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Showing posts with label Health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Health. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 12, 2020

Science Is Real

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Science is real. Science is also slow, and sometimes science takes detours. A May 2018 column was about the rise and fall of vitamin E. Brie...
Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Alcohol: What is Moderation?

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“Correlation does not imply causation.” Simply put, for two variables if both change, one cannot simply conclude that there is a cause-and-e...
Wednesday, October 2, 2019

Folate and Folic Acid

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Folate is a B-vitamin that occurs naturally in plants – more in some than others. Folic acid is a synthetic compound incorporated into multi...
Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Death by Exercise

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Sudden cardiac death – as in the college-age basketball player or the hyper-fit triathlon participant – tends to make the news. As it should...
Tuesday, May 8, 2018

Why do We Sweat?

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If we were any other species of mammal, including our closest relatives, the great apes, we would not perspire, and the deodorant industry w...
Wednesday, May 2, 2018

Rise and Fall of Vitamin E

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Vitamin E was the vitamin D of the 1990s – good for whatever ailed you. Claimed benefits led with cardiovascular disease and cancer, but pil...
Tuesday, July 4, 2017

Ticks: Lyme, Anaplasmosis, Babesiosis

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From left to right: larvae, nymph, adult male, adult female. Nymphs and adult females are the vectors for human infection. Ticks get on ...
Thursday, August 15, 2013

Anaplasmosis - the Other Tick Disease

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There is a new kid in town - Anaplasma phagocytophilium. This bacterium is carried by the same deer ticks that bring us Lyme disease. Prim...
Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Deer Ticks and Lyme Disease

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This is a reposting of a 2011 article, revised, because we are once again in Lyme disease season. See also the anaplasmosis article posted ...
Saturday, May 4, 2013

Water - How Much to Drink?

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How much water to drink? The short answer is enough that you pee enough. Our body's water content is strongly regulated to stay very c...
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Friday, February 17, 2012

Age and Peak Athletic Performance

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Sarcopenia - age-related muscle loss - becomes more common and more severe after age 60, but even for 80 year olds a supervised program...
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Thursday, September 8, 2011

Death by Exercise, Marathon, Triathlon

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Sudden cardiac death – as in the college-age basketball player or the hyper-fit triathlon participant – tends to make the news. As it should...
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