Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Joe Biden gestures during a campaign stop on September 30, 2020 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Alex Wong / Getty Images
By Jake Johnson
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Wednesday vowed to bar from his transition team any "leaders" of fossil fuel companies, a pledge environmentalists cautiously applauded while urging the former vice president to go further by committing to banning all Big Oil lobbyists and executives from both his transition team and cabinet.
"Rejecting fossil fuel influence is a smart move for the Biden-Harris campaign," Charlie Jiang, climate campaigner with Greenpeace USA, said in a statement Thursday. "Voters are hungry to elect a climate champion. Joe Biden is running on the most ambitious climate platform in history, but it won't mean much if his transition team is stacked with oil and gas insiders."
In a document titled "Biden-Harris Transition Team Ethics Plan," the campaign states that "in addition to instituting a robust code of ethical conduct, Vice President Biden aims to ensure that those who serve are aligned with his values and policy priorities, and have not, for example, been leaders at fossil fuel or private prison companies."
But the ethics plan falls well short of adhering to a list of demands issued last month by a coalition of nearly 150 climate organizations, which urged Biden to "ban all fossil fuel executives, lobbyists, and representatives from any advisory or official position on your campaign, transition team, cabinet, and administration" if elected president.
While the Biden campaign will require transition team members to sign a pledge promising to disqualify themselves from "involvement in any particular Biden-Harris transition team matter" if they have "engaged in regulated lobbying activities with respect to such matter" within the previous 12 months, the requirement comes with a substantial loophole.
"Persons who have registered as federal lobbyists within the last 12 months may only serve as transition team members with advance approval of the General Counsel," the document states, suggesting that lobbyists for the fossil fuel industry could ultimately be permitted to serve on the transition team.
.@JoeBiden is making a smart move by asserting that he won't allow fossil fuel execs on his transition team. He sho… https://t.co/5aH2dePR5E— Ryan Schleeter (@Ryan Schleeter)1601576340.0
Jiang said that while the Biden campaign's ethics plan "is a strong start," it "is not the end of the road."
"We urge Biden to commit to banning all fossil fuel executives and lobbyists from his cabinet and administration," Jiang added. "Personnel is policy, and we need experts in the White House who put climate and environmental justice ahead of corporate profits."
On Twitter, Collin Rees, senior campaigner at Oil Change U.S., called Biden's move "a key first step" made possible by constant pressure from grassroots climate activists.
"Committing to a fossil-free transition team is exactly what we need to see heading into a new administration with climate impacts mounting rapidly," Rees added in a statement Thursday. "Keeping fossil fuel representatives out of the federal government is a position that's extremely popular with Democrats and the entire American public, and builds on the key improvements Biden has made to his climate plan since the primary. The Biden-Harris campaign is clearly listening to its potential allies, and this willingness to listen and adapt will be critical in the months ahead."
Reposted with permission from Common Dreams.
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A new study has revealed that Earth's biggest mass extinction was triggered by volcanic activity that led to ocean acidification. Illustration by Dawid Adam Iurino (PaleoFactory, Sapienza University of Rome) for Jurikova et al (2020)
The excess carbon dioxide emitted by human activity since the start of the industrial revolution has already raised the Earth's temperature by more than one degree Celsius, increased the risk of extreme hurricanes and wildfires and killed off more than half of the corals in the Great Barrier Reef. But geologic history shows that the impacts of greenhouse gases could be much worse.
<p>In fact, <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/scientists" target="_self">scientists</a> from <a href="https://news.st-andrews.ac.uk/archive/great-dying-what-caused-earths-biggest-mass-extinction/?utm_source=hootsuite&utm_medium=twitter&utm_term=univofstandrews&utm_content=research&utm_campaign=research" target="_blank">Scotland's University of Saint Andrews</a> and two major German research centers have for the first time determined a "conclusive picture" of the initial trigger and subsequent processes responsible for Earth's biggest mass <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/extinction" target="_self">extinction</a>. The answer? Massive amounts of carbon dioxide spewed into the atmosphere from a volcanic eruption.</p><p>"We are dealing with a cascading catastrophe in which the rise of CO2 in the atmosphere set off a chain of events that successively extinguished almost all life in the seas," study lead author Dr. Hana Jurikova told <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/mass-extinction-greenhouse-gas-triassic-carbon-dioxide-volcanoes-b1183299.html" target="_blank">The Independent</a>.</p>
<p>The study, published in <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-020-00646-4" target="_blank">Nature Geoscience</a> Monday, sought to understand the mechanisms behind an event known as the "Great Dying," the University of Saint Andrews explained in a press release. This was a period around 252 million years ago between the Permian and Triassic epochs in which 95 percent of marine species were wiped out within tens of thousands of years. It is the closest life on Earth has come to total extinction.</p><p>Scientists have advanced many theories for what caused this turn of events, including a release of methane from the seafloor and volcanic activity, but this is the first time a group has determined the exact cause, the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, one of the research centers involved in the new study, <a href="https://www.geomar.de/en/news/article/ausloeser-fuer-groesstes-massenaussterben-der-erdgeschichte-identifiziert" target="_blank">said</a>.</p>
<p>The extinction process went something like this, as Saint Andrews explained.</p><ol><li>A volcanic eruption in what is now Siberia sent 100,000 billion tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere.</li><li>This release led to <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/ocean-acidification" target="_self">ocean acidification</a> and warming, which was especially deadly to <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/marine-life" target="_self">marine life</a> that requires calcium carbonate for their shells and skeletons.</li><li>The atmospheric warming increased the rates of chemical weathering on land.</li><li>This caused more nutrients to run off into the <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/ocean" target="_self">ocean</a>, depleting it of oxygen and perhaps also poisoning it with sulphide.</li></ol><p>"It took several hundreds of thousands to millions of years for the ecosystem to recover from the catastrophe, which profoundly altered the course of evolution of life on Earth," Jurikova said.</p>
<p>The researchers, who also included members of the Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, were able to reach their conclusions by examining the shells of fossil brachiopods.</p><p>"These are clam-like organisms that have existed on Earth for more than 500 million years," Jurikova explained in the GEOMAR press release.</p><p>The researchers were able to assess the pH levels in the ocean based on the different isotopes of boron in the fossilized shells. Because oceanic pH levels are tightly linked to atmospheric carbon dioxide, the team could then create a model of the atmosphere at the time.</p><p>"With this technique, we can not only reconstruct the evolution of the atmospheric CO2 concentrations, but also clearly trace it back to volcanic activity," study coauthor Dr. Marcus Gutjahr of GEOMAR said in the press release.</p>
<p>The amount of carbon dioxide released by the Siberian volcano was more than 40 times all the carbon dioxide currently held in fossil fuel reserves, including everything that has been released since the start of the industrial revolution, according to Saint Andrews.</p><p>Still, the researchers told The Independent that the study offered "bleak lessons" for humanity as we face the <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/sixth-mass-extinction-accelerating-land-animals-2646147181.html" target="_self">sixth mass extinction</a>.</p><p>"Ancient volcanic eruptions of this kind are not directly comparable to anthropogenic carbon emissions, and in fact all modern fossil fuel reserves are far too insufficient to release as much CO2 over hundreds of years, let alone thousands of years as was released 252 million years ago," Jurikova told The Independent. "But it is astonishing that humanity's CO2 emission rate is currently fourteen times higher than the annual emission rate at the time that marked the greatest biological catastrophe in Earth's history."</p>
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Coronavirus-sniffing dogs Miina and Kössi (R) are seen in Vantaa, Finland on September 2, 2020. Antti Aimo-Koivisto / Lehtikuva / AFP/ Getty Images
By Teri Schultz
Europe is in a panic over the second wave of COVID-19, with infection rates sky-rocketing and GDP plummeting. Belgium has just announced it will no longer test asymptomatic people, even if they've been in contact with someone who has the disease, because the backlog in processing is overwhelming. Other European countries are also struggling to keep up testing and tracing.
Meanwhile in a small cabin in Helsinki airport, for his preferred payment of a morsel of cat food, rescue dog Kossi needs just a few seconds to tell whether someone has coronavirus.
<div id="bfda0" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="c60b1a0dedbedbe5e0ce44284aff852f"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1308390775328251906" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">Covid-19 dogs started their work today at the Helsinki Airport at arrival hall 2B. Dogs have been trained to detect… https://t.co/nw4mrw6eJM</div> — Helsinki Airport (@Helsinki Airport)<a href="https://twitter.com/HelsinkiAirport/statuses/1308390775328251906">1600779644.0</a></blockquote></div><p>If it were left to Kossi and his pals, crowds of potential virus carriers could be cleared in a fraction of the time for a fraction of the cost with none of the physical discomfort that accompanies the current nasal swab test based on the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method.</p>
No Human Nose Needed
<p>A dog can sniff a cloth wiped on a wrist or neck and immediately identify if it comes from someone who has contracted the virus as much as five days before any symptoms appear which would lead a person to go into isolation. "A dog could easily save so so, so many lives," University of Helsinki veterinary researcher Anna Hielm-Bjorkman told DW, who says their testing has shown an accuracy level of nearly 100%.</p><p>It was originally her idea to see whether Kossi, a talented disease-detection dog, could redirect his skills in sniffing out mold, bedbugs and cancer to detecting the new virus just as it started to spread in Europe. "It took him seven minutes to figure out 'okay, this is what you want me to look out for," Hielm-Bjorkman said. "So that totally blew our minds."</p><p>Susanna Paavilainen, the executive director of the Wise Nose scent-detection foundation and the woman who saved Kossi from euthanasia in a Spanish shelter eight years ago, immediately started retraining her dogs to find the coronavirus.</p><p>Miina, who used to track a young girl's blood sugar levels by scent, quickly came on board, along with two others already working in disease detection. In all, they hope to train 15 dogs in the first phase.</p><p>Hielm-Bjorkman said once they discovered the new capabilities, while the normal academic procedure would be to test, publish and get peer-reviewed, their first instinct was to get the dogs into service. "[Researchers] who are actually publishing," she noted wryly, "are not at the airports."</p>Wags, Not Wages
<p>But for that, they needed permission and ideally, some funding. Vantaa Deputy Mayor Timo Aronkyto, who is also responsible for airport security, saw the benefit straight away. "It took me two minutes," he told DW.</p><p>However, his funding options were limited to about $390,000 total for the four-month pilot project aiming to prove that results from the dog tests are at least as accurate as the PCR test. Anyone who tests positive at the voluntary canine site is requested to go to the medical unit for confirmation.</p><p>The interest of Aronkyto, a trained physician, is rooted in both health and wealth. "Our testing at the airport costs more than 1 million [euros] (USD $1.2 million) a month at the moment," he said, explaining he expects that to go up to €3 million (USD. $3.5 million) per month in winter. "These dogs would be much cheaper," he pointed out.</p><p>He's optimistic support will grow as data from the current pilot project accumulates, explaining there is already work underway to change Finnish legislation so eventually sniffer dogs would have the same "authority" as customs dogs.</p><p>Aronkyto anticipates one animal performing both functions in the near future. He plans to continue this level of funding from his city budget into next year but that doesn't train new dogs nor expand the capacity beyond the four that split shifts currently at the airport, even as infection rates rise.</p>Helsinki Hesitates
<p>Notably, however, the Finnish government has not signaled it would like to pick up the program itself, despite a huge surge in publicity and, as Hielm-Bjorkman and Paavilainen emphasize, interest from other countries. Travelers have been eager to participate, waiting in line more than an hour at times.</p><p>Finnish ambassador in Ramallah, Palestine, Paivi Peltokoski, praised the experience after a recent trip but, apparently, her enthusiasm is not overly contagious.</p><div id="d9823" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="61d382f115fe66a44eb793d9ebee3d94"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1318564228450615299" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">I was tested negative by two #coronadogs upon arrival at the #Helsinki airport in #Finland. Later a medical test ve… https://t.co/cGlWQn8DJb</div> — Päivi Peltokoski (@Päivi Peltokoski)<a href="https://twitter.com/PaiviPeltokoski/statuses/1318564228450615299">1603205184.0</a></blockquote></div><p>"If the government would see this already as something that they would believe in," Hielm-Bjorkman said, she could envision training hundreds of dogs, stationing sniffers at concert halls or sports matches or elderly care homes. She adds there's a need for a "paradigm shift" for both medical professionals and the public.</p><p>Usually it's doctors telling patients if they're sick, she explained, and "here it's a dog handler."</p>
Little Political Will on German Project
<p>This situation is not limited to Finland. In Germany researchers also <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/german-sniffer-dogs-show-promise-at-detecting-coronavirus/a-54300863" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">announced promising results</a> with canines <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/coronavirus-german-military-training-sniffer-dogs/a-54062180" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">detecting COVID-19</a>, but no dogs have been used anywhere so far. And then, says Professor Holger Volk of the University of Veterinary Medicine Hanover, there has been insufficient political will or funding to move the project forward, something he called "very troubling" especially with a resurgent infection rate.</p><p>"When we started this whole project, we we did it because we wanted to help to stop the pandemic," Volk told DW. "It's really has been a very frustrating ride. I have had a lot of naysayers in the whole process. If I wasn't a very determined person, having done a lot of research, I would have probably stopped it."</p><p>He agrees with Hielm-Bjorkman's assessment that "it's just not in the perception of doctors that dogs are able to do this precise work." But he also echoes her faith in the vast potential of their discovery. "If you had a dog who could sniff every day quickly your cohort of workers, for example," he said, "think about the impact. You could continue having a workplace."</p><p>Speaking of workplaces, Susanna Paavilainen is starting to think if Finland doesn't want to unleash the dogs' potential at home, she and Kossi might accept one of the many requests from all over the world to provide training. "We can move because Kossi likes warm weather," she says, petting her star sniffer.</p>From Your Site Articles
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Air Pollution Responsible for Over 6.6 Million Deaths Worldwide in 2020, Study Finds
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Rashtrapati Bhavan engulfed in smog, at Rajpath, on Oct. 12, 2020 in New Delhi, India. Biplov Bhuyan / Hindustan Times via Getty Images
An annual comprehensive report on air pollution showed that it was responsible for 6.67 million deaths worldwide, including the premature death of 500,000 babies, with the worst health outcomes occurring in the developing world, according to the State of Global Air, which was released Wednesday.
<p>The <a href="https://www.stateofglobalair.org/sites/default/files/documents/2020-10/soga-2020-report.pdf" target="_blank">State of Global Air 2020</a> looked at the effects of air pollution on health outcomes in 2019 and found that conditions are getting worse, as it moved up from the fifth leading cause of death worldwide to the fourth leading cause. Only high-blood pressure, smoking and poor diet surpass air pollution.</p><p>The State of Global Air 2020 is a joint collaboration produced annually by the Health Effects Institute and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation's Global Burden of Disease project.</p>
<p>One reason that air pollution moved up in the list of leading causes of death is that this year's report was able to account for infant death due to air pollution. The report noted that roughly half a million babies died to due to poor air quality, with roughly two-thirds of those deaths due to poor indoor air from burning charcoal, wood and animal dung for cooking, according to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/oct/21/polluted-air-killing-half-a-million-babies-a-year-across-globe" target="_blank">The Guardian</a>.</p><p>"We don't totally understand what the mechanisms are at this stage, but there is something going on that is causing reductions in baby growth and ultimately birth weight," said Katherine Walker, principal scientist at the Health Effects Institute, as The Guardian reported. "There is an epidemiological link, shown across multiple countries in multiple studies."</p>
<p>India was the worst hit country with 116,000 infant deaths linked to air pollution, while Sub-Saharan Africa saw 236,000 infant deaths due to poor air quality, according to the report, as <a href="https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-10-air-pollution-500k-newborns-global.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Agence-France Presse</a> (AFP) noted. Most of the complications were due to low birth weight and premature birth, which leaves a baby's lungs fragile.</p><p>It is not just babies that need to be protected. Recent studies have also noted that exposure to air pollution for mothers contributes to low birth weight and premature births, according to <a href="https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/nation/air-pollution-contributes-to-more-than-1-16-000-infant-deaths-in-india-reveals-global-study-159013" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Tribune in India</a>.</p><p>"An infant's health is critical to the future of every society, and this newest evidence suggests an especially high risk for infants born in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa," said Dan Greenbaum, president of the Health Effects Institute, the AFP reported.</p>
<p>According to the report, the most smog or PM2.5 air pollution for 2019 was in India, followed by Nepal, Niger, Qatar and Nigeria. The report noted that India's air quality has been steadily decreasing since 2010. While most of the 20 most populous countries have decreased air pollution over the last decade, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Japan have seen air pollution increase, as <a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/india-recorded-highest-air-pollution-exposure-globally-in-2019-report/story-oOH8OTQEf276Sy0vrYMXyH.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Hindustan Times</a> reported.</p><p>Long-term exposure to air pollution contributed to 1.67 million deaths in India last year.</p><p>"Given the high exposure and staggering health burden of air pollution, India must show urgency and recognize air pollution as a regional-scale problem," said Sagnik Dey, associate professor at the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi, to The Hindustan Times. "The National Clean Air Program should be expanded beyond the urban centers with an air-shed approach prioritizing the local and regional mitigation measures to achieve clean air goals for India."</p><p>Epidemiologists have compared the state of air in developing countries to Victorian London from 150 years ago.</p><p>"This is not the air pollution we see in modern cities [in the rich world] but that which we had 150 years ago in London and other places, where there were coal fires indoors," said Beate Ritz, professor of epidemiology at UCLA, to The Guardian. "Indoor air pollution has not been at the forefront for policymakers, but it should be."</p>
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New research finds that dust in buildings with older furniture is more likely to contain a suite of compounds that impact our health. Aleksandr Zubkov / Getty Images
By Hannah Seo
If you've been considering throwing out that old couch, now might be a good time. Dust in buildings with older furniture is more likely to contain a suite of compounds that impact our health, according to new research.
<p>In a new study published in <em><a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2020.106151" target="_blank">Environment International</a></em> researchers examined rooms in three categories: no intervention—rooms in older buildings with conventional furniture; partial intervention—rooms with at least some furniture made with healthier materials; and full intervention—rooms in more recently renovated buildings with furniture free from harmful chemicals. These rooms came from 21 buildings at an unnamed university and included office suites, classrooms, and common rooms. The scientists then examined the dust in those rooms for traces of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), as well as common chemical flame retardants polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and organophosphate esters (OPEs).</p><p>They found that the dust from rooms furnished with items free of PFAS and chemical flame retardants in more recently renovated buildings had 78 percent lower levels of PFAS, 65 percent lower levels of OPEs, and 45 percent lower levels of PBDEs than rooms in older buildings with older furniture.</p>
<p>"This suggests that replacing harmful materials with these healthier materials is an inexpensive way to reduce exposures to toxic chemicals indoors, which is where we spend most of our time," <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaswiftyoung/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Anna Young</a>, a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and lead author of the paper, told EHN.</p><p>PFAS, PBDEs, and OPEs are all categories of chemicals that have been linked to a slew of health impacts, including certain cancers, decreased birth weights, thyroid disease, decreased sperm quality, high cholesterol, pregnancy-induced hypertension, asthma and ulcerative colitis.</p><p>Several studies have previously linked concentrations of contaminants in dust and air to higher body burdens. Despite their documented harms, all three classes of chemicals are commonly found in furniture and building materials to make products flame, stain, and water resistant.</p>
<p>The team analyzed the dust in 47 rooms—12 with no intervention, 28 with partial intervention, and seven with full intervention. They found at least one kind of PFAS, PBDE and OPE in dust from every room they sampled. And the average concentration of PFAS in rooms with no intervention was more than four times higher than the average concentration of PFAS in rooms that underwent a full intervention.<br></p><p>The paper said the contaminants in the healthier rooms could be due to those rooms existing in the same buildings as rooms that are less healthy, or could be due to newer chemicals like the PFAS perfluorohexanoic acid (PFHxA) slipping through into products that have omitted other substances. Another potential explanation is that these chemicals could persist as older plastics and materials are recycled and used in new products.</p><p>The upside, however, is that these chemicals are "not usually intrinsically bound to products," said Young. "They're used as additives. For example, PFAS is usually applied as a coating. So that means [harmful materials] can be removed without sacrificing the functional integrity of the product."</p>
<p>Making indoor spaces safer and cleaner, therefore, will not necessarily require huge, intrusive interventions.</p><p>Young also said that while the results themselves were somewhat expected—it is unsurprising that furniture made without harmful chemicals would yield dust with lower contaminant levels—what was novel was their intervention-based approach to reducing whole classes of chemical pollutants like PFAS in buildings.</p><p>When discussing solutions to removing harmful chemicals from indoor spaces, talking about entire classes of pollutants is a big help, <a href="https://oneill.indiana.edu/faculty-research/directory/profiles/faculty/full-time/salamova-amina.html" target="_blank">Amina Salamova</a>, an environmental chemist at Indiana University who was not affiliated with the paper, told EHN. There are so many individual chemicals in each of these classes—PFAS alone has around 5,000 different types, with new kinds consistently invented—that they become basically impossible to inventory.</p>
<p>"It's absolutely impossible to develop analytical methods to measure each and every single PFAS out there. It's just too expensive, and we don't even know what half of those chemicals are," Salamova said. By collectively taking stock of a whole class, she said, you remove the need to nitpick at individual exposure levels and their thresholds—details that are important to know but ultimately distract from solutions. Looking at classes of chemicals gives scientists the ability to say that we need to intervene and remove these contaminants across the board.</p><p>Despite the small sample size, Salamova said these results are quite stark and important. The potential for 78 percent less PFAS exposure with these simple interventions is huge, she said, especially since "we still know so little about its toxicity, especially in the indoor environment."</p><p>Most of us are not living in "healthy" buildings, said Young—the majority of buildings in the U.S. are decades old, built in a time when safety concerns associated with certain materials were unknown. That's why this research is important, she said: "The decisions we make today will have decades long impacts on the materials that our buildings, the chemicals we're exposed to, and ultimately, our health."</p>
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<h2>Resurge Review: Weight Loss Supplement Overview</h2><p>Resurge was made to address one of the most neglected causes of unexplained weight gain. It's a combination of ingredients that help improve your sleep quality, fat burning in your body, and fight hunger curbs.</p><p>It is a supplement that contains various plant extracts and nutrients that possess properties that are beneficial to your health.</p><p>Resurge is an innovative product like no other in the weight loss market. It targets lack of deep sleep, which is a major cause of weight gain.</p><p>This makes it different from other supplements that only concentrate on burning fat in the body. By helping you sleep better, it improves your health in several ways. </p><p>Sleep deprivation is behind many health issues, including excessive weight gain. If you're unable to sleep well at night, you'll likely feel cranky and hungry the next day.</p><p>This causes you to eat more calories, which contributes to weight gain. In addition, you'll also feel tired throughout the day. </p><p>Therefore, you might not be able to do much physical activity to help you use up the calories you've consumed.</p><p>Resurge is formulated to boost your sleep hormones so that you can have a good and restful night's sleep. People who have an adequate sleep feel more energized, motivated, and are less likely to eat excess calories.</p><p>Therefore, Resurge is an excellent product to opt for if your sleeping patterns are messed up, and you end up feeling fatigued, moody, and hungry the next day.</p>
<h3>Pros:</h3><ul><li>Consumer studies have shown that this product is completely safe to use, with no side effects reported.</li><li>It's made with 100% natural, non-GMO ingredients that have been proven to be safe.</li><li>This product targets lack of deep sleep, which is the main cause of unexplained weight loss. By improving your sleep quality, it helps you lose excess fat and maintain a healthy weight.</li><li>It's manufactured at an FDA approved, and GMP certified state of the art facility.</li><li>It doesn't contain stimulants or any banned substances.</li><li>It's easy to use since it only requires you to take the recommended dosage with water before bedtime.</li><li>It helps to boost metabolism, which is a result of improved sleep quality.</li><li>It has anti-aging properties, which also aid in preventing excessive weight gain.</li><li>It comes with a 60-day money-back guarantee to ensure that you don't suffer any loss if you're not satisfied with the product.</li><li>Suitable for use by both adult men and women.</li></ul><h3>Cons:</h3><ul><li>This supplement is only available for sale <a href="https://supplementscoop.com/resurge-eco" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><strong>on the Official Website</strong></a>, so you cannot get it at your local store.</li><li>It's only safe to use for adults above the age of 18.</li><li>You'll have to wait at least 90 days to begin experiencing the optimal benefits of using the supplement. It can be too long for most people.</li></ul><h2>Resurge Ingredients</h2><p>Resurge is made with a blend of ingredients that help improve sleep, mood, and fat burning. They work together to help you lose weight naturally and keep from regaining it.</p><p><em>These are the main ingredients used in Resurge:</em></p>
<h3>Melatonin</h3><p><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5405617/" target="_blank">Melatonin</a> is a sleep hormone that's produced in the body. Its function is to maintain a healthy sleep-wake cycle.</p><p>When you age, the amount of melatonin being produced in the body decreases. This makes it harder for you to have a deep and restful sleep.</p><p>It's used as an ingredient in Resurge to supplement it and maintain its roles. With more melatonin, your brain will be able to get signals that it's time to sleep and prevent insomnia.</p><h3>Ashwagandha</h3><p><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3252722/" target="_blank">Ashwagandha</a> is an herb that has been widely used for many health purposes in traditional medicine. It helps the body maintain its natural functions when placed under stress.</p><p>It's good at fighting insomnia, and also boosts brain function. This plant extract can also help reduce the levels of bad cholesterol in your body.</p><h3>Hydroxytryptophan</h3><p>In the body, <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3415362/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">hydroxytryptophan</a> helps you to fall asleep faster and for longer. It aids in the secretion of serotonin, a neurotransmitter that promotes calmness and also contributes to better sleep.</p><p>By promoting both sleep and boosting serotonin production, this ingredient improves mood and reduces symptoms of stress and anxiety. </p><p>Since these two are common effects of sleep deprivation, solving them is an important part of improving your sleep quality and maintaining your well-being.</p><h3>Arginine</h3><p><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6160175/" target="_blank">Arginine</a> is an amino acid that plays a role in muscle growth and development in the body. It also supports fat oxidation, which increases when you have more muscle mass.</p><p>This amino acid suppresses appetite, which helps you avoid overeating, which leads to weight gain. It also helps control blood sugar levels, which might be unstable as a result of excess weight gain. </p><h3>L-Theanine</h3><p><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6836118/" target="_blank">L-Theanine</a> is a potent cognitive booster that also promotes relaxation and induces satiety. It supports the production of GABA and serotonin, both of which are brain chemicals that improve mood and make it easier for you to sleep soundly. </p><h3>Lysine</h3><p>Yet another amino acid used in Resurge, <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27770943/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Lysine</a> helps boost energy levels in the body. With this ingredient, you'll feel the urge to be more active, which can help with your weight loss.</p><p>Lysine also boosts the formation of collagen in the body. Since collagen is used in the formation of muscles, skin, and bones, supplementation with lysine can help maintain good health as you lose weight.</p><h3><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6889702/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Zinc</a> & Magnesium </h3><p>These two minerals work together to boost the absorption of other ingredients in Resurge, restore neurotransmitters that support sleep, and improve metabolism.</p><p><em><strong>Click here to <a href="https://supplementscoop.com/resurge-eco" target="_blank">See the Full List of Ingredients in Resurge on the Official Website</a>.</strong></em></p>
<h2>How Does Resurge Work?</h2><p>Resurge works by improving deep sleep in men and women who are struggling with excessive weight gain. By optimizing the sleep-wake cycles, it helps the body reset and tap into its potential to burn off excess fat.</p><p>With better sleep, bodily functions such as metabolism are boosted. You'll also notice that you heal quickly from ailments, or that you don't get sick as often.</p><p>Antioxidant activity in your body is optimized to prevent oxidative damage that leads to inflammation, another major cause of weight gain. Resurge also contains ingredients that help fight free radicals in the body that make you unhealthier and encourage the storage of fat.</p><p>With Resurge, you'll not need to take part in any fad diets or strenuous exercises in order to see results. Once you take your nightly pill, your body will get to work to get rid of toxins and burn fat that makes you overweight.</p><p>One of the ways that better sleep aids with weight loss directly is that it promotes healthy levels of the ghrelin and leptin hormones in the body. When you're sleep-deprived, there's less leptin production, a hormone that suppresses appetite when you've had enough calories.</p><p>It means that you'll end up eating more than your body needs, which will then be stored as fat. While leptin drops, ghrelin, the hormone that triggers hunger, rises. </p><p>Therefore, the less you sleep, the hungrier you'll feel. When you get enough sleep, the levels of these hormones are maintained at healthy levels.</p><p>To learn more about how Resurge works, <strong><a href="https://supplementscoop.com/resurge-eco" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Click Here</a>.</strong></p>
<h2>Benefits of Using Resurge</h2><p><em>These are some of the benefits of using Resurge:</em></p><h3>Better Sleep</h3><p>Resurge helps you have better sleep. You'll be able to fall asleep faster and sleep for adequate hours each night. </p><p>This gives your body enough time to rest and recuperate from the day's activities. Aside from improving your overall health, it also boosts weight loss and prevents excessive weight gain.</p><p>By improving your sleep quality, Resurge helps diminish symptoms of sleep deprivation such as fatigue, frequent hunger cravings, and decreased energy. When you use this supplement for at least 90 days, you'll be able to sleep well and wake up feeling refreshed daily.</p><h3>Improved Energy</h3><p>You're likely to feel energetic and ready to take on the day after having a good night's sleep. You'll also feel more motivated to take part in physical exercise, which can further improve your health.</p><h3>Less Cravings</h3><p>Sleep-deprived people are more likely to reach for unhealthy and fattening sugary goods during the day. These snacks provide a quick burst of energy, which fades away and leaves you feeling hungrier. If you keep feeding these cravings, you'll gain weight fast.</p><p>Resurge helps you to get enough sleep so that these sugary cravings can decrease. It also contains ingredients such as L-Theanine that promote satiety and keep you from eating more calories than you need.</p><h3>Improved Mental Well-Being</h3><p>The ingredients in Resurge may help increase the production of neurotransmitters in the brain that promote relaxation and reduce symptoms of stress and anxiety. </p>
<h2>Side Effects</h2><p>There have been no reports of side effects by people who have used Resurge so far. This is attributed to the natural formulation used to make Resurge.</p><p>With no artificial chemicals or stimulants used, this supplement poses no risk to users. This product is also manufactured and packed under strict hygienic standards, which prevents any type of contamination.</p><p>However, if you're using any type of prescription medicine, it's best to consult your physician before using Resurge.</p><p>This is because some of the natural compounds used have the potential to interact with certain kinds of medication. A qualified doctor will let you know if you need to take any precautions.</p>
<h2>Who Should Refrain from Resurge?</h2><p>People who are under the age of 18 should not use Resurge. Dietary supplements are not supposed to be used by minors unless advised otherwise by a health professional.</p><p>Pregnant women and lactating mothers should also not use Resurge. They, too, should seek medical advice before using any kind of supplement.</p><p>If your insomnia and weight gain are caused by a medical condition, you should not use Resurge. Instead, consult your physician for the best treatments.</p><p>Healthy adults who are having trouble sleeping and are unable to lose weight can safely use Resurge.</p>
<h2>Dosage & Tips to Start</h2><p>Each bottle of <a href="https://supplementscoop.com/resurge-eco" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"><strong>Resurge</strong></a> contains 120 pills, which are a month's supply. You should take four capsules daily with water, an hour before bedtime.</p><p>The huge dosage ensures that you get enough of each ingredient in the formulation. Once you've taken the pills, Resurge will work to improve your body's functions while you sleep and boost your journey towards your goal weight.</p><p>If you want maximum benefits of Resurge, use it for at least 90 days. People who use it for at least 3 months to 6 months are able to notice massive improvements in their sleep quality and weight loss.</p><p>Keep in mind that with Resurge, you'll not be required to make any changes to your lifestyle to get results. Just focus on taking your daily dosage, and you'll be able to lose weight naturally.</p><h2>Where to Buy Resurge and Guarantees?</h2>
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<p>You can buy Resurge <a href="https://supplementscoop.com/resurge-eco" target="_blank"><strong>on the Official Website</strong></a>. It's not available on other online stores or physical locations. Therefore, make sure to buy it from the official site in order to get the genuine product.</p><p>Besides being sure that you're getting the right product by buying from the website, you'll also benefit from huge price discounts. </p><p><em>You can buy one, three, or six bottles, and this is what you'll pay for them:</em></p><ul><li>1 bottle: $49</li><li>3 bottles: $39 per bottle</li><li>6 bottles: $34 per bottle</li></ul><p>The more you buy, the more savings you'll make. It's advisable to buy the 3 or 6 bottles package, which provides you with 90- and 180-days' supply of Resurge, respectively. After using the pills for this long, you'll experience the full benefits of Resurge.</p><p>The manufacturer offers you a 60-day money-back guarantee once you purchase Resurge. This gives you two months to use the supplement and observe whether it works for you.</p><p>If you're not satisfied with the results for any reason, the manufacturer will refund your full purchase price, no questions asked. Contact customer support by email or call them when you want a refund.</p><p>You'll receive instructions on how to return the product bottles. Note that you'll have to return all the bottles, whether they're empty or unused. Once they receive your returned bottles, they'll issue a refund within 48 hours.</p>
<h2>Resurge Reviews: Closing Thoughts</h2><p>Being sleep deprived leaves you feel tired, hungry, moody, and affects your productivity. It also messes up your hormones, which makes you susceptible to excessive weight gain.</p><p>Resurge is the product that can help you overcome lack of sleep and get back to being energetic, healthy, and feeling younger. By improving your sleep quality, it helps balance hormones in your body, preventing weight gain.</p><p>Since it's a 100% natural product whose safety has been proven, we think that it's worth the try. Its unique blend of ingredients will not just help you sleep better but also help with metabolism and immune function.</p><p>The fact that you'll not need to exercise or stick to a certain diet to lose weight while using Resurge makes it even more ideal. And since there's a 60-day money-back guarantee, you're protected from any losses.</p><p><strong><em>Click here to </em><a href="https://supplementscoop.com/resurge-eco" target="_blank"><em>Get the Best Deal on Resurge from the Official Website</em></a></strong><em><strong>.</strong></em></p>
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