Health & Fitness

Wear the Humble Mask. It Is Your Servant to Protect and Defend

There will be no improvement in jobs and economic activity until we beat this thing. Until infection rates in whatever population decreases to manageable levels,...

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Effect of Yoga Therapy on Disease Activity, Inflammatory Markers, and Heart Rate Variability in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis

This article looks at two aspects of treatment and health that I’m deeply interested in.  One is the autonomic nervous system and HRV specifically.  The...

Targeting Residual Inflammatory Risk: A Shifting Paradigm for Atherosclerotic Disease

Front Cardiovasc Med. 2019; 6: 16. Published online 2019 Feb 28. doi: 10.3389/fcvm.2019.00016 PMCID: PMC6403155 PMID: 30873416 Targeting Residual Inflammatory Risk: A Shifting Paradigm for Atherosclerotic...

Anti-Cytokine Agents: Targeting Interleukin Signaling Pathways for the Treatment of Atherothrombosis

Circ Res. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2020 Feb 1. Published in final edited form as: Circ Res. 2019 Feb; 124(3): 437–450. doi: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.118.313129 PMCID: PMC6386195...

Inflammation, Immunity, and Infection in Atherothrombosis: JACC Review Topic of the Week

J Am Coll Cardiol. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2019 Oct 23. Published in final edited form as: J Am Coll Cardiol. 2018 Oct 23;...

The Sleep and Immunity: Crosstalk in Health and Disease

Good sleep for long life All of our systems are interrelated.  This article looks in depth at the effect of sleep on the immune system. ...

5 Tips To Improve Your Microbiome

Some tips for improving all of the bacteria that work for you! Fruits and vegetable, of course.   Resistant starch. ie. legumes and starches that have...

Benefits of a Plant Based Diet: The Protein Factor

We’ve discussed how much protein we need in our diet.  For those of us who try to be vegetarian/pescetarian/flexitarian, how do we get enough protein? ...

Metformin for Anti Aging

Ancient Medicine Made Modern There has been buzz about Metformin as a possible tool to deter aging. On principle I’m opposed to these specific, medication...