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Mar 18, 2024

Natural Ways to Boost GLP-1 to Support Weight Loss

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, health

To help with weight loss, many individuals turn to various strategies, including fad diets, intense exercise routines, and even supplements. However, one crucial factor often overlooked is the role of hormones in regulating appetite and metabolism. Glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) is a hormone that plays a significant role in satiety and glucose control. By increasing GLP-1 levels naturally, individuals can potentially enhance weight loss efforts (did you know Ozempic and Wegovy are not the only ways to do this!). Of course at STAT Wellness our goal is to uncover the root cause of your weight loss struggles; as a patient of STAT you will not get a blanket “you need to eat less and exercise more” mentality. So if the information in this article is not helpful, don’t settle until you have answers. We are complex beings and need to be treated that way. However the purpose of this article is to explore natural methods to boost GLP-1 levels and support weight loss efforts.

Consume Fiber-Rich Foods.

Dietary fiber has long been recognized as an essential component of a healthy diet, but its role in weight loss is often underestimated. Fiber-rich foods, such as whole grains, fruits, vegetables, and legumes, not only provide satiety but also help increase GLP-1 secretion. When consumed, fiber slows down digestion and promotes the release of GLP-1 from the intestinal cells. Additionally, certain soluble fibers act as prebiotics, nourishing beneficial gut bacteria, which further enhances GLP-1 production. Including a variety of fiber-rich foods in your diet can support weight loss efforts by promoting feelings of fullness and regulating appetite. Looking for ways to get more fiber consider: acacia fiber, ground flaxseed, chia seeds, avocado, raspberries, cruciferous vegetables, lentils, beans, and zen basil seeds (which are also lectin free).

Mar 18, 2024

Large-scale kinetic simulations of colliding plasmas within a hohlraum of indirect-drive inertial confinement fusion

Posted by in categories: computing, physics

Authors: Tianyi Liang, Dong Wu, Xiaochuan Ning, Lianqiang Shan, Zongqiang Yuan, Hongbo Cai, Zhengmao Sheng, and Xiantu He. Discover more in PRE:


The National Ignition Facility has recently achieved successful burning plasma and ignition using the inertial confinement fusion (ICF) approach. However, there are still many fundamental physics phenomena that are not well understood, including the kinetic processes in the hohlraum. Shan et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 195001 (2018)] utilized the energy spectra of neutrons to investigate the kinetic colliding plasma in a hohlraum of indirect drive ICF. However, due to the typical large spatial-temporal scales, this experiment could not be well simulated by using available codes at that time. Utilizing our advanced high-order implicit PIC code, LAPINS, we were able to successfully reproduce the experiment on a large scale of both spatial and temporal dimensions, in which the original computational scale was increased by approximately seven to eight orders of magnitude.

Mar 18, 2024

How BTK inhibitors treat mantle cell lymphoma

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, innovation

Some cancers develop from defective B cells. Bruton’s tyrosine kinase inhibitors work by targeting a protein critical to the lifecycle of those B cells. Learn from Michael Wang, M.D., how these drugs work and why they’re considered a breakthrough for treating B-cell lymphomas.

Mar 18, 2024

An avatar will never lie, or will it? Scientists investigate how often we change our minds in virtual environments

Posted by in categories: ethics, virtual reality

“We usually conform to the views of others for two reasons. First, we succumb to group pressure and want to gain . Second, we lack sufficient knowledge and perceive the group as a source of a better interpretation of the current situation,” explains Dr. Konrad Bocian from the Institute of Psychology at SWPS University.

So far, only a few studies have investigated whether , or evaluations of another person’s behavior in a given situation, are subject to group pressure. This issue was examined by scientists from SWPS University in collaboration with researchers from the University of Sussex and the University of Kent. The scientists also investigated how views about the behavior of others changed under the influence of pressure in a virtual environment. A paper on this topic is published in PLOS ONE.

“Today, is increasingly as potent in the as in the . Therefore, it is necessary to determine how our judgments are shaped in the digital reality, where interactions take place online and some participants are avatars, not real humans,” points out Dr. Bocian.

Mar 18, 2024

Bumblebees socially learn behaviour too complex to innovate alone

Posted by in category: futurism

Bumblebees can learn how to open a two-step puzzle box by observing another trained bee, indicating that these insects can use social learning to acquire a behaviour too complex to otherwise be learnt through individual trial and error.

Mar 18, 2024

Two artificial intelligences talk to each other

Posted by in categories: biological, neuroscience, robotics/AI

A team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has succeeded in modeling an capable of this cognitive prowess. After learning and performing a series of basic tasks, this AI was able to provide a linguistic description of them to a “sister” AI, which in turn performed them. These promising results, especially for robotics, are published in Nature Neuroscience.

Performing a new without prior training, on the sole basis of verbal or written instructions, is a unique human ability. What’s more, once we have learned the task, we are able to describe it so that another person can reproduce it. This dual capacity distinguishes us from other species which, to learn a new task, need numerous trials accompanied by positive or negative reinforcement signals, without being able to communicate it to their congeners.

A sub-field of (AI)—Natural language processing—seeks to recreate this human faculty, with machines that understand and respond to vocal or textual data. This technique is based on artificial neural networks, inspired by our biological neurons and by the way they transmit electrical signals to one another in the brain. However, the neural calculations that would make it possible to achieve the cognitive feat described above are still poorly understood.

Mar 18, 2024

Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #419

Posted by in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI

1:05 — OpenAI board saga 18:31 — Ilya Sutskever 24:40 — Elon Musk lawsuit 34:32 — Sora 44:23 — GPT-4 55:32 — Memory & privacy 1:02:36 — Q* 1:06:12 — GPT-5 1:09:27 — $7 trillion of compute 1:17:35 — Google and Gemini…


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Mar 18, 2024

World’s most powerful 3D super-resolution microscope arrives at Yale’s West Campus

Posted by in category: futurism

A new 3D microscope at the Yale West Campus Imaging Core will allow researchers to watch individual molecules move through living cells at 2-to 3-nanometer resolution.

The state-of-the-art tool is the first instrument of its kind installed in the Northeast.

Mar 18, 2024

AI in conservation: Where we came from and where we are heading

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, satellites

From satellites to thermal cameras, technology has always been a powerful tool for conservation. Artificial Intelligence could be the most important yet.

Mar 18, 2024

Science Has Created a Cow That Produces Insulin in Its Milk

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, science

“More testing, a purification system and approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration would be needed to put the strategy to work. But insulin produced by transgenic cows could ease shortages that often make the hormone hard to come by for the 8.4 million Americans with diabetes who rely on it to survive.”


MONDAY, March 18, 2024 (HealthDay News) — There may be an unexpected fix for ongoing shortages of insulin: A brown bovine in Brazil recently made history as the first transgenic cow able to produce human insulin in her milk.

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