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The Sleep Checklist

February 11, 2024 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Humans need sleep like food. Much as with recipes, there are many elements that make for good, joyous sleep. Just as a checklist won’t make you a great chef, this checklist may not give make you a great sleeper. But every little bit helps. 1. My sleep place is as cool, comfy, dark, safe as […]

You Want to Live Long?

May 10, 2018 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Unpopular Health Imagine a magic elixir that’s free and grants much longer life (12 years for men, 14 years for women.)  Despite benefits radically dwarfing the advantages of all health care, the elixir is almost universally spurned.   For to receive this magic elixir individuals must put up with what are commonly regarded as unacceptable intrusions:  they must […]

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 […]

Can Watching TV Be Healthy For You?

December 14, 2017 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Is TV watching healthy? For years studies have argued more TV time decrees a higher risk of death.  Most of that risk has been ascribed to sitting, rather than frustration and anger at what is programmed. A new study has added a wrinkle: watch more TV and you get more deep venous clots. Plus there’s a new rub: if […]

Exercise – A Great Way to Learn

September 21, 2017 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

We are often admonished to exercise.  It’s anti-inflammatory – we’re told.  You’ll get less heart attacks and strokes.  Fewer tumors. Clearly less  Alzheimer’s disease.  And you might lose weight and look better. But what is it we do during exercise?  We learn. Become more biologically intelligent. For if learning is the acquisition of knowledge and skills, exercise […]

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