Studies

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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A study has revealed that exposure to a widespread, toxic chemical may interfere with bone development in both children and young adults. The forever chemical can also potentially put them at greater risk for bone health issues, such as osteoporosis, later in life. The study, which focused mainly on Hispanic people from southern…
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People often use commercial hair care products to keep their hair healthy and lustrous, but are these products really safe? According to the alarming results of one study, some hair care products found in supermarkets often contain decamethylcyclopentasiloxane, a volatile compound more commonly known as D5. In many countries,…
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Rudolf Steiner, whose teachings led to anthroposophical medicine, biodynamic farming, and the Waldorf school, said that the heart is a seven-sided regular form that sits in an imaginary box in the chest. “Regular” means that all seven sides are identical. He also said that the heart is not a pump. This claim was vindicated by Frank…
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Your gallbladder is an abdominal organ that stores and concentrates bile produced by your liver. The bile helps your body break down and absorb the fat that you eat. When you eat a fatty meal, your gallbladder will contract and squeeze more concentrated bile into the small intestine to aid in the breakdown of the fat. Since your…
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Most of us remember a time when we could eat anything we wanted and not gain weight. But a new study suggests your metabolism, the rate at which you burn calories, actually peaks much earlier and starts its inevitable decline later than you might think. The findings appear in the journal Science. “As we age, there are a lot of…
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Seaweeds can be used as food and treatment for common ailments. They are used to treat boils, dropsy or edema (swelling caused by fluids trapped in the body), fever, hemorrhoids, lumps, orchitis (inflammation of one or both testicles), scrofula (an infection in the lymph nodes in the neck), urination problems and many more. Now,…
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