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Sleep like a ninja
Christmas is finished and you’re now in the recovery phase. Hopefully you had a great time,…
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Sleep: Natures fixer
Workouts are how you get strong right? Wrong!!! Yep, despite all the emphasis on lifting weights,…
Being more active improves your ability to prevent damage and recover
When reviewing all I’ve learned about the benefits of exercise, I feel that the most important…
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Hormesis, disease resistance, aging and activity
Hormesis. Is a term from biology describing a common relationship where a little of something is…
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A good night of sleep is like hosing down your filthy brain
Why animals sleep remains one of the enduring mysteries of biology, but new research suggests the…
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Russell Foster: Why do we sleep?
If we don’t sleep we simply don’t work properly. So what does it do for us,…
Problems of inflammation
Inflammation is quickly becoming linked with just about every major disease and for good reason because it is…
activity | brain | general health | insulin resistance | migraine | mind | nutrition | recover
How Much Glucose Does Your Brain Really Need?
I understand that our brains can only obtain energy from sugar. The can’t get it from…
What I am learning from my injuries
I am active therefore I get injured. That’s probably the best way to think about it….
Sports Injuries: An introduction
This year for me has been about injuries, their treating, rehabilitation and prevention. Thankfully I’m pretty…
New evidence that exercise produces cancer fighting chemicals
I found this a while ago and just came across it again. A study has found…
Exercise in pregnancy may help your newborns brain!!!
Just came across a fascinating bit of research suggesting that exercise during pregnancy gives newborn brain…
Get busy living or get busy dying
Ongoing health is about regular challenges making you strong enough to resist the pressures you face…
The cancer ecosystem
I just came across Game theory and the treatment of cancer. A fascinating article considering the…
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Things you can do better asleep than you can awake
following on with the theme that sleep is far more important than many of us realise….
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Neural Darwinism: is this how we learn?
I’m excited to have just discovered Neural Darwinism through an interview with Gerald Edelman on all in the mind. The idea…
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Could sleep affect risk of heart disease?
Deep stuff eh. Again I’m just trying to make the point that balance is everything. Sleep…
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Rehabilitating a sprained ankle
I sprained my ankle quite badly on August 10th this year. I’ve sprained my ankles a…
Sleeping for less than six hours may cause early death, study finds
I believe strongly in the need for balance between work rest and play. I just heard…
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Do our minds work like browser caches?
It occurred to me recently how to express my experience of how I learn and how…
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