More and more people are starting to spread the word on how scientifically insane it is, including a physician who is a former vegan. Not that I care about Bill Clinton’s health, but it’s nice to see that he’s gotten off that idiotic low-fat diet. It was probably killing him and he didn’t even know it.
Category Archives: Health
Whole-Fat Dairy
Five reasons you should be eating it. No one should be eating low-fat dairy, or low-fat food in general. It’s all an abomination based completely on junk nutritional science over decades.
I should note that Costco only sells zero-fat Fage yogurt (last I checked). They make a 2%, but not a whole-fat version. But Trader Joe’s has started to make a whole-milk version, and it tastes great, and is only two bucks, compared to $2.67 for lower-fat versions, and more than that for Fage.
The Rising Health Insurance Premiums
Loony leftist blames the party that didn’t vote for the legislative atrocity.
[Update a few minutes later]
Related: David Harsanyi: “When Will Liberals Answer For Obamacare’s Failures? Is there any accountability in politics for being completely wrong? Not for defenders of Obamacare.”
#ProTip: They’re not “liberals.” There is nothing liberal about them.
Growing New Knees
…and other joint cartilage, from noses.
Faster please. Though I do have to say it sort of reminds me of the end of Sleeper.
Muscular Dystrophy
I hadn’t realized the degree to which CRISPR has revolutionized disease treatment. And the possibility of treating sickle cell would be a huge medical boon to the black community.
Nerve Repair
Researchers have figured out how to get mice to do it. Seems like the same thing should work in humans. Between this sort of thing, stem cells, and brain-controlled exoskeletons and prosthetics, it’s a much better world for those paralyzed. Faster, please.
A New Antibiotic Weapon Against Superbugs
This development looks promising. and this is the best part:
SNAPPs appear to pose no threat to healthy tissue, they only attack bacteria. This is in marked contrast to antibiotics that are known to have unpleasant side-effects under certain conditions because they damage both bacteria and healthy tissue. Why do the SNAPPs leave healthy tissue alone? Because the SNAPPs are too big to interact effectively with mammalian cell tissue. They’re like big dogs that attack other big dogs to establish dominance while ignoring tiny dogs that are beneath their notice.
SNAPPs appear to have the potential to work as a substitute in cases where AMR makes treatment with antibiotics ineffective. This is a very good thing, but is it also another short-term solution? Will the bacteria mutate and develop resistance to SNAPPs the same way they have developed resistance to antibiotics?
Lam and her team examined this question by exposing 600 generations of a colistin-resistant superbug to SNAPPs. The superbug the researchers used is known to mutate and acquire antibiotic resistance rapidly but the SNAPPs killed the 600th generation as effectively and easily as they did the first. The researchers speculate that the bacteria are unable to develop resistance because there are so many ways the SNAPPs can kill them.
Faster, please.
Fixing Fractures
With 3-D printed bone. Faster, please. Why should it wait five years for human trials?
National Coffee Day
This is the only reason I choke down the swill every morning. It’s totally on faith.
It’s also worth noting (as I’ve long suspected) that there does seem to be a genetic component to its effects, which is probably why I a) don’t like the stuff and b) it has no discernible effect on me.
Rejuvenation
What happens when you sew a young mouse to an old one so they share a vascular system?