under the microscope
Sleep to lose weight?
“A randomized trial found that overweight adults sleeping <6.5h/night cut 270 calories/day—just by sleeping 1.2 hours more. No diet or exercise changes.” ~ learn more
Tag: health
to your health
The wellness forecast.
“The wellness industry is at an inflection point: More empowered than ever, consumers are seeking greater control over their well-being. At the same time, the gap between economic growth and health outcomes is widening. … Here’s where we see an […]
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What a $20,000 longevity clinic really buys you.
The NYT’s take on longevity-focused medical providers is … critical. Here’s an excerpt I dislike: “But experts worry that these clinics are capitalizing on people’s fears of aging and death without offering many tangible benefits — because almost none of […]
big ideas
Abolish the NIH (National Institutes of Health).
This is compelling. “The NIH is a tyrannical, capricious, self-serving $50 billion a year Kafkaesque Leviathan ruled over by a clique of septuagenarians who couldn’t care less for science or for scientists. The reason biomedical science advances one death at […]
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Sleep health is getting interesting.
Here’s an excellent newsletter from Out of Pocket Health, focusing on the convergence of clinical and consumer sleep. It’s where I learned about the Zest caffeine pills linked above. “Considering how massively underdiagnosed sleep issues are, I think making this […]
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Giving kids in Sub-Saharan Africa antibiotics reduces child mortality ~14%.
The 3rd large cluster randomized trial demonstrating the same result was recently published. April 2018, February 2024, August 2024. ~ learn more
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Immune cell injection significantly boosts healing of bone, muscle & skin.
“Injecting regulatory T cells or Tregs, which control the body’s immune responses, directly into damaged bone, muscle and skin significantly boosts healing, according to new research. The door is now open to developing a universal cell-based method of enhancing healing […]
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5 healthyish things, including David bars and full-body MRI scans.
I’ve been really enjoying Derek Flanzraich’s new newsletter. “If you’re new here, every Thursday I share 5 health-related things I feel strongly about. I explore, double click, and curate healthy things so you can just live healthyish (and spend less […]
under the microscope
Immune cell injection significantly boosts healing of bone, muscle & skin.
“Injecting regulatory T cells or Tregs, which control the body’s immune responses, directly into damaged bone, muscle and skin significantly boosts healing, according to new research. The door is now open to developing a universal cell-based method of enhancing healing […]
to your health
The great American poisoning.
“The health of an animal reflects the health of its environment. One glance at a starving boar, ribs pressing through the skin, and you understand the boar’s environment lacks the food it needs to be healthy.” ~ learn more