The other day I listened to a radio program on NPR called Can Technology Deliver better health care?". The premise of the show was based on Dr. Eric Topol's book, The Creative Destruction of Medicine, which argues that new technology and the personalized medical information it delivers will revolutionize health care and "destroy" institutionalized medicine as we know it.
The description of Dr. Topol's book on Amazon illustrates the future he envisions:
What if your cell phone could ...
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When addressing our health, many of us tend to focus on the quality of our diet and exercise as the primary methods of improving our overall wellness. We often believe that if we perfectly “dial in” our diet and exercise routine, then optimal health will surely follow. This concentration on perfecting both food and fitness in the quest for well-being can often lead to the neglecting of certain important relationships in our lives, particularly relationships with ...
I write a lot about diet and nutrition, and there's absolutely no doubt that the food we eat is one of the most important factors that determines our health.
But it's a mistake to assume that food is the only consideration that matters when it comes to health, and that all health problems can be solved simply by making dietary changes. Unfortunately, this seems to be an increasingly common assumption in the Paleo/Primal nutrition world these ...
The vast majority of the articles I've written are about how to heal and prevent disease. Of course that's important, and what most of us are after. However, the reality of life is that sometimes, despite our best efforts, we can't avoid illness or disease. And as I pointed out in a recent article, The Biggest Obstacle to Perfect Health is Your Mind, if there's one thing we can be sure of it's ...
Excerpted from Sciencedaily.com, 9/4/08
In an effort to better understand how chronic stress affects the human body, researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University, have created an animal model that shows how chronic stress affects behavior, physiology and reproduction.
According to lead researcher Mark Wilson, PhD, chief of the Division of Psychobiology at Yerkes, "Chronic stress can lead to a number of behavioral changes and physical health ...
"The biomedical view is so pervasive that we often fail to see it as such but view it as reality. Questioning this model is like asking whether a goldfish knows it is in water." - O'Boyle, 1993
The placebo response has become a well-known, though severely misunderstood, phenomenon in popular culture. But many outside of the medical profession have never heard of the "nocebo response" which is often referred to as the "evil twin" ...
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