Psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk is an innovator in treating the effects of trauma on people. In this interview, he talks at length about how bodywork, like yoga and eye movement therapy can restore a sense of well being. Surprisingly,…
Tonight I saw just the most amazing play...The Secret of Life by Bruce Coughran. The title sounds like the play might contain "10 things to do in your life for happiness"...but nothing could be further from the truth of…
Intense exercise for an hour a day will not fix the metabolic changes caused by sitting all day! To be more exact, "the deep red quadriceps that are designed for postural support...quickly lost more than 75% of their ability to…
It's another gut microbe story! By feasting on the cocoa powder, the microbes break the large polyphenols (potent antioxidants) of cocoa down into small sizes that can then cross from the gut and into the blood.
There is an amazing amount of research going into gut flora and fauna at the moment!
When a team from the University of Missouri in Columbia transplanted gut bacteria from female Harlan mice into female Jackson mice, the animals became…
“an imbalance between saturated and unsaturated phospholipids readily affects Endothelial Reticulum [ER] biogenic activity, inducing a stress response that can trigger cell death.”
That would be a fancy way of saying that every type of fat we eat alters the…
Amazing! Scientists at the University of Southern California have found that 2-4 day fasting causes a drop in white cell counts, and that this effect triggers a stem-cell based regeneration of new immune cells.
Researchers at Harvard Stem Cell Institute have found that it is possible to force mature liver cells to revert back to a stem cell-like state. This follows findings that cells in other organs can undergo the same change - adrenal…
A few weeks ago I heard a fascinating interview with Ted Kaptchuk, a faculty member at Harvard Medical School, who has a degree in Chinese Medicine, and who, for the last 15 years, has been studying the biological changes associated…
I was reading a study a few weeks ago, saying that there is a significant difference (improvement) in the omega-6 to omega-3 ratio in organic, pasture-raised foods, and I thought....this goes against all the spin put out by food corporations…