So just what is the brain doing during sleep? We know sleep is necessary to cognition, glucose control, weight, memory, even life asleep. But what’s really going on in there? The layers of information that control and constantly renew the human body are strikingly complex. One of the most useful theories to explicate how was […]
Flus and Infections – How Viruses Time Their Attacks
Timing Your Health As the Romans wrote, time rules life – especially our biological inner life. Body clocks influence or directly control large segments of human physiology and performance. So recent work by researchers at Cambridge’s MRC Research Unit, demonstrating that viruses as varied as herpes and influenza A infect at ten times the rate […]
Could Reading Books Be Key To Living Long?
Books for Long Life Can reading books provide you a longer life? Is reading itself a key to better survival? A recent study from Yale argues that the active reading of books (more so than periodicals, sorry,) may give you a better chance to continue reading for a long, long time. The research went back to […]
The Costs of Sitting
How much does sitting cost mankind’s health? According to several new papers in the Lancet, at least $67 billion a year. About $54 billion of that represents direct medical costs. And that does not include the costs of early death. Can one million people really be wrong? The results, pooling 16 studies of those million […]
Bedtime and Weight
Growing Up Thinner Go to bed early. Wake up ten years later slimmer than your peers. Is weight control really this simple? Perhaps. The tantalizing question remains – does more closely fitting your biological clocks and getting more sleep equal less obesity? Recently, researchers looked over data from a study that gathered evidence from 1991 […]