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Aug- 2022 -12 AugustHealth
B Vitamins May Be Inexpensive Treatment for Advanced Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
Singapore scientists find hyperhomocysteinemia strongly correlates with the severity of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis. Scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, have discovered that elevated blood levels of an amino acid called homocysteine correlate strongly with the severity of an advanced form of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. They also found vitamin B12 and folic acid (vitamin B9) could be used to prevent and/or delay disease progression. A mechanism that leads to an advanced form of fatty liver disease has been uncovered by scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore. It turns out that vitamin B12 and folic acid supplements could reverse this process.…
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12 AugustHealth
Water: Do You Really Need 8 Glasses a Day?
You’ve probably heard that you should drink eight glasses of water every day — that’s about half a gallon (2 liters) of fluid. This claim has become widely accepted, but is it actually just a myth? This article looks at where this recommendation originated and how much water we really should be drinking each day. The making of a myth The idea that we should all drink eight glasses of water per day has been around for decades but when you think about it, it doesn’t make much sense. Surely a 6-year-old primary schooler, no matter how rambunctious, doesn’t need…
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11 AugustEvolution
Scientists Solve a 120-Year-Old Mystery: How Did the Monstrous Plesiosaurs Swim?
Lead Image: Artist’s concept of a plesiosaur. Plesiosaurs are characterized by four uniform flippers. A new study reveals how plesiosaurs swam underwater Plesiosaurs, who lived around 210 million years ago, adapted to living underwater in an unusual way: their front and hind legs evolved to become four uniform, wing-like flippers over time. Dr. Anna Krahl examined how they utilized them to travel through the water in her thesis, which was supervised at Ruhr-Universität Bochum and the University of Bonn. She was able to demonstrate that twisting the flippers was crucial for forward motion in part by using the finite element…
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10 AugustParticle Physics
The Strength of the Strong Force – Accounting for 99% of the Ordinary Mass in the Universe
New experiments hone in on a never-before-measured region of strong force coupling, a quantity that supports theories accounting for 99 percent of the ordinary mass in the universe. Thomas Jefferson National Laboratory experiments hone in on a never-before-measured region of strong force coupling, a quantity that supports theories accounting for 99% of the ordinary mass in the universe. Much fanfare was made about the Higgs boson when this elusive particle was discovered in 2012. Although it was touted as giving ordinary matter mass, interactions with the Higgs field only generate about 1% of ordinary mass. The other 99% comes from…
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10 AugustHealth
Cancer Breakthrough: Unexpected Link Discovered Between Most Common Cancer Drivers
Lead Image: The study discovered connections between the PI3K/Akt and p53 pathways that provide potential targets for novel cancer treatments. An unexpected relationship between two of the most frequent cancer-causing factors might lead to more effective drugs. According to a recent study from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, two of the most common genetic changes that result in cancerous cells, which were previously believed to be distinct and controlled by different cellular signals, are really working together. To treat cancer, researchers have so far concentrated on developing medications that either inhibit one or the other. Treatments that work better could result…
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