drinking Tea Or Coffee With Mobility (And Longevity) Later On
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Early Starts Lead To Later Wins, Even In Your Morning Brew:

Some of the weirder phenomena we can run into in life are virtuous cycles, and their nasty cousins, vicious cycles.

One of the areas where they can get a little scary is in the realm of health.

There are so many interconnections, that it can be hard to know where to start fixing things.

If you’ve ever witnessed this happen to another person, or God forbid; yourself, you definitely know you want to avoid it.

So what do you do? Stick to the basics, and go with study evidence.

In that line of thought, unless this NUS team is part of the international caffeine cartel, it’s looking like coffee and tea just scored another weird health win…

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Tea’s Health Benefits. New Evidence For Ancient Antioxidant Drink That’s An “Accidental Supplement”

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry

Tea’s Health Benefits. New Evidence For Ancient Antioxidant Drink That’s An “Accidental Supplement”
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Tea’s Health Benefits Discovered Not In Asia, But The UK!:
In the process of trying to improve ourselves and our health,

One of the ideas that comes up frequently is that of Small Wins.

Maybe you don’t have to lose 5-10 pounds this month, or get to 10% body-fat by the end of this year.

But just like any health tweak, perhaps there is something you can do that’s a small effort every day.

One that will move you very slowly onto a better course over time.

Well, another bit of research is out on a small but very old part of “accidental supplementation” that could push you onto a better course…

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Green Tea & Lifespan: Ancient World Ritual Becomes Modern Key To Living Longer & Better

Filed Under: Nutrition

Green Tea & Lifespan: Ancient World Ritual Becomes Modern Key To Living Longer & Better
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Green Tea & Living Longer, Old-World Antioxidants, Modern Benefits:
A few of the interesting ways we can think about wellness are:

Why do we do what we do, or have-done? and What’s Old Is New Again.

For some reason, humanity has fallen into certain habits in many places,

Or has old superstitions that everyone thinks were nothing but old wives’ tales.

And it’s from those two areas of thought we often find ancient man wasn’t really stupid,

Those habits formed for good reason; -which a team from the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences is proving once again…

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Starbucks AHOY! -Science Discovers Yet Again That Coffee Is Awesome, This Time: Saving Your Skin

Filed Under: Aging, Better Living Through Chemistry, Disease, Nutrition, Vitamins/Supplements

Starbucks AHOY! -Science Discovers Yet Again That Coffee Is Awesome, This Time: Saving Your Skin
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Coffee and Tea drinking have been linked [perhaps a little tenuously at times] to a whole host of health benefits, like this, this, and this.

Well now we can add another one to that growing list.

It also turns out that coffee may prevent some cancer; on your skin; -seriously.

In a study of 400,000+ participants over about 10 years, taking into account diet and some environmental factors, drinking up to 3 cups of coffee a day was associated with a 10% reduction in…

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Green Tea Chemical Grows New Brain Cells For Beloved Videogame Character

Filed Under: Mind/Brain, Nutrition, Vitamins/Supplements

Green Tea Chemical Grows New Brain Cells For Beloved Videogame Character
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It’s probably something similar to the research showing both black and green tea affect enzymes involved in Alzheimer’s,

but Yun Bai and his team at the Third Military Medical University in China have found that the chief polyphenol in Green Tea, called EGCG, helps new brain cells grow in a central region crucial to the brain’s ability to adapt to change.

+and also navigate mazes…

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F-Cup Tea Makes Breasts Happy! [Mildly NSFW]

Filed Under: Vitamins/Supplements

F-Cup Tea Makes Breasts Happy! [Mildly NSFW]
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Breast Enhancement, Thanks To A Japanese Tea Party:
Eleven score and eleven years ago, our great Founding Fathers saw fit to burden themselves with throwing off the uncharitable chains of British colonialist hegemony.

To that end, a mighty band of brothers (special forces -even), took to the shipyards of great hoary old Boston, and in demonstration cast aside into said harbor the symbol of our Mother Country’s royalist oppression -Tea.

Had those most wily and crafty bastards been alive today,…

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