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 […]
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 […]
What Brain Genetics Says About Mental Health
Brainstorms Heard of the Brainstorm Consortium? A worldwide group of dozens of researchers is trying to understand diagnosis from the bottom up, starting with your genes. In a recent paper in Science, the group looked at 25 “brain associated” disorder, ten of them psychiatric, fifteen neurologic. They sorted them through GWASS – genome wide association […]
What Your Body Knows That You Don’t
Your legs are not just talking to your brain, they’re telling it what to do. That’s a very good thing. Otherwise your brain might not develop properly, and keep adapting through your life. That’s the conclusion reached reading a study penned by Raffaella Adami and others from the Universities of Milano and Pavia. It helps […]