Link. Best treatment I’ve seen: “When our uncertainty is properly accounted for in the model, we find a substantial a priori chance that there is no other intelligent life in our observable universe”.
Daily Archives: May 17, 2018
Snail learning transmitted through RNA transplant
Link. I remember the flatworm studies.
“working out the muscles on one side of our bodies can keep the muscles on the other side strong and fit, even if we do not move them at all”
Link. Oh, come on!! What’s next?
Treat your arthritic knees with …
On a cellular level, what stimulates your chondrocytes, the stem cells that grow new cartilage, is cyclical loading. It’s a pattern of force that’s associated with things like running, jumping or weight lifting. These cells aren’t stimulated in the same way by lower-impact activities like using an elliptical machine or cycling.
For cartilage to remain healthy and regenerate in the way that it does for someone who is in their teens or 20s, the preponderance of evidence suggests that cyclical loading in the form of running or weight lifting is a really effective way to do that.
To a physician of my age this is like treating asthma with smoking.
It does match my experience though. When my familial arthritis kicked in I thought my CrossFit days were done. Instead my knees feel better when I’m doing my wall balls and back squats…
“biggest mistake that most athletes make is they train too easy on their hard days, and too hard on their easy days.”
Link. Boomers last gift: geriatric training.
Acupuncture Does Not Improve Pregnancy Rates
Link. Shocker
Blogger loses some features: “We know change isn’t always easy”
Link. Next time leave out the fake sympathy.
US “total fertility rate was 1.76 children per every woman over a lifetime”
Link. Without large immigration we are Japan
“Trump’s corruption is only a symptom of a bigger problem: a G.O.P. that will do anything, even betray the nation, in its pursuit of partisan advantage”
Link. America is basically in free fall.
Dem Senators learn they were chumps to honor past GOP judicial blocks.
Link. Idiots
DeVos blocks investigations into her friend’s frauds.
Link. GOP.
“Aimovig blocks a protein fragment, CGRP, that instigates and perpetuates migraines”
Link. CGRP role isn’t as clear as this statement implies
AmazonHealth looking floppish.
Link. Dang.
Tribalism, “New atheists”, and IQ genetics.
Link. Groan. Useful to know the gnats are back again.
Evangelical journalist: “Our audience isn’t going to want me to really ask about Russia or Stormy Daniels. They are just not going to want me to ask.”
Link. They have faith.