A Mental Sign Of Vitamin B12 Deficiency
Good sources of vitamin B12 include low-fat milk, poultry, eggs and fish. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - August 23, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Nutrition Source Type: blogs
Respect for Science
I vaguely remember discussing some of this before, but anyway . . . Throughout most of the 19th Century, despite the dramatic advances of science in many areas, nobody gained any useful understanding of human health and disease, and effective therapies were largely lacking. In fact, physicians -- medical school graduates -- advocated bloodletting and violent purging with mercury based emetics and laxatives. For obvious reasons, most people preferred other healing methods, which didn ' t work either but at least didn ' t kill you. Hospitals were just places where poor people went to die. So what happened to ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - July 5, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
How Drinking Milk Affects Cholesterol Levels
Genetic evidence reveals the effect drinking milk has on cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - July 4, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mina Dean Tags: Cholesterol Source Type: blogs
A Mental Sign of Vitamin B12 Deficiency
Vitamin B12 is relatively high in foods including fish, poultry, eggs and low-fat milk. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - July 3, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Nutrition Source Type: blogs
Microarray Rapidly Identifies Antibodies Against SARS-CoV-2
Researchers at the Technical University of Munich in Germany have developed a sensitive and inexpensive microarray technology that can rapidly identify antibodies against the SARS-CoV-2 virus in blood or serum samples. The test can provide a result in as little as eight minutes, but the researchers believe that this can be further reduced to just four minutes with additional development. The technology could be very helpful in confirming immunity against the virus, which will help us to identify how long the vaccines confer immunity and whether booster shots will be required.
With vaccination campaigns in full swing in ...
Source: Medgadget - June 25, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Diagnostics Medicine Public Health Source Type: blogs
Wednesday Bible Study: Sing that Thing!
Scholars believe that the song of Deborah and Barak is much older than the rest of the book in which it ' s embedded. In fact, many believe it is the oldest text in the Bible. Certainly it is the oldest Hebrew poem. Since I don ' t know Hebrew, I can ' t tell you anything about the rhyme and meter, which the translators don ' t attempt to indicate. Of course we don ' t know anything about the music either. Whether the existence of this more ancient text indicates that it is related to any real events of course we can ' t know, but I point out that the song does not accord with several of the factual details in t...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 23, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: A surprising anomaly
Female characters so far have been fairly scarce. We all know about Eve and the apple, of course. Sarah is named but we never really learn anything about her except that she ' s apparently sexually attractive and got jealous of Hagar -- a slave who was oppressed and mistreated. God noticed and gave her protection. (Of course, he didn ' t do anything about slavery and concubinage in general, in fact he was all for it.) Jacob ' s wives Rachel and Leah get a fair amount of play. They exert what agency they can within the limitations of their gender role. Rachel resorts to quite a bit of deception and manipulation. Zipporah ha...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 20, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Cat-astrophizing: Why Expecting the Worst is Bad For Your Mental Health
How is it that cats somehow know when you are running late? Somehow, they manage to care about you, even less than normal. Has your cat ever played that adorable game of hide and seek with you? Tell me if this sounds familiar. I spill my coffee. This forces me to change clothes. Of course, now I have to get different shoes. While changing, I messed up my ‘do’ so now I have to fix that. In the process of redoing my hair, I realize that I forgot to brush my teeth. I was distracted earlier when I went to pick up my toothbrush. Not this time. I finish up with my pearly whites just in time to remember that the rea...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - June 17, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: K3MOON Tags: featured psychology self-improvement anxiety catastrophizing expecting the worst mental health self improvement Source Type: blogs
Dairy Deconstructor: How an Enzyme Enables Milk Digestion
Did you know that the lack of a single enzyme is responsible for lactose intolerance, a common condition that causes people to have trouble digesting milk? Fortunately, the enzyme is available in an over-the-counter pill for lactose-intolerant people who want to enjoy dairy products. Enzymes are molecules—almost always proteins—that speed up chemical reactions by reducing the amount of energy needed for the reactions to proceed. Without them, many processes in our bodies would essentially grind to a halt.
Some break down large molecules into their building blocks, while others combine small molecules into more c...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - June 2, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmacology Cellular Processes Proteins Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, May 31st 2021
In conclusion, iMSC-sEVs could rejuvenate the senescence of NPCs and attenuate the development of IVDD.
Cell Signaling via Exosomes in the Development of Vascular Calcification
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2021/05/cell-signaling-via-exosomes-in-the-development-of-vascular-calcification/
Vascular calcification is a feature of aging, a process in which cells in the blood vessel wall take on inappropriate identities and activities that are more appropriate to bone tissue. Evidence of recent years implicates chronic inflammation and the presence of senescent cells in this process. Senescent cells cau...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 30, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Towards a Practical, Palatable Low Methionine Diet
Low methionine intake has been shown, in animal studies, to mimic many of the same effects of calorie restriction, which is to say improved health and extended life span. A sizable fraction of the trigger mechanisms that produce improved metabolism as a result of lowered calorie intake appear to depend on methionine levels. Attempting a reduced methionine diet is about the hardest thing that any casual health enthusiast could choose to undertake when it comes to dietary self-experimentation. The sources of data on methionine content are incomplete and contradictory, and just about every common food stable is packed full of...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 27, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Aligned Solutions
Aligning your life can be very challenging. By alignment I’m referring to harmonious interactions among your:
thoughtsfeelingsframes / perspectiveslifestyleliving situationrelationshipsvaluesdesiresgoalsintentionsworkfinanceshealthbodyfamilyfriendshipssocial lifepersonality
We all have misalignments to deal with in one of more areas of life. Are you actively engaged in correcting those misalignments to create greater harmony? Or do you let misalignments fester?
Misalignments have a tendency to multiply. They’re like clutter. Once we start tolerating a little bit, pretty soon we have a lot more to deal ...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - May 24, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Productivity Relationships Values Source Type: blogs
A Popular Science View of the State of Research into Young Blood versus Old Blood
Research spawned by heterochronic parabiosis studies, in which an old and a young animal have their circulatory systems linked, continues to provide surprises. There is considerable debate over whether helpful factors in young blood versus a dilution of harmful factors in old blood provide the majority of the benefits to the older animal, with the evidence favoring the latter at the present time. Dilution of blood plasma has been shown to produce benefits in animal studies, but that involves adding albumin to avoid diluting that essential protein. Researchers recently showed that adding recombinant albumin, and skipping th...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 24, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Foreword to Wheat Belly Revised & Expanded Edition
An excerpt from the Wheat Belly Revised & Expanded Edition:
Have you ever come home from the grocery store with a fresh container of milk, opened it and immediately realized that it was bad—sour-smelling, curdled, unfit to drink?
Feed it to the cat? Probably not. Lighten your coffee? I don’t think so. Pour it down the sink—yeah, that’s the ticket. Or maybe go back to the store with some of the curdled remains and ask for your money back.
That is what your reaction to conventional dietary advice should be. You should wrinkle your nose at the bad smell that emanates from advice that creates an astonish...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - May 7, 2021 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Open grain-free wheat belly Source Type: blogs
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Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - May 5, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Child Psychology Intelligence subscribers-only Source Type: blogs
