Harvard Unveils MRI Study Proving Meditation Literally Rebuilds The Brain’s Gray Matter In 8 Weeks Test subjects taking part in an 8-week program of mindfulness meditation showed results that astonished even the most experienced neuroscientists at Harvard University. The study was led by a Harvard-affiliated team of researchers based at Massachusetts General Hospital, and the team’s MRI scans documented for the very first time in medical history how meditation produced massive changes inside the brain’s gray matter. “Although the practice of meditation is associated with a sense of peacefulness and physical relaxation, practitioners have long claimed that meditation also provides cognitive and psychological benefits that persist throughout the day,” says study senior author Sara Lazar of the MGH Psychiatric Neuroimaging Research Program and a Harvard Medical School instructor in psychology. “This study demonstrates that changes in brain structure may underlie some of these reported improvements and that people are not just feeling better because they are spending time relaxing.”
Pebble Steel review "That's a nice-looking watch," my sister said. I had just showed the Pebble Steel to her. She had no idea that it was a smartwatch, but she liked what she saw. For the Pebble Steel, that amounts to mission accomplished. In the nascent field of "wearable tech," the trick is getting the gadgets in question to be both functional and fashionable -- something you'd actually want to use, and want to wear. The $249 Pebble Steel is a significant success on both levels. Beyond the significant cosmetic upgrade from the original 2013 Pebble, the Steel also delivers a worthy software upgrade (which is also coming to the earlier model), including -- finally -- a bona fide app store. That said, the software upgrade and the improved design do wonders here. What's new: Not as much as you think When it was released in 2013, the original Pebble Watch was a work in progress: it had an overly plastic design, a lack of apps, and no centralized app store to find any of these emerging apps in the first place.
Quelle est la dose d'exercice optimale pour allonger la vie? Quelle est la dose d'activité physique optimale pour une vie plus longue? Deux grandes études publiée ce mois-ci dans le Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Internal Medicine suggèrent des réponses à cette question, rapporte le New York Times. Les organismes gouvernementaux et de santé recommandent généralement 150 minutes d'exercice modéré par semaine. Les chercheurs ne savent pas également s'il existe une limite supérieure qu'il est dangereux de dépasser et si certaines intensités d'exercice sont plus efficaces que d'autres pour prolonger la vie. Dans la plus grande de ces deux études, des chercheurs du National Cancer Institute, de l'Université Harvard et d'autres institutions ont analysé des données concernant plus de 661 000 personnes suivies pendant 14 ans. Sans surprise, celles qui ne faisaient pas d'exercice du tout avaient le plus grand risque de décès prématuré. Psychomédia avec sources: New York Times, JAMA Intern Med., JAMA Intern Med.
The Likely Cause of Addiction Has Been Discovered, and It Is Not What You Think | Johann Hari It is now one hundred years since drugs were first banned — and all through this long century of waging war on drugs, we have been told a story about addiction by our teachers and by our governments. This story is so deeply ingrained in our minds that we take it for granted. It seems obvious. It seems manifestly true. If we truly absorb this new story, we will have to change a lot more than the drug war. I learned it from an extraordinary mixture of people I met on my travels. I had a quite personal reason to set out for these answers. If you had asked me what causes drug addiction at the start, I would have looked at you as if you were an idiot, and said: “Drugs. One of the ways this theory was first established is through rat experiments — ones that were injected into the American psyche in the 1980s, in a famous advert by the Partnership for a Drug-Free America. The advert explains: “Only one drug is so addictive, nine out of ten laboratory rats will use it. This isn’t theoretical.
Stair Training Welcome to the X Gym stair page! This page is for everyone, ranging from pro tower racers, to first-time climbers. It will be updated often with more information, so check back soon! Here in Washington, we have three fantastic stair climbs that are incredibly well put together. Our second local race held in March, is The Big Climb (www.bigclimb.org) up the Columbia tower (pictured above right). Our third climb, always on the first Thursday evening in December, is the 56 floor run up the WaMu tower (pictured above left). If you are new to stair climbing, don’t let the laser-fast winning times intimidate you. For those of you who want to be a good fundraiser and learn some tips and tricks about stair training to improve your time, you’re at the right place! Remember, these stair clinics are mainly to teach you climbing and rail techniques to make you faster on race day. To sign up, just email pj@xgym.com. The X Gym stair clinics are free and hosted by elite racers from the X Gym.
Main et pied Les empreintes digitales (anglais: fingerprint) sont uniques et elles permettent de confondre les voleurs à coup sûr, mieux que l'ADN. 12 critères selon la loi pour caractériser une empreinte digitale selon les caractéristiques du dessin : îlots, lacs, bifurcations, arrêt de ligne, crochets, anneaux… En tenant compte des dessins élémentaires possibles et de leurs combinaisons sur une surface donnée, il est possible d'estimer la probabilité de rencontrer deux empreintes digitales identiques. Ces estimations ont bien varié dans le temps. < 1 / 64 milliards selon Francis Galton, en 1892. C'est le Britannique Francis Galton (1822-1911) qui a développé la méthode d'identification des individus par empreintes digitales. < 1 / 3,5 1026 selon les estimations de 1985 par Stoney. Source: On the Individuality of Fingerprints
Why animals eat psychoactive plants The United Nations says the drug war’s rationale is to build “a drug-free world — we can do it!” U.S. government officials agree, stressing that “there is no such thing as recreational drug use.” So this isn’t a war to stop addiction, like that in my family, or teenage drug use. It is a war to stop drug use among all humans, everywhere. All these prohibited chemicals need to be rounded up and removed from the earth. I began to see this goal differently after I learned the story of the drunk elephants, the stoned water buffalo, and the grieving mongoose. The tropical storm in Hawaii had reduced the mongoose’s home to a mess of mud, and lying there, amid the dirt and the water, was the mongoose’s mate — dead. Two months before, the professor had planted a powerful hallucinogen called silver morning glory in the pen. It turns out this wasn’t a freak occurrence in the animal kingdom. What Ronald K. Noah’s Ark, he found, would have looked a lot like London on a Saturday night.
Den Testosteronspiegel auf natürliche Weise erhöhen Sowohl Männer als auch Frauen leiden unter niedrigem Testosteron, einem Hormon, das die Geschlechtsorgane, den Stoffwechsel, Knochenabbau und andere Körperfunktionen reguliert. Obwohl du einen niedrigen Testosteronwert möglicherweise als medizinisches Problem betrachtest, haben Studien gezeigt, dass unsere Lebensweise den größten Einfluss auf den Testosteronspiegel hat. Es wurde gezeigt, dass Sport, Schlaf, Stress und Fettleibigkeit den Hormonspiegel beeinflussen. In diesem Artikel erfährst du, wie du deinen Testosteronspiegel auf natürliche Weise erhöhst. Anzeige Vorgehensweise Teil 1 von 3 1Konsultiere deinen Doktor für eine alljährliche ärztliche Untersuchung. 3Stelle auf eine testosteronfördernde Ernährung um.Reduziere deinen Zuckerspiegel. Teil 2 von 3 1Beginne mit regelmäßigem Krafttraining. 4Stelle sicher, dass du bei deinem 30-minütigen Workout ausgiebig schwitzt. Teil 3 von 3 1Sorge für ausreichend Schlaf. 5Lenke deinen sexuellen Appetit. Tipps Was du brauchst
Causes of Death | FlowingData There are many ways to die. Cancer. Infection. Mental. External. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention classifies the ways into 113 causes, which are grouped into 20 categories of disease and external causes. As you’d expect, some causes of death are more common than others. Then take age into account. Finally, look at cause across different groups of people and you see different distributions. The chart below shows how cause of death varies across sex and race, based on mortality data from 2005 through 2014. The height of any strip in the chart represents the percentage of people who died of a cause out of those who died at that age. When you select races, you might notice that the smaller groups, American Indian and Asian, appear to be more jagged, whereas cause of death for the larger groups, black and white, appear to be smoother. So focus on the overall trends and how they change by group. Keep in mind that this shows percentages and not absolute counts. How You Will Die
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Der natürliche Weg zur Erhöhung Ihres Testosteronspiegels Acht Strategien frei von jeglichen Nebenwirkungen Kaum ein Hormon wird so innig mit „Männlichkeit“ in Verbindung gebracht wie Testosteron, das „Sexualhormon“ schlechthin. Zwar bilden auch Frauen dieses Hormon, doch für die entscheidenden Sexualfunktionen des Mannes – wie die Entwicklung von Penis, Hodensack und Geschlechtsdrüsen, den Geschlechtstrieb als solches sowie Erektion und Ejakulation – ist es einfach unabdingbar. Dieses Hormon leistet jedoch noch viel mehr als nur die Mechaniken für die Fortpflanzung der menschlichen Rasse sicherzustellen. Bartwuchs und Körperbehaarung tiefe Stimmlage Muskelaufbau Stärkung der Knochen durch Bewahren der Knochendichte Dynamik und Ausdauer und Kraft, sich den alltäglichen Anforderungen zu stellen Doch Testosteron kann noch viel mehr. Ein Testosteronmangel wiederum kann zu Phänomenen führen wie Dazu sollten Sie wissen, dass der schleichende Rückgang des Testosteronspiegels eine natürliche Begleiterscheinung des Alterungsprozesses ist. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Permaculture : la nature comme modèle Un poulailler installé dans une serre pour augmenter la température naturellement, une mare à grenouilles plutôt que des insecticides pour lutter contre les limaces… Bienvenue à la ferme du Bec-Hellouin dans l’Eure. Ici, les maraîchers Charles et Perrine Hervé-Gruyer mettent en application les principes de la permaculture depuis 2008 et sont aujourd'hui considérés comme les ambassadeurs français de cette méthode agricole. Inventée au milieu des années 1970 par les Australiens Bill Mollison et David Holmgren, la permaculture propose de recréer la diversité présente dans la nature en concevant des paysages et des installations humaines qui interagissent "comme des écosystèmes", explique Charles Hervé-Gruyer devant la caméra de GEO. Première étape, le "design". Dans le cadre de l'exploitation, les maraîchers du Bec-Hellouin font appel à des techniques anciennes : La traction animale, qui permet de se passer de tracteurs et donc de réduire la consommation d’énergies fossiles.
97% of Terminal Cancer Patients Previously Had This Dental Procedure… by DR MERCOLA Do you have a chronic degenerative disease? If so, have you been told, “It’s all in your head?” Well, that might not be that far from the truth… The root cause of your illness may be in your mouth. There is a common dental procedure that nearly every dentist will tell you is completely safe, despite the fact that scientists have been warning of its dangers for more than 100 years. Every day in the United States alone, 41,000 of these dental procedures are performed on patients who believe they are safely and permanently fixing their problem. What is this dental procedure? The root canal. More than 25 million root canals are performed every year in this country. Root-canaled teeth are essentially “dead” teeth that can become silent incubators for highly toxic anaerobic bacteria that can, under certain conditions, make their way into your bloodstream to cause a number of serious medical conditions—many not appearing until decades later. Weston A. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Share: Comments
How Fit Can You Get From Just Walking? Four months ago my friend John Sharkman stepped on the scale and realized he was the heaviest he'd ever been. Sharkman—a former college football quarterback—was weighing in at 263 pounds, fifty pounds heavier than his time as an elite athlete. The realization that he'd jumped up to the size of a lineman was humbling, and he knew he needed to shed some weight. He asked me, his fitness journalist friend, to help. In the past, I've undertaken a number of successful fitness and fat loss challenges. So in our group chat, Sharkman and a few other friends made a commitment to walking 10,000 steps a day and tracking our food. "I think walking is probably the single most underutilized tool in health and wellness," says nutrition coach and personal trainer Jeremy Fernandes. Of course, it's not the right tool for every goal. "If you do cardio and you have a pear-shaped body, all that you can expect is to become a smaller pear," says Legend.