I’m not referring to alcohol. The summer blazes. Florida’s red tide pricks at skin and distends nostrils, California forest fires clog lungs, humid urban inversions break your breath. Wet bulb temperatures of 35 degrees celsius prove fatal to undressed humans after several hours. One internet calculator puts 95 degrees Fahrenheit with 80% humidity as providing a warning […]
How Much Sleep is Too Much?
Is it true that sleeping more than eight hours a night hastens your demise? People certainly think so. Several years ago a national TV news reporter asked me if it was true, because after working shifts “I go home and sleep for ten or more hours, will that shorten my life?” A recent article in Journal of […]
Time Rules Life
Time rules life, and body clock medicine is back. New research is reviving interest in body clock health and performance, letting a public habituated to a “time free”24/7 lifestyle recognize their internal time can no more be ignored than their heart, muscle and brain. Diet and cancer are two prominent areas for body clock research. But will […]
Eat Food, Not Vitamins
“Do you take vitamins?” “No,” I answer my patients. “Why not? Aren’t they good for you?” The nuanced answer to that remains no. A truthful answer might be “when it’s been shown you need them.” Most Americans are not vitamin deficient. There is evidence that vitamins can be harmful, not helpful. And what generally gets […]
Get Smart – Go Dirty
To prevent cancer, change early childhood education. Not the book-kind, but the biologically intelligent kind. If you do, you might change the incident of type I diabetes, asthma, peanut allergies, and MS. That’s the conclusion drawn by Mel Greaves of the Institute of Cancer Research in London, and now many other researchers. Decades of varied studies demonstrate that the immune system […]