Circadian rhythms are physical, mental, and behavioral changes that follow a 24-hour cycle. These natural processes respond primarily to light and dark and affect most living things, including animals, plants, and microbes. Chronobiology is the study of circadian rhythms. One example of a light-related circadian rhythm is sleeping at night and awake during the day.... Read More
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Mixing Alcohol and Caffeine
Drinking alcohol and caffeine in combination increases the risk of heavy drinking, alcohol dependence, and physical harm. It seems best to avoid combining the two substances.... Read More
Heart Disease Surprises
These newly identified risk factors include inflammatory diseases. These risk-raising conditions include gout, psoriasis, lupus, inflammatory bowel disease, and autoimmune collagen vascular diseases. These diseases are all associated with an increased tendency to develop coronary artery disease. Each of the conditions increases the inflammasome.... Read More
A New Breast Cancer Risk
This is the first study analyzing breast density changes, over time, in an individual breast (rather than averaging the two breasts). While breast density typically declines with age, a slower rate of decline in one breast (than the other) often precedes a cancer diagnosis in that breast.... Read More
Chat GPT as a Doctor
“AI is more dangerous than, say, mismanaged aircraft design or production maintenance or bad car production, in the sense that it is, it has the potential — however small one may regard that probability, but it is non-trivial — it has the potential of civilization destruction.” — Elon Musk.... Read More
COVID-19 and Diabetes
What this means, in layperson language, is that the virus affects pancreas insulin levels and secretion. The destruction of pancreas beta cells is linked with type 1 and type 2 diabetes. ... Read More