What Happens To Our Health When There Is Less Sunlight
You can be in love with summer and dislike autumn and winter. Or, it can be the opposite, and you may be impatiently waiting for the moment when the heat goes down, the colors become softer, and nature becomes more romantic. But whatever season you prefer, the fans of summer and winter are similarly defenseless…
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Serotonin and Dopamine: What Do We Know About the “Happy” Hormones?
Every one of us has our own individual concept of happiness, and no one has come up with a universal definition. Yet, all of us are capable of intuitively experiencing it, distinguishing between being happy and unhappy. It is common knowledge today that happiness depends not only on a capricious fate and some mysterious existential…
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Now You Can See! How to Keep Your Eyes Healthy and Eyesight Strong
According to the report “Blindness and vision impairment” by the World Health Organization, 36 million people worldwide are blind, and 1.3 billion people on the planet suffer from some form of visual impairment. The fear of blindness is in the top five most widespread phobias (occupying the fourth place), but, surprisingly, we do very little…
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Chronobiology: Who Winds Up Your Body’s Clock?
In 2017, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was granted to researchers Michael W. Young, Jeffrey C. Hall, and Michael Rosbash to discover mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythms, i.e., our circadian clock. Circadian rhythms affect most of the processes in our body. The circadian rhythms determine many things, including the time of the day…
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The Five Most Common Chronic Illnesses That Develop by Age 65
Doctors joke that our body’s warranty runs out after age 30. What happens next to a person’s health is totally up to them. Lifestyle, eating habits, whether one engages in preventative measures or not, and consistent checkups at the doctor’s all affect the state of our health. At 40, our body becomes even more vulnerable,…
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Ten Facts About The Importance Of Sleep
Many believe that sleep is just an opportunity for our body to rest and recover its strength. But while accepting the undeniable fact that sleep is necessary, many continue to take it lightly, considering sleep to be a waste of time, especially with all the things that need doing! However, there are many good reasons…
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