In recent years vitamin D has emerged as a star of the “vitamin” world. For example, there are currently over 800 studies showing vitamin D’s effectiveness against cancer. Optimizing your vitamin D levels can literally cut your risk of several cancers by 50 percent! Further, middle aged and elderly people with high levels of vitamin D could reduce their chances of developing heart disease or diabetes by 43 percent. How Does Vitamin D Do What... Continue reading

Indonesia's smoking toddler, Aldi Rizal, has kicked the habit after month-long rehab program. Aldi, who began smoking at 11 months when his father gave him a cigarette, became a tourist attraction and a video of him became a shocking hit on YouTube. It is not clear whether the storm of protests or apparent health problems caused his family to seek help from psychologist Seto Mulyadi. Confused Aldi cried after finishing his last cigarette and beat... Continue reading

Salt is essential for life — you cannot live without it. Salt has been important to humanity for life on this planet. Even the word "salary" comes from sal because Romans were paid in salt. African and European explorers traded an ounce of salt for an ounce of gold — salt was literally worth its weight in gold. Unrefined natural salt is important to many biological processes, including: Being a major component of your blood... Continue reading

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Exercise is so powerful; a lack of exercise can be used to predict death. Researchers at Stanford University studied 6213 men (average age 59) who were referred for exercise testing. Each man was hooked to an electrocardiogram (ECG) machine to monitor their heart’s activity while they walked and ran on a treadmill. Based on their blood pressure, heart rate, exercise capacity and medical records the men were classified as having cardiovascular disease or not. Six... Continue reading

Ray Kurzweil discusses the future of BCI (Brain-Computer Interfaces) at a workshop at the X-Prize lab in MIT, January 2010. This workshop was co-sponsored by Singularity University. Continue reading

To some people the girl is spinning clockwise, and to others she is spinning counter-clockwise. Which way is it? In reality, of course, this is an illusion. The girl is not spinning in one direction or another. This is a two-dimensional image that is simply shifting back and forth. To learn more and to see other interesting illusions, visit the NeurologicaBlog. Continue reading

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Glutathione has been called "the mother of all antioxidants," because it is a master detoxifier and because it has great power to reinforce your immune system. Some say it is the secret to prevent aging, cancer, heart disease, dementia and pretty much whatever else might ail you. Your body produces its own glutathione, but most people still are deficient because it is depleted by poor diet, stress, toxins, pollution, etc. Unless you take glutathione intravenously,... Continue reading

You’re never too old to pump iron. Even if you are in your 90’s you can become stronger—a good “resistance” training program will increase your strength by 25 to 100 percent or more within one year! For comparison, a good aerobic exercise program will increase your aerobic fitness by only 15 to 25 percent. Resistance training increases muscle strength by pitting the muscles against a force, usually a dumbbell or barbell. Body weight itself can... Continue reading

My observation is that too many of us don’t warm-up before we exercise. At the pool where I swim I see this all the time: a middle-aged person jumps or dives into the water and immediately starts vigorous lap swimming. And I see it at the gym where I work out: someone walks in and sits at the lat pull-down machine and starts jerking a much too heavy weight up-and-down, thereby risking a serious shoulder... Continue reading

I was thinking today about HUMP, the Santa Monica sushi restaurant that was busted for serving whale meat to undercover activists. You know, after a couple weeks of legal wrangling, they've apologized and actually closed down voluntarily. Good for them. So when you go to a sushi restaurant how do you order and eat responsibly? How do you avoid fish that is caught or farmed in ways that harm other marine life or the environment?... Continue reading

Well, maybe not everything, but this amazing chart is a good start. And it you think you already know about DNA, it includes a few surprises. Enjoy! Continue reading

Healthy sex cannot be underestimated as a factor for reducing stress, bolstering self-esteem, and fostering feelings of intimacy and bonding between partners. But the real point of this article is really the fact that a healthy sex life can provide for a longer, healthier, and most would agree, more enjoyable, life. A previous study, published in 1997, tracked the overall health with sexual frequency and the mortality of roughly 1,000 middle-aged men over the course... Continue reading

Our fast-food, food everywhere consumer society wants us to pig-out as much as possible. We are constantly bombarded with TV, radio, billboard, newspaper, and magazine advertisements depicting slim happy people eating mostly bad food or drinking sodas and beer. You can't drive down a major street in any city without seeing dozens of fast food restaurants. Many popular restaurants serve gigantic portions of food and everywhere food has been super-sized. The first step to eating... Continue reading

In the industrialized world, 85% of people over 100 years old are women. On average, women live 5-to-10 years longer than men. There are many theories about why this is including the theory that cardiovascular disease doesn't affect women until they are older, compared to men. This might possibly be because women are relatively iron-deficient and too much iron plays a role in the production of free radicals. Cardiovascular disease is indeed one of the... Continue reading