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Taurine amino acid fight agingThe common amino acid taurine is being found to increase the lifespan of mice 25%. This work needs to be replicated in humans, but since taurine does many many things in the body that are useful these findings could easily hold true for humans. The work is still early, but taurine is easily found in shellfish and dark meats.

Taurine
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It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

~ Hermann Hesse

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Stem cell therapy regenerates damaged heartsTests on pigs have demonstrated that injecting stem cells into the damaged hearts caused rapid improvement in function by turning into and creating new heart cells. In the near future stem cell therapy may be the treatment of choice following a heart attack.

Stem Cells
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“Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”

Hermann Hesse
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Japanese plum extract stops hypertensionHypertension results from a chain of hormonal effects, and this plum extract blocks one of these steps. The plum itself is toxic, but the4 Japanese have been using a safe extract of this plum since the 18th century to fight heart ailments.

Hypertension
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“You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.”

~ Hermann Hesse