Dr. Mark Rowe

A great definition of success : 🙏♥️🦋📘 #wellbeing

NEW: NASA's Artemis II has successfully blasted off, launching toward the Moon for the first lunar voyage in 53 years. Here is what to expect next: - Mission is 10 total days. - The crew will get 5000 miles from the Moon's surface. - The crew will sleep in two four-hour periods. - On Day 2, Orion engines will accelerate the spacecraft to escape velocity and send them toward the Moon. - On Days 3-5, the crew will fine-tune the approach to the Moon. - Day 6 is when the crew flies by the Moon. They will be about 250,000 miles from the Earth. - Days 6-7, the crew will fine-tune their approach back to Earth. - On Day 10, the crew will put on their proper suits and get ready for reentry. - They will reenter Earth's atmosphere at 25,000 miles per hour. - Two parachutes will slow the capsule to 17 miles per hour. - They will splash down off the coast of San Diego, California. Video: @GuyFieri

@DrKristieLeong @forgedmedicine How do you distinguish fast/slow metabolisers … ? clinically based on presence/abeense ‘side fx’

I agree! It would be smart to add that people who have heart issues, including arrhythmias, talk to their doctor before consuming caffeine. Plus, people respond differently to caffeine based on how they metabolize it. Studies don't always distinguish between slow and rapid metabolizers.

Coffee doesn’t just wake you up—it’s already fighting inflammation deep inside your body through its powerful polyphenols, especially chlorogenic acid. But you can boost its healing power with these simple additions: • Protein (soy or dairy) — creates stronger polyphenol binding for deeper protection • Cinnamon — powerfully reduces inflammatory markers and calms your system • Cocoa — crushes harmful ROS and quiets raging cytokines • Turmeric — delivers potent curcumin that fiercely battles inflammation at the source For maximum benefit, choose light or medium roast coffee. It best preserves those precious chlorogenic acids packed with antioxidant power. This isn’t just another morning habit. It’s a simple, science-backed ritual that creates real physiological impact—helping your body feel stronger, calmer, and more resilient every single day. Start tomorrow and feel the difference. #Wellness #HealthyLiving

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Kenny Dalglish is undoubtedly Liverpool's greatest player ever. In 1986, as player-manager, he brought himself on away at Chelsea, scored a stunning volleyed winner, and clinched the league title. Next-level stuff. Imagine Klopp or Guardiola doing that to seal the Premier League 🫢 He also helped deliver 3 European Cups and 8 league titles. That's why they call him The King. 👑 x.com/AntiqueFootbal…

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. — Albert Einstein

@oisinlangan A brilliant journalist

I'm not in Prague but I am taking solace from the words of Con Houlihan "I missed Italia '90. I was in Italy at the time." #coybig

Wild blueberries aren’t just a “healthy berry." They’re biochemical overachievers. Wild blueberries deliver: 2× the antioxidants 72% more fiber 33% more anthocyanins than regular ones. They support your blood vessels and metabolism. If you want a daily habit that moves the needle, add a half‑cup of wild blueberries to your morning routine. Blend them, sprinkle them, freeze them. Most of all, enjoy them! #FoodAsMedicine #MetabolicHealth

One of the greatest 🙏 #YNWA

@rtenews RIP 🙏

Former RTÉ Sport broadcaster Michael Lyster has died at the age of 71. He joined RTÉ in 1979 and was best known for presenting The Sunday Game Live for over three decades. rte.ie/sport/football…

A US national survey found only 3% of adults with Down syndrome had a full-time paid job, not because they can’t work, but because almost nobody will hire them. This coffee shop is Kopi Kamu in Jakarta. 7 of its 10 employees have Down syndrome, ages 17 to 33. They take orders, brew coffee, serve customers, clean tables. One of them, a 23-year-old named Ikhlas, does latte art. The owner started the program in December 2023 after watching kids with Down syndrome brew coffee at a charity festival and thinking, wait, why don’t they have a real place to do this? Sales grew beyond what he expected. I looked up what actually happens when companies hire people with disabilities, and the data is hard to argue with. A food company called Carolina Fine Snacks saw turnover collapse from 80% every six months to under 5%. Absenteeism dropped from 20% to under 5%. The non-disabled employees started performing better too. DuPont ran a 30-year study and found disabled employees matched or beat their peers on every metric. Accenture studied 346 companies in 2023. Businesses leading in disability inclusion had 1.6x more revenue, 2.6x more net income, and double the economic profit of their peers. Every time someone actually runs the numbers on this, the same answer comes back. In the US, Bitty & Beau’s Coffee, founded by two parents of kids with Down syndrome, started in 2016 with 19 workers in a 500-square-foot shop. Within six months they needed a space ten times bigger. They’re now at 18+ locations, 11 states, 450+ employees with intellectual disabilities. Profitable. 80% of people with intellectual disabilities in the US are unemployed. In Europe, only 5 to 13% of adults with Down syndrome hold regular jobs. Indonesia has roughly 300,000 people with Down syndrome. Kopi Kamu employs seven of them.

Perhaps the best definition of happiness I’ve come across is having someone to life, something useful to do, something to be grateful for and something to look forward to. 🙏♥️🦋📘 #InternationalDayOfHappiness

Well there can be only one Irish phrase for today 🇮🇪🇮🇪 "Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona duit" 💚 "Law Ale-yeh Pawd-rig Sunna Ditch" "Happy Saint Patrick's day to you" 📍 Co. Waterford, Ireland ☘️ #StPatricksday #Irish #Waterford #Ireland

Happy #MothersDay 🙏♥️🦋📘

This stunning image captures a near-perfect Einstein Ring—a rare gravitational lens effect—revealing a distant galaxy teeming with complex organic molecules at the dawn of cosmic history. The galaxy in question is SPT0418-47 (also known as SPT-S J041839-4751.9), situated more than 12 billion light-years from Earth. Due to the finite speed of light, we're observing it as it appeared when the universe was less than 1.5 billion years old (roughly 10% of its current age of about 13.8 billion years). Normally, such a remote galaxy would be far too faint to study in detail. However, nature provided an extraordinary assist: the immense gravity of a foreground galaxy (about 3 billion light-years away) warps spacetime, bending and magnifying the background light by a factor of roughly 30–35 times. When the alignment is this precise, the distorted light forms a glowing ring-shaped structure—an Einstein Ring, predicted by general relativity. This natural telescope allowed the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to peer deep into SPT0418-47 with exceptional clarity. Using JWST's Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), astronomers detected prominent emission from polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)—large, carbon-rich organic molecules containing dozens to hundreds of atoms, often arranged in fused rings. On Earth, PAHs are familiar as components of soot, smoke, and smog, but in space, they form in the interstellar medium and fluoresce brightly under ultraviolet light from hot, young stars. Their detection in SPT0418-47 marks one of the earliest known instances of such complex organic chemistry, showing that the building blocks for these molecules—and potentially more intricate prebiotic structures—were already assembling surprisingly quickly after the Big Bang. The findings highlight how rapidly galaxies could enrich their environments with heavy elements and foster diverse molecular chemistry during the universe's youth, offering clues about the chemical evolution leading toward life-friendly conditions. [Spilker, J. S., Phadke, K. A., Aravena, M. et al. (2023). Spatial variations in aromatic hydrocarbon emission in a dust-rich galaxy. Nature, 618(7966), 708–711. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-05998-6]

Fun fact. The Switzerlands largest supermarket, Migros, doesn’t sell alcohol or tobacco in stores, pays no dividends, caps profits by lowering prices if earnings exceeds 5%, is a cooperative with 2M+ members, and donates 1% of revenue to social projects, purely out of the founders moral philosophy

Forty-nine years ago, NASA launched a message into the deep unknown that is still traveling further away from us every single second. Attached to both Voyager spacecraft is a gold-plated copper record acting as a time capsule from Earth. It was designed to tell the story of our world to any extraterrestrial life that might find it millions of years from now. The contents are incredibly diverse, featuring greetings in 55 different languages and a 90-minute selection of music ranging from the classical genius of Bach to the rock and roll energy of Chuck Berry.  The record also contains sounds of wind, thunder, and animal calls, along with 116 images encoded in analog form. Perhaps the most intimate detail is the recorded brainwaves of a young woman who was thinking about the history of ideas and the experience of falling in love.  Today, the Voyager probes are more than 15 billion miles away from Earth, officially in interstellar space. They have long outlasted their original mission and are the most distant human-made objects in existence. Even after the spacecraft eventually go dark, these golden records will continue to drift through the silence of the galaxy for billions of years.  If you could put one song on a record to represent humanity today, what would it be?

#WorldBookDay 🙏♥️🦋📘

Emerging research suggests that some widely used sugar substitutes may be linked to faster cognitive aging, with higher consumption associated with a steeper decline in memory and thinking abilities compared with lower intake. An extensive eight-year study following more than 12,000 adults examined how the use of artificial sweeteners relates to long-term brain health. The researchers found that participants who consumed the highest amounts of sugar substitutes, roughly the equivalent of one diet soda per day showed a rate of cognitive decline about 62% faster than those who consumed little or none. On average, their drop in cognitive performance was comparable to about 1.6 additional years of biological brain aging. The investigation, published in the journal Neurology, assessed participants through repeated tests measuring memory, word recall, and processing speed. Individuals with the greatest intake of sweeteners experienced noticeably larger declines in these cognitive measures over time. The association appeared especially pronounced among adults younger than 60 and people with diabetes, groups that often choose artificial sweeteners Many of the sweeteners studied are commonly found in diet sodas, energy drinks, flavored yogurts, and other ultra-processed foods. The researchers observed that higher intake was linked to reduced verbal fluency and overall cognitive performance during the study period. Importantly, the findings show an association rather than proof of cause and effect. Nevertheless, the results raise questions about the long-term neurological effects of frequently consuming products marketed as “diet” or “sugar-free.” Study: Gonçalves, N. G., Martinez-Steele, E., Lotufo, P. A., Bensenor, I., Goulart, A. C., Barreto, S. M., Giatti, L., Faria, C. P., Molina, M. C. B., Caramelli, P., Marchioni, D. M., & Suemoto, C. K. (2025). Association Between Consumption of Low- and No-Calorie Artificial Sweeteners and Cognitive Decline: An 8-Year Prospective Study. Neurology.

Appreciating art in any of its many forms whether visual in a gallery, going to a concert/play/show, reading poetry, taking part in or watching street art & festivals such as @waterfordspraoi can all significantly enhance your wellbeing 🙏♥️🦋📘 #Waterford. #Wellbeing.

Your heart doesn’t just care WHAT you eat. It cares WHEN. A new study shows that simply closing the kitchen 3 hours before bed can lower nighttime blood pressure and steady blood sugar without cutting a single calorie. Timing is a metabolic lever we’re barely using but it could make a difference for your heart and metabolic health. #MetabolicHealth #HeartHealth Source: Stop eating 3 hours before bed to improve heart health. (2026, February 26). ScienceDaily.

Mariangela Hungria, a senior scientist at Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, was named the 2025 World Food Prize laureate for her decades of work in soil microbiology. Her research focuses on using beneficial bacteria to naturally supply crops with nitrogen, reducing dependence on synthetic fertilizers while boosting yields, especially in soybeans. Her biological technologies are now used on more than 40 million hectares in Brazil, helping farmers save billions of dollars each year and significantly cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Hungria’s work has played a major role in making Brazilian agriculture more sustainable and offers a scalable, low-cost model for improving food production worldwide.