Studies

Most people breathe without giving much thought to technique or strategy. But a study published in the journal Nature Communications might make you think about the way you breathe when you're trying to learn new ideas. People looking for clues about your mood or stress levels can examine your breathing because it is closely connected to…
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Pregnant women who take the influenza vaccine have an 800% increased risk of suffering a miscarriage, according to a disturbing report by Dr. Joseph Mercola. As noted by Barbara Loe Fisher, president of the National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) in her 2013 article Vaccination During Pregnancy: Is it Safe?: “Although since…
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Most people are born with 20 baby teeth and 32 permanent teeth. But about 1% of people have a condition called hyperdontia, meaning they have extra teeth called supernumerary teeth. These supernumerary teeth may be baby teeth or permanent teeth, and there may be one or more of them. However, according to Katsu Takahashi, head of the…
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Currently, there are more than 55 million people who suffer from dementia worldwide, and nearly 10 million new cases of dementia are diagnosed each year. Cognitive decline has become such a pervasive issue in modern society; it has become normalized across the political spectrum. Some of today’s government officials show serious cognitive…
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Back pain is one of the most common health complaints across the globe, with an estimated 80% of people experiencing back pain at some point in their life. It’s also the No. 1 cause of job disability. The University of South Australia now has both good and bad news for back pain sufferers. The good news is that a majority of people…
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The ability to get down on the floor and stand up without using your hands, knees, or other assistive devices can be an important indicator of longevity, especially if you're 50 or older. This deceptively simple task, called the sit-stand test (SRT), was developed in the 1990s to assess the non-aerobic aspects of physical fitness, namely…
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Whenever you're actively performing a task — say, climbing a mountain or taking a hard exam — the parts of your brain required to carry it out become "active" when neurons step up their electrical activity. But is your brain active even when you're simply relaxing? The answer, researchers have found, is yes. Over the past two…
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People consume more than 1,000 microplastics annually through table salt, according to a study. Researchers from Andalas University (UNAND) in Indonesia's West Sumatra province noted this finding in a paper published in the Global Journal of Environmental Science and Management (GJESM). The study authors looked at 21 table salt…
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Many people are infected with a noetic brain parasite which prevents them from being able to understand that two mutually-exclusive aspects cannot both be true at the same time. It therefore maintains a state of cognitive dissonance in their consciousness which it uses to feed off of their psychic ability and psychic energies.…
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Alzheimer’s disease (AD) – the most common type of dementia – was first discovered by clinical psychiatrist Dr. Alois Alzheimer who described a 50-year-old woman, Auguste Deter, in a Frankfurt psychiatric hospital in 1901. In the Western society, it affects 1 in 14 people over the age of 65, one in every six people over the age of…
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