The Immune System - as a med student and Cardiologist I remember when my interest in the immune system began. I was a medical student in 1963 at the Ohio State University Hospital out-patient GYN Clinics. A fair number of women who attended this clinic were diabetic and many would come to the clinic with what I will call "boils outside near the vagina." An excellent article … [Read more...]
Do You Know?
Do You Know? Do you know what to do? I'll bet you do. Then why don't you do it? If you can answer that, you deserve a Nobel prize. Unfortunately, when there is the freedom to choose, then you can count on a willy-nilly pattern of behavior in human beings. Knowledge does not automatically predict and/or lead to behavior, good or bad. Some will do it right (for the right or … [Read more...]
"Hope" and "Try" and Nike
"Hope" And "Try" And Nike There are two good words that are damaging because they are practiced/used too much. The first word is "try" and the second is "hope." The truth is that neither of these has anything to do with where you and I live - in reality. While you definitely should have a "good attitude" you must realize that about the problems and difficulties of life, … [Read more...]
New Year’s Resolution
New Year's Resolution The New Year is here. What do you plan to do in the new year to make it better for you than last year? Would you like to raise your own income taxes by 10%? Perhaps you'd like to be sued. Or how about getting mugged and going to jail? How would you like to have surgery or perhaps just take more costly medicine? Despite the fact that this is the … [Read more...]
Holiday Behaviors Leading to Health or Disease
Holiday Behaviors Leading to Health or Disease Alcoholism, cigarette smoking, overweight, lack of exercise and "drug" use/abuse are just the excessive extensions of normal behaviors. In ancient times these holiday behaviors were permitted/acceptable only infrequently and for very short periods of time. There could be a "Holiday" mentality just 2 or 3 days a year since life was … [Read more...]