Good morning. In today’s edition:

• Your Morning Coffee Could Be Quietly Causing Hearing Loss, Study Reveals

• Fastest Weight Loss Method?

• After a 20-week Resistance Training Study Comparing Two Groups, One Training Continuously and the Other Taking a 10-week Break Midway, Researchers Observed Similar Improvements in Both Strength and Muscle Size. However, Muscle Strength Was Better Maintained Than Muscle Size

• Daylight Saving Time Messes With Sleep, but Just for a Bit: People Lose About an Hour of Sleep on the Sunday When Clocks Spring Forward and on the Sundays After That. However, They Don't Really Get to Enjoy the Extra Hour of Sleep When Clocks Fall Back. Plus, It Affects Men and Women Differently

…and lots more. Have a great day!

FOOD & NUTRITION

Your Morning Coffee Could Be Quietly Causing Hearing Loss, Study Reveals

Did you know your morning coffee might do more than just wake you up? Recent research shows it could also hurt your hearing. Too much coffee can make you jittery or upset your stomach. But, it might also cause hearing loss.

Researchers from Guangdong Pharmaceutical University studied 1,800 adults. They wanted to know how coffee affects hearing. They found that, the more coffee people drink, the higher their risk of hearing problems. They had trouble with normal speech and high-pitched sounds, like alarms.

What's surprising is that this risk is there even if you aren't around loud noises. This means that something in the coffee itself could be causing the hearing trouble.

The problem lies in how caffeine impacts adenosine, a substance that helps your ears recover from daily noises. Caffeine blocks adenosine, which can lead to long-term hearing damage.

If you drink coffee regularly, especially if you're younger than 65 or a man, you might want to think about cutting back. The study found these groups have a higher risk. Non-Hispanic Whites showed the most significant effects, with nearly twice the hearing loss as those who don't drink coffee.

So, while you don't have to stop drinking coffee altogether, watching how much you drink could help protect your hearing for the future.

Source: headphonesty.com

WEIGHT LOSS

Fastest Weight Loss Method?

Looking to lose weight quickly? Dr. Berg has a plan that can help you drop a size in just one week. Here’s how you can get started:

1. Intermittent Fasting: Eat only two meals a day, one in the late morning and another for dinner, with no snacks in between. This helps keep your insulin low, which is important for losing weight.

2. Eat Right: Your meals should have a small amount of protein (about the size of your hand), lots of vegetables to clean out fats, and some healthy fats, which don’t raise insulin much.

3. Get Enough Sleep: You need at least eight hours of sleep every night. Good sleep helps you burn fat. If you have trouble sleeping, try a natural sleep aid that doesn’t make you feel tired in the morning.

4. Lower Stress: Stay away from stressful people and don’t watch upsetting news for a week. Instead, do things that relax you like reading or watching funny movies. Stress makes it hard to lose weight.

5. Exercise Right: Do intense workouts like sprinting or cycling every other day. On the days you don’t work out, go for long walks. This helps your body burn more fat.

6. Take Supplements: Potassium citrate can help with fat burning and keep you healthy. Nutritional yeast is good for easing stress because it has lots of B vitamins.

By following these tips, you’re not just losing weight fast but also improving your overall health.

Source: Dr. Eric Berg DC

HEALTH

After a 20-week Resistance Training Study Comparing Two Groups, One Training Continuously and the Other Taking a 10-week Break Midway, Researchers Observed Similar Improvements in Both Strength and Muscle Size. However, Muscle Strength Was Better Maintained Than Muscle Size

Good news for gym-goers: taking a break might not set you back as much as you think. Researchers at the University of Jyväskylä's Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences studied two groups over 20 weeks. One group worked out without stopping, while the other took a 10-week break in the middle. In the end, both groups were just as strong and had similar muscle size.

The study found that muscle strength holds up better than muscle size during a break. "Strength stays a bit more than size when you pause your workouts," said Eeli Halonen, who's studying this for his PhD. This happens because the nervous system remembers the strength longer than muscles keep their size.

When people started exercising again, their muscles quickly bounced back to how strong and big they were before the break. "It only took five weeks to get back to their earlier condition," Halonen explained. This quick comeback is due to something called "muscle memory."

Continuous trainers saw their progress slow after 10 weeks. This suggests that breaks can be just as good for long-term gains. The research team wants to explore how muscle memory works on a deeper level in their next studies.

This study shows that if you need to stop training for a while, you can still come back strong. Planning regular breaks might even help keep your workouts effective all year.

Source: jyu.fi

Daylight Saving Time Messes With Sleep, but Just for a Bit: People Lose About an Hour of Sleep on the Sunday When Clocks Spring Forward and on the Sundays After That. However, They Don't Really Get to Enjoy the Extra Hour of Sleep When Clocks Fall Back. Plus, It Affects Men and Women Differently

Every year, we change our clocks twice, once in the spring and once in the fall. A new study from the University of Bristol, published on October 25, 2024, looks at how these changes affect our sleep. The research shows that the effects on sleep are big but don’t last long.

Researchers studied sleep data from 11,800 people who wore activity monitors during the time changes from 2013 to 2015. They found that in the spring, when clocks move forward, people lose about an hour of sleep that Sunday. In the fall, when clocks fall back, they only gain about half an hour more sleep, not the full hour they might expect.

The study also found that men and women react differently to the time changes. Men usually get more sleep on weekdays after the changes, especially in the spring. Women, on the other hand, tend to sleep less after the changes, which might be because they generally have more trouble sleeping.

Losing sleep can seriously affect our health. The study links one night of lost sleep to worse health. It notes an increase in heart attacks, strokes, car accidents, and depression after the clock changes.

Melanie de Lange, the study’s author, says these findings are important for making decisions about daylight saving time. The goal is to help everyone sleep better and stay healthy.

Source: bristol.ac.uk

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