Addicted Babies
Opioid addiction is the topic of this week’s discussion and whenever addiction is mentioned so is withdrawal and rehabilitation. Early symptoms of withdrawal in...
Tag: brain
Insulin resistance?… Related to Alzheimer ’s disease? Who knew?
Usually when you think insulin dysfunction you think diabetes…not Alzheimer’s diseaseor dementia. Interestingly enough researchers have found a link between th...
How Old do We Want to Be?
This week’s topic concerns topics concerning insulin and Alzheimer’s disease deals largely with aging. Alzheimer’s is not alone with a strong correlation betwee...
Anorexia and Cannibinoids
You know what really grinds my gears? Anorexia nervosa. Anorexia nervosa is a widely known eating disorder that afflicts around 8 million Americans a year. Anor...
Frying Brain Tumors with Marijuana
Cannabinoids are a class of compounds including and related to marijuana’s active ingredient- tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), which have both psychoactive effects (...
Hope for new Alzheimer’s treatments
Alzheimer’s disease is a memory impairment mostly seen in elderly people. Alzheimer’s Foundation of America describes the disease as “a progressive, degenerati...