SUBJ: Why eating red meat and breathing air pollution increase risk for cancer.

SUBtitle: The need to address sleep health in treating depression.

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SHORT NOTES:

Why eating red meat and breathing air pollution increase risk for cancer.

The findings emphasize the need to address sleep health in treating depression.

Microbiome is likely to cause mental disorders like social anxiety in teenagers.

Women’s tears have pheromones which reduce aggressive behavior in men.

In men, the highest category of HDL levels was associated with increased risk of all-cause mortality.  It is a u-shaped curve, so 40-80mg/dL is safest.

Personalized probiotics may serve as a new means to support health-promoting interventions in midlife linking physical capacity and health status.

There is a Protective Effect of Berberine on Acute Gastric Ulcer.

Capsaicin Attenuates LPS-Induced Acute Lung Injury

Poor sleep quality have been shown to directly affect cognitive functioning and especially memory.

LONG NOTES:

NPR Science Friday: Inflammatory agents activate sleeping cancer cells to promote cancer.  This explains why eating red meat and breathing air pollution increase risk for cancer, and eating anti-inflammatory agents like fish and olive oil reduces risk.

Science 19 Jan pg 271-Microbiome likely to cause mental disorders like social anxiety in teenagers; pg 271 – Women’s tears have pheromones which reduce aggressive behavior in men.

In men, the highest category of HDL-C levels was associated with increased risk of all-cause (HR 1.60, 95% CI 1.26–2.03), cancer (HR 1.37, 95% CI 0.96–2.00), and “non-cancer non-CVD” mortality.  It is a u-shaped curve, so 40-80mg/dL is safest.  No significant association was found between HDL-C levels and mortality in women. Higher HDL-C levels are associated with increased risk from cancer and “non-cancer non-CVD” mortality in healthy older men but no such relationship was observed in women.

Microbiota composition has been linked to physical activity, health measures, and biological age. These findings suggest that microbiota composition is a potential mechanism linking physical capacity and health status; personalized probiotics may serve as a new means to support health-promoting interventions in midlife.  These findings suggest that microbiota composition is a potential mechanism linking physical capacity and health status; personalized probiotics may serve as a new means to support health-promoting interventions in midlife.

Protective Effect of Berberine on Acute Gastric Ulcer – BBR significantly improved the pathological morphology of gastric ulcers, increased the macroscopic score and healing rate, decreased serum levels of NO, IL-6, and PGE2, and increased serum levels of IL-10, thus effectively alleviating gastric ulcer severity.

Capsaicin Attenuates LPS-Induced Acute Lung Injury

Depression, Sleep Health & Sociodemographic Correlates in a Nationwide Survey. The findings emphasize the need to address sleep health in treating depression, especially during times of public health crises.

Sleep is essential to all human body functions as well as brain functions. Inadequate sleep quantity and poor sleep quality have been shown to directly affect cognitive functioning and especially memory. participants with better self-reported sleep quality performed faster on the Trail Making Test