(Melissa Smith) Some experts believe that the brain stops producing new brain cells after childhood — but that’s not the case, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Medicine. This study suggests that the brain continues to grow even in your 90s.
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How Your Emotions Affect Your Organ Health
(Hilde Larson) After years of studying health and how to allow the body to naturally heal, there is one topic that keeps coming back to me as significant, and that is the body-emotion connection. The key role they play in our physical wellbeing, and how much gunk we carry from early childhood. From our upbringing, our traumas, conditioning and belief system. How everything we ever lived is stored in our cells, and how our emotional terrain affects our vital organs.
Everything You Need to Know About Natural Flavors
(Ocean Robbins) Chances are that you’ve seen the words “natural flavors” on numerous foods and beverages you picked up, regardless of their level of subjective healthiness. But what are “natural flavors” — and are they safe to eat?
Even the Fetus Has Gut Bacteria
(Neuroscience News) Both human and mouse fetuses have their own microbiome, which is transmitted from the mother. Findings provide new avenues for interventions during pregnancy to stimulate the fetal microbiome when the mother shows risk of premature birth.
Depression and Increased Cancer Risk: 6 Reasons Not to Take Birth Control Pills
(Darnel Fernandez) Birth control pills have grown in popularity over the years and are now widespread in usage. While the importance of reproductive health should be recognized, research has shown that these pills can leave unwanted side effects. Now, a recent study published in the journal Frontiers in Neuroscience suggests that oral contraceptives can now affect social judgment, adding to the growing list of adverse side effects these pills can bring.
Oops: 1 in 5 People Misdiagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis
(Edsel Cook) Multiple sclerosis is scary enough on its own, especially since it is expensive and painful to treat. But a new study warns that one out of every five patients diagnosed with the disease has a different medical condition that shares the same symptoms.
Sensory Deprivation and its Frightening Effects
Sensory deprivation, particularly for a period of more than 48 hours, can have a huge effect on perception, cognition, and emotion. Experts have proven that social deprivation has similar effects.
That Destructive Not So Little Inner Voice
(Kurt Smith) No, you’re not hearing things — that voice telling you you’re not good enough, you should do more, or that no one likes you is usually coming from inside your own head. Too often our biggest critics are ourselves and that nagging inner voice can create a great deal of worry, self-doubt and trouble in a person’s life.
14 Natural Treatments for Rheumatoid Arthritis
(Edsel Cook) Don’t let rheumatoid arthritis get you down. There are many natural ways to manage the pain of inflamed joints without resorting to pharmaceutical drugs.
Exposed: Federal Intelligence Agencies Covered up ’80s Child Sex Cult
(Ethan Huff) The FBI Records Vault recently released a treasure trove of declassified documents about a 1980s sex cult known as “The Finders” – and the details are sure to shock you.
Brain Exercises: 12 Simple Ways to Stimulate Your Mind and Memory
(Dr. Edward F. Group) Did you know your brain can atrophy or shrink if you don’t train it regularly? When the brain atrophies, your ability to remember, think clearly, and make decisions shrinks, as well. The good news? You can strengthen your mental acuity with brain exercises! You can do these regularly, throughout life.
The Night Gardeners: Immune Cells Rewire, Repair Brain While We Sleep — And Stress Turns Them OFF
(Justin Deschamps) A recent study conducted by the University of Rochester Medical Center identified one of the brain systems in charge of repair and new connections. Microglia cells act as repair/connection bots for the mind, working to rewire your brain when you’re learning, whether, by study, daydreaming, getting triggered or action. What’s interesting is that stress seems to shut down this system, giving us insights into how we might maintain health into old age.
Animal Study Shows How Stress and Mother’s Abuse Affects Infant Brain
(Science Alert) A new study in rats shows the extent of brain damage in newborn rodents from even short-term abuse by their mother.
Then They Came For Your Mind: The Untold Story of Psychosurgery
Then They Came For Your Mind: The Untold Story of Psychosurgery
Chemicals in Consumer Products During Early Pregnancy Related to Lower IQ
(Natural Blaze) Exposure during the first trimester of pregnancy to mixtures of suspected endocrine-disrupting chemicals found in consumer products is related to lower IQ in children by age 7, according to a study by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Karlstad University, Sweden, published in Environment International in October. This study is among the first to look at prenatal suspected endocrine-disrupting chemical mixtures in relation to neurodevelopment.