SUBJ: Ultrasound to reduce alzheimers and Parkinsons plaque and addiction.
SUBtitle: Hypertension is a leading cause of cognition impairment.
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Ultrasound to reduce alzheimers and Parkinsons plaque and addiction.
Hypertension is a leading cause of cognition impairment.
The squat is the most important exercise for seniors.
By changing how we pay attention, we can change the shape, or underlying configuration, of the heart‐mind.
Rapamycin and astaxanthin, restore macrophage balance and reduce inflammation.
A new way to treat Sleeping Sickness
PTSD relaxes the part of the brain which is overactive in people suffering from PTSD.
Even 20 years after quitting smoking, ex-smokers should have a chest x-ray.
A protein increases after exercise and is associated with a reduced risk of coronary artery disease.
Perceived stress during pregnancy decreases newborns’ telomere length.
ReWalk exoskeleton is now an authorized medically necessary device when prescribed for a patient with spinal cord injury.
LONG NOTES: CBS news – Ultrasound to reduce alzheimers and Parkinsons plaque (immediate benefits!) and addiction
Science 12 Jan pg 160 – Hypertension is a leading cause of cognition impairment, so get hypertension treated quickly.
“The squat is the most important exercise for seniors,” says Eric Daw, a personal trainer dedicated to older adults and founder of Omni-Fitt in Toronto, Canada.
By changing how we pay attention, we can change the shape, or underlying configuration, of the heart‐mind. This is the core process in mindfulness and contemplation. The Interacting Cognitive Subsystems (ICS) analysis suggests this involves a shift in the balance between conceptual knowing and holistic‐intuitive knowing. It seems as though the world is revealed directly to our conscious minds through our sensory organs. With this mindset, it is natural to think of perception as a process of bottom‐up feature detection – a “reading” of the world around us. But what we actually perceive is a top‐down, inside‐out neuronal fantasy that is reined in by reality, not a transparent window onto whatever that reality may be… Their minds were not on what they were doing—their mi”nds had wandered to something else—a striking 47% of the time. These findings suggest a huge potential opportunity to increase the sum total of human happiness—if we can reduce mind wandering, we will feel happier. This points to the possibility of increasing happiness by learning to pay attention in a different way, switching out of our default narrative self‐focus to a more experiential form of self‐focus.
Astaxanthin is a naturally occurring antioxidant and anti-inflammatory compound that is commonly used for treating inflammatory diseases [A supplement I take]. Researchers have described how specialized nanoparticles, which deliver rapamycin and the antioxidant astaxanthin, restore macrophage balance and reduce inflammation in a mouse model of osteoarthritis.
A new way to treat Sleeping Sickness. Scientists at Israel’s Bar-Ilan University have been able to destroy the genetic code of the trypanosome parasite that the tsetse fly infects with, to cause trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness). It opens the way for development of RNA-based therapies to prevent transmission of the disease.
PTSD device is Best Startup. Israel’s GrayMatters (see here previously) was named the Prix Galien USA Best Startup 2023 winner. Its technology uses an EEG headset device to read biomarker activity in the amygdala. AI software, including an Avatar, relaxes the part of the brain which is overactive in people suffering from PTSD.
Williams syndrome is caused by 25 missing genes. Tel Aviv researchers have discovered the function of one of the deleted genes – Gtf2i. Its absence impairs the production and regulation of mitochondrial organelles in the brain’s neurons. Impacts include dental, cardiovascular, and visual problems.
AARP 12,000 people turn 65 in US every day;new guidance for ex-smokers. Even 20 years after quitting. You should have a chest x-ray if you used a pack a day for 20 years. There are lots of new treatments to prevent migraines, like green light exposure for1 or 2 hours a day decreased headaches from 7.9 to 2.4 per month.
Researchers publishing in Aging have pinpointed a protein in mice, (Metrnl), that increases after exercise and is associated with a reduced risk of coronary artery disease.
A new study published in BMC Psychiatry reviewed literature that links perceived stress during pregnancy with newborns’ telomere length [1].
Medicare pays for ReWalk exoskeleton. Medicare Administrative Contractor Noridian Healthcare Solutions has paid the first ever claim by an eligible Medicare patient for a personal exoskeleton from Israel’s ReWalk. ReWalk is now an authorized medically necessary device when prescribed for a patient with spinal cord injury
