A few years ago, I talked to a health professional about the increased trend in a number of health conditions and how they appear to coincide with the technological developments of the past few decades. When I was younger, yes, there was heart disease, diabetes and cancer, but they weren’t as prevalent as they are
Over the past couple of decades, we’ve all heard many reports about the dangers of using too many anti-biotics. The warning is usually associated with the antibiotics becoming less effective due to the so-called evolution of what the antibiotics are designed to treat. I say so-called evolution because it’s NOT evolution at all. It’s more
Probiotics are beneficial microorganisms that have been shown to offer a wide array of health benefits. As such, probiotic supplements and probiotic-rich foods have become popular natural treatments for a number of health conditions, including digestive issues like diarrhea. This article explains how probiotics may help combat diarrhea, reviews which strains are the most effective,
Psilocybin, the main psychoactive ingredient in magic mushrooms, has taken a step towards becoming a licensed treatment for depression, with the completion of the psychedelic chemical’s first controlled clinical study. Psychiatrists at King’s College London on Wednesday released the results of their phase-1 clinical trial to assess the safety of psilocybin at the annual meeting
“Genetics just got personal.” So boasted the website of 23andMe in 2008, just after launching its DNA testing service. As we entered this decade, a small cohort of companies — 23andMe, its Silicon Valley neighbor Navigenics, and Icelandic competitor deCODE Genetics — were selling a future of personalized medicine: Patients would hold the keys to
I’ve written a lot about Alzheimer’s over the past few years, but you need to be reminded of some basic statistics about Alzheimer’s: An estimated 5.8 million Americans today live with Alzheimer’s, a disease that robs memories before taking lives. Alzheimer’s begins to develop in the brain 20-30 years before diagnosis. 2/3 of those
You are all familiar with the novel written by Mary Shelley and turned into dozens of movies about a mad doctor who robbed graveyards and then used the body parts to create a new creature that, with the help of lightning bolts, was brought back to life. The story of Frankenstein is well known, but
When I lived in Arizona, we had a gorgeous flowering plant at our house. It grew to about 6 foot tall, about 5-6 foot across and had gorgeous large tropical looking flowers. A number of homes in the Arizona also had the same ornamental shrub with different colors ranging from red to pink to white
Did you know that the original idea of changing the clock in spring and fall was that of the venerable Benjamin Franklin? He published the idea back in April 1784 in the Journal de Paris in an article titled ‘An Economical Project for Diminishing the Cost of Light’. Franklin’s idea was largely ignored until William
We’ve all heard about how the over use of many antibiotics leads to the development of antibiotic resistant bacteria, often referred to as superbugs. MERSA is one of those and it can be quite deadly, but there is another that many people have never heard of that can also be deadly. Over the past month,
