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Rhodiola rosea – Adaptogen
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0944711300800550 Rhodiola rosea in stress induced fatigue — A double blind cross-over study of a standardized extract SHR-5 with a repeated low-dose regimen on the mental performance of healthy physicians during night duty V. Darbinyan1, *, , A. Kteyan1, A. Panossian2, E. Gabrielian2, G. Wikman3, H. Wagner4 Study Summarise: 56 healthy young men who worked night…
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Put Your Back into it Infographic
So, after having mild whilplash (and a b*stard of a headache) following a car accident last week, this infographic from Furniture at Work is quite interesting. I never realised that stiffness in your back and neck, can cause headaches. This is pretty interesting because I ALWAYS have headaches around my eyes, and I’ve been hammering…
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Study of the Week
It may mess with your bowels a bit, but perhaps in regards to Cardio Vascular health, it’s good for you: http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2087877 Association Between Dietary Whole Grain Intake and Risk of MortalityTwo Large Prospective Studies in US Men and Women. “These data indicate that higher whole grain consumption is associated with lower total and CVD mortality…
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New Goals for Jan and Feb
Training Increase muscular endurance by doing a Tabata interval every day In the mornings on ‘rest’ days and at the end of workouts Morning Tabatas = Goblet squats with kettlebell Single leg deadlifts Russian Twists V sits Increase Back and Glute Flexibility by stretching everyday – Upper back flexibility required for Garcia Guillotine Not a…
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Why Arguing is Pretty Ironic
Why I never ‘engage’ with bellends and their arguments Why do people argue? To pass the blame onto someone else, to make out they have done nothing wrong, to try and ‘prove’ that their view is the right one, or that they are correct about a particular ‘fact’ somebody disputes. Whatever one’s motivation on trivial…
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Why Racism is for Morons
This video of a racist drunk, being a complete bellend was doing the rounds on social media the other week, it upset me a little: I think it ties in with the Coca Cola truck post in some respects – this ‘businessman’ / bellend has obviously been told by someone, perhaps his parents that certain people are ‘bad’,…
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Coca Cola Truck & “Willful Ignorance”
So the red truck – “holidays are coming…” is a marketing campaign. A marketing campaign by an unethical, tax avoiding, American corporation. Basically, the aim of the campaign from the beginning was to get people to associate coke with Christmas. They’ve obviously done this quite successfully; and people, who don’t ‘overthink’ it, seemed to…