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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 […]

How You View Your Body Changes Your Body (10/17/12)

October 17, 2012 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

 Thought As Action Ideas change the world.  They also change your body. In the early nineteenth century scientists worked eagerly to discover the fundamentals of chemistry.  Using progressively more accurate equipment they measured the ratio of oxygen to hydrogen in water, of oxygen to carbon in what we now call carbon dioxide. The ratios they […]

Weight, learning and sleep – it’s all connected (11/14/11)

November 14, 2011 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Less Sleep, More Weight – and Worse Learning   Connections count.  A few years ago people had a hard time believing that sleep time determined weight.  Though physicians have long recognized that increased weight means increased sleep apnea, most of the population does not recognize that being overweight itself interferes with sleep and increases inflammation.  […]

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