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Get Smart – Go Dirty

July 26, 2018 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

  To prevent cancer, change early childhood education.   Not the book-kind, but  the biologically intelligent kind. If you do, you might change the incident of type I diabetes, asthma, peanut allergies, and MS. That’s the conclusion drawn by Mel Greaves of the Institute of Cancer Research in London, and now many other researchers.  Decades of varied studies demonstrate that the immune system […]

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 […]

Different Way to Treat Depression

August 24, 2017 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Depression: Failure to Learn Depression stops you.  You can’t start.  You can’t think. You want to rest but can’t sleep. Simple acts become unendurable.  You retreat, then hide.  You can’t burden others with what you are now – stuck. In previous centuries personality changes so abrupt led depressed people to be burned at the stake.  Things […]

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, […]

What Really Causes Alzheimer’s?

June 5, 2016 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Alzheimer’s Disease scares people, and it should. It is one thing to lose your life – it’s another to lose your mind.  Alzheimer’s rates rise with age, and people are living longer.  Recent studies show that many Americans now in their fifties will live into their late eighties.  Alzheimer’s rates get particularly frightful around age […]

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