Knock Knock Who's There? Concussion!
If you wondered what many Americans were doing Sunday afternoon, I could give you an answer. They were watching football. Baseball claims that its America’...
Category: Health
Concussions: When enough is enough
Recently, the long term effects of repeated concussions suffered by NFL players has been huge news because of the increasing number of suicides that are ...
Concussions: Not Always Worth Taking One for the Team
Concussions seem like such a common thing. It happens because we fall off the jungle gym on the playground as kids or because we run into the walls during a bas...
Rub Some Dirt In It..?
Concussions are a problem in today’s athletes. Concussions are difficult to diagnose and their severities can vary greatly. The long term effects of frequent ...
Putting A Price On The Brain: Concussions And Football
Paul Oliver, Andre Walters, David Duerson, Junior Seau, Ray Easterling, Shane Dorness and Terri Long have three things in common. They are all former NFL player...
Sex, Drugs, and Rock-n-Roll (and Concussions)
It seems as though every time we turn around some prominent NFL retiree is committing suicide, tired of being afflicted by the effects of the repeated concussio...
Walk, Run, and Eat Your Way Awar From Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer’s disease has always been a disease that older generations get and us youthful people don’t need to worry about it until later. That is wh...
Is your sweet tooth breaking down your brain? Insulin’s role in Alzheimer’s Pathology
Living in a society where overindulgence of food is commonplace and obesity rates are rampant, we are well aware that too much sugar and fat in our diets is bad...
The Fountain of Youth
As we age we naturally loose our ability to perform successful biological tasks in our bodies, making us more susceptible to diseases. One of the biologi...
Could Alzheimer's be a Disease of Over-Indulgence?
When you hear the words Alzheimer’s disease, most people think of old age, and rightly so, the timeline of the disease is such that elderly people are mos...