🎯 Nuts About Health: Daily Dose, Daily Gains?
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🥜 Daily almonds = big wins for metabolic health! ✅ ↓ LDL & total cholesterol ✅ ↑ Vitamin E (α-tocopherol) ✅ ↓ Gut inflammation (calprotectin, MPO) ❌ No change in systemic inflammation or weight Crunch wisely, live heart-smart! ❤️🧠 #Nutrition #MetabolicSyndrome #RCT #Almonds #GutHealth
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🧬 Age, Clocks, and Plasma: The Biology of Rejuvenation
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🧪 Can we turn back the clock? A new RCT shows TPE + IVIG reversed biological age by 2.6 years in older adults! 🔄🧬 ✅ Boosted naïve T cells ⚠️ Small sample, no clinical endpoints 🔍 Personalized markers predict response #Aging #LongevityScience #Epigenetics 🧓📉✨
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🌈 Eat the Polyphenol Rainbow: Quantity + Variety = Longevity
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🥗 New study in Nature Food: Greater diversity of flavonoid intake—not just quantity—linked to ↓ risk of death, diabetes, heart disease & more 🌈🍇🍵 Eat the rainbow daily: apples, tea, berries, citrus, greens = longevity boost 💪🧬 #Nutrition #Longevity #Flavonoids
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Dr RR Baliga's Philosophical Discourses: Marcus Aurelius (Rome, 121–180 CE) – Roman Emperor and Stoic Philosopher
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Marcus Aurelius (121–180 CE), a Roman emperor and prominent Stoic philosopher, ruled from 161 to 180 CE. As the last of the Five Good Emperors, his reign marked the end of the Pax Romana, a period of relative peace in the Roman Empire. Known for his military campaigns against Parthians and Germanic tribes, he also endured the devastating Antonine Plague. His philosophical reflections, compiled in Meditations, offer insight into Stoic ethics and personal leadership. Marcus was succeeded by his son Commodus, whose rule marked a decline in Rome’s stability. His legacy endures in both...
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🩸 Tiny Messengers, Big Damage: How RBC EVs Wreck Vascular Health in Diabetes
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🩸 New JCI study reveals how RBC-derived EVs 🧬 in #Type2Diabetes sneak into endothelial cells 🧫, delivering arginase-1 & sparking oxidative stress 🔥—a hidden cause of vascular dysfunction. Blocking EV uptake = 💡 new therapy? 📖 https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI180900 #CardioTwitter #Diabetes #VascularBiology
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🧭 From Prevention to Precision of Alzheimers Disease: New Frontiers
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Big shift in Alzheimer’s care! We can now predict it years in advance using 🩸 biomarkers like p-tau217, 🧬 genetic risk, & 🤖 AI-analyzed retina scans. Prevention = lifestyle 🥦🏃♂️💤, vaccines 💉, & maybe GLP-1s 💊. Why wait to treat when you can PREVENT? 🔍 #Alzheimers #PrecisionMedicine #AI
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🩸 Fueling Inflammation: Haematometabolism & Heart Disease
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🧬 Did you know your blood cell metabolism could fuel heart disease? 🔁 Disrupted haematometabolism = more inflammation, less cleanup 🧹 Efferocytosis fails → plaques grow 🧠 Aging + CHIP mutations = 🔥 risk 🥗 Fix it with fasting, fitness & future therapies! #CardioTwitter #MedEd #Haematometabolism ❤️
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Mastering the Microbiome: Bugs, Biomarkers, and Beyond 🔬
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🧬 The microbiome is medicine’s next frontier! From Fecal Transplants 💩 to probiotics 🦠, diagnostics 🔍 to designer bugs 🧪—we’re decoding disease, predicting treatment, and redefining care. But challenges remain. 🎙️ Dive into the FAQs with Got Knowledge Doc! #Microbiome #GutHealth #MedTwitter 🚀
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🔄 From Injection to Ingestion: SOUL Sparks a CKM Revolution
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📢 New from the SOUL trial! 💊 Oral semaglutide cuts heart attack risk in T2DM 🫀 but shows no benefit for stroke 🧠 or kidney disease 🧫. A win for adherence, a push for CKM integration! 🔄💡 #Diabetes #Cardiology #NEJM #CKM #GLP1RA @doximity
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⛳ Pesticides, Proximity, Parkinson’s: The Hidden Risk of Golf Courses
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🏌️♂️⛳ Living near golf courses may increase Parkinson’s risk! 📊 Case-control study: Risk highest within 1–3 miles 💧 Contaminated groundwater & pesticides likely culprits 🧠 aOR up to 2.98 for <2 miles vs >6 miles! 📉 Risk ↓ 13% per mile after 3 miles 🔗 [JAMA 2025] #Neurology #Parkinsons #EnvironmentalHealth #GolfRisk @doximity
info_outlineZeno of Citium (c. 334 – c. 262 BC) was a Hellenistic philosopher from Cyprus and the founder of Stoicism.
His philosophy emphasized living in harmony with nature and practicing virtue to attain peace of mind (ataraxia).
Zeno’s teachings influenced ethics, logic, and natural philosophy, laying the foundation for Stoicism’s prominence during the Roman era and beyond.
Despite losing his original writings, Zeno’s ideas survived through the works of later Stoics like Cleanthes and Chrysippus.