Rest Days: How Much Recovery Do You Really Need Between Workouts?

You know that exercising on a regular basis is an important part of a healthy lifestyle, but maybe you’re so bombarded with facts and figures about how important it is to move more all of the time, that sometimes you forget to stop and let your body take a breather.

“What people need to understand is that exercise stresses the body, so in order to ensure the positive things you’re seeking you need to allow recovery time,” says Dr. Cedric Bryant, Chief Science Officer for the American Council on Exercise. “Everything needs time to recover, rebuild and rejuvenate -read more-http://www.theactivetimes.com/rest-days-how-much-recovery-do-you-really-need-between-workouts

Stronger than drugs

Scientists have noticed something remarkable about the placebo effect, or the power of our thoughts and expectations. In recent years, it’s been getting stronger, and it’s now beginning to surpass the effects of dru

A group of people with Parkinson’s disease were asked to test levodopa, the standard drug treatment for the disease, which raises levels of dopamine in the brain. The participants were told they were probably going to be given the drug, but there was a range of chances they could be given a placebo, or sugar pill, instead.

Brain scans afterwards revealed that levels of dopamine were higher in every case. But what the participants didn’t know was that none of them had taken levodopa—all had been given the placebo. Despite that, the sugar pill—or perhaps the expectation of a result—had caused chemical changes in their brains.1

The power of the placebo is recognized by medicine as a way to test the real effects of a drug over and above our thoughts or expectations. The trick is to not tell the participant whether he’s been given a drug or a placebo in what is called a ‘double-blind placebo-controlled’ trial, the gold standard of medical studies.

But something strange has been happening with the placebo effect over the past 20 years—it’s been getting stronger. In fact, it’s been getting so strong that it’s matching, and sometimes surpassing, the effects of painkillers, and it’s stopping the development of new drugs in its tracks.

Several major new drugs have fallen at the last hurdle when tested against the placebo response, and it may cost a drug company upwards of £1 billion in research and development for a product that has to be scrapped.READ MORE-https://www.wddty.com/magazine/2015/december/stronger-than-drugs.html

London 'diverse' 2,000 years ago

A DNA study has confirmed that London was an ethnically diverse city from its very beginnings.

An analysis of 2,000 year old skeletons reveals what some of the very first Londoners looked like and where they came from.

Among them is a 14-year-old girl, that the museum curators have named "The Lant Street teenager". Analysis of her DNA and chemicals in her teeth show that she grew up in North Africa, but also had DNA that is common in southern and Eastern Europe.

The teenager had blue eyes and like many people living in the capital today, she was of mixed ancestry.

Dr Rebecca Redfern of the Museum of London gives more details of the young girl's skeleton and what she has learned.

Slugs and snails eating post

The molluscs, which have bred rapidly in the damp conditions, are partial to the glue on envelopes and stamps.
Hundreds of workers at Royal Mail sorting offices as well as homeowners are reporting deliveries arriving half-eaten.
A spokesman for the Royal Mail said staff regularly clean postboxes to keep the snails out.
He said: ''We do all we can to protect the mail and insure it is delivered to its intended recipient in a good state.
''Unfortunately there is the odd occasion when snails still manage to make a meal out of envelopes and we apologise for that
''Occasionally wall-mounted postboxes do provide good homes for snails. When we identify the problem, we install brushes in the aperture which deter them.READ MORE-http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/royal-mail/6341425/Slugs-and-snails-eating-post.html

STEROIDS -SAY NO.

A $252 million contract to play baseball causes "an enormous amount of pressure ... to perform at a high level every day," according to Alex Rodriguez, who provided details about the steroids he used as a professional athlete.

But how do steroids work?

Here is what most of us know about anabolic steroids: they make muscles grow faster, there are harmful side effects to our health, most sports leagues have banned them, and they are illegal without a prescription.READ MORE-http://www.livescience.com/3349-steroids-work.html ALSO READ -http://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/20050316/why-steroids-are-bad-for-you.PERSONALLY I SAY NO AS ONCE ASED IF REQIURED THEM WHEN TRYING TO DO BODYBUILDING IN 80S BUT MANAGED TO GET AROUND 18 IN BICEPS THROUGH HARD WORK NOW JUST OLD .

WORMS MAY AID AGING?

SCIENTISTS HAVE DISCOVERED A GENE IN WORMS  -DAF-2  GENE -WHICH BOOSTS METABOLISM AND PHYSICAL STRENGTH IN ROUNDWORM.THIS MUTATION OF GENEMOVED QUICKER THEN REGULAR WORMS AFTER 10 DAYS OF LIFE WHICH IN HUMAN TERMS IS MIDDLE AGE.

SEX..

PEOPLE TALK ABOUT ,BRAG ABOUT,ITS CONSTANTLY  SEEN IN FILMS ,TELEVISION OR USED IN ADVERTS TO SELL THE PRODUCT-EXAMPLE WOMAN DRESSED IN A SEXUAL WAY TO ATTRACT YOU OR MALE MODELS WITH TORSOS SHOWING.MY OWN EXPERIENCE  IS THE ONE I AM GOING TO TELL YOU ABOUT DEAR POST READER.I DID NOT HAVE SEX UNTIL I WAS 21 YEARS OLD,DUE TO BEING VERY SHY OF WOMAN GENERALLY TO POINT MOST PEOPLE THOUGHT I WAS GAY.THE FIRST TIME WAS AVERY EMBARRASSING AS  I GOT AROUSED AND FROZE SO I WAS TOLD BY THEN GIRLFRIEND NUMBER 1 TO RELIEVE MYSELF.YES THINGS GOT BETTER AND SOME TIMES GOT A BIT KINKY -WAS PISSED UPON,RODE LIKE A HORSE TO CUT A LONG STORY SHORT WE SPLIT UP I BROKE DOWN AND GOT ILL.THEN I DECIDED TO PUT MYSELF IN A BIKERS MAG -BACK STREET HERO,S WHERE I MET GIRLFRIEND NUMBER 2 AND FUTURE WIFE .WE TALKED A LOT THEN MET UP IN BODMIN,CORNWALL WHERE THIS TIME IT WAS A FEW TIMES BETTER WE MARRIED IN 1991 AND STILL ARE.NOW MY WIFE HEALTH HAS WORSEN SO SEX IS NOT ON THE MENU AND  NOT REALLY MISSED ONLY IF A URGE GETS TRIGGERED BY WATCHING SOMETHING BUT THEN I CAN DO WHAT PEOPLE DO TO RELIEVE MYSELF,THAT IT FOLKS.