The #1 Food You Should Limit to Help Reduce Your Risk of High Cholesterol
https://www.eatingwell.com/top-food-to-limit-to-reduce-high-cholesterol-risk-11925422?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=Econopass%2Fmagazine%2FFLIPBOARD+EXCHANGE+FEED+%F0%9F%97%9E%EF%B8%8F
Experts agree: It’s time to ditch processed meats. Cholesterol often gets a bad rap, but it’s not all harmful. In fact, cholesterol is vital for many …
#riskyfood #cholesterol #health
How food scandals are fueling anxiety: 'I feel like the whole planet is contaminated'
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/environment/article/2026/03/15/how-food-scandals-are-fueling-anxiety-i-feel-like-the-whole-planet-is-contaminated_6751463_114.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=Econopass%2Fmagazine%2FFLIPBOARD+EXCHANGE+FEED+%F0%9F%97%9E%EF%B8%8F
Cadmium, pesticides, PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) and other harmful substances permeate our food and contaminate us. During the summer …
#foodscandals #anxiety #health
When your eyes, ears, and brain don’t agree, that will leave you susceptible to motion sickness. But just because the 15-foot swells you’re experiencing out on the ocean make you seasick, doesn’t mean others will experience the same thing. So what makes the difference? @popsci dives into it, including how you can offset the effects:
'I had no idea': The hidden mental health struggles many women face during menopause
https://www.euronews.com/health/2026/03/15/i-had-no-idea-the-hidden-mental-health-struggles-many-women-face-during-menopause?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=Econopass%2Fmagazine%2FFLIPBOARD+EXCHANGE+FEED+%F0%9F%97%9E%EF%B8%8F
Most women in the UK are unaware that menopause can affect mental health - a new survey finds only 28 percent knew it could trigger conditions like …
#health #menopause
Ok... I thought I was getting much healthier but it seems like some combination of intense and prolonged stress and exercise must have weekend my immune system enough to cause a potential problem...
And im not feeling as hot recently...
More in an existential way...
Everything is totally fine even much more than fine based on past expectations but certain events in my life and in the news have really turned me into a wreck enough to make it hard to function and have a working immune system...
It seems like one thing after another...
Just so much.
#blog #health #stress
Potentially good news for sleep apnea sufferers from the field of medicine. Participants in a clinical drug trial who took the highest daily dose of an epilepsy drug had nearly 50 percent fewer breathing interruptions while sleeping. @ScienceAlert has more:
Perhaps living with type 2 diabetes doesn’t have to be so permanent after all. @sciencefocus has more, including what causes the disease, how to put it in remission (and keep it there), and more:
what is #propaganda? how does it really work? how does it affect your #brain, #body, #health, #will, #emotions, #life? why do we #doomscroll and retract to #memes , trying to #protect our #wellbeing? is the latter really as #beneficial as we #believe? #think again.
this 9 minutes video is well #worth #mustwatch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY9uuxC_YAQ
#apathy #doomscrolling #chaos #news #fatigue #fake #ai #deepfake #existential #dread
World Kidney Day 2026: 5 natural ways to keep your kidneys healthy and prevent kidney disease
https://www.thehealthsite.com/diseases-conditions/world-kidney-day-2026-5-natural-ways-to-keep-your-kidneys-healthy-and-prevent-kidney-disease-1308381/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=Econopass%2Fmagazine%2FFLIPBOARD+EXCHANGE+FEED+%F0%9F%97%9E%EF%B8%8F
On World Kidney Day 2026, here are five natural ways to protect kidney health, improve filtration, and lower the risk of kidney disease through …
#lifestyle #health
'Strong muscles start in the gut'
"Aging naturally weakens our muscles, but researchers at Leiden University Medical Center and the Universities of Granada and Almería have found a gut bacterium that may help turn the tide. Their findings, now published in the scientific journal Gut, show that Roseburia inulinivorans is linked to stronger muscles in both people and mice."
"Older adults who carried this bacterium had 29 percent stronger handgrip strength than those who didn’t.” In young adults, higher levels of Roseburia inulinivorans were associated with stronger muscles and better overall fitness."
"After clearing the mice’s gut bacteria using antibiotics, they introduced human strains of Roseburia inulinivorans for eight weeks. […] The mice became 30 percent stronger, developed larger muscle fibers and produced more fast‑twitch fibers, the kind needed for quick, powerful movements."
"The team also found that the bacterium changed how the muscles used certain building blocks and activated energy‑related pathways inside the muscle. “These metabolic changes may help explain why the muscles grew stronger"
"Another key observation is that levels of Roseburia inulinivorans naturally decline with age. “This could partly explain why muscle strength drops as we get older"
https://www.lumc.nl/en/news/2026/strong-muscles-start-in-the-gut/
#health #muscle #strength #fitness #RoseburiaInulinivorans #gut #bacterium
'Tackling air pollution should be part of government work to cut cancer rates, scientists say'
"Cutting air pollution should form part of government strategies to reduce cancer rates, the European Code Against Cancer has recommended.
The code previously focused on advice to help people to reduce the air pollution that they breathe. But, for the first time since its launch in 1987, it has given clear direction to governments."
"With home woodburning increasing, the code calls on governments to discourage and phase out solid fuels for heating, cooking and recreation. It also calls for incentives for the installation of home energy systems that do not pollute, such as heat pumps, solar power and geothermal energy.
Jochems added: “It is also important to make air quality information easily available, involve communities in local plans and protect vulnerable groups, for example around schools and care settings.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/06/tackle-air-pollution-cut-cancer-rates-scientists
Vision does not come automatically after sight restoration. In fact, when people born blind gain sight, the hardest part isn’t opening their eyes — it’s teaching the brain how to see. @BigThink@flipboard.com tells us how newly sighted people build a visual world:
🇨🇱 LockBit 5.0 has now published all the information from Clínica Dávila (http://davila.cl). Remember that this medical institution was attacked by the Devman ransomware back in December last year. It appears that Devman sold a portion of the data to LockBit.
Now the question that arises: Has Clínica Dávila individually notified each patient about the attack it suffered from Devman back in December last year?
https://www.security-chu.com/2026/03/lockbit-filtra-los-datos-de-la-clinica-davila.html
#cybersecurity #ransomware #Chile #databreach #health #healthcare #lockbit #devman #research
Life hack for staying cool when running in the heat ☀️
⚠️ Disclaimer : What I'm sharing is something that has worked well for me, and may or may not work well for you. This article is not medical or health advice. Everyone's body is different, and you should consult with a medical professional about concerns you might have regarding e
Continue reading →The gift of gout
Once you hit your mid-to-late-thirties, things start to slow down. It’s an interesting time because it coincides with you feeling fairly confident about yourself and the world around you. As in, you don’t give as much of a shit about things, because you’ve realized how insignificant those things actually are.
If you’re like me, 🍺, 🥃 and 🍸 also start to taste better and you find yourself consuming them more often than not. That has been my case for several years now. I’ve fought off the unpleasant effects of alcohol (making me fatter) by 🏋️, 🚵 and 🏃♂️. However, an unexpected thing happened to me as soon as I hit 40-years-old. I started to develop chronic insertional achilles tendinitis (IAT).
IAT would make it impossible to walk for weeks at a time, which also kept me from 🏋️, 🚵 and 🏃♂️. Without exercise, I found myself drinking more often, especially when I felt more stressed out. I also started to notice that I was becoming more physically depressed. I felt more tired and my brain felt slower. It became a vicious cycle, similar to how overweight people (myself included) relieve themselves emotionally with unhealthy food over and over again.
🏃♂️ is my zen and 🏋️ makes me feel strong, but with IAT I was stuck. So after three years of off-and-on-again IAT, I finally sought out a specialist and got an MRI. I found out that absolutely nothing was wrong with me. There were no signs of arthritis or problems with my achilles. Everything looked completely healthy. After ruling out all of the other possibilities, my doctor diagnosed me with gout.
This was shocking to me, because I’ve always imagined gout as being an old person’s disease where they have this giant swelled up foot and ankle. After learning more about gout and how it first usually presents itself with a swelled up big toe knuckle, I immediately remembered the two times that happened to me in my right foot and I couldn’t walk very well for a week each time. Holy crap! I’ve been fighting gout all this time!
I learned that gout is caused by purines (which sounds completely made up to me) which are found in high quantities in 🍺, 🥃, 🍸, 🐮, 🐔, 🐷, 🐟 and 🦐. That’s basically my entire diet. Consuming any of those on a regular basis and in high volume can cause gout. In addition, not staying well hydrated can cause gout.
In most cases, gout is hereditary. It wasn’t until after I was diagnosed that my Dad said, “Oh yeah, your Mom and I have had gout several times.” That would have been good to know a long time ago 😕.
Bottom line, the cure for gout for me was to give up 🍺, 🥃, 🍸, 🐮, 🐔, 🐷, 🐟 and 🦐, and to stay💧. So that’s what I did, 🥶🦃.
Since I’ve stopped drinking alcohol and have only been eating a vegetarian diet, my symptoms have completely gone away. I’ve been exercising regularly again, and I have yet to experience any of the old symptoms. The other thing that’s changed significantly is what I call my brainergy. I feel more alert and energetic. I had no idea just how much alcohol was physically depressing my body and my mind. I’m sure it’s also because I’m eating healthier now, but not drinking alcohol has made my mind significantly more sharp and intellectually motivated. So in a weird way, gout has been a blessing.
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