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Strength and Sexuality

Have you ever wondered if being able to open a new jar of pickles barehanded or carrying all the groceries inside in one trip is worth anything? A recent Washington State University Study suggests it just might make you sexier. Not the pickle jar or the groceries specifically (though getting them all in one trip is indescribably…

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The Fog is Real

It would be hard to point to anything in the last fifty years that had a bigger global impact than the Covid pandemic. And while the pandemic itself ended sometime in the last three-ish years, the fog it left behind is real. Like clinically real. A new set of findings from the National Institute of Health suggests…

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Red Meat & Gray Matter

A study just published in Neurology showed that eating more than the recommended levels of red and processed meat is linked to a higher likelihood of developing dementia or other forms of cognitive decline. There’s a don’t panic message here before you read on though: this isn’t about not eating meat, it’s about eating the recommended amounts and types of…

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A latte to think about.

Calling all black coffee lovers! Recent research suggests that drinking unsweetened coffee—sans cream—could reduce your risk of dementia, Alzheimer’s and Parkinsons disease. The study was big, it included over 200,000 participants in the UK Biobank who were between 40 and 69 years old (45% were male). 1-in-4 people in the study weren’t coffee drinkers at…

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Funny Sex for Better Sex 

Here’s a pretty easy one to wrap your head around: positive sexual humor has a positive impact on sexual satisfaction, and negative sexual humor has…yep, you guessed it, a negative impact. That might sound obvious, but a study that was just concluded revealed some pretty important insights under the covers. 196 people took part in…

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Gut microbes for the win!

We already know there’s a connection between your gut and your brain, but a recent study at Tulane University takes a step toward showing how your diet might turn your gut into your brain’s strength coach. The researchers started by pitting subjects who ate the Mediterranean Diet against subjects who were fed a standard Western Diet for 14 weeks….

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Ultra-processed foods: why are you hearing so much about them these days?

In a study released this past week, researchers emphasized, yet again, how bad the Standard American Diet is, it’s no wonder is referred to as the SAD. Consumption of calories from ultra-processed foods (UPF) has increased compared to past years, with more than half of all calories consumed coming from UPFs. The data shows that…

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