Studies

Amazingly, research suggests that music affects our microbes as well as our mood. Music is a salve for the psyche. Music therapy to soothe the soul is likely as old as music itself. Aristotle said that music represents the passions of the soul. Socrates said that good harmony and rhythm accompany a good disposition. In the early…
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Story at-a-glance Chronic inflammation and broken metabolism create the conditions that allow cancer cells to grow, spread, and overwhelm your body’s natural defences. Stress hormones like cortisol block glucose use and flood your system with fatty acids, forcing your cells into a backup energy mode that fuels tumours. A…
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Imagine you could trace a single thread through the labyrinth of modern chronic disease – obesity, autoimmunity, hormonal collapse, depression, metabolic dysfunction, accelerated aging – and discover they all converge at one overlooked point: a wavelength of light your ancestors received every single day of their lives. One that modern…
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Modern cancer policy is dominated by expensive drugs, marginal survival gains, and soaring end-of-life costs. Yet quietly, a low-cost and widely accessible intervention has been sitting in plain sight. A peer-reviewed analysis published in Molecular Oncology examined what would occur if adults aged 50 and older received routine…
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is pursuing a biotechnology program intended to enable the creation of new DNA and RNA inside living cells using light as the sole input. The program, called Generative Optogenetics (GO), is being developed by DARPA’s Biological Technologies Office. In draft solicitation…
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Research by Shanna Swan, an environmental and reproductive epidemiologist, suggests that prenatal exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals can blur physiological and behavioural sex differences in offspring. However, she and other scientists conducting similar research acknowledged the issue’s political and ethical implications. Still,…
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What if the very foundation of our health was being silently stripped away from us from the moment we are born, not by a sinister pathogen, but by the sterile, processed nature of modern life itself? For decades, the medical establishment has treated chronic diseases like diabetes, heart disease, and autoimmune disorders as inevitable…
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In an era where neurological disorders are becoming a defining public health challenge, a groundbreaking study from the University of Oxford has delivered a stark and actionable warning. Published in the journal Nature Communications, the research, drawing on brain scans from nearly 40,000 people in the UK Biobank, identifies three…
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A groundbreaking new study reveals that a simple, week-long break from virtual communication networks can significantly reduce anxiety, depression, and insomnia in young adults. The research, tracking nearly 300 volunteers, provides some of the most compelling evidence to date that the problem is not necessarily screen time itself, but…
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Magnesium regulates serotonin and dopamine, key neurotransmitters for mood stability, making deficiency a major risk factor for depression and neurological disorders. Studies show 500 mg of magnesium oxide daily significantly improves depression symptoms-outperforming placebos and avoiding the dangers of SSRIs (Selective Serotonin…
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