The ADD Lab

31/05/2022

Mounting evidence points to the intersecting roles that intestinal permeability and LPS play in human health. In this episode, Dr. Rhonda Patrick describes how intestinal permeability and LPS influence inflammation, aging, and chronic disease.

21/04/2022

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19/01/2022

Light at night in adults suppresses melatonin in a nonlinear intensity-dependent manner. In children, bright light of a single intensity before bedtime has a robust melatonin suppressing effect. To o...

07/01/2022

Get your eggs in mamas🥚 🍳 🥚

Seven-year-old children performed better on a challenging task requiring sustained attention if their mothers consumed twice the recommended amount of choline during their pregnancy, a new study has found.

10/12/2021

“Nguyen’s team studied stool samples from 184 people, looking at how many different kinds of gut microbes each person had in their microbiome, which means the ecosystem of tiny organisms and viruses that exist in the gut. The study participants also answered questions from the researchers to measure their feelings of wisdom, compassion, loneliness, social support, and social engagement.

People with the most diverse microbiomes also tended to rate themselves high on the scale for compassion, social support, social engagement, and wisdom. In fact, the degree to which participants’ rated their compassion and wisdom was the greatest predictor of the degree of their microbial diversity.”

Feeling that no one wants to hang out with you can feel like a kick to the gut, and a study published in March suggests there’s biological truth to your mood.

09/11/2021

A team of US-based researchers has found an association between indicators of longer estrogen exposure and reduced brain shrinkage in midlife women. The findings are published today in the scientific journal, Neurology.

02/11/2021

Background Attention-Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder, characterized by varying severity in attention deficit and hyperactivity. Studies have shown deficiencies in the serum level of magnesium and vitamin D in people with ADHD. The aim of this study is to dete...

21/10/2021

Abstract. Sleep monitoring may provide markers for future Alzheimer’s disease; however, the relationship between sleep and cognitive function in preclinical and