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“PQQ is present in a variety of foods such as parsley, green tea, and fermented soybeans. PQQ is also abundant in human breast milk. The estimated daily intake of PQQ from typical foods and beverages are 0.01–0.4 mg/day. PQQ is an anti-oxidant and promotes mitochondrial biogenesis. Reduced PQQ exhibits a high anti-oxidant capacity that is 7.5-fold greater than that of ascorbic acid.”

“Approximately 1.5 million people living in the United States experience a traumatic brain injury (TBI) – a disruption in normal brain function caused by an external mechanical force – each year. TBI causes both acute and chronic effects, including cognitive dysfunction.”

“It was associated with improved subjective sleep quality, sleep efficiency, and sleep latency. In practice, separating scrolling, worrying, and other wakeful activities from the bed reduces opportunities to rehearse wakefulness there, while getting up briefly removes the effort to force sleep.”

“The analysis suggested that the survival advantage was due to the effect that book reading had on cognition since cognitive capability at the start of the study had no effect on survival over the 12-year follow-up.”

“The study involved 33 older adults (average age, 78 years). Participants walked on a treadmill for 30 minutes a day, four times a week, for 12 weeks and underwent tests before and after the intervention to assess their physical and cognitive performance.”

“A key limitation is that this was a later analysis of a trial originally designed for asthma, not cognition, so the memory findings should be treated as suggestive. Still, the results raise the possibility that prenatal vitamin D could influence specific aspects of later cognitive performance.”

“A large observational study associated five healthy lifestyle factors, including a healthy dietary pattern, with an estimated 14 additional years of life expectancy for women and 12 years for men at age 50 compared with following none of the factors.”

“In this FoundMyFitness Premium Q&A preview, Dr. Rhonda Patrick reviews common contributors to fragmented sleep, including insomnia, sleep apnea, nocturia, psychological stress, irregular schedules, caffeine, alcohol, light, noise, temperature, and late eating.”

“Dr. Rhonda Patrick discusses how conditioning the body to heat stress through sauna use, called "hyperthermic conditioning" may cause adaptations that increase athletic endurance (by increasing plasma volume and blood flow to heart and muscles) and potentially even muscle mass. She also discusses the profound effects of hyperthermic conditioning on the brain including cognitive function.”

“In his clinical framework, Dr. Attia first asks how much weekly exercise a patient is willing to do, divides that time between strength and stability work and cardio, and then applies the 80/20 split to the cardio portion.”