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Aug 16, 2024

This Amino Acid Can Help Boost Brain Function When You’re Stressed

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The dosage of tyrosine supplements given in studies greatly varies, ranging from fixed amounts of 2–20 g to 25–150 mg/kg of body weight.

Speak with a healthcare provider to discuss the most appropriate dose for your health concerns.

Many foods contain tyrosine, making it relatively easy to meet the daily requirements. Meat and meat products are among the best dietary sources. For example, each 6-ounce (oz) cooked serving of chicken and steak provides 1,446 mg and 1,640 mg of tyrosine, respectively.

Aug 16, 2024

Benefits of Fermented Papaya in Human Health

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, food, health, neuroscience

Fermented foods have been used for several years all over the world, due to their unique nutritional characteristics and because fermentation promotes conservation and food security. Moreover, fermented foods and beverages have a strong impact on human gut microbiota. Papaya is the fruit of the Carica papaya plant, traditionally used as a medicinal fruit, but there are also references to the use of the fermented form of this fruit. The main purpose of this review is to provide an improved understanding of fermented papaya nutritional and health applications. A literature search was conducted in the PubMed and Google Scholar databases. Both in vitro and in vivo studies were included. According to the retrieved studies, fermented papaya has proven to be an excellent antioxidant and an excellent nutraceutical adjuvant in combined therapies against several diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, allergic reactions, anticancer activity, and anemias. Therefore, it is concluded that fermented papaya has many benefits for human health and can be used as prevention or aid in the treatment of various diseases.

Keywords: fermented food, fermented papaya, health benefits, oxidative stress.

Aug 16, 2024

The Most INTENSE Theory of Reality Explained

Posted by in categories: computing, neuroscience

Karl Friston is a leading neuroscientist and pioneer of the free energy principle, celebrated for his influential work in computational neuroscience and his profound impact on understanding brain function and cognition. Karl is a Professor of Neuroscience at University College London and a Fellow of the Royal Society, with numerous awards recognizing his contributions to theoretical neurobiology.

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Aug 16, 2024

Australian research links low magnesium levels to increased risk of chronic diseases

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A new Australian study has identified why a diet rich in magnesium is so important for our health, reducing the risk of DNA damage and chronic degenerative disorders.

Scientists from the University of South Australia measured blood samples from 172 middle aged adults, finding a strong link between low magnesium levels and high amounts of a genotoxic amino acid called homocysteine.

This toxic combination damages the body’s genes, making people more susceptible to Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, gastrointestinal diseases, a range of cancers, and diabetes.

Aug 16, 2024

This researcher wants to replace your brain, little by little

Posted by in categories: government, health, neuroscience

A US agency pursuing moonshot health breakthroughs has hired a researcher advocating an extremely radical plan for defeating death.

His idea?


Scholz is still skeptical though. “A new brain is not going to be a popular item,” he says. “The surgical element of it is going to be very severe, no matter how you slice it.”

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Aug 16, 2024

Quantum Entanglement in Your Brain Is What Generates Consciousness, Radical Study Suggests

Posted by in categories: neuroscience, quantum physics

This controversial idea could completely change how we understand the mind.

Aug 16, 2024

Revolutionary Two-Photon Microscope Captures Brain Activity in Real-Time

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Researchers have developed a revolutionary two-photon fluorescence microscope that captures neural activity at high speed and cellular resolution, offering unprecedented insights into brain function.

This new approach, which images faster and with less harm to brain tissue than traditional methods, could transform our understanding of how neurons communicate in real-time, potentially leading to breakthroughs in treating neurological diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

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Aug 15, 2024

Sleep resets neurons for new memories the next day, study finds

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While everyone knows that a good night’s sleep restores energy, a new Cornell University study finds it resets another vital function: memory.

Learning or experiencing new things activates neurons in the hippocampus, a region of the vital for memory. Later, while we sleep, those same neurons repeat the same pattern of activity, which is how the brain consolidates those memories that are then stored in a large area called the cortex. But how is it that we can keep learning new things for a lifetime without using up all of our neurons?

A study, “A Hippocampal Circuit Mechanism to Balance Memory Reactivation During Sleep,” published in Science, finds at certain times during , certain parts of the hippocampus go silent, allowing those neurons to reset.

Aug 15, 2024

The brain creates parallel copies for a single memory, new study reveals

Posted by in categories: futurism, neuroscience

A new study now published in Science reveals that the memory for a specific experience is stored in multiple parallel “copies.” These are preserved for varying durations, modified to certain degrees, and sometimes deleted over time, report researchers at the University of Basel.

The ability to turn experiences into memories allows us to learn from the past and use what we learned as a model to respond appropriately to new situations. For this reason, as the world around us changes, this memory model cannot simply be a fixed archive of the good old days.

Rather, it must be dynamic, changing over and adapting to new circumstances to better help us predict the future and select the best course of action. How the could regulate a memory’s dynamics was a mystery—until multiple memory copies were discovered.

Aug 15, 2024

Who Knows What Consciousness Is?

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience, quantum physics

At the risk of sounding a bit woo-woo, as any speculation about the “hard problem” of the unknowns of consciousness does, can’t both be true? In other words, is it possible that Schrödinger’s “total mind” is a kind of quantum reserve downloaded and differentially phased into qualia through the materialist medium of natural selection, which Edelman calls “neural Darwinism”? Is it the embodied human sensory organs interacting with their environment in feedback loops that unveils the unformed wave of fundamental consciousness through the particle of particular experience?

The correct answer is: Who knows?

“Who Knows?” would be an apt title for the best inventory to date of the myriad views on consciousness, from the metaphysical to the materialist, compiled by Robert Lawrence Kuhn and titled “A landscape of consciousness: toward a taxonomy of explanations and implications,” recently published in the journal “Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology.”

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