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11/29/24: 💔 Regrowing heart cells, bio-plastic breakthrough, seaweed fuel

11/29/24: 💔 Regrowing heart cells, bio-plastic breakthrough, seaweed fuel

This week's top stories on human & ecosystem health

Rob Herring
November 29, 2024

Happy Friday my friend,

If you celebrate Thanksgiving, I hope it was a day to focus on gratitude. 🙂 Have you seen this fascinating capture of “the Pillars of Creation” by the James Webb Space Telescope?! It’s mind blowing that this exists… out there. 👽🚀

ECL TRIVIA: What is the deepest point in the ocean? (Answer below)

Earth Conscious News – Nov. 29th, 2024

🌎 Planet Health

(Credit: MongaBay.com)

💩 POO-LINATOR: Researchers have discovered that these river manatees disperse seeds across the Amazon through their feces, fertilizing nutrient-poor areas. “They deliver the seeds with natural fertilizer, a real gardening kit,” one researcher commented. These underwater giant gardeners face extinction, and also provide a critical insight into seed dispersal and plant habitats in the Amazon’s fragile ecosystem.

♻️ SOLAR RECYCLING: Where do the solar panels go when they’ve reached their end? SolarCycle is opening THIS new recycling facility in Georgia, which will process roughly 10M panels annually. It’s the first of its kind in the U.S. to manufacture glass for crystalline-silicon photovoltaics from old solar glass. “If we do this right, we can make solar the most circular industry in the world,” said SolarCycle’s founder.

🐋 OCEAN-DEGRADABLE: Tired of plastic pollution choking our oceans? A team of researchers developed a groundbreaking new plastic that's as strong as conventional but completely biodegradable in seawater. This innovative material could revolutionize industries, including landfills. “In soil, sheets of the new plastic degraded completely over the course of 10 days, supplying the soil with phosphorus and nitrogen similar to a fertilizer,” this article reports.

🧑‍⚕️ Human Health

(Credit: swic.edu)

🧬 SMART CELLS: Just published in Current Biology, new findings indicate “individual cells appear to be capable of a complex type of learning typically associated with whole nervous systems.” Cells can “habituate to stimuli” and then return to their original response strength. This discovery could have implications for understanding how the immune system works and how to prevent it from “habituating” to cancer cells. If you’d like to learn more about the single-celled organism demonstrating habituation, see a microscope photo here.

🧠 DEPRESSED/GUT: What does your gut bacteria reveal? In this recent study, participants with major depressive disorder exhibited a “higher abundance of proinflammatory bacteria” and a lower abundance of beneficial bacteria (which help support gut health and reduce inflammation.) Through combining data from hippocampal activity and the gut microbiome, scientists speculate that these biomarkers might eventually help in identifying individuals at risk for major depressive disorder. Read more about the specifics of this study— and the specific bacteria strains identified— here.

💓 REGROWN HEART: A study published this week suggests our heart might have a built-in repair kit we never knew about! With assistance from a new type of pump, damaged hearts can grow new muscle cells even more than healthy hearts, according to a new discovery that could help heart failure patients recover faster. Learn all about it here.

❝

I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery — air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, ‘This is what it is to be happy.’”

— Sylvia Plath

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Of any day of the year, today is the day to do it.

Winter has arrived in Montana

Creature Feature

😻 BEST FRIENDS FOREVER: This precious cat & dog duo are always together as the best of friends, cuddling in front of epic nature backdrops in the Colorado mountains, and the cat often hitches a ride on the dog’s back… in any weather!

Nutrition 101

🌱 LIGNANS: Found in plant compounds, lignans are a source of antioxidants, phytoestrogens and have many anti-inflammatory properties. Most notably found in flax seeds, lignans are prominently in these top 7 lignan-rich foods you can incorporate onto your plate this week! Learn more here.

😊 Conscious Corner

💬 Poll

Have you ever grown sprouts or microgreens at home?

⬅️ Last poll’s results

Should satellites be used to monitor for pollution?

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🛰️ Yes, we need all solutions (71.1%)

🟨🟨⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ 👎 No, surveillance from space is invasive (28.9%)

Reader Replies:

David writes: “Pollution is a crime, so no issues with satellite surveillance to detect those guilty.”

Carie writes: “Are we monitoring the environment or are we monitoring the people? Those are very different approaches and outcomes. No one wants to feel constantly exposed to watching eyes. They can watch for much more than pollution …”

Trivia Answer:

The Challenger Deep is the deepest point in the ocean, located in the Mariana Trench, reaching approximately 10,994 meters (36,070 feet). It is found in the western Pacific Ocean.

To a healing future,

— Rob

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