Aging in Flight You fly business class from LA to Beijing, sacrificing a college tuition payment for sixteen inches of leg room. Whisked to your hotel room you fall into bed and repeat attempted slumber. When you wake you feel thirty years older. Then you open the blinds, look out on the smog, and drop […]
Is ADD a Sleep Disorder? (5/6/13)
The Newest Epidemic ADD is now “epidemic” across America. With 13% of adolescents “diagnosed” in national surveys, people want to know just how big a problem ADD is. A recent article by psychiatrist by Vatsal Thakkar in the NY Times argued much of ADD may be misdiagnosed sleep disorders. Himself once diagnosed as suffering from […]
The New Hypochondriacs (Our Brave New Sensor World – 1/30/13)
New York, 2016 Your smartphone blasts you into semiconsciousness at 3:20 in the morning. As you shakily grab the sides blue and white neon flash across the screen – “Warning! You are at risk of heart attack. Consult your physician immediately.” You stare at the messages, but the picture stays the same. Hit a few […]
Regeneration Medicine – Preventing Colds (7/31/12)
Informing Immunity See the body as machine and you miss a lot. Most of your body is new in three to four weeks. The body continuously processes information, providing input for the regenerative process we use to survive. This is almost opposite to the mechanical degeneration of cars or computers. Life is renewal, and life […]
Fit the Person to the Body – Personal Health (7/17/12)
Part I – Personal Health You don’t use a sports car to trailer a cigarette boat. It might do the task – for a while. Before the chassis screams and the engine breaks. The same is true of human beings. Our hunter gatherer bodies are not fit for the Internet Age. Not at all. Many […]