Downsides to GlP-1’s
FDA Data Reveal Different Risks for GLP-1s Recent FDA adverse event analyses on GLP-1 drugs are generating headlines—but the details matter. These reports rely on...
Reducing Iatrogenic Damage: First, Do No Harm
There is active work going on to implement anti-iatrogenic efforts in Andalusia, Spain. If you read my book, “Radical Resilience” you may remember my chapter...
Acupuncture Effective For Low Back Pain In Older Adults:NIH Study Shows
Acupuncture: An NIH-funded clinical trial called BackInAction examined whether acupuncture could improve outcomes for older adults (65+) with chronic low back pain—a condition...
The GLP-1 Experiment
I’m trying to get up to speed on the Glp-1 phenomenon. As always, I’m slow to recommend or adopt new medications, with a 7 year...
Dementia GLP-1 Drugs Fail to Slow Dementia
though GLP-1’s do affect atherosclerotic heart disease and alcohol addiction, they fail in three studies to slow dementia. This is a link to the (disgraced)...
Genetic Contribution to Lifespan, More than you think but still hopeful
Uri Alon of Weizmann institute I was happy to see a name that I hadn’t heard in awhile, Uri Alon. It was years ago,...
TAVNS: Transcutaneour Auricular Vagus Nerve Stimulation Alleviates Cardiac Dysfunction in Takotsubo Syndrome
I’ve been studying vagal activity for years! This study is closely aligned with the study in this blog post. Both research groups are looking at...
TAVNS and Acupuncture: Stress, inflammation, and resilience among patients with oral squamous cell carcinoma
one of my poster presentations on activity of the vagus This study looks at stress and vagal nerve activity in outcomes of oral squamous cell...
Central-sensitization and neuro-immune axis via microglial modulation in acupuncture treatment for Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis-associated pain.
Juvenile arthritis shouldn’t hurt This arthritis study provides more evidence for acupuncture’s effect on the neuro-immune axis, central sensitization, vagal nerve activation, and microglian...