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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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05.09.2012
BHT In My Cereal?
Can there be too much of a good thing? Drinking too much water can dilute the electrolytes in the body and short circuit the wiring. It’s called water intoxication, and can lead to death. Though eating too much candy might not cause a person to die, the resultant stomach distress might bring on the wish to expire early.
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05.07.2012
Special Vitamin K?
Many people think that vitamin K is used by the body only to clot blood after getting a cut. That’s true, but this nutrient is much more complicated than that. Because it’s fat-soluble, it requires fat to be absorbed, but unlike some other fat-soluble vitamins, it doesn’t get stored anywhere in large amounts. Its name came from the German word koagulation in 1929, immediately after its newly discovered function.
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05.06.2012
Allergy and Inflammation
If you’re among the susceptible, the first whack in the face by a giant pollen ball is enough to set you back. You get the runny nose, the watery eyes, the headaches and all the accessories. If they were temporary symptoms, you wouldn’t pay much attention. A handful of tissues and a couple of antihistamines, and you’re on your way.
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05.06.2012
Solvents In The Home And Workplace
There are too many things we take for granted. When it comes to health, if it doesn’t hurt, we don’t pay attention to it. This is the case with the solvents we use around the house, including the apparently harmless cleaners and the more aggressive degreasers and thinners. The solvents used at the workplace are considerably more powerful.
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05.05.2012
Low Cholesterol And Mental Health
If mental health is defined as a state of emotional and psychological well-being in which an individual is able to use his or her cognitive and emotional capabilities, function in society, and meet the ordinary demands of everyday life, then we need to take care of the garage in which this vehicle is kept.
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05.05.2012
Sleep and Weight
Ahh, yes, that state of rest for body and soul. It’s the time when will power and consciousness are suspended, and when body functions are mostly in neutral. Most sleep scientists agree that sleep has considerable value as a recuperative and adaptive function in humans.
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05.04.2012
Water Is Water. Period.
A topic of considerable debate in recent days is alkalized water. From a chemical point of view this raises both eyebrows and evokes a grin. A review of the meaning of pH might help to explain the absurdity of alkaline—or acidic, for that matter—water. You remember that pH is a measure of acidity or alkalinity of a liquid using a scale that ranges from 0 to 14, with 7 being neutral.
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05.04.2012
Menopause and Memory
For eras women’s physical and mental suffering has been trivialized when it is associated with the condition of menopause. But the reality of hot flashes, fatigue, sleep disturbance, moodiness, and discomfiting cerebral performance during menopause is virtually tangible.
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04.03.2012
B-Vitamins And Memory
Francis Bacon, who was a philosopher in the 16th century, said that, “Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.” The same principle can apply to the written word of the present. If we took everything we read in magazines or over the internet as gospel, conflicting words and ideas would create such confusion that the truth would be more elusive than it has been for decades.