Quick post: What’s the fuss about resveratrol when you can have a 5HT2c appetite suppressant do the same thing?

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

The new fountain of youth may be an empty cupboard.
Starve a little and you’ll live longer, is the new conventional wisdom –when you restrict calories, lots of good things happen to prevent aging.
Looking back at the people posting on the lorcaserin post who are on the trial and who don’t feel like eating — isn’t [...]

Drink Green Beer, Not Green Wine

Monday, March 17th, 2008

On St. Patrick’s day, pour yourself a green beer, not a green wine: wine and spirits cause more hippocampal volume loss than does beer (in chronic alcoholics, anyway).
There are probably other good reasons for not drinking green wine, although some clever marketing group will probably market a sauvignon vert . . . [...]

Another reason why daylight savings time is unhealthy

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

We are all Frankensteinian, in that we all have the capacity to regrow dead or damaged tissue in our bodies. But even Frankenstein, once regrown from dead tissue, could control his circadian rhythms.

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Sick in the head? Maybe fuzzy thinking when you have a cold is caused by high-level immunity.

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

Grandville, J.J., “Métamorphosis du Jour” . . Hypocrite. . .”
A few years ago, with flamingly infected tonsils, I was on a contentious speaker-phone conference call with an adversary when my voice gave out and I couldn’t talk. My adversary was kind enough to at least put his end on mute while celebrating my impending demise. [...]

Airborne® lawsuit settlement - once you find out something doesn’t work.

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

Being in the biopharma business, I’m always amazed at the direct-to-consumer adverts on TV. It looks like unmitigated chutzpa to me, to advertise that you can get rid of stubborn belly fat or that you apply directly to forehead. Now, I feel a little vindicated. Except I wonder if taking away hope that a [...]

Why Sumo Wrestlers Have High Resting Energy Expenditure

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

So, what do you find when you put a Sumo wrestler in the MRI and get an image, slice by slice, of everything inside them? That and a recipe for a Sumo lunch below.

Sumo in Hawaii by hellochris on Flickr : “. . .22 year old Mongolian rikishi Hakuho as [...]

Cure for Alzheimers?

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

Let’s say the day comes when you are told you have pre-Alzheimers. You are told that getting the disease is inevitable. Emotionally, you grieve for your own “lost” personality. Your loved ones prepare for your care taking — or to put you in assisted living at an outrageous expense to someone.
Then this report [...]