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A Vegan Diet Lowers Biological/Epigenetic Age In Just 8 Weeks

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Article courtesy of Dr. Joel Kahn, MD, who is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at Wayne State University School of Medicine, one of the world’s top cardiologists, a best-selling author, lecturer, and a leading expert in plant-based nutrition and holistic care. He shared a recent interview to bring more attention to important questions and answers …

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Can 8 Weeks of a Plant Diet Lower Weight, Cholesterol, and Insulin? A Twin Study Says Yes

Can 8 Weeks of a Plant Diet Lower Weight, Cholesterol, and Insulin? A Twin Study Says Yes

Article courtesy of Dr. Joel Kahn, MD, who is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at Wayne State University School of Medicine, one of the world’s top cardiologists, a best-selling author, lecturer, and a leading expert in plant-based nutrition and holistic care. Are you considering a health upgrade for 2024? Adopting a plant-based diet of whole …

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Twin study links exercise to beneficial epigenetic changes

For twins, gesture and speech go hand-in-hand in language development

The Washington State University study, published in the journal Scientific Reports, found that the more physically active siblings in identical twin pairs had lower signs of metabolic disease, measured by waist size and body mass index. This also correlated with differences in their epigenomes, the molecular processes that are around DNA and independent of DNA …

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For twins, gesture and speech go hand-in-hand in language development

For twins, gesture and speech go hand-in-hand in language development

Gestures — such as pointing or waving — go hand in hand with a child’s first words, and twins lag behind single children in producing and using those gestures, two studies from Georgia State University psychology researchers show. Twins produce fewer gestures and gesture to fewer objects than other children, said principal researcher Seyda Ozcaliskan, …

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