Category: Medicine

really interesting! Birth before birth and later…

People exposed to less sugar before birth and during their first one to two years of life were less likely to develop dementia decades later, according to an observational study of nearly 65,000 people. They also tended to receive a dementia diagnosis later in life, although the findings do not prove that consuming less sugar directly prevents the disease.

But it would not shock me one bit. There is a reason Alzheimer’s is sometimes referred to as “Type 3 Diabetes.”

REALLY hate self-diagnoses. And indeed, there are some very real problems with it. Still, I’d rather be a bit educated about a condition than be totally ignorant. AND, I want the diagnoses to be accurate! A lot of those who oppose medical AI are just mad about loss of status.

Health researchers and entrepreneurs argue in a new research paper that the future of top-tier medical care won’t come from doctors working in tandem with artificial intelligence, but will instead be administered purely from autonomous AI models that are likely to outperform both physicians and human-AI hybrid teams as soon as 2030.

Yeah, maybe…

VERY interesting stuff!

A new strategy for delivering GLP-1 drugs to patients with obesity or who were overweight resulted in up to a 12% reduction in body weight after 36 weeks, according to a randomized phase II clinical trial published in Nature Medicine.

not very effective! First it was shown that marijuana was not very effective for chronic pain. Now a study shows it is not effective for anxiety and depression.

Shaggy from “Scooby-Do” hardest hit…

has yearly, very extensive (head, neck, spine) MRIs, I can tell you that I would LOVE to have MRI times shortened! A few years ago it took about 45-50 minutes in the tube (with contrast). But times have gone down with better software and it is now 30-35 minutes.

That is still longer than is comfortable, and my back took nearly a week to recover last time. So if the time were reduced to even shorter, that would be great!

measles. It’s pretty important.

Understand, I am not anti-vaccination, I’m only anti-faux-vaccinations! The COVID “vaccine” was actually not a vaccine at all! A real vaccine like the measles vaccine may not be 100% effective (it’s more like 90%), but it’s not a huge scam like the COVID shot was. That shot was not very effective at all. That shot was more like 0% effective and you were still just as infective to others. And it had catastrophic side effects. I would never recommend that anyone ever get that shot. It was all risk and no benefit.

So let’s not confuse the COVID shot with real vaccinations. They are totally different animals. The fact that the COVID shot totally sucked does not mean that there are no real vaccines.

to see this! I really hope it works out. And soon…

The $65 billion per year global arthritis industry is in for quite a scare as scientists at Stanford just announced they figured out how to regrow healthy, functioning cartilage and maybe end arthritis forever.

Knee replacement is famously a real bugger, and this may make it not needed in many cases. It sounds really great. Let’s see how it actually pans out…

you tell us!

Research estimates that as few as 20 percent of people who lose weight through dieting manage to keep the weight off long-term.

would be great!

But of course, what I want is a way to make brain tissue regenerate!

A treatment that blocks an age-related protein restored cartilage in aging and injured joints by reprogramming existing cells rather than using stem cells.

I like this approach because it decreases the chance of tumors that is inherent in using stem cells.