Obesity: Is it our fault?
This week we discussed an article that claims obesity is a brain disease and that over-nutritious diets change our brain chemistry. In contrast the to “eat les...
Category: Disease
Knowledge is Power: power for muscles affected by ALS
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a disease made famous by Lou Gehrig, is the most common adult-onset motor neuron disease. Characterized by upper and lower...
Marijuana: the real story behind endocannabinoids
Everyone in the United States seems to have this stereotypically view of marijuana. When we hear about it, we think of all the pop culture references from musi...
Iron-Chelator? I thought the super hero was Ironman…
A few weeks ago we discussed the new idea that iron levels in the brain potentially have implications in the development of Parkinson’s disease. As a progressi...
Food or Thought: not food for thought
It’s not a new idea that the majority of the food people eat here in the US is unhealthy; we are a nation of convenience. Fast food, ready to prepare meals, an...
Mystery and Motivation
Lithium has been used to treat bipolar disorder for nearly half a century now, even though lithium’s therapeutic mechanism has remained an enigma. No one is ab...
The odd truths about autism and its diagnosis
It’s hard to find a disorder in this world that is more tricky than autism. Unlike the having to flu for example, it has become much more trivial as to determin...
Is fat our fault??
America is fat. Fat is America. You can say it whichever way you choose but the message is still the same, we are the most obese country in the world. But is it...
The search for a wonder drug…
Have you ever wondered if there is a wonder drug? A drug that does really anything and everything? Something that you can take and it will ensure your health fo...
Should we be pumping iron?
Fe. A simple two letters on the periodic table signifying the element iron. The periodic table is for chemistry freaks though, right? Well that very well may be...