People know smoking kills. Smokers know they need to stop. Many can’t. Lots of clinicians feel smoking is the hardest addiction to end. So is using e-cigarettes a helpful way to get people to quit? Recent results appear to say yes. Yet American public authorities, like the CDC, deeply dislike e-cigarettes. They worry that e-cigarettes […]
Your Angry Heart
Type A or Type B? Anger can prove fatal to the heart, particularly when using heavy exercise to calm yourself down. To understand why, we need to turn to the strange history of A versus B – Type A and Type B personality. People still proudly or fearfully describe themselves as “Type A or Type […]
Can Cancer Be “Solved” in Ten Years?
Microsoft researchers in Cambridge, England are proposing to “solve” the “cancer puzzle” in ten years. How Will They Do It? Treating cells as “programs” rather like software. The result will be turning cells into “living computers” that can be reprogrammed – to treat cancer or any other illness. Work has commenced on a Bio Model Analyzer, […]
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 […]
Are We Hard Wired to Taste Pizza?
How do we really taste? Are the five “common” tastes of sugary, salty, bitter and sour, plus the Japanese researched savory taste of umami, all that’s required to give food – and much of our life – flavor? Researchers at Oregon State think not. They’ve identified the villain and pleasure of dieters almost everywhere, carbohydrates, […]