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Reference Paper: Laughter Helps Blood Vessels Function Better | ScienceDaily
Reference Papers:
- Increased sedentary behavior is associated with neurodegeneration-Mar 2025
- Sitting damages muscles-2025
- Sitting increases breast cancer-2025
- Systematic review of sedentary behaviour and dementia-2025
- Varicose veins and dementia-2025
- Sedentary time and intense PA-2024
- Sedentary behaviour and incident dementia-2023
- Standing desks and CVD-2021
- Breaking up prolonged sitting-2021
- Sitting increases BP-June 2020
- Sitting reduces temporal lobe-2018
- Two different sitting break scenarios-2016
- Sugar increases AD-2024
- Sugary beverages increase dementia-2023
- Impact of fructose on brain function-2021
- SSBs cause fatty liver-2019
- Soft drinks cause hyperuricaemia-2018
- SSBs and cancer-2018
- Sugary beverages and preclinical AD-2017
- Soft drinks and erectile dysfunction-2011
- SSBs and CVD in women-2009
- High glycemic diet is associated with amyloid
- Vascular and blood-brain barrier-related changes underlie stress responses-2022
- Social regulation of pain-2018
- Loneliness predicts cold symptoms-2017
- Social stress induces neurovascular pathology-2017
- Social relationships and mortality risk-2010
- Social support and the perception of geographical slant-2008
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- Gratitude and mortality-2024
- Gratitude in coping with uncertainty-2024
- Gratitude and back pain-2023
- Gratitude interventions systemic review-2023
- Sleep onset is a creative sweet spot-2021
- Effects of gratitude after coronary events-2016
- Gratitude journaling and HRV-2016
- Gratitude in heart failure-2015
- The Gratitude Questionnaire
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Reference Papers:
- Saunas extend lifespan-2024
- Finnish Saunas Mayo Clinic Review-2023
- Combining exercise with sauna-2022
- Heat Shock Proteins-May 2022
- Heat therapy mechanisms-2021
- Do saunas protect against dementia-2020
- Cardiovascular benefits of saunas-2018
- Heat shock proteins and Alzheimer’s-2018
- Effects of heat and cold-2017
- Association between saunas and all cause mortality-2015
- Saunas-Investigating Health Benefits
Reference Paper: Hypertension misdiagnosed due to position of patient-Nov 2023
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Birdwatching boosts brain function-2026
Benefits of strength training post menopause-1994
High-Intensity Strength Training in Nonagenarians-1990
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Reference Papers:
NAD+ Repairs Alzheimer’s Phenotypes in Mice-Jan 2026
Reversal of AD through NAD-Jan 2026
Exercise and appetite-2023
Counterclockwise study-2019
Effects of attitude to ageing-2017
Association Between Positive Age Stereotypes and Recovery-2012
Age Stereotypes predict CVD-2009
Aging Free from Negative Stereotypes in Chinese and Deaf-1994
Reference Papers:
Components of the placebo effect in IBS-2008
Practitioner influences on the placebo effect in IBS-2009
Placebos without deception in IBS-2010
Nocebo effects of finasteride-2011
Analgesia with open label placebo-2015
Placebo in surgical research-2016
PNEI basis of placebos-2022
Role of expectations in DBS for Parkinson’s
Reference Papers:
Cortisol-resistant cells overcome immunosuppression-2026
Shingrix is associated with a reduced risk of dementia-2026
A natural experiment on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia-2025
Sleep and vaccine effectiveness-2025
Shingrix vaccine lowers dementia risk-2024
Effect of vit C and E on muscles-2023
The importance of sleep for vaccination-2022
Potential harms of antioxidants in athletes-2022
Stress impairs immunity-2014
Timing of stress and response to influenza vaccine-2004
Reference Papers:
Incidental rotator cuff abnormalities on MRI-2026
Affirmations can improve wellbeing-2025
Pain is amplified by stress-2024
Modulation of pupillary response by memory-2019
Asymptomatic imaging abnormalities-2015
Bright illusions cause pupil constriction-2012
Neuroplastic Pain Self Assessment Checklist
Reference Papers:
ACE-IQ
The Feeling Wheel
Chronic Pain Management Books and Resources
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Eye health and screen use among uni students-2026
Causal association between smoking and ocular diseases-2025
Digital media use, eye strain and sleep quality-2024
Smoking and ocular health-2023
Visual impairment and dementia risk-2021
Cataract extraction reduces dementia risk-2021
Smoking and risk of dry eye-2016
ACE and long-term health-2025
Childhood trauma can lead to physical and cog impairments in old age-Aug 2023
Traumatic life events and dementia risk-Sept 2023
Relationship between ACE and Alzheimer’s-2022
ACE and dementia in Japan-2020
Adverse lifetime experiences and brain structure-2019
PTSD increases dementia risk-2012
ACE Study by Felitti and Anda-1997
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