Category: Health
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I was chatting with some friends during the UFC fight on Saturday, and they both mentioned the same problem. Neither could fall asleep for at least an hour, night after night. Many people I meet seem to have the same issue. They lay down, ready to get a good night’s…
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Kevin Davies literally wrote the book on CRISPR, the revolutionary new gene editing technology that earned Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier a Nobel Prize a few months ago. Today, I had the wonderful opportunity to attend a talk he gave on that superb book, Editing Humanity. If you’re not familiar,…
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Of all the possible outcomes from COVID infection, clearly death is the one we want to prevent above all. We commonly see vaccine efficacy numbers from the 60’s to the 90’s, but that figure generally refers to how successful the vaccine is at preventing a COVID infection with any symptoms.…
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Do them until the vein in your forehead bursts! Yesterday, I was speaking with a relative who’s nearing 60. She’s been doing a ton of hard work to strengthen her legs after dealing with a knee issue. Now, she wanted to add some serious abdominal exercises for extra power and…
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+ Health+ Abdominal strength, Core strength, Exercise, Healthy lifestyle, Isometrics, Strength training, Workout, Yoga+
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A couple of months ago, a man approached me on the street near my home. He asked for a bit of money, and although I usually never do, for some reason I gave it to him. I later saw him on a regular basis near the neighborhood grocery. I found…
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+ Brain Injuries, Head Injuries, Health care, Housing, Medicine, Mental health, Poverty, Research, Substance abuse, TBI+
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When I worked in medical software, multidrug resistant bacteria were always a concern. But new research has created a class of antibiotics that may make even the most drug-resistant infections history: [They] focused on a metabolic pathway that is essential for most bacteria but absent in humans, making it an…
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At first, I couldn’t even spell it! I first heard about quercetin in this interview with Dr. Mark Gordon, and was intrigued that an over-the-counter supplement might help protect against COVID and even colds and flus. But I was a little skeptical, so I decided to do some digging. I…
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+ Coronavirus, COVID-19, Immune system, Immunity, Joe Rogan Experience, Research, Science, Supplements, Vitamins+
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Above: Me sucking wind after a tough workout. We often hear what the minimum amount of exercise we need is, but what amount of exercise is actually optimal? At what point have we reaped all the benefits exercise has to offer, and possibly even gone over the edge into damaging…
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+ Aging, Exercise, Healthy lifestyle, Longevity, Physical activity, Research, Strength training, Weightlifting, Yoga+
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Many of us have heard that vitamin D might protect us from COVID, but is there real science behind these claims? Yesterday, I received a very thoughtful message from Dr. Peter Attia on the subject. Dr. Attia cites a randomized controlled trial from Spain that found the following: patients not…
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+ Coronavirus, COVID-19, Healthy lifestyle, Medicine, Research, Science, Supplements, Vitamin D, Vitamins+
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Dr. Jeremy Walston, Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University and co-author of the study I just read an interesting new study identifying the biggest causes of aging. The authors gathered a panel of leading experts on health and aging and asked them what the biggest risk factors are for…
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+ Aging, Chronic disease, Data, Healthy lifestyle, Longevity, Medicine, Publications, Research, Studies+
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