What Is Information? Regeneration is how your body stays healthy. Cells rebuild and renew themselves every moment. Information from both inside and outside your body then tells it how to rebuild—and remake itself anew.But how to get the right information? And what is information, anyway? Here is the very briefest of primers of how marrying two […]
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, […]
“Healthy Without Health Insurance” – 12 Points
Getting Healthy – A Simple Way Now that “Healthy Without Health Insurance” is out on Kindle, people keep asking me what it’s about. I tell them it’s about getting healthy simply, cheaply, and effectively. I also tell them it has a new paradigm for real health and well-being – that if you give your body […]
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 […]
When the chickens come home to roost (4/12/12)
Nobody Here But Us Chickens Solely within hospitals, antibiotic-resistant infections hit 2 million Americans a year, according to an article today by Gardiner Harris in the New York Times. They kill about a hundred thousand. One of the more famous infections, MRSA, or methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, kills perhaps 20,000 every year. Where do all these […]