Starvation, Stress Resistance, and Cancer: Valter Longo
Hunger and stress resistance. Fasting can increase resilience. Trends Endocrinol Metab . 2018 Apr;29(4):271-280. doi: 10.1016/j.tem.2018.01.008. Epub 2018 Feb 17. Starvation, Stress Resistance, and Cancer Roberta Buono 1 , Valter D Longo 2 Affiliations PMID: 29463451 DOI: 10.1016/j.tem.2018.01.008 Abstract Cancer cells are characterized by dysregulation in signal transduction and metabolic pathways leading to increased glucose uptake,…
Read MoreOld Fashioned Health and Housekeeping Practices
I’m linking to this blog instead of the article itself because it’s behind a paywall. In addition to the strategies below, let’s not forget the wearing of gloves, simple or fancy that was routine in previous generations. It would be extremely simple to start that again as a minimum. When I lived in Spain 20 years…
Read MoreVaccination Does Prevent Illness as well as Spreading of Covid
Another great article from National Geographic about the vaccines and how they help to mitigate disease and its spread. After any infection, “you have white blood cells, specifically T and B cells, that hang around and remember that initial infection so that if you do become infected again, these memory cells respond by immediately multiplying…
Read MoreHygiene Hypothesis>Don’t fear all germs!!!
Dr. Graham Rook, an emeritus professor of medical microbiology at University College London, likens the immune system to a computer. He says that the microbes we encounter in daily life — on other people and in our spaces — are the data that the immune system relies on to program and regulate its operations. While…
Read MoreStrategies to Decrease Percentage of Body Fat
Some of these strategies are familiar to my readers, time-restricted eating, HIIT. But the fasting exercise, though it makes sense, I was not aware of. Also moving at least every hour. I usually do desk work for 25 minutes and then take a 5-minute “tidying” break. Also, 30 grams of protein per meal! Wow.
Read MoreAdditive Solutions instead of Subtractive Solutions
People often limit their creativity by continually adding new features to a design rather than removing existing ones. The fascinating article looks at the phenomenon that problem solvers will most often add features to solve a given problem instead of removing them. They give a few examples in the article and review some of…
Read MoreElectroacupuncture regulates inflammatory cytokines by activating the vagus nerve to enhance antitumor immunity in mice with breast tumors, Life Sciences,
This should be a big deal? These animal experiments that look at different immune factors could be irrelevant to humans, but when it comes to cancer, perhaps we should be taking a closer look. Also gratifying that they were able to link it to the vagus nerve and the dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus…
Read MoreTranscutaneous Electrostimulation at 36St Improves gastric mobility and Vagal activity
Not sure how they measures vagal activity. J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2015 Nov;30(11):1574-81. doi: 10.1111/jgh.12995. Ameliorating effects and autonomic mechanisms of needle-less transcutaneous electrical stimulation at ST36 on stress-induced impairment in gastric slow waves. Zhang N1,2, Song G2, Chen J3, Xu F4, Yin J2, Wu Q2, Lin L1, Chen JD2,5. Author information Abstract BACKGROUND AND AIM:…
Read MoreDr. Kariko, Hero of the Covid mRNA vaccine
An absolutely incredible story of a dogged, persistent scientist in the face of huge obstacles who persevered and was key in the effort to produce the mRNA vaccines by Pfizer and Moderna alike. I encourage you to read the whole thing. Inspiring! And it underscores the importance of basic science but also of following hunches…
Read MoreAltered Neuroendocrine Immune Responses, a Two-Sword Weapon against Traumatic Inflammation
More on the interaction of the neuroendocrine system and the immune system. Systems biology, it all goes together.. This article is only tangentially relevant to the question of acupuncture since it involves the overwhelming repercussions from massive trauma. Yang C, Gao J, Du J, Yang X, Jiang J. Altered Neuroendocrine Immune Responses, a Two-Sword Weapon…
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