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Forest Bathing: An 1880s Practice, Revived In 1980s Japan Improves Your Health With Just A Calm Stroll

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Highlights

Forest Bathing: An 1880s Practice, Revived In 1980s Japan Improves Your Health With Just A Calm Stroll
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Forest Bathing. In The 1880s or 1980s, Good Ideas Never Get Old:
In our technologically-advanced time, we have a bad-tendency toward disqualifying thoughts & theories that have come before us.

-Especially in the Sciences, old traditions that don’t have a big corporation behind them are looked at as Hokum, Superstition, & Snake-Oil.

But are they really?

Well recently, the scientists of (data) !Crazy Japan! came together and found actual scientific proof for a practice that saw it’s heyday back at the end of the 1800s.

-Getting outside and groping communing-with nature;…

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Travel For Self-Discovery: Getting Lost To Find Yourself + Heal Your Soul. The Best Vacation Ever

Filed Under: Favorites, Highlights, Mind/Brain, Video

Travel For Self-Discovery: Getting Lost To Find Yourself + Heal Your Soul. The Best Vacation Ever


Travel For Self-Discovery. Zen & The Art Of Metaphysical Maintenance:
So we’ve talked before about the actual, real health benefits of Happiness.

Recently, it’s been shown that people who take regular vacations actually live longer, happier, and healthier lives.

And in one post, we mentioned some of the specific ways you improve the “effectiveness” of a vacation.

But here, The School Of Life raises the surprising, yet philosophical idea of specific types of vacations as a kind-of symbolic “food”,

Or better yet: Nutrition For The Soul…

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Baby We Were Born To Run! How Cardio Exercise Clears Your Head And Does The Impossible

Filed Under: Exercise, Highlights

Baby We Were Born To Run! How Cardio Exercise Clears Your Head And Does The Impossible
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1) Running, Brain Cells, & Clearing Your Mind. Ie: Metaphysical Exercise:
So for 2,500+ years, athletes, folk-scientists, bro-scientists, and real scientists have extolled the virtues of exercise.

Even Dr. Mike showed that 30 minutes a day helped -Everything-.

But a bizarre subculture of cardio-focused exercisers called “Runners”, have always claimed odd mental benefits along with the physical ones.

Things like Zen/Meditation, a type of Buzz, & greater Clarity of Thought afterward.

So science decided to investigate these old wives’ tales, and may have discovered evidence instead of myth…

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The WHO Says Red Meat Is Not Murder, -It’s Suicide. 39 Things To Consider

Filed Under: Highlights, Nutrition

The WHO Says Red Meat Is Not Murder, -It’s Suicide. 39 Things To Consider
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Red Meat Health Risks: A Litany Of Things To Consider
It might not be quite as dire as suicide; but close. Read on:-Well maybe not quite that dire, but close; read on.

So the WHO recently put out this extremely cautionary report on red meat.

It says that essentially All of it, especially the smoked & salted stuff we seem to instinctively-love is dangerous to your health,

And either Will or May cause colorectal, and possibly stomach, pancreatic, and prostate cancer.

This is almost exactly the same thing Harvard Medical School put out a few years ago, with very similar conclusions…

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Back To The Future Of Health & Medicine: Nat Geo’s BREAKTHROUGH Is 6 Episodes Of Future-Awesome

Filed Under: Bio-Tech, Featured, Highlights, Video

Back To The Future Of Health & Medicine: Nat Geo’s BREAKTHROUGH Is 6 Episodes Of Future-Awesome
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Well, Nat Geo has started putting on a new series, and it’s right in-line with just about everything this site would ever hope to be about. -Just in video format.

It’s on Sundays, 9/8C and we’re already starting to get to the good stuff like, “More Than Human”, “Decoding The Brain”, and “The Age of Aging”.

So, while you’re waiting for the next installment, check out their trippily-animated, Hayden Planetarium-meets-Minority Report-On-LSD website.

A linked-list of the major sections is below, to help you sift through & target the content you’d like to check out…

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Video: ASAPScience Asks, “What Will We Be Like In 1000 Years?”

Filed Under: Bio-Tech, Highlights, Video

Video: ASAPScience Asks, “What Will We Be Like In 1000 Years?”


The Future Of Humanity. What Will Life Look Like For All Of Us In 1000 Years?:
In this video, ASAPScience speculates about what we’ll be like in another 1,000 years.

And their roundup of the predictions seems nothing if not interesting.

Intro) 3 Examples:
Over the past 10,000, 150, and 65 years, we’ve become tolerant of milk, grown 10cm taller & lived 20 years longer. All due to science in farming, healthcare & diet.

 
So: What else could happen going forward? You know, besides Google Glass…

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Wired DATA | Life Conference Intros The Big Data And Analytics Wave To Health

Filed Under: Bio-Tech, Featured, Highlights, Video

Wired DATA | Life Conference Intros The Big Data And Analytics Wave To Health
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Wired DATA | Life Presents The AI+ML+Big Data Future Of Health & Medicine:
After MD Anderson’s 41 Cancer-Fighting Foods, I was reminded of one more thing:

Back in November, there was a health conference that both MDACC & Wired put on called Wired DATA | Life.

It was a small invitation-only shindig, mostly for people really into the health space, like doctors and biotech entrepreneurs; so it didn’t really get a lot of press coverage.

Nevertheless, for those of you interested in the subject, -ESPECIALLY- its intersection with “Big Data”, some of the segments are really not bad.

So below, there is a list…

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