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What Your Body Knows That You Don’t

July 12, 2018 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Your legs are not just talking to your brain, they’re telling it what to do.  That’s a very good thing. Otherwise your brain might not develop properly, and keep adapting through your life. That’s the conclusion reached  reading a study penned by Raffaella Adami and others from the Universities of Milano and Pavia.  It helps […]

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, […]

Alert – Bacteria Are Reprogramming Your DNA (2/6/13)

February 6, 2013 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Nerves Into Stem Cells Nerve cells are remarkably reprogrammable.  The proof?  Leprosy bacteria can take Schwann cells – the stuff that wraps nerve cells axon in white, fatty sheaths so they transmit faster – convert them into stem cells, then use them to flummox the immune system and infect the whole body.  Which is rather […]

New Approaches to Combatting Cancer (11/7/12)

November 7, 2012 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Cancer as An Information System The very word cancer scares us.  The definition of cancer involves “uncontrolled, unregulated growth.”  It’s as if the cells that sustain and give us life intimately betray us. They turn our bodies into a deformed version of ourselves.   Heretics are more frightening than pagans, especially when the heretics take over […]

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