Thank you all so much for listening over the past few years! While we bring this podcast to a close, we hope you can stay in touch with us on Instagram and through the Health Hackd Newsletter.

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The latest health news we're covering this week:

• Using cold-water immersion for workout recovery
• Alcoholic drinks reducing brain size
• Prenatal mindfulness for infant health
• Cleaning your air with house plants
• A lie about food desserts

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• Cold water immersion post-workout may be a promising intervention for HIIT recovery.
• Alcohol consumption found to be linked to a reduction in brain size, when going from one to two drinks a day, based on new study of 36,000 adults.
• Prenatal mindfulness program shown to improve stress response in infants at 6 months old.
• House plants can make a significant impact on reducing indoor air pollution.
• Food Deserts: Another Food Lie

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This podcast is not intended to provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. The products, information, services, and other content provided on and through this podcast, including information that may be provided in the show notes (directly or via linking to third-party sites), are provided for informational purposes only. Please consult with your physician or other healthcare professionals regarding any medical or health-related diagnosis or treatment options.

The latest health news we're covering this week:

• Improving symptoms of MS with the ketogenic diet
• Using mindfulness to reduce opioid misuse
• Polluting the air and your airways with cleaning products
• Eradicating ovarian cancer with a drug factory
• The truth about Kale for skin health

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• Ketogenic diet may improve symptoms and quality of life for people with Multiple Sclerosis. 
• Mindfulness therapy shown to reduce chronic pain and reduce misuse of opioids for up to nine month, in first large-scale clinical trials.
• Cleaning products are bad news for indoor air pollution and inflammation of the respiratory system.
• Bioengineers at Rice University successfully eradicated ovarian and colorectal cancer in mice, in as little as a week, using a "drug factory."
• The Role of Vitamin C and Skin Health
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The latest health news we're covering this week:

• How Vitamin D may just be the juice you need to take strength and cardio training to the next level
• The health impact of pet ownership
• How having a sibling with a disability improves empathy
• What you see before you die
• The never-ending nutritionally debate between meat and veggies 

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• Vitamin D supplementation improved cardiorespiratory fitness and upper limb muscle strength in adult twin study.
• Long-term pet owners showed the strongest difference in score, declining the slowest among all groups.
• Dog owners had a 54% decreased risk of developing a disability compared to non-pet owners.
• Siblings of children with disabilities may have greater cognitive empathy
• Before death life may really flash before your eyes. 
• Eating vegetables does not protect against cardiovascular disease, finds large-scale study
• Total meat intake associated with increased life expectancy, based on a cross-sectional analysis of 175 contemporary populations.
• Vegetarians have 14% lower cancer risk than meat-eaters, study finds

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The latest health news we're covering this week:

• How chemicals from water bottles leech into your water
• Selenium consumption for learning and memory
• Reversing paralysis with spinal implants
• Magic mushrooms for depression
• How physical attractiveness impacts your immune system

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• Reusable water bottles found to leech hundreds of substances into the water when left for over 24 hours, including endocrine disruptors and insecticides.
• Selenium consumption may reverse cognitive impact of stroke and boost learning and memory in the aging brain. 
• Reversing Paralysis: Three people with completely severed spinal cords regained the ability to walk. 
• Psilocybin treatment for major depression, under carefully controlled conditions, appears to be effective for up to a year for most people.
• Attractive people have better immune systems, new research reveals

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The latest health news we're covering this week:

• The risk of broken heart syndrome
• Eating tart cherries for more brain power
• Increasing muscle strength in 3 seconds
• How FODMAPs impact symptoms of IBS
• NYC's new Meatless Friday initiative

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• FODMAPs appear to have a greater negative impact on symptoms of IBS compared to gluten, further isolating foods that may worsen IBS.
• Tart cherries rich in polyphenols show improvements in sustained attention, feelings of alertness, and mental fatigue after 3 months. 
• Broken heart syndrome on the rise.   
• Low Vitamin B12  health consequences. 

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The latest health news we're covering this week:

• The key to avoiding pain as you age
• Using vitamin D to prevent autoimmune disease
• The mortality impact of COVID lockdowns
• An update on diabetes stats in the U.S.
• How meat is being used as the scapegoat for MS

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This week we're covering:

• Overcoming Baldness
• Mark Cuban's Pharmacy
• CBD for COVID?
• Electroconvulsive Therapy for Depression
• The Conspiracy of Cereal for Heart Health

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• Lab-Grown Hair Cells
• Mark Cuban launches an online pharmacy the seeks to provide affordable, generic drugs.
• CBDs ability to ward off COVID
• Electroconvulsive Therapy shown to be slightly more effective than Ketamine in treating depression.

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This week we're covering:

• A new report on the quality of fish oil supplements
• The impact of light on kids' sleep
• A better way to implement healthy habits
• How goji berries may be the key to maintaining eye health
• An interesting history of an old Pfizer vaccine (for bovine)

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• Nearly 10% of fish oil supplements were found to be rancid in new study by Labdoor.
• High sensitivity of melatonin suppression response to evening light in preschool-aged children
• The scientifically-proven way to implement lasting change is not through awareness, but through emotional and environmental nudges (or reminders).
• Goji Berry Intake Increases Macular Pigment Optical Density in Healthy Adults: A Randomized Pilot Trial
• Pfizer: A History of the Failed Bovine Vaccine

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This week we're covering:

• Research on mask mandates (and mask effectiveness)
• How cannabis may impact COVID
• Human-animal hybrids
• Insect protein
• Olive Oil

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• Face mask mandates and risk compensation: an analysis of mobility data during the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh
• Experimental investigation of indoor aerosol dispersion and accumulation in the context of COVID-19: Effects of masks and ventilation
• Cannabis compound cannabigerolic acid (CBGA) and cannabidiolic acid (CBDA) show ability to prevent Covid-19 from penetrating healthy human cells.
• Insect protein powder may be a viable source of protein for human consumption, delivering on all nine essential amino acids.
• Heart of a Pig
• Olive oil can cut risk of disease, help you live longer, study says

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