Health & Wellness
17 articles filed under Health & Wellness.
-
Health & Wellness
Is Monkeypox Going to Kill Us All?
Have you heard about Monkeypox? Monkeypox (Mpox) is a virus. It emerged several years ago (nobody seems to be exactly sure when) in Africa, in the Democratic Republic of the Conga. Government health officials…
Read full post -
Health & Wellness
Another Impressive Thing About Japan
Another Impressive Thing About Japan A study was just published that answered a question I was about to research as a follow-up to my series on Japanese culture. The question: “Why does it seem that Japanese…
Read full post -
Health & Wellness
Brian’s Amazing Weight-Loss Protocol
At our last Zoom meeting, I noticed that Brian had lost a lot of weight. In fact, he told me he’d dropped more than 100 pounds! This is a guy that has always been heavy. But he’s also heavily muscled, so the…
Read full post -
Health & Wellness
Another “Crazy” Idea?
A visitor looking at “In America: Remember,” a temporary art installation on the National Mall commemorating Americans who have died of COVID-19. When I continue to express the view that the most important…
Read full post -
Health & Wellness
Three New Takes on America’s COVID Response
* He Doesn’t Sound Like a Conspiracy Theorist! Dr William Makis, who has been labeled by Big Pharma as a conspiracy theorist, and whose essays on the mRNA COVID vaccines have been criticized as fallacious by…
Read full post -
Health & Wellness
More Studies Show that COVID Vaccines Can Infect and Affect DNA
Artist’s depiction of a virus particle covered with spike proteins If you’ve done any reading about COVID-19 and the vaccines created to combat it, you’ve heard about “spike proteins,” which the body uses to…
Read full post -
Health & Wellness
Blood Pressure Drugs: Are They Any Better (or Safer) Than Statins?
For the last 10 years, PB, one of my trainers, has been taking my blood pressure at least three times every time I train. Two or three times a week. In all that time, my systolic numbers ranged from 110 to…
Read full post -
Health & Wellness
New Pfizer-funded Study: The Three-Shot COVID Vaccine Regimen Is Useless (and Dangerous?) in Children Under Five
There has been an argument for vaccinating older and “immunocompromised” people against COVID. At least there was when a handful of early studies concluded that it prevented infection and spreading. But there…
Read full post -
Health & Wellness
Another Reason to Check Your Vitamin D Levels
Vitamin D, long recognized as the vitamin one took to strengthen and maintain strong bones, has, in the past several decades, been shown to be important in strengthening the body’s immune system against a host…
Read full post -
Health & Wellness
Mask-Wearing No Longer a Controversial Issue
Health officials have acknowledged that there is inadequate evidence to support the notion that medical-grade face masks, including N95, KN95, and FFP2 types, provide protection for vulnerable individuals…
Read full post -
Health & Wellness
One More Reason to Lose Weight
I told you about my knee-replacement surgery six weeks ago. I’m about 70% back to where I need to be in terms of strength and flexibility, and I’m feeling confident that I’ll get the joint back to 100% in the…
Read full post -
Health & Wellness
Second Sleep? What’s That?
I was surprised to learn this: For most of man’s time on earth, sleep happened in two shifts. The current “normal” of one seven- or eight-hour sleep was something that developed during the Industrial…
Read full post -
Health & Wellness
Coffee? Tea? Why Not?
A friend of mine told me that he was eliminating coffee from his diet for “health reasons.” I told him that the coffee=bad myth was debunked decades ago. In fact, a 2017 umbrella review of 201 meta-analyses by…
Read full post -
Health & Wellness
The Statin Diaries: Can High Levels of Cholesterol Be Healthy?
I told you on Dec. 30 that ever since I began taking the statin drug recommended by my VIP doc, I’ve been needing more sleep, taking more naps, and feeling brain-fogged. I couldn’t say for sure that my fatigue…
Read full post -
Health & Wellness
If You Don’t Have Time to Exercise, Read This
I’ve been making the argument that high-intensity workouts are the secret to gaining substantial health and wellness benefits. And according to new studies, they are also the secret to healthy aging and even…
Read full post -
Health & Wellness
I Keep Reading and Readers Keep Writing
More About Statins… I don’t think there’s anything I’ve written in recent years that has generated a bigger response from readers of this blog than my posts on statin drugs. A few friends who’ve been taking…
Read full post -
Health & Wellness
Can Vaccines Prevent Cancer?
Amid all the questions about the effectiveness (and the side effects) of COVID vaccines, there is hope that new vaccines may be able to treat cancer. Innovations like genome sequencing have allowed scientists…
Read full post