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What Your Body Knows That You Don’t

July 12, 2018 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Your legs are not just talking to your brain, they’re telling it what to do.  That’s a very good thing. Otherwise your brain might not develop properly, and keep adapting through your life. That’s the conclusion reached  reading a study penned by Raffaella Adami and others from the Universities of Milano and Pavia.  It helps […]

How Exercise Works

May 3, 2018 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Teaching Your Body Feel exhorted, cajoled, pushed and nagged into “exercise?” Most folks know it’s good for you, but so are vegetables (though not recent Romaine from Yuma.)  They just don’t really know how exercise works. Witness a recent study in Circulation, demonstrating that in people at high and low genetic risk of heart disease, relatively moderate […]

How Food Can Make You Smarter

July 20, 2017 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Eating trains every part of your body. Except most of that education is not conscious. When you bite down into a juicy hamburger and watch your vegan friends turn their faces away, the effects of your taste preference are far greater than than just social and psychological.  Food is more than taste, politics, culture and tradition. It’s training […]

Is Your Brain Like a Muscle?

July 23, 2016 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Grow your muscle, grow your brain.  For decades it’s getting clearer – physical activity leads to more brain cells.  But how?  And why? A recent paper in Cell Metabolism, ably reported by Gretchen Reynolds, shows the advantages of cross-species research. Work with mice, monkeys and humans demonstrated something jocks sensed long ago – your legs talk […]

Do clothes make the brain? (4/18/12)

April 18, 2012 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Seeing Behind Clothes Do the clothes you wear change how your brain processes information?  Yes.  But can the same suit of clothes, given a different occupational meaning, change the whole process of focus and how you see the world? Yes again. Clothes Make the Man Mark Twain’s statement that “clothes make the man”  distills what […]

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