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All Too Human: The Price We Pay for Our Advanced Brains May Be a Greater Tendency to Disorders
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,…
Read MoreRachel McAdams Was on a Magazine Cover—While Using a Breast Pump
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…
Read MoreMakeup of an individual’s gut bacteria may play role in weight loss.
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…
Read MoreDo Skin Care Products Need To Tingle To Prove They’re Working?
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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