Health
Finding good health news amidst a pandemic can be quite daunting. That’s not the case with The Optimist Daily, where positive news is in high supply. Our Health section covers the latest good news from the health sector, featuring solutions ranging from mental and physical health to immunity, nutrition, and cutting edge medical research.
Sea Hero Quest: the mobile phone game helping fight dementia
A mobile phone game that tests spatial navigation skills and has been played by 2.4 million people, has become the largest dementia study in history and raised hopes of a breakthrough in diagnosing the disease. Sea Hero Quest, a collaboration between Alzheimer’s Research UK, Deutsche Telekom, Read More...
How exercise might keep depression at bay
Exercise may be an effective treatment for depression and might even help prevent us from becoming depressed in the first place, according to three timely new studies. The studies pool outcomes from past research involving more than a million men and women and, taken together, strongly suggest that Read More...
This startup is making meat without killing any animals
A Bay Area-based startup called Memphis Meats has figured out how to make a real meatball in the lab using beef cells, no livestock required. This is fantastic since lab-grown meat doesn’t need to snack on grain to survive nor does it produce methane when being made unlike real livestock. Yes, Read More...
Electric fields can stimulate deep in your brain without surgery
It’s one of the boldest treatments in medicine: delivering an electrical current deep into the brain by implanting a long thin electrode through a hole in the skull. Such “deep brain stimulation” (DBS) works miracles on people with otherwise untreatable epilepsy or Read More...
First home brain implant lets ‘locked-in’ woman communicate
A woman in the Netherlands is benefitting from a new form of brain implant that’s helping her regain control over the functions of communication that were taken away by ALS, also known a Lou Gehrig’s disease. The implanted device can detect the woman’s brain activity and turns them into Read More...
Which milk is most nutritious: soy, cashew, almond or coconut?
Question: Which kind of milk is more nutritious: almond, soy, coconut or cashew? Answer: “It varies based on the company,” said Sara Haas, a dietitian speaking on behalf of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. “I encourage people to be label readers.” Vegans and others Read More...
Research shows probiotics help thinking and memory for people with Alzheimer’s
Eating yogurt and taking probiotic supplements helps improve the thinking and memory for people with Alzheimer’s disease, research has found. In a clinical trial involving 52 people, those who drank a daily dose of lactobacillus and bifidobacterium bacteria for 12 weeks showed improvements on Read More...
Learn to dance, take the stairs and 8 other ways to train your brain
The world has a bit of an obsession with looking young, but do we think enough about training to keep our brains young? Although a quarter of brain-aging is due to genes, the rest can be attributed to our lifestyle habits. There are many things you can do to train your brain to work at full Read More...
Beyond antibiotics: Disrupting the internal communication between bacteria
Every year, at least 700,000 people die from drug-resistant infections. It is why scientists have described antibiotic resistance as one of the greatest global threats of the 21st Century. But researchers may be on their way to a solution. It turns out that bacteria communicate. If you can Read More...
5 states that grow the most organic food per acre
A new report has found that U.S. land for organic farming reached 4.1 million acres in 2016, a new record and an 11 percent increase compared to 2014. As of June 2016, the number of certified organic farms in the U.S. reached 14,979, a 6.2 percent increase of 1,000 farms compared to 2014 survey Read More...