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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 […]

Everything You Do Teaches You – How Biological Intelligence Works

January 18, 2018 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Biological Intelligence Every moment of your life is a teaching moment for your body.  Except most of that teaching is unconscious. Which is why you hear more about artificial intelligence than biological intelligence. But biological intelligence, how your body makes and uses information,  is far more powerful and personal. Biological information flows in ways we never […]

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 […]

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 […]

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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