It should be remembered that thirst is a poor indicator of dehydration during exercise. Frequent fluid intake, without being thirsty is necessary to prevent dehydration. What are heat related illnesses and how can you prevent them?
It should be remembered that thirst is a poor indicator of dehydration during exercise. Frequent fluid intake, without being thirsty is necessary to prevent dehydration. What are heat related illnesses and how can you prevent them?
The reality of manmade climate change is upon us. Summer of 2021 came in early with a big bang of sizzling heat waves that are shattering records, creating public health emergencies, widespread drought, water shortages and crop failure. How does our body regulate its core temperature when extreme heat waves are upon us? And what happens when the body cannot cope?
Even though I am usually against food supplements, laboratory studies are so convincing that now, I strongly recommend taking more curry and omega-3 fatty acids, either with our diet or taking them as food supplements to help keep our brain healthy and bright.
We are all terribly afraid of dying. If it is up to us, we want to live forever. But have we given any thought to what challenges the society would face, if no longer employable and productive elderly population keep increasing by the millions?
Aging is the leading cause of suffering and death on a worldwide basis. Every day, about 150,000 people die in the world and 100,000 of them are elderly. Can we prevent the aging process, which is the main culprit of suffering and disease in old age?
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), at its core is a neuro-degenerative disease of brain cells. Why are only certain memory cells are involved? And what are the biggest risk factors for Alzheimer’s Disease? Being female is the the second biggest risk factor for AD, why?
Today, 30 million people worldwide are suffering and slowly dying from Alzheimer’s Disease. Is age related memory impairment an early part of the disease?
It is estimated that about 75 billion land animals are raised each year and slaughtered for their meat. The industrial scale of animal agriculture, while profiting handsomely to supply meat for masses, has significantly contributed to climate change.
How to rethink differently? How thinking again to correct your old thinking, but also to think differently, with a change of mind and change of personal cognitive biases is so important.
Vaccines are, without a doubt, one of the greatest accomplishments of modern medicine. But why then still there are so many oppositions to vaccines? Today, about 30% of Americans refuse to take the Coronavirus vaccine. Why?
Genocide is a very serious international crime. Its casual use as a phrase for political purposes diminishes its importance and affects.
Repeated recent massacres of innocent people with war grade, semi–automatic weapons have become an epidemic in America. Together with the deadly coronavirus pandemic, it has created the worst health care crisis of the century in the USA.
COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy, vaccine distrust, vaccine complications, new variants and the pandemic.
Parents beware, puberty comes earlier than you think. Children should be educated and prepared to talk to their children about this critical and bewildering period of their lives.
As I see it, health care and the practice of medicine in the USA and in the world is heading in the wrong direction.
The American health care system is a profit oriented corporate health care delivery system run by giant health care corporations. Preventative health care is not as profitable as treating illnesses, so much so that many preventative health care measures and practices are not even covered by health insurance. Is the American health care system is more a sickness care than health care?
How do we increase the intensity of our learning signals?
The art of thinking, learning, memory formation and recall are biological functions of our brain. Without knowing how our brain performs all of these higher mental faculties, at the neuro-cellular and molecular levels, we can’t possibly know how to study smartly or learn effectively.
We are who we are because of what we learn and what we remember. Is there an art of thinking, learning, memory formation and recall?