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Tau-Related Damage From Carbohydrates Can Contribute to Dementia And Alzheimer’s

By / / Health and Fitness / 9 minutes of reading

Today we’ll visit Science Daily and a new study on dementia and Alzheimer’s and how unused glycogen (stored glucose) can cause tau-related damage that causes or progresses these so-called “diseases.” “A new study from scientists at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging has revealed a surprising player in the battle against Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia: brain sugar metabolism. Published in Nature Metabolism, the research uncovers how breaking down glycogen — […]

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A Better And Healthier Diet Equals Less Mental Health Problems Such As Depression

By / / Diet and Nutrition, Health and Fitness / 6 minutes of reading

Today we return to Examine.com and a summary of yet another mediocre and pretty useless meta-analysis of 21 randomized controlled trials (RTCs) of “healthy eating” and its effect on depression. While they clearly do not understand much of what they are doing, it gives me yet another opportunity to explain some critical facts using real science, common sense, and 35+ years of experience in these fields. Key study details “In the RCTs that involved

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Inveterate Use Of Smartphones Will Damage Your Mental Health

By / / Health and Fitness, Technology / 13 minutes of reading

I was born in 1974 and we got our first game console in 1979 and our second in 1980, then we got our first home computer, the Commodore 64, in 1982, followed by the Amiga 500 in 1986. In 1993, as I moved from the “demo scene” into the game industry forming my first own company with three friends, I switched to PC and I have built, overclocked, and customized every computer I’ve had

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A Short Binge On Carbohydrates Is Enough To Alter Brain Insulin Response

By / / Diet and Nutrition, Health and Fitness / 9 minutes of reading

A few weeks back I destroyed the false and ridiculous ideas of our naturally produced hormone insulin damaging the brain and causing obesity in my article “Obesity Has Nothing To Do With Insulin Or The Brain. Obesity Is The Result Of A Bad Lifestyle.”  Today we will look at another study involving the brain and insulin covered by the medical and pharmaceutical shills at Medscape. Let’s see what they concluded and what may be

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Obesity Has Nothing To Do With Insulin Or The Brain. Obesity Is The Result Of A Bad Lifestyle

By / / Diet and Nutrition, Health and Fitness / 10 minutes of reading

The pseudo-science shills at Science Daily recently posted a new theory claiming that the brain serves as a crucial control center and the origin of obesity and type 2 diabetes. Is this yet another attempt to hide the real underlying offenders as in consuming a non-species appropriate diet consisting of toxic plant-based foods, and especially carbohydrates and seed oils? Let’s find out. “The hormone insulin plays a key role in the development of obesity.

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Backwards Thinking: Exercise And Reduced Risk Of Dementia

By / / Diet and Nutrition, Health and Fitness / 9 minutes of reading

Today we return to Verywell Health, aka., VeryBad Health if you actually were to follow their diabolical advice on nutrition, or more to the point, “Verywell Dead,” as you’ll likely feel like a walking dead and actually die a lot sooner. This time they covered a backwards, and frankly put, useless study, exploring the relationship between exercise and insulin in the brain and the risk of developing dementia. Let’s see what they came up

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The Sad State Of Nutrition (Pseudo)Science — And Zero Carb Is The Only Way To Improve Mental Health And Cognition!

By / / Diet and Nutrition, Health and Fitness / 9 minutes of reading

Yet again we’ll return to Examine.com and take a look at a meta-analysis of extremely poor studies and trials on “low-carbohydrate” diets and improvements on quality of life (QoL,) and cognition. Quick Summary “In this meta-analysis of 30 randomized controlled trials in 1,781 adult participants, researchers looked at a low-carbohydrate and improvements in mood, anxiety, or memory speed, but its effects varied depending on individual characteristics and contexts.” There are a few crucial things

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Trying to Remedy Deficiencies — Magnesium L-Threonate Improving Sleep Quality?

By / / Diet and Nutrition, Health and Fitness / 6 minutes of reading

Once again we return to Examine.com for another perfect example of totally useless and meaningless trial study. This time they summarized a controlled trial with magnesium L-threonate and its impact on improved sleep quality, daytime functioning, and mood in adults with self-reported sleep problems. What was studied? “The effectiveness of supplementation with magnesium L-threonate (MgT) for improving self-reported sleep problems. The primary outcome was sleep quality, assessed using the Insomnia Severity Index (ISI), Leeds

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