Genetic factors are the primary ones. Yes, it’s not vaccines.
I also subscribe to the theory that tech hubs have brought people together who might not have met in previous times, and their kids are getting a double dose.
Category Archives: Health
Transhumanist Parents
…are turning their kids into cyborgs.
This will be a big breakthrough for a lot of people, though (as with all tech advances) it will have its downsides.
Nutrition
Why everything you know about it is wrong.
Not news to readers of this site.
Plant-Based Burgers
No, they’re not healthier for you. They’re probably worse. And the myth of red meat and cancer, and saturated fat and heart disease, persists.
HIV
Curing patients by editing away the virus.
This is the 21st century I was hoping for. Now do herpes.
Back On The Air
For those wondering why posting has been light, I woke up with a summer head cold on Monday. I spent a lot of yesterday taking it easy and napping, but last night I slept pretty well, and I’m mostly dried up today.
My Close Call With The Ambulance
Anyway, feeling much better today. Just sore left arm, like I’d been overdoing something with it yesterday. Which in a sense, I had been.
BMI
Not news to regular readers here, but BMI is BS.
Things like this are what gives me such low confidence in the health profession.
Those “Impossible” Burgers
It may be a surprise to some, but not to me, that they are neither healthier for the eater or for the environment.
I’d like to eat actual lab-grown meat, but it has to be cost effective, and nutritionally equivalent to the stuff on the hoof (or claw).
[Update a couple minutes later]
In reading, as is often the case, part of the health claim derives from the false notion that eating “red meat,” and particularly saturated fat, is unhealthy. There is zero scientific evidence for either. So they’re basically proposing to replace something humans have been eating since the dawn of humanity with some lab-produced glop about which we are completely ignorant of its nutritional effects.
Space Settlements
Clark Lindsey has a news roundup.