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Your vagus nerve is a big deal, and I’m thinking that knowing more about it has the potential of improving the quality of our lives. When I describe it as a big deal, I not only mean in size, but also in extent and function. Not only is it the longest cranial nerve in...
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How many times a day do you complain? You may not see yourself as a complainer. Neither do I. Just to improve our self-awareness though, and clarify what it means to complain, let’s look at a definition with some synonyms. To complain is to express dissatisfaction,...
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The A, B, Zs of over-the-counter medications annually reach their highest profit margins around this time of year. Aller-tec, Benadryl, and Zyrtec are household names of common antihistamines that provide relief from immune system reactions to allergens such as...
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Truffle sniffing dogs and pigs are used to find the European white truffle in the wild. It is ranked as one of the most expensive mushrooms in the world at $3,600 per pound. I would love to know what the European white truffle tastes like, but at such a price, I’m not...
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Typically, people either love them or think they’re disgusting. If you’ve ever gone mushroom hunting and seen edible ones in the wild, it does make you second guess their virtues. Mushrooms are a type of fungi after all and fungi is a whole category of organisms that...
