Health & Fitness

Neural Control of Energy Balance: Biochemistry behind Glucose Metabolism and Obesity

This article has background material on circuits involved in metabolism and homeostatic mechanisms involved in glucose metabolism with possible applications for obesity. This is not...

For Better Sleep Fix Your Day

Good sleep for long life Lots of good tips in this article on an ever popular topic of better sleep. Excerpt below. Readers of my...

Oura Ring for Sleep Analysis: Longer Sleep Longer Life

According to Professor Matthew Walker, the more and better your sleep, the longer your life.  Lack of sleep contributes to a long list of health...

Vitamin B2 for migraines

Riboflavin, or Vitamin B2, 400 mg,   has been shown to be effective in preventing migraine. This article isn’t new.  In fact I’ve discussed Vitamin B2...

Exercise activates vagal induction of dopamine and attenuates systemic inflammation

Even low intensity exercise can improve overall inflammation, not by muscle response but due to vagal nerve activity. One session of low intensity exercise in...

California now the only state that’s advanced out of CDC’s ‘high’ COVID transmission category

California no longer has “high” community levels of coronavirus transmission, according to data published Tuesday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an...

San Francisco and Iceland: Success Stories for the Covid Vaccine

Both Iceland and San Francisco are seen as having had low Covid case rates and high vaccination rates.  But with the Delta variant, both places...

Benefits of Moderate Exercise

This is good news.  Moderate exercise is easier to maintain, easier to look forward to, and less likely to lead to injury. “All exercise is...

Clinic Use of TAVNS: Parameters and Best Practices

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6867597/ This is a good, general overview of best practices for administering TAVNS in the clinic.  I’m posting it here for reference. Badran BW, Yu...

Caffeine. The Invisible Addiction by Michael Pollan. Borrowing energy, wrecking sleep

Good sleep for long life This is a fascinating article by Michael Pollan about the hidden side effects of caffeine. He goes through the history...