…rejuvenated with an asthma drug.
Faster, please.
Category Archives: Health
Regulating Medical Devices
A new paper from Mercatus, citing me and the book. In fact, I used the FDA as another example of a risk-averse bureaucracy in the book.
Dog Years
Lengthening them with a new anti-aging drug. Humans come next.
“Fratricidins”
Researchers have come up with a way to get cancer cells to kill each other.
Faster, please.
A New Desalinization Method
If this works out, it would be huge. It might be useful for Martian water, too.
When A “Scientific Consensus” Isn’t Worth The Paper It’s Printed On
The WaPo finally wakes up to reality.
And yes, it’s not just whole milk, but small steps, I guess.
Food Preferences
Yes, I think that, while some people have serious health issues, much of this is just fad.
[Update a while later]
I should note that I’m allergic to tree nuts, but it’s never been life threatening, as far as I know. It’s just that if I eat them, the linings of my mouth and throat itch.
One more point. I’m not normally into censorship, but I think that the “Food Babe” moron should be banned from the Internet.
Schizophrenia
Instead of curing it, it may be possible to prevent it.
Faster, please.
Paleolithic Sleep Patterns
Apparently, sleeping all night isn’t a modern industrial invention:
The volunteers also slept continuously. They would toss and turn like everyone does, but they almost never woke up for a concerted window in the middle of the night. This contradicts a growing idea, popularized by historian Roger Ekirch, that sleeping in eight-hour chunks is a modern affectation.
Ekirch combed through centuries of Western literature and documents to show that Europeans used to sleep in two segments, separated by an hour or two of wakefulness. Siegel doesn’t dispute Ekirch’s analysis; he just thinks that the old two-block pattern was preceded by an even older single-block one. “The two-sleep pattern was probably due to humans migrating so far from the equator that they had long dark periods,” he says. “The long nights caused this pathological sleep pattern and the advent of electric lights and heating restored the primal one.”
Interesting. Also some good advice for better sleep.
Sit
Standing desks don’t extend lifespan?
I don’t know, it still seems like you’ll expend more energy by standing than sitting. But now I don’t feel as bad that I’ve never gotten around to getting/making one.