Authentic Human

The Science & Art of You - Explorations into understanding our essential human nature as key to our wellbeing & right relationship with our world.
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∎ 78% of Americans say mental well-being is the top reason for exercising
∎ 76% said physical well-being
∎ Just 15% of exercisers feel that digital fitness platforms have eliminated the need for gyms
∎ In-person fitness will rebound
[Mintel Press Team]

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Drug use, drunk driving and teen pregnancy rates are all down. but depression, self-harm and suicide are rising among American adolescents. Even before the pandemic, a teen mental health crisis was emerging.
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Your biological age is likely a better reflection of your physical health & even your mortality than chronological age. Called aging clocks, scientists have spent the last decade developing tools to assess markers in your body to pinpoint biological age. https://t.co/Hb4oOv1Ksb

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The prenatal tests are taken by over a third of pregnant women in the U.S. today, and the F.D.A. is warning about the risk of false positives. https://t.co/zZn4aYgJ5n

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Animals that live longest & have the most cells should be the most likely to develop cancer because their cells are more likely to rack up enough problematic mutations over time. Strangely, this is not the case & a long-standing paradox in biology. https://t.co/zQQSQNis4E

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“Understanding the neuroscience can give you perspective to say ‘it’s not that I’m stupid or weak. This is how our neurobiology is built. This is a natural response of my brain, and I need to do things that will help me feel more in control.” https://t.co/I5begRRjfN

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Cancer cells can disrupt a metabolic pathway that breaks down fats & proteins boosting levels of a byproduct called methylmalonic acid. A growing body of work shows specific products of metabolism (oncometabolites) can drive cancer progression/metastasis. https://t.co/B98sqOup0l

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The gut microbiome is a dynamic ecosystem with lots of pressures influencing which microbes are present & producing molecules that can enter the bloodstream & influence health or disease states of other organs incl brain via the gut microbiome-brain axis. https://t.co/jTvZ50BXEj

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99.5% of us have at least one change in our genome that create subtle differences in how our bodies function making some drugs completely ineffective or possibly deadly.
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"Indigenous knowledge serves as a ‘connective tissue’ between nature and human well-being." - Mark Plotkin

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To deal with pathogen threats in a proactive and less costly way, human beings also have evolved psychological mechanisms to detect and defend against the threat of infectious disease prior to infection.
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A study from Indiana University School of Medicine provides the first in vivo functional evidence that the loss of ABI3 function may increase the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease by affecting amyloid beta accumulation and neuroinflammation.
https://t.co/HBtHmXINDf

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The UK leads the world in genomic sequencing - their 100K Genomes Project's first scientific results show it could be possible to unlock novel treatments for 3M Britons suffering from rare diseases (a pilot study of more than 4,600 patients & families). https://t.co/PuZ6u2Zi09

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"Rockfish are a colorful group of more than 120 species in the genus Sebastes. Some of these closely related species live for only a decade. Others, such as the rougheye rockfish, can live for more than 200 years."
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Before we can discover new treatments for brain-related diseases, we need to understand.
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We’re nicer in nature - it affects our well-being and our happiness - we’re more likely to get along better with others. Strides you make to improve communication with your children in the great outdoors often transfers to daily life. https://t.co/oR88C4hfW4

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Simple in structure but advanced in function, viruses exist in a category that lies between the inert and the living. They shape our life, for better or worse, with some viruses posing health threats but many others serving helpful functions. https://t.co/6Z8kB3JIli

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Deadly outbreaks & novel diseases have always challenged human existence. Historically, diseases took time to spread, now the infected can board a plane & spread germs worldwide before any symptoms.
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A new study suggests that how people react to bitter flavors correlates with the severity of their COVID-19 infection. This family of receptors may also influence innate immunity to influenza & other upper respiratory infections.
https://t.co/nGYfCvKh9K

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“This is a stunning discovery of an entirely new class of biomolecules - It’s really a bombshell because the discovery suggests that there are biomolecular pathways in the cell that are completely unknown to us.” https://t.co/5ptr3hk4kS