Category: Health
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My entire job is making decisions. If I want to make good ones, I need sleep. Here’s how I make sure I get it… Cut the Lights When evening rolls around, it’s all about winding down. One of the best ways to do that is to lower the lights. Come…
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Note: This is not medical advice. I have zero qualifications in medicine. I’m just learning and sharing with you what I found. Half the people I know have knee pain. Can startups help? This morning, I used Grok Socratic Mode to find out. Grok Socratic Mode is based on the…
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106,036 Americans are waiting for an organ transplant. 17 of them die each day. But what if we could give them pig organs? From the Seventeenth Century to Modern Science The first attempted xenotransplantation, or animal-to-human transplant, was done in 1667. Jean-Baptiste Denys gave sheep’s blood to a 15 year…
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Working with a personal trainer can be expensive and time consuming. But can AI train me? Let’s find out… Grok As My Personal Trainer This morning, I typed a week’s worth of workouts into Grok 3, my favorite LLM at the moment. I gave Grok my goals: general fitness, longevity,…
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Three quarters of Americans are overweight or obese. Only 5% will ever lose weight with diet and exercise. Are drugs the only real solution to the obesity epidemic? David Friedberg recently dug into that and more in an interview with Eli Lilly CEO Dave Ricks. GLP-1’s for Weight Loss Lilly…
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“Can we rejuvenate an organism?” No one knows for sure, but Juan Carlos Belmonte is getting close. In a fascinating talk at the All-In Summit, Belmonte explains how he’s using cellular reprogramming to reverse aging in mice and, perhaps one day, us. Why We Age After age 40, the likelihood…
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Researchers have reversed some signs of aging in mice. But it had never been done in primates — until now. Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! In what appears to be a major scientific breakthrough, Life Biosciences presented results showing the reversal of damage to the eye in non-human primates.…
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Did anyone not get fat during COVID? Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! I know I did. With snacking one of the few activities still permissible by law, I ballooned up to 219 pounds by the summer of 2021. Little things show you it’s gone too far. Bending over to…
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For generations, preventing pregnancy has fallen mostly on women. Men have few ways to help, aside from often ineffective condoms. With abortion now illegal in many states, the need for contraception is the greatest in 50 years. Get the blog before anyone else…subscribe! So I was excited to learn today…
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What would it be like to not have ears? Unfortunately, for patients with microtia, this is no hypothetical. Microtia, or lack of a fully developed ear, is a congenital condition affecting about 1 in every 6-8,000 people. Some patients have a malformed outer ear. Others have almost no ear tissue…
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Tremendous 