Is moderate drinking good for you? Does consistent imbibing of a glass a day prevent Alzheimer’s? Heart disease and stroke? Or is drinking booze more akin to radiation, where there is not yet a clear “safe” dose? Recent research has begun moving against the consensus of decades. Booze on the Brain For example, take a recent study in […]
Will an Old Drug End Alzheimer’s?
A Strange History Is one of the oldest, cheapest drugs in the international pharmacopeia soon to become the medication that will block Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and MS? Work by Giovanna Mallucci’s laboratory at Britain’s Medical Research Council has shown – in mice – that trazodone and DBM, an anti-cancer drug, appear to stop a common neurodegenerative process which […]
Sleeping Too Long?
How much sleep is enough? How much is too much? Questions like this have dogged sleep researchers for many years. And they often befuddle the public. Several years ago I was questioned on MSNBC on “reports” that people sleeping more than 8 hours a night died at a higher rate than people sleeping less. Should the […]
How Cell Recycling Benefits You (and prevents cancer, dementia, diabetes, etc.)
There’s great power in biological cell recycling. Your body’s ability to self-digest (autophagy) lets you fight cancer, resist aging, recycle everything from broken cell walls to destroyed viral proteins, kill off pathogens, remake your energy balance, recast most nutrients, and deny diabetes (it also works while you sleep.) It’s high time the Nobel committee recognized the […]
What Really Causes Alzheimer’s?
Alzheimer’s Disease scares people, and it should. It is one thing to lose your life – it’s another to lose your mind. Alzheimer’s rates rise with age, and people are living longer. Recent studies show that many Americans now in their fifties will live into their late eighties. Alzheimer’s rates get particularly frightful around age […]