“I can’t change,” people tell me. “I want to. I can’t.” Yet the research landscape is changing. And now it’s arguing that small shifts, little changes bit by bit, are more than effective. When interspersed among times of rest, when cells and tissues remake and regenerate themselves, they can make more effective contributions to your […]
Will an Old Drug End Alzheimer’s?
A Strange History Is one of the oldest, cheapest drugs in the international pharmacopeia soon to become the medication that will block Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and MS? Work by Giovanna Mallucci’s laboratory at Britain’s Medical Research Council has shown – in mice – that trazodone and DBM, an anti-cancer drug, appear to stop a common neurodegenerative process which […]
Do We Dream All the Time?
What are dreams for? Are they garbage processing by the brain, as Francis Crick declared? The royal road to the unconscious, as some Freudians believe? Or are they something more interesting, an intermediary between conscious and unconscious biological intelligence? Recent research out of one of the more innovative sleep labs in the world, guided by […]
When the Past is Ahead of the Future – Nixon’s Health Care Solution
In health care, sometimes the past lies well ahead of the future. Now that the American Health Care Act has failed again, it’s time to consider past health care proposals, especially from a Republican president. In 1972, Richard Nixon gave a special address to Congress. American health care, at $75 billion a year, was far too […]
Endless Jet Lag
Body Clocks and Food The world is filled with very different kinds of folks – and I’m not referring to politics. There are night people and day people, owls and larks. Researchers have been trying for decades to determine what else is different about them, from their DNA to their diets. Now there’s new data demonstrating […]