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Sleep Could Help Stave Off Alzheimer’s And Memory Loss

Scientists researching the potential connections between deep, restorative sleep and the protein fragment beta-amyloid recently found that poor sleep not only hinders the brain’s ability to save new memories, but also creates a channel through which this Alzheimer’s-triggering protein is able to travel and attack long-term memory storage. “Over the past few years, the links …

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’60 Minutes’ Examines The Benefits Of Mindfulness

Anderson Cooper dove headfirst into the world of mindfulness in a segment on Sunday night’s “60 Minutes”. “This is just the next generation of exercise, we’ve got the physical, you know, exercise components down, and now it’s about working out how can we actually train our minds,” Dr. Judson Brewer told Cooper of mindfulness. Dr. …

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