60 Minutes fascinated me throughout the whole, well, 60 minutes tonight. Especially pertinent to the HRH Program was a the segment on trying to age well with Human Growth Hormone, or HGH. You can read the transcript here: Human Growth Hormone 60 Minutes Segment.
I don’t recommend taking HGH in any way–unless, that is, […]
I love tulips. For the first time in my life, we actually have some in the garden. I should say we did have them. Just 5 minutes ago, though, we had 10 minutes of plus-sized hail, and now all the flowers are off. Gotta love that Colorado weather! I guess […]
I went to the Body Worlds 2 exhibit in Denver on Friday. Body Worlds is a controversial exhibit of real bodies and body parts that have gone through a process of “plastinationâ€. Plastination is a really complicated process that I will explain by simplifying it into the “shellacking†of corpses. (You can […]
It’s amazing how stupid we are about health care policy. Just reading through some of the facts in the great opinion peace by Dean Ornish below, you get the feeling that we deserve all the bad health we’re bringing on ourselves. Insurers will spend $30,000 for a leg amputation due to the ravages of type […]
Insulin Resistance Prescription Rising for Children. The article at that link talks about the dire situation our children are getting into. Our society needs to take a really serious look at preventing Type II Diabetes in children, as something is clearly going wrong. I would imagine it’s a lot more than drinking […]
I heard a fascinating piece on NPR the other day. It had to do with the marketing of soda and other drinks in schools. Apparently, soft drink companies are now self-policing to provide low calorie alternatives to the sugar-laden sodas that are a leading cause of insulin resistance and pre-diabetes.
One high schooler who […]