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Personality Types A,B,C and D: What Your Character Could Predict About Your Cardio Health

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Rejoice, Antsy, Driven, City-Slickers! There's someone in worse health than you!!

-I know. Hard to believe, right? But apparently so.

(btw, hipsters don't count)

For the longest time, the most At-Risk personality type for health concerns, specifically Cardiovascular; myocardial infarctions, stroke, etc. was thought to be

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Posted by Will on 09/29/10 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

What The World Needs Now ... Is A Prion Killer

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Now that they've been linked to some cases of Alzheimer's, we need a prion-killer more than ever.

-Hopefully one that won't kill everything else.

These odd little assassins are the things that eventually kill you in all Creutzfeldt-Jakob diseases, like Mad Cow Disease, and my personal favorite: Kuru.

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Posted by Will on 03/ 3/09 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button




Dieting Gem: The Mixed Signals of Thirst and Hunger

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In addition to the "Want to Lose Weight? Drink Water."-idea, it's also important to note this rule:

Thirst is often Mistaken For Hunger.

-Especially if they drink things that have diuretic properties, like coffee and caffeinated drinks, many people are going through the day partially dehydrated.

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Posted by Will on 10/21/08 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

Relaxation Guru Talks Breathing And Stretching

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Posted by Will on 10/16/08 | Comments (1) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

Hey, Let's All Play Along! -It's Cellphone Football!!!

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Hey look Junior, it's the ocean! -Go Swim!

Insomnia! Confusion? Headaches! -Oh My!

2008-India To Join CP Study Mosh Pit; -you know, 'cause all the cool kids are doing it, Mom!

2008-STUK,Finland: May Alter Proteins in Skin

2007-Cleveland: Damaged Sperm

2007-MTHR,UK: Could Be As Dangerous As Cigarettes

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Posted by Will on 08/ 6/08 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

Unusually High Mercury in Tuna Sushi

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VIVA LA REVOLUCIÓN!
Workers of the World Unite!!
At last our pinko commie revenge upon the shoulder-surfing Rich Bastards is at hand!!!!
In the form, of ...
... ...
-tuna.

The NYT reports on a study they had started last year with scientists from Robert Wood Johnson

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Posted by Will on 02/15/08 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

Compound Reverses Alzheimer's In Minutes

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(just Like Gardasil, another) Shot Heard 'Round The World, mortals!1!

Neuroscientists from UCLA and USC inject an Alzheimer's patient with an anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF) agent called etanercept (brand name Enbrel) and the patient shows Marked cognitive improvement within minutes.

The published papers focus on only 1 of the patients, though many

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Posted by Will on 01/15/08 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

Keep Your Brain Young with SmartKit

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Check out this fun site I found a short while ago! Plenty of fun puzzles and games to exercise your mind! Smart-Kit.com
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Posted by Will on 12/ 2/07 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

Akiyoshi Kitaoka!!??!! -Dees Eeez My Head A-Splod-iiin' !!!

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(Note: These images might make observers feel sick)
Full Size Version

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Posted by Will on 03/29/07 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

77 Deadly Ways to Learn Better & Bruce Lee Your Brain! -whaaaaaa!

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Ok, this list is just too great to wait any longer to post.

The Online Education Database has come up with a Monster list of techniques (77?! -teh Pwnzz!!) to help you learn faster and better. Out-Standing! -Must pass on to all mV readers immed!

My habits for cognitive support have always been: oatmeal, high-protein diet, vitamins/supplements and physical activity. -When you're stag

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Posted by Will on 03/ 7/07 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

Fat Loss & BioChem Mashup: Diet Can Mitigate Epilepsy

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At the intersection of fat loss fads and a problemmatic disease, comes the use of a fairly old diet that helps reduce seizures where incidents are frequent and anti-convulsants stumble.

The various Keto Diet study results thus far seem to reflect the greatest benefit for children instead of adults. It was unclear why. -Were the adults drinking on the side? Was there increased neuroplasticity in children?

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Posted by Will on 12/19/06 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

Excessive Ultrasound May Harm Embryonic Neurons

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No more 'scan-your-noggin' booth at the kegger anymore, boys and girls! It'll rot your brains worse than TV!

Dr. Pasko Rakic and his colleagues from the Neurobiology department of the Yale School of medicine have shown that ultrasound use impedes some brain development in baby mice.

They are therefore recommending that though the distances are greater in humans, ultrasound for human babies

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Posted by Will on 08/10/06 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

The New 'Polygraph': Liar Liar, Brain's On Fire!

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Newsflash:The first ever explosion at an MRI facility has just occurred.

It seems Bill Clinton has just staggered out of the wreckage with a few pieces of the ‘donut’ stuck to his head like a giant sombrero; however his hairdo looks in fine shape.

The first ever MRI Lie Detector on a politician looks like a complete success! They just need to completely rebuild the facility and recalibrate. More fireworks to follow.

In an effort to expand the uses of existing MRI technology,

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Posted by Will on 08/ 1/06 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

You Can't Fix Stupid, but You -Can- Grow New Brain Cells

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Churchill would paint, Einstein played the violin; Stalin had nude ballet. -On a personal note, I'll go with the ElectroShock therapy and a 5g Gotu Kola chaser.

Elizabeth Gould (who is kind of sexy for a geek) and others have shown that lab animals can grow new neurons after the time that it was said to be impossible.
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Posted by Will on 06/29/06 | Comments (1) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

Tinfoil Hat Brain Firewall Not So Secure After All

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It turns out that the old "protection" from being brainwashed by radio waves sent out by the CIA and various unnamed government agencies has been soundly debunked by scientists at MIT.

According to them, the foil hats (double-walled, even) Reduced radiowave signals across the entire usable spectrum by up to 10db. -A 3db change either way, would be deemed significant.

AHA! -But before you start breaking out

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Posted by Will on 06/12/06 | Comments (1) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

Tea Shows Promise in Alzheimer's Fight

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Dr. Ed Okello and his team from Newcastle University, UK have found some encouraging results in preliminary tests on tea in slowing Alzheimer's Disease.

Their findings, published in the Journal 'Phytotherapy Research', show that black and green tea affect the actions of a few enzymes known to have involvement in the disease.

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Posted by Will on 08/31/05 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button

Table for 1 ?

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As if it weren't bad enough, according to CMU grad student Sarah Pressman, it turns out Loneliness could affect your immune system negatively.

It is disturbing that this study neglected to count the number of inverted keg-stands or fraternity indoctrination rituals in the lives of the subjects. If those don't

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Posted by Will on 05/16/05 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend | AddThis Social Bookmark Button






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