The Body’s Non-specific Response to Stress Sometimes discovery is serendipitous. Today I was searching for new articles on a phenomenon called “sickness behavior” and chanced on an article entitled “Between being healthy and becoming comatose: the neuropsychiatric landscape of critical illness with a focus on delirium, DSM-5 and ICD-11.” Not beach reading, but what I […]
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Ten Health Aphorisms for October. All cultures have aphorisms—short, pithy nuggets of wisdom that are easily remembered and passed on to the next generation. In my health research and writing, I’ve been on the lookout for health aphorisms and even written a few of my own. My hope is to gather a collection that captures
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#1. A Redox Health Model for Cardiovascular Disease “…The common feature of all risk factors of cardiovascular diseases is imbalance between pro- and anti-oxidative factors in the organism with an increased production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and reactive nitrogen species (RNS). ROS and RNS are key players in normal cardiovascular physiology and signaling, but
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Redox Health and the CDC Top 12 Killers Every year, health organizations like the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) put out lists of the top killers nationally and globally. These lists contain what most of us would consider the usual suspects. For example, the 2017 CDC report lists the
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Preface “If you are headed in the right direction, you will inevitably encounter and solve the right problems.” – Michael Sherer Looking at health care in the USA, it is hard not to conclude that we are headed in the wrong direction. Our healthcare system, independent of any critique we might have of our approach
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When thinking about Redox Imbalance and Redox Health, I’ve found it useful to attempt to frame this material in multiple forms: a thesis statement “Stress causes disease. Redox imbalance is why” An 18-minute TED Talk, 95 theses, a short scientific paper, an infographic, the consumer-focused book. Each approach has its own special challenges and yields
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The public health community understood the gravity of COVID-19 as a threat long before the political leaders and the general populace did for one simple reason: they knew we weren’t prepared for a virus with this combination of lethality and the ability to spread before you knew you had it. We didn’t have testing capacity
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