Author: Tom Patriot

Do Skin Care Products Need To Tingle To Prove They’re Working?

Tom Patriot

Do you even tingle though? When it comes to skin care, the answer can be complicated. Last week while brainstorming with my editor, she mentioned that she’d run out of her beloved Skinceuticals C E Ferulic serum and started using Drunk Elephant’s C-Firma day serum in its place. (The Drunk Elephant product has been cited as a dupe for the more costly Skinceuticals version, and I had recommended she give it a shot.) One of the first things she said about the new serum was that it didn’t leave her face tingling like the Skinceuticals one…

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Signs of Memory Problems May Instead Be Symptoms of Hearing Loss

Tom Patriot

What might appear to be signs of memory loss could actually point to hearing issues, says Dr. Susan Vandermorris, one of the study’s authors and a clinical neuropsychologist at Baycrest. A recent Baycrest study, published in the Canadian Journal on Aging, found that the majority (56 per cent) of participants being evaluated for memory and thinking concerns and potential brain disorders had some form of mild to severe hearing loss, but only about 20 per cent of individuals used hearing aids. Among the participants, a quarter of them did not show…

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Ariel Winter Claps Back at Body Shamer and Explains The Real Reason She Lost Weight

Tom Patriot

Ariel Winter has no time for internet trolls in 2019. The Modern Family star, 20, took down not one, but two commenters who criticized her celebratory New Year’s Instagram post. The first commenter complained that Winter was “drinking underage! Very bad! lol,” to which she nicely explained that she wasn’t actually drinking, but holding her 31-year-old boyfriend Levi Meaden’s glass. “Honestly anything acidic kills my stomach so I really just held his because I didn’t want to be the only one toasting with water…lol,” she wrote, which the Instagram account Comments by Celebs swiftly…

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How sleep loss may contribute to adverse weight gain

Tom Patriot

In a new study, researchers at Uppsala University now demonstrate that one night of sleep loss has a tissue-specific impact on the regulation of gene expression and metabolism in humans. This may explain how shift work and chronic sleep loss impairs our metabolism and adversely affects our body composition. The study is published in the scientific journal Science Advances. Epidemiological studies have shown that the risk for obesity and type 2 diabetes is elevated in those who suffer from chronic sleep loss or who carry out shift work. Other studies have…

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