First, diabetes. Now, brain fog?
Really? This COVID-19 infection is going to devastate our population.
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Tag Archives: aging
A ChemE explains Bourbon
I have shared how various products rely on the talents of chemical engineering. Coffee (a course being taught at Berkeley made this clear), winemaking, soda pop, etc. all demonstrate the need for great chemical engineering talents to maximize the value of these products.
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Sedentary America?
I don’t think I am that atypical for my generation.
Since I’ve been born, I’ve lived in 11 different homes. 5 different states. 9 different cities.
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Young blood
So, about 15 years ago, I read an intriguing paper. The authors were IM Conboy, MJ Conboy, AJ Wagers, ER Girma, IL Weissman, and TA Rando; Stanford profs all. What was so intriguing?
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Rock Stars are Dying and their Business Changes
2016 was a pretty bad year (and 2017 is probably going to match it), if you are fan of rock and roll. We lost Glenn Frey, Leonard Cohen, George Michael, Prince, David Bowie, among many other greats.
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Sight for Sore Eyes?
Since I was around 6 years old, I’ve been wearing glasses. Admittedly, a traumatic experience made them necessary. And, until my oldest was born, I was a four-eyed monster (with clip-on sunglass attachments, since they could never make prescription glasses that would solve my light aversion problems.)
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I’m gonna live forever?
I’ve written before about one project at Google– the one aimed at determining why folks become terrorists. The basic concept is to determine why people join gangs and how that is similar to folks joining terrorist cells. In so doing, we should be able to find ways to stop folks from becoming terrorists. This venture is led by one smart young chap- Jared Cohen- who got his start in the Condy Rice’s State Department and stayed on under Hillary Clinton’s tenure, before heading up this new gig.
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6 miles…please!
Today, I’m going to revisit an important issue I discussed some 30 months ago. I discussed the empirical research that showed if we walked 6 miles a week, our brains and our bodies would thank us. Our bodies- because that is about the minimum exercise to keep it in tone. And, our brains- because the data indicated that cognitive impairment was associated with those who walked fewer than 6 miles a week.
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Am I losing my mind? (No comments from the peanut gallery!)
This is not good news. If this data are valid, it means that our belief that we are “safe” until age 60 (mostly from the Washington State studies) is incorrect- and that mental decline begins at age 45. So, those brain exercises you were going to start in a few years- better start them now.
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Finally some useful (and interesting) information about aging and health!
I ran across a fantastic article today (this was written almost a month ago, sorry) in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. Drs. Rockwood, Song, and Mitnitski, from Dalhousie University in Halifax, analyzed some long term data that obtains in the Canadian National Population Health Survey. The title of the article says it all: Changes in the relative fitness and frailty across the adult lifespan. They employed the data from seven 2 year cycles (starting in 1994-5, ending in 2008-9) of that study. The key performance indicators they examined were death, use of health services, and changes in health status. What made the report intriguing (to me, of course) was that the authors developed what they called the “frailty index”.
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