


Would you be Friends with your Identical Clone?
NYT – Researchers in China reported on Wednesday that they have created two cloned monkeys, the first time that primates have been cloned with the technique that produced Dolly the sheep more than 20 years ago. The long-tailed macaques, named Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua, were made from fetal cells grown in a petri dish. […]

Should you take Your Vitamins this Morning?
PS – From Gwyneth Paltrow to Alex Jones of Info Wars, it seems like everyone is promising that vitamins— and their creepy alter ego, supplements—can soothe what ails us. Supplements are now a multi-billion-dollar industry that many say will continue to grow. But we’re not getting any healthier. Last year, U.S. life expectancy declined for […]

Most Doctors aren’t comfortable Prescribing Weed……And Pretty Much Anything Natural
EH– Marijuana is now legal — at least for medical purposes — in more than half the states in the country, the researchers said. Curriculum deans at 101 medical schools completed surveys about marijuana education. Just over two-thirds said their graduates weren’t prepared to prescribe medical marijuana. One-quarter said their graduates weren’t even able to […]

Fitness, Nutrition and Fashion…Wait What?

Your Gut is Smarter Than You Think
HHP- Interest is also developing in the so-called “brain-gut axis.” It has been theorized that changes in intestinal bacteria may play a role in neuropsychiatric conditions such as anxiety or depression. The intestine has its own separate nervous system, and generates many of the same neurotransmitters (including acetylcholine and serotonin) that the brain generates. These […]

Are Parents Making Kids Heavyweights?
NYT –There’s an underlying assumption here about what adults can control, and about how children can be controlled, if only their parents would take the trouble, or make and enforce healthy rules for the whole family, or read the nutritional information on the back of the cereal box. Certainly, there’s some confusion and […]

Your Office is a Hostile Environment
NYT – Americans spend over 90 percent of their lives indoors. Until recently, little was known about how this was impacting us. But evidence is now mounting that we are paying a physiological price for spending all those hours cooped up unnaturally within four walls. Levels of the stress hormone cortisol tend to be higher […]

More Fitness Technology & Data… Same Doughnut Love Affair
WSJ –High-tech interventions also have failed to encourage people to live more healthily. For an October 2016 paper in the journal Lancet, researchers at the Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore randomly assigned employees from 13 organizations to one of four groups, in an effort to encourage exercise. One group got Fitbit Zip trackers, two other […]

Don’t be a Jerkoff…Just be Nice

It’s All About Balance

Would You Just Spit It Out Already….Fat That Is
PI-Some of the water produced as the body consumes fat exits in the usual way, through your urine and sweat. But a 2014 study in the British Medical Journal found that most of the byproducts of fat (including all that carbon dioxide) leaves the body through the respiratory system. Yep, you read that right. […]

A Day in the Life : A Pill
It’s about time we take a look into the fabulous life of these mini magicians. The majority of the US population is wetting their palate with at least one prescription daily. Our friends at the Mayo Clinic are throwing these numbers out there: “Nearly 70 percent of Americans are on at least one prescription drug, […]

A Good Hotel Never Has a Bad Gym

Studies are Trickling Out on E-Cigs and…..Yikes
So the evidence is beginning to trickle out to confirm what we kinda already knew. Those cool vapes and E-Cigs with all the flavors and good smells may not be the best alternative to smoking. IN FACT, take a gander at the comment below: In a study published in January 2015 in The New England Journal of Medicine, […]