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Up till now we have thought that it’s pretty impossible to get rid of dangerous blood vessel plaque build-up without a rotor-rooter. I remember a physician told me just at the beginning of this year (2013) that he has never seen plaque reverse. Well, researchers in Spain measured the thickness of plaque in patients consuming varied diets and they found one food group, that if added to a healthy diet, reversed plaque. Several handfuls of nuts a day won the prize. Adding mixed nuts (walnuts, almonds and hazelnuts) significantly reversed dangerous plaque-build up. The research showed that consuming the healthy Mediterranean [...]

The brain, it’s amazing. It’s at the top of the heap in total body health, and especially in mood and the ability to have a great night’s sleep. But it’s still unfolding how the heck it does all that it does, especially in regards to that elusive marvelous thing called ‘sleep’. A segment of the brain, in the hippocampus, is called the lateral habenula, which is where serotonin is made. When this area was removed in the brains of rats, they couldn’t get into theta sleep, which is a part of deep REM sleep. When the animal is in deep REM [...]