Author: Tom Patriot

Ready for a close-up: The science behind face massage rollers

Tom Patriot

Facial massaging using a roller can increase skin blood flow for more than ten minutes after the massage. It can also improve vasodilation — the widening of blood vessels, — in the long-term, according to a study by researchers in Japan. Beauty experts rave about them, and millions of us buy them, but what do scientists make of face massage rollers? Few studies have so far investigated the effects of using facial massage rollers over time. To address this gap, Naoyuki Hayashi of the Institute for Liberal Arts, Tokyo Institute…

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Emilia Clarke Had Two Brain Aneurysms and a Near-Death Surgery During Her Early Years on Game of Thrones

Tom Patriot

In an essay for The New Yorker published today, Emilia Clarke reveals for the first time that she suffered two brain aneurysms in between earlier seasons on Game of Thrones. Both instances required serious procedures in the hospital, but the second was a much more painful surgery that required penetrating her skull, she wrote. The health scares (“I nearly lost my mind and then my life,” she wrote) caused her to worry for her future as an actress, especially since the recovery partially affected her memory. Clarke suffered the first aneurysm on February…

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New brain research challenges our understanding of sleep

Tom Patriot

An international study headed by researchers from Aarhus University has for the first time uncovered the large-scale brain patterns and networks in the brain which control sleep, providing knowledge which in the future may can in the long term help the many Danes large proportion of people who experience problems sleeping. We spend approximately. one-third of our life asleep and our sleep has fascinated researchers for many years. Research from the Centrer for Music in the Brain at Aarhus University and the University of Oxford has now revealed, in unprecedented…

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Can CBD Products Improve Your Fitness Results?

Tom Patriot

ONCE RESERVED FOR dispensaries, cannabis products are becoming increasingly mainstream. Popping up on supermarket and health store shelves as well as holistic wellness websites, CBD oils, tinctures and salves promise major health benefits. The latest wellness fad: improved exercise results. To understand how CBD is believed to impact workouts, it’s important to recognize what CBD is. Short for cannabidiol, CBD is one of more than 100 compounds called cannabinoids contained in cannabis. Similar in structure to endocannabinoids, which the body naturally produces (and may be responsible for runner’s high), cannabinoids are most well-known…

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