The Coming Food Information Revolution Beef – and eggs – just got a lot more interesting. A group of researchers fed lean beef (nicely cooked) to a bunch of everyday meat eaters and vegans. They then investigated. Did ingesting lean beef change lipid levels in the blood – you know, the stuff supposed to cause […]
Is ADD a Sleep Disorder? (5/6/13)
The Newest Epidemic ADD is now “epidemic” across America. With 13% of adolescents “diagnosed” in national surveys, people want to know just how big a problem ADD is. A recent article by psychiatrist by Vatsal Thakkar in the NY Times argued much of ADD may be misdiagnosed sleep disorders. Himself once diagnosed as suffering from […]
Recognizing Regeneration (4/22/13)
Recognizing Renewal “My feeling is that sleep is fundamentally important to regenerating all cells.” So says Akhilesh Reddy, a body clock researcher at Cambridge University. He was referring to a new study out of the University of Surrey from a group involving Professors Dirk Jan Dijk and Colin Smith. Yet the same issues appear for […]
In Defense of Sleep (3/12/13)
In Defense Recently a journalist asked to summarize important facts about sleep. Here’s an attempt to defend sleep – and it’s role in human regeneration. Some will be interested by a new large European study showing that the worse the insomnia, the worse future heart failure. Yet the story is much bigger than that: The […]
Alzheimer’s – An Information Processing Illness (2/27/13)
The Deficient Disease Model The human body degenerates like a rusting machine. The parts just get older, break down, fall away. Believe this story? If you do, you’ll increase your risk of Alzheimer’s and many major illnesses – for that’s not how the body works. Machines fall apart. Cars rust. Machines degenerate. Bodies regenerate. […]