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A recent scientific breakthrough by Chen at al. could significantly improve how we treat cartilage damage — a common problem in joints like knees and hips that often leads to long-term pain and arthritis. Cartilage is notoriously slow to heal, largely because its cells (called chondrocytes) have limited access to energy. To tackle this, researchers…
Yoga Helps People With Arthritis
A group of researchers from McGill University looked at the effects of yoga on people with arthritis. Their findings were published in The Journal of Rheumatology. 75 sedentary adults with either rheumatoid arthritis or knee osteoarthritis and with a mean age of 52 years were randomly assigned to a yoga group or a waiting list….
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Last month Reynolds et al. published an article in The Lancet that looked into the relationship between carbohydrate quality and health. They carried out a series of systematic reviews and meta-analyses that evaluated around 135 million person-years of data from 185 prospective studies as well as 58 clinical trials with 4635 adults. They found that…
Persistent Pain Associated With DNA Changes In Brain And Immune Systems
Renaud Massart et al from McGill University have recently published an article in Scientific Reports on the effects of chronic pain on the body. “Chronic pain” is pain that has lasted for 6 months or more. The study was performed on rats with induced nerve injuries. The results showed epigenetic changes in the DNA of the…
Stress Affects Brain Function and Structure
Echouffo-Tcheugui et al., from Harvard Medical School, recently published a paper studying the effects of stress on brain function and structure in over 2000 middle-aged participants from the Framingham Heart Study. They measured early morning serum cortisol as an indicator of stress levels. They found that “higher cortisol was associated with worse memory and visual perception, as well as…