Informing Immunity See the body as machine and you miss a lot. Most of your body is new in three to four weeks. The body continuously processes information, providing input for the regenerative process we use to survive. This is almost opposite to the mechanical degeneration of cars or computers. Life is renewal, and life […]
Your Real Wealth is Your Health (7/30/12)
Personal and National Wealth What does it mean to be wealthy? Is it money and liquid assets – bank accounts, stock portfolios, homes and boats and jets? Or maybe that idea is wrong. Real wealth may first arise from health – a true sense of well-being. And could it be that health directly increases your […]
Hear Me Now – It’s Time to Protect Your Ears (7/23/12)
Noise and the Brain The Problem – Noise pollution is increasing. It can cause deafness, noise induced tinnitus (ringing in the ears) and hyperacuisis (overreaction to noise) – Further results include irritability, depression, and losing much of the flavor of life. Why Is It Happening? Louder environments accompanied by little negative public reaction. The NY […]
Fit the Person to the Body – Personal Health (7/17/12)
Part I – Personal Health You don’t use a sports car to trailer a cigarette boat. It might do the task – for a while. Before the chassis screams and the engine breaks. The same is true of human beings. Our hunter gatherer bodies are not fit for the Internet Age. Not at all. Many […]
Weight – Why Simple Answers Can’t Work (and what might) (7/12/12)
Simple – Or Useless? Everything is connected. Change one thing and you end up changing all. Highly complex it may be, but give the human body the right information, and it remakes itself right. However, you have to face the preference – especially in the media – for simple “clear” answers to complex issues. Simple, […]