Author: Tom Patriot

THE COMPLETE WINTER SKINCARE GUIDE FOR MEN

Tom Patriot

As the temperamental winter weather sets in, your skin is one of the first things to suffer. From the blustery winds whipping your face to the drying central heating inside, your face can be left in dire need of some TLC. Luckily, the grooming industry has got you covered with a range of products designed to take care of your skin with minimum effort on your part. Here, we take a look at all the items you will need to do to survive the elements over the next few months.…

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All Too Human: The Price We Pay for Our Advanced Brains May Be a Greater Tendency to Disorders

Tom Patriot

Prof. Rony Paz of the Weizmann Institute of Science suggests that our brains are like modern washing machines – evolved to have the latest sophisticated programming, but more vulnerable to breakdown and prone to develop costly disorders. He and a group of researchers recently conducted experiments comparing the efficiency of the neural code in non-human and human primates, and found that as the neural code gets more efficient, the robustness that prevents errors is reduced. Their findings, which recently appeared in Cell,may help to explain why disorders as ADHD, anxiety, depression,…

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Rachel McAdams Was on a Magazine Cover—While Using a Breast Pump

Tom Patriot

Rachel McAdams may have kept her pregnancy under wraps, but that doesn’t mean she’s keeping every aspect of her life as a new mom private. McAdams, who has an 8-month-old son with boyfriend Jamie Linden, is covering Girls. Girls. Girls. magazine, and she participated in the photo shoot roughly six months postpartum, according to an Instagram post from the photographer, Claire Rothstein. Ahead of the magazine’s release, Rothstein shared a head-turning image of the Mean Girls alum, 40, dressed in Versace and Bulgari — and using her breast pump. The caption explains the Oscar nominee was still nursing at the time and had to…

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Makeup of an individual’s gut bacteria may play role in weight loss.

Tom Patriot

A preliminary study published in the August issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings suggests that, for some people, specific activities of gut bacteria may be responsible for their inability to lose weight, despite adherence to strict diet and exercise regimens. “We know that some people don’t lose weight as effectively as others, despite reducing caloric consumption and increasing physical activity,” says Purna Kashyap, M.B.B.S., a Mayo Clinic gastroenterologist and co-senior author of the study. Dr. Kashyap and his colleagues wondered if there may be other factors at work that prevented these patients from…

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