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Mind-Body
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Curious, on the "Mind-Body" connection. Will yourself to death or think yourself young...
Link: https://www.salon.com/2021/12/31/psychogenic/
& Link: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/jan/02/can-you-think-yourself-young-ageing-psychology
The Gut Biome
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Link: https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-invisible-organ-shaping-our-lives-microbiome/
By implication, a great deal of our health and mental wellness can be traced back to diet and lifestyle. Things like smoking, sugar, diet soda, preservatives and antibiotics all negatively affect the gut biome, which in turn affects not only our health but our state of mind.
The good news, you can positively impact it with healthy lifestyle choices and probiotic foods - such as Kombucha, active yogurt, fermented foods, etc.
And, of course - fresh and young fecal transplants. Mmmm. Fecal transplants. I've already called my first unborn grand-childs first dirty diaper, but this could be a long waiting game...at least the kids know I'll be game for baby-sitting.
Our Shrinking Brains
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AN interesting read via PsyPost that human brains shrunk approximately 3000 years ago as a response to Social Intelligence (or "Shared Intelligence").
I see plenty of evidence that via Social Media, cell phones, etc - the next level of "Social Intelligence" - are shrinking and atrophying our brains yet again, and further...
Igor & Grichka Bogdanoff
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Curious in real life, and I can't help but think I've seen them before...
- Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_and_Grichka_Bogdanoff
- CNN: https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/04/entertainment/igor-bogdanoff-dies-covid-intl-scli/index.html
Oh, now I remember ... the plasticized beauty of the trophy wives of Yaletown...
Note: How do Plastic Surgeons do this to people and not get charged? Are they not bound by the Hippocratic Oath? Shouldn't these people instead be referred to therapists and psychologists, not turned into nightmarish living human caricatures?
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