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All about heart rate variability (HRV).

The metric offers insight to the functioning of the nervous system. Specifically it’s thought that when the metric is high, it’s a sign that the nervous system is in “rest and digest” mode, while when it’s low it signals “fight […]

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The FDA still doesn’t trust women.

From Alex Tabarrok in Marginal Revolution: “The FDA has a long history of antipathy towards personal testing. The FDA has opposed personal pregnancy tests, HIV tests, genetic tests, and COVID tests, as I discussed in my article Testing Freedom. Well, […]

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The connection between stress and disease.

“Dr. Gabor Maté is the leading expert on the role the mind-body connection plays in illness and health.” A line that he repeats a few times during this talk stuck with me: “We are biopsychosocial creatures.” Biology, psychology and socio-environmental […]

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The Soviets invented paid time off.

But they also dictated how workers would spend it, and with whom. “Broadly speaking there were two types of Soviet vacations: one where people stayed in a single place, and one where they moved around. The former took place at […]

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GPT is not a doctor.

This is the bear case, of course, and I think the optimists aren’t completely out on a limb. “STAT News reports that the research, while not yet fully released and still pending peer review, found that nearly 60 percent of […]