Using A Technology that Changes You The universe is a sea of information. Your body is an information processing unit. The Internet and how you use it is changing your body – right now. Though some changes are conscious, most do not reach conscious awareness. But change is happening fast. If you want to control […]
Training – to Transform Your Body (6/26/12)
Always Learning Your body constantly updates the information it receives. It learns. Through that learning it regenerates itself, remaking itself constantly. Most of your heart is replaced in about three days. Change is the true constant. You’re never the same from second to second. For what you do is what you become. The experiences you […]
Seeking warmth and safety (6/4/12)
Temperature and Life How do you help a baby get through a vaccination? You warm her up. Because temperature matters a lot. And that fact also has implications – for adults who are trying to sleep and rest. Decreasing Pain Babies, like most human beings, don’t like getting shots – what the British call “jabs.” […]
Shoot yourself in the heart, then donate your brain to science? Why are we killing the athletes? (5/10/12)
Pleasures and Pains Sports provide us the most delirious euphorias, the pure delight of seeing the human body to do what it’s built to do. Sports also kill and maim us. Two thousand young Americans die of sudden cardiac arrest every year, with perhaps triple the risk in athletes. When hockey enforcer Derek Boogard died at age 28, […]
Social health – getting you and the economy better (4/24/12)
Health and Economics Out of 33 countries considered to possess a “developed” economy, there is one that does not have universal health coverage. That country is the US. Historians argue why we are such an outlier. Not only do we not possess universal health care coverage, but national policies rarely reward health as the goal […]
