Biological intelligence is a new concept that’s nearly four billion years old. How does your body create and use knowledge? Biological intelligence teaches the body to teach itself. Just like you educate your brain, you can teach your body. Lots of people have heard about artificial intelligence, or AI. But why haven’t you heard about biological intelligence, […]
Changes, Little Bit by Little Bit
“I can’t change,” people tell me. “I want to. I can’t.” Yet the research landscape is changing. And now it’s arguing that small shifts, little changes bit by bit, are more than effective. When interspersed among times of rest, when cells and tissues remake and regenerate themselves, they can make more effective contributions to your […]
Will an Old Drug End Alzheimer’s?
A Strange History Is one of the oldest, cheapest drugs in the international pharmacopeia soon to become the medication that will block Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and MS? Work by Giovanna Mallucci’s laboratory at Britain’s Medical Research Council has shown – in mice – that trazodone and DBM, an anti-cancer drug, appear to stop a common neurodegenerative process which […]
How to Prevent Depression
In the 1990 Global Burden Disease study, depression was listed as the fourth largest cause of disability worldwide. In the 2000 study, it was third. In the 2010 study, second. Perhaps a third of Americans will eventually get clinically depressed. It’s also hitting younger ages. Recent surveys point to perhaps 17% of American female secondary students […]
Do Gut Bugs Change Cancer Therapy?
It appears your gut bug population changes cancer therapy effectiveness. A trial of immunotherapy on metastatic melanoma found those with greater variety of GI bacteria did far better than those with more limited populations. If you had a lot of ruminococcus around, you were more likely to stay alive. What Happened? People with immunotherapy trials […]