Do only the lonely die young, or does social connection and support affect most measures of health and longevity? Yes, it’s true: the less social connections you have, the greater the tendency towards illness of many kinds – physical and mental. Even if you don’t feel lonely at all. But how big an effect? For […]
How to Use Your Body Clocks
If time rules life, can using body clocks intelligently make for a better life? Most larks and owls – morning and evening type people – think so – as do sparrows, the larger group in-between. For different brains have different inner times – each of us possesses clock patterns deep in our genes that determine when […]
The Anti-Relaxation Movement
Chill out, calm down, chillax. We hear these messages frequently. The truth is, most of us don’t care to comply. In our time, we have seen the rise of the anti-relaxation movement. Given the choice between lowering tension and increasing arousal and excitation, loads of us prefer sensory overload to sensual enlargement. But it’s not […]
Will Sleep Apnea Make Me Get Alzheimer’s?
Better Breathing, Better, Sleep, Better Memory It’s been known for a long time that severe sleep apnea provokes memory problems. But what about not so severe apnea? A group at NYU decided to find out. What Did They Do? Repurposed an old study. A cohort population study looking over time at changes in neuroimaging and […]
Apple Watch or Apple MD?
Is the Applewatch a way to self-health? The Apple Watch wants to keep every Dick Tracy alive and healthy. He will be notified when it’s politic to get up and stand, how many steps he takes getting to a perp, and whether fellow cops, friends or criminal masterminds are anywhere in the vicinity. […]