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The Lipid Membrane: The Unsung Hero of Cellular Health
The cell membrane, a lipid bilayer just a few nanometers thick, plays a critical role in cellular function by regulating nutrient transport, immune signaling, and maintaining overall cell integrity. Essential fatty acids, like omega-3 and omega-6, are crucial for maintaining membrane fluidity and functionality, which supports energy production, cellular communication, and resistance to degenerative disease.
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The Top Brain Exercises to Improve Cognitive Function
In this article, we’ll cover ten enjoyable and effective brain exercises that enhance cognitive function.
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Best Foods for Brain Health: Support Memory, Concentration, & Anti-Aging
A balanced diet filled with antioxidants and healthy fats supplies the brain with the necessary building blocks to operate efficiently.
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Environmental Toxins & Their Effects on Health
On both a personal and environmental level, we can reverse toxicity and restore good health.
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How to Navigate Election Anxiety & Support Your Mental Health Through Election Season
While participating in the democratic process is important, it's equally vital to take care of your mental health.
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09.05.2014
Electromagnetic Headaches
When it blows in the wind, we try to find out where it’s coming from. Once in a while, though, there’s so much stench we can’t identify the source. Such is the case with electromagnetic fields—EMF’s— and related wavy things.
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09.04.2014
You Gotta Have Heart
If you attended high school most days, you might have learned that atoms are made of protons, electrons and neutrons, having charges that are positive, negative or neutral, in that order. If the charges get out of balance, the atom is either negatively or positively charged.
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09.03.2014
Understanding the Highs and Lows of Triglycerides
You have triglycerides. So do we. Sometimes a lot, sometimes not, sometimes too many. They’re formed by combining glycerol with three molecules of fatty acid, which can be the same or different. Glycerol is a sugar alcohol that provides the backbone of many lipids.
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09.02.2014
Seasonal Allergies - Autumn In New York
Autumn in New York might be a great song, but that’s about as far as it goes for allergy sufferers. In a city made from concrete and glass, you’d think it was easy to escape an attack by natural allergens, like pollen and mold. Ragweed is the chief culprit that arouses immune cells to churn out antibodies to its pollen.
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09.01.2014
Blood Pressure and…
There is no naturally normal value for blood pressure (BP), but if yours is higher than that level deemed risky, you need to do something about it or face the possibility of some nasty consequences, such as stroke or cardiac episode, both of which can kill you—and are preventable.
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06.03.2014
Phosphatidylcholine and Vision: Will The Real PC Please Stand Up?
A disquieting commentary about a globally progressive mentality is that even the most highly educated among us can be misled into believing a falsehood, a misrepresentation often based on linguistic nuance. It’s all in the spin enunciated by those with a systematic plan to pull the undereducated into their fold.
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06.01.2014
Photosensitivity and Supplements
Ah, the red, painful skin that feels hot to the touch. Many of us have had the pleasure…or, rather, the pain. In our youth we were not told of what was to come from repeated aspirations to the beauty of the bronze. And, if we were told, we didn’t listen. If you’re a fair-haired beauty, you’re more likely to burn than your darker peers.
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03.01.2014
Probiotics and Blood Pressure
They’re called flora. Their name comes from the Roman goddess of plants, flowers and fertility, and refers to the plant life occurring in a particular region. The region in this case is the intestine, and the florae that occupy it are micro-organisms that total almost a hundred trillion, a number considerably larger than the number of cells in the human body.
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01.03.2014
Gut Bacteria And The Brain
Maybe what happens in Las Vegas stays in Las Vegas, but what happens in your gut doesn’t stay in your gut, the place we think of as the processing plant that makes nutrients available for use by the body and wastes available for disposal. That part’s correct, but recent interest in the machinations of the system has researchers looking at its relationship to the brain.