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Time Rules Life

August 9, 2018 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Time rules life, and body clock medicine is back.  New research is reviving interest in body clock health and performance, letting a public habituated to a “time free”24/7 lifestyle recognize their internal time can no more be ignored than their  heart, muscle and brain. Diet and cancer are two prominent areas for body clock research. But will […]

Stress, Overeating, and Sleep

February 8, 2018 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Stress makes you sleepless.  Insomnia makes you hungry, especially ravenous for fat and sugar. You eat more, gain weight, get more stressed. Then repeat. When expectations exceed realities stress becomes one’s constant companion.  The plane flight to see your ailing mother is delayed, then cancelled.  Your kid forgets his homework and you can’t leave work […]

The New Canaries in Our Coal Mine

January 4, 2018 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Insects and Canaries People hate insects.  They bite, snap, sting, and kill.  Perhaps the most hated animal on the planet is the mosquito, despised for bringing malaria, dengue fever, sleeping sickness and a host of other fatal and disfiguring diseases.  The most frightening sci-fi film monsters from “Alien” to “Starship Troopers” are giant, intelligent insectoids.  […]

Want to Lose Weight? Ask Your Gut

October 5, 2017 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Want to lose weight, particularly body fat?  Choose the right gut bacteria. They’ve already chosen you. But can you select them? A recent study in Copenhagen checked gut bacteria before starting  some overweight people on a half year diet.  Using a crude measure of different bacteria populations (high Prevotella to Bacteroides ratio,) the high ratio group who ate […]

When You Eat May Be As Important as What (Breakfast of Champions)

September 7, 2017 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Reinventing Breakfast  A patient asked me “I only eat one meal a day, a kind of late breakfast. Is that bad?” “No,” I replied. He’s a physically healthy man. Though pretty lean, he worries about his weight.  I explained that in Army experiments where biddable privates were given only a single, 2000 calorie meal each day, […]

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