tag > Health
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Who gets to define what is normal?
"Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world."
"There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia,' but the label is a social fact & the social fact a political event."
Quotes from R.D.Laing's "The Politics of Experience" (1967).
Image: The Cognitive Disorder Atlas
"A useful tool to understand some clinically relevant relationships between brain structure and focal neuropsychological syndromes"
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Why is life expectancy in the US lower than in other rich countries? - Americans have a lower life expectancy than people in other rich countries despite paying much more for healthcare.
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Lifestyle Medicine: The Health Promoting Power of Daily Habits and Practices
The majority of deaths are due to a few causes, and preventable risk factors are a key driver of many. If we are serious about improving the health of humanity, we invest less in complex tech solutions ("A.I driven Biotech, etc.) & more in "Lifestyle change as medicine".
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How Wireless Headphones Could Lead to Neurological Disorders - Wireless headphones, like Apple’s popular AirPods, could be dangerous to human health, according to a petition signed by 250 scientists.
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Wisdom by Jack Rusher on how to stay healthy & well preserved throughout life.
Sleep, diet, training, meditation.
Along another axis: loving relationships, time in nature, contributing to your tribe
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"Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit." - B.K.S. Iyengar
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A opportunity space i deeply care about
For a growing number of serious health challenges - such as burnout, tinnitus, PMS, heart disease, cancer & surgery recovery - the medical system is advising patients to "relax", "exercise" & "be in nature". Yet they offer no help how to practically develop and maintaining such life-style change. A giant missed opportunity.
I deeply care about this opportunity space. When ever time permitted, been doing product research & development work on this with friends for years - creating a practical solution that really excites me. I strongly hope we will find a way to bring it live & help many in need.
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Genome-wide sperm DNA methylation changes after 3 months of exercise training in humans
Exercise can affect your unborn children's genes by altering the chemistry of DNA in sperm and egg cells. Aerobic exercise for 3 months altered sperm DNA by silencing genes linked to the risk of autism, OCD, Alzheimer’s, obesity, type 2 diabetes, and atherosclerosis.
This is called transgenerational epigenetic inheritance. Animal studies have shown that exercise-induced genetic changes are a direct factor driving beneficial changes to offspring’s brain physiology, cognition, neurogenesis, & mitochondrial activity.
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Need for System Change Reminder - Art by @crazyheadcomics
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.‘Lying flat’, or tang ping, a social protest movement, went mainstream in China last year, referring to the idea of just doing enough to get by. But now, some Chinese youths are ‘letting it rot’ by not even attempting to participate in society to begin with."
#Comment: Expect to see more of this type of thing globally, in lock-step with the rise of "naked automation" (tech with no social/education/culture plan)
