Making Regeneration More Efficient People are exhorted every day – exercise, exercise, exercise. Many patients I see are annoyed. Why should I bother? they ask. How much difference can it make? Next they’re told it will increase their lifespan; lower their blood pressure; decrease the risk of heart attack and stroke; lower the risk of […]
Do dolphins sing like whales as they sleep? (1/30/12)
Interspecies Recording? Many secrets arrive with the night. Recently researchers at Universite de Rennes 1 in France decided to hook up microphones to listen to dolphins. No one seemed to know what sounds they made – especially in sleep. The dolphins made a lot of noise. However, 1% of their vocalizations sounded nothing like their […]
Climate change, flu and you (1/27/11)
Changing Weather, Changing Bugs La Nina oscillates year by year with El Nino throughout the Pacific, changing wind, humidity, and hurricane conditions around the world. Yet the results may affect more than weather – it may also be part of major flu pandemics. The last 4 major flu outbreaks took place during La Nina. Why […]
Noisy, sleepless hospitals (and how to rest in them – 1/25/12)
When You’re Ill You Really Need Rest Rest is as necessary to life as food. Without it the body does not restore and regenerate. Hospitals don’t seem to fully understand that connection. A new study of noise in hospital rooms, published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, was not good news. The average hospital room […]
A different way to Diabetes (1/23/12)
Food or Sleep? Paula Deen may be getting the headlines, but diabetes is a threat to America’s health – and to our economy. If present trends continue – in some ways things are getting worse – perhaps one third of Americans will become diabetic by 2030. Diabetes means that our main fuel source – glucose […]