Can Baldness Cause a Bad Heart? Say it is isn’t so. But according to a meta-analysis performed by researchers at the University of Tokyo, hairlessness is connected to heart disease. What Did They Find? Among 37,000 men taken from 6 studies out of a possible 850, baldness “increased” the risk of heart disease. How Was […]
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 […]
Who can I sleep with safely? (12/14/11)
Love, Strangulation and Suffocation When you see public health advertisements placing a meat cleaver next to a sleeping infant, it’s clear co-sleeping is no longer a simple matter. Milwaukee’s Health Department has received has enormous flack, but officials are convinced their ads keeping infants from parental beds will save many from strangulation and suffocation. But […]
Three questions about sleep and sex (10/19/11)
Coping in Tough Times Times are tough. People are out of work and can’t find any, 15% of the country often goes to bed hungry, and the euro may crash and upend the world economy. Folks need a break. In the old days, sex and sleep could help revive spirits and help regenerate body and […]
Sleep is all about learning (especially when it’s about sex) (8/5/11)
Is This Why We Sleep? Why do we sleep? Evolution works is a fussy, erratic, back and forth way, taking information systems from one type of project and then applying it to another – and another. As animals moved from sea to land, fins become hands; when they returned to the sea, the hands began […]