A new long-term study has linked late-night eating with a significantly higher risk of developing cirrhosis and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), possibly because eating out-of-hours disrupts the body's natural circadian rhythms.

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🍎 Late-Night Snacking Linked to Liver Disease: A new study involving nearly 200,000 individuals found that eating after bedtime or between dinner and bedtime increased the risk of cirrhosis by 28% and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) by 36%.

⏰ Circadian Rhythms May Play a Role: Researchers from OHSU and Massachusetts General Hospital suggest that disrupting the body's natural sleep-wake cycles, which our livers are attuned to, could impact how food is processed at night, potentially leading to fat buildup.

⏳ Long-Term Study Insights: The research, published in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, followed participants for a median of 16 years. While not proving direct cause and effect, it highlights the potential significance of eating timing on liver health, even after accounting for factors like BMI and physical activity.

#LiverHealth #Nutrition #HealthNews

Plastic isn't as inert as we'd thought: Scientists found that tiny everyday microplastics sitting in plain water spontaneously make reactive oxygen, a damaging chemical that made proteins clump and burst red blood cells in lab tests. The more water-repelling the plastic, the stronger it was.

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Who gets Alzheimer’s drugs. U S research shows Black adults had 86% lower odds, and Hispanic adults had 79% lower odds of receiving anti-amyloid medication compared to non-Hispanic white adults

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Pupil Size Reveals Differences Between Speaking Aloud and Inner Speech . Research shows inner speech is not merely a silent version of overt speech; rather, it is a form of language use associated with lower arousal

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* 👁️ Researchers found that speaking aloud causes pupils to widen more than thinking silently.

* 🧠 Pupil size changes during silent thinking varied depending on the task's difficulty, but were always less pronounced than when speaking aloud.

* 👶 This non-invasive method of measuring arousal could help study how silent thinking develops in young children.

#TechResearch #Science #Neuroscience

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Analysis of Nazi Germany’s final reactor experiment finds it needed roughly twice the uranium and more than twice the heavy water to sustain a nuclear chain reaction, exceeding wartime supplies

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Treating depression during pregnancy influences infant brain development and early emotional function, according to new research published in Nature Communications.

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🧠 New research in Nature Communications reveals treating depression during pregnancy can positively impact infant brain development and emotional function.

👶 Babies whose mothers received psychotherapy for depression during pregnancy showed a 5% difference in the hippocampus, a brain region crucial for emotion and memory, and this correlated with better emotion regulation at 6 months old.

🤰 This randomized controlled trial is the first to demonstrate that intervening for prenatal depression can alter infant brain structure, highlighting pregnancy as a critical window for maternal mental health support with intergenerational benefits.

#Pregnancy #MentalHealth #ChildDevelopment

Caffeine Consumption and Adolescent Mental Health: Higher total caffeine intake was associated with lower total cortical surface area.

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Hooked on tuna: People have been harvesting these ocean predators for 44,000 years

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🐟 Oldest evidence of tuna fishing found in East Timor, dating back ~44,000 years, with ancient fishers in Japan and Korea capturing tunas ~7,000 years ago.

🌊 By 9,000-11,000 years ago, thousands of tuna bones were found in Greece, and a commercial Atlantic bluefin tuna fishery existed in the Mediterranean by 3,000 years ago.

🎣 Indigenous people on North America’s northwest coast had a complex fishery for Pacific bluefin tuna for over 5,000 years, with Southern California Indigenous fishers catching tunas for 6,000 years.

#TunaHistory #OceanConservation #SustainableFishing

Citations to retracted scientific papers on Wikipedia last on average 5.8 years before they are removed or marked as retracted

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Brain scans of 8,783 healthy Canadians aged 35-69 found people eating the most ultra-processed food (chips, soda, sugary cereal, ready meals) were about 40% more likely to have hidden brain damage like silent mini-strokes, even though their memory scores were normal. The link was strongest in women.

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🧠 A new study in JAMA Network Open links high consumption of ultra-processed foods (packaged snacks, sugary cereal, soft drinks, ready meals) to a 40% increased likelihood of small brain tissue damage in healthy adults aged 35-69, even before symptoms appear.

🧠 Researchers from the Population Health Research Institute analyzed brain scans and diet records from 8,783 Canadians. The heaviest eaters of ultra-processed foods, who consumed these items as 45% of their diet, showed more white matter damage and silent strokes compared to those who ate them as 16.5% of their diet.

🧠 The link between ultra-processed food and brain damage was notably stronger in women, who had 1.8 times the odds of silent brain damage compared to women consuming the least amount.

#UltraProcessedFood #BrainHealth #Diet

Large study finds no link between ultra-processed food and colorectal cancer

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Self-medication of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptoms with psychoactive substances in adults: a scoping review of how symptom-relief motives are framed and operationalised across substances

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The 'healthier-looking' food is often the higher-calorie one, study finds, and people who trust that impression make the most calorie-estimation errors

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Scientists used AI to read ~150,000 Reddit posts from people taking gray-market retatrutide, an unapproved next-gen weight-loss drug. Top reported side effect wasn't nausea like in trials, but increased appetite, plus more sleep problems, a racing heart and muscle changes than other GLP-1 users.

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* 🤖 Penn Engineers used AI to analyze nearly 150,000 Reddit posts from ~40,000 users to systematically examine self-reported side effects of an unapproved GLP-1 drug, retatrutide.

* 📈 A key finding was that "increased appetite" was the most frequently reported symptom by Reddit users, contrasting with "gastrointestinal complaints" noted in official Phase 2 clinical trials.

* ⚠️ Researchers emphasize caution, stating findings are a starting point for further investigation and do not establish causality or confirm users are taking genuine retatrutide.

#AI #HealthTech #DrugSafety

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