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Fighting Dementia Using Your Eyes and Ears

October 19, 2017 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Dementia scares people. Rates are rising.  New evidence shows decreased vision and hearing make dementia more likely.  One study out of Stanford found people who had vision loss and did not seek treatment showed five times the cognitive decline rate, and over nine times the Alzheimer’s rate as those without problems, through a period of eight and  a half […]

Is Much of Health Due to Luck?

August 3, 2017 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Dementia and cancer have more in common than most people recognize.  Two thirds of tumors appear to be the result of random mutations.  And two thirds of dementia cases also appears to be basically random, with only about 35% responsive to lifestyle changes (so far.) The implications of this “odd” convergence is wide.  First, for diseases with difficult or ineffective treatments, […]

Noisy Anxiety

July 2, 2016 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Anxiety is all around us, the air noisily electric with it.  The environment is filling with noxious sound. And an era stuffed with massacres of the innocents does not induce calm.  So it’s instructive to see how one major sense – hearing – affects our ability to rest and self-soothe.  And to see how we do it, […]

Hear Me Now – It’s Time to Protect Your Ears (7/23/12)

July 23, 2012 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Noise and the Brain The Problem – Noise pollution is increasing.  It can cause deafness, noise induced tinnitus (ringing in the ears) and hyperacuisis (overreaction to noise) – Further results include irritability, depression, and losing much of the flavor of life. Why Is It Happening? Louder environments accompanied by little negative public reaction.  The NY […]

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