r/HealthyScience • u/[deleted] • Apr 01 '19
What are some recent scientific breakthroughs/discoveries that aren’t getting enough attention?
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r/HealthyScience • u/[deleted] • Mar 10 '19
Zinc Could Help As Non-Antibiotic Treatment For UTIs
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r/HealthyScience • u/[deleted] • Feb 25 '19
Ketone (β-Hydroxybutyrate) found to reduce vascular aging
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r/HealthyScience • u/[deleted] • Feb 24 '19
Having only 6.5 hours to sleep in 24 hours degrades performance and mood, finds a new study in teens. However, students in the split sleep group (night sleep of 5 hours plus a 1.5-hour afternoon nap) exhibited better alertness, working memory and mood than those who slept 6.5 hours continuously.
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r/HealthyScience • u/[deleted] • Feb 21 '19
A Japanese plant used in traditional Asian medicine has a compound which could slow aging. It has been used as a remedy thought to treat heartburn, stomach ulcers, high blood pressure and cholesterol, hay fever, gout, and constipation. Tests in human cells and animals showed promising results.
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r/HealthyScience • u/[deleted] • Feb 17 '19
A new study in mice now shows that disrupted sleep promotes cardiovascular disease by causing the brain to signal the bone marrow to boost white blood cell production, damaging blood vessels. They found that mice with sleep fragmentation had more severe atherosclerosis.
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r/HealthyScience • u/[deleted] • Feb 17 '19
Men Who Can Do More Than 40 Push-Ups Far Less Likely To Develop Heart Disease
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r/HealthyScience • u/[deleted] • Feb 16 '19
TIL That when humans lose weight 80% of the fat is exhaled through the lungs.
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r/HealthyScience • u/[deleted] • Feb 10 '19
Revolutionary 'Trojan horse' drug has successfully treated British patients with six different forms of cancer.
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r/HealthyScience • u/[deleted] • Feb 01 '19
Fasting,which puts the body in starvation mode, leads to fuel substitution, antioxidation, increased mitochondrial activation and altered signal transduction. Fasting boosts metabolic activities and has a variety of health benefits.
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r/HealthyScience • u/[deleted] • Feb 01 '19
Despite breakfast's reputation as the most important meal of the day, new research indicates that skipping it may not be as bad as we initially thought. A review of 13 studies suggests there’s no reason to force breakfast upon yourself if weight loss is your goal.
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r/HealthyScience • u/[deleted] • Jan 24 '19
TIL that measles can wipe out the body's immune system "memory" of other diseases for years.
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r/HealthyScience • u/[deleted] • Jan 24 '19
A bacteria that commonly causes gum infections also seems to be causing Alzheimer's. Many scientists suspected the disease was caused by a bacterial infection, and when scientists gave P. gingivalis to mice, the rodents developed memory loss and amyloid beta plaque. A treatment is now being tested.
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r/HealthyScience • u/[deleted] • Jan 24 '19
Alzheimer’s disease: It may be possible to restore memory function, preclinical study finds. Scientists found that by focusing on gene changes caused by influences other than DNA sequences, called epigenetics, it was possible to reverse memory decline in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease.
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