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05/15/2018 / By Ralph Flores

Why does drinking alcohol or sugary drinks make us thirsty?

Not all drinks were made to quench a person’s thirst: Far from it, alcoholic beverages and those that contain sugar make us even thirstier, and scientists may have found the reason why. In a study published in Cell Metabolism, research indicated the liver hormone FGF21, or fibroblast growth factor 21, to be responsible for the brain’s actions to increase […]

12/07/2016 / By Ethan Huff

Chronic sleep disruption can give you cancer

Rates of liver cancer have tripled since the 1980s, and one group of researchers from the Baylor College of Medicine in Texas says that a major contributing factor appears to be persistent sleep deprivation amongst increasingly busy people. Many in today’s society fail to maintain consistent sleep patterns, they say, and are thus putting excess […]

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