How To Stay Fit And Become Your Own Coach?
As monotonous workdays kick off and holiday remorse kicks in, it’s time to look for ways to get in shape and stay fit for the coming months. We give you every help for that: an Excel spreadsheet, habit apps, countless wearables and trackers for running, cycling, gym workout or yoga. Read on and become your own coach!
New year, old resolutions
Did you join the enthusiastic community of new years’ resolutionners by swearing on the first of January that you will go to the gym regularly or run at least twice a week for the next year? Do you really want some change or are you just experiencing holiday remorse? The latter is...
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 3, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Health Sensors & Trackers app cycling digital health sensors exercise fitness hiking how to running smartphone smartphone apps sports swimming technology training wearable wellness yoga Source Type: blogs
Exceptional longevity: why some people live to be more than 100-year old
Interventions that promote longevity, remembered by mnemonic:DEEP purple - “eat colorful plant foods:Dietary modification,Exercise, activeEngagement,Purposeful living (click here toenlarge the image).Based on a Mayo Clinic Proceedings article (https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(18)30792-4/):Exceptional Human Longevity: the oldest old have an extreme phenotype of delayed onset of age-related diseases and/or resistance to lethal illnesses occurring earlier in life.Centenarians have delayed onset of chronic diseasesDuring the span of human history the likelihood of living from birth to age 100 rose fro...
Source: Clinical Cases and Images - Blog - December 25, 2018 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Lifestyle Longevity Mayo Clinic Source Type: blogs
Alcohol, Smoking, Drugs: Can Digital Solutions Give A Helping Hand To The Addicted?
Alcohol content measuring wristbands, smart lighters, nicotine tracking wearables, stop smoking apps, virtual reality therapies, automated messaging platforms are the newest elements in the arsenal of digital health technologies supporting everyone in the fight against addiction to cigarettes, alcohol or drugs.
Addiction and dependency ruins lives
Once you become addicted, it sticks with you for a long time, if not for life. It doesn’t matter whether it’s about cigarettes, alcohol, medication, drugs, gambling, sex, etc., any of these substances or phenomena could cause you strong dependency and might impact your everyd...
Source: The Medical Futurist - December 6, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Future of Pharma Medical Professionals Patients Researchers alcohol cigarette digital health drugs health technology Innovation medication opioid opioid crisis smartphone smartphone apps smoking virtual Source Type: blogs
Where Does Blood Testing Stand Today?
The dream about a drop of blood signaling a wide range of diagnostic results was shattered with Elizabeth Holmes and the Theranos scam. The machination of the company has set back the innovation of blood testing and investment into the field for years. However, there’s always hope. The Medical Futurist looked around where blood testing stands today and what’s the future it is heading towards.
Dreaming about a home laboratory
Stephen just came home from walking his dog, Barney, an always smiling labrador. The 40-something got off his smart shoes, sat back on the yellow couch that he and her partner, Sara, were fighting ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 3, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Biotechnology Business Future of Medicine Medical Professionals Patients Portable Diagnostics Researchers blood blood draw blood test blood testing digital health health market home Innovation laboratory theranos Source Type: blogs
Antibiotics vs. surgery for appendicitis: What one surgeon thinks
Here are a few thoughts about the latest chapter in the never-ending debate about antibiotics vs. surgery for the treatment of uncomplicated appendicitis.
You will recall the randomized controlled trial from Finland published in 2015 that found a 27% rate of failure of antibiotics within the first year.
Now that the patients have now been followed for five years, 100 (39%) of the 246 patients treated with antibiotics have experienced persistent or recurrent symptoms requiring appendectomy. Depending on your point of view, this shows that antibiotics are successful for the treatment of simple appendicitis or not.
Continue...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 16, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/skeptical-scalpel" rel="tag" > Skeptical Scalpel, MD < /a > Tags: Conditions Infectious Disease Surgery Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, October 15th 2018
This study suggests that exocrine glands can be induced from pluripotent stem cells for organ replacement regenerative therapy.
Replacement of Aged Microglia Partially Reverses Cognitive Decline in Mice
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2018/10/replacement-of-aged-microglia-partially-reverses-cognitive-decline-in-mice/
Researchers here report on a compelling demonstration that shows the degree to which dysfunctional microglia contribute to age-related neurodegeneration. The scientists use a pharmacological approach to greatly deplete the microglial population and then allow it to recover naturally. Th...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 14, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
The Top Sleep Sensors For Expert Level Tracking
Sleep sensors are accurate tools on the digital health technology market to offer insights into our snooze, and reliable companions to improve bedtime. If you want to go beyond sleep apps, we collected the top sleep sensors out there to make your choice easier.
Sleep like a boss
The amount of sleep was often a great concern for world leaders. Margaret Thatcher said that she only needed four hours of sleep at night. When Napoleon Bonaparte was asked how many hours of sleep people need, he is said to have replied: “Six for a man, seven for a woman, eight for a fool.”
However, research shows enough sleep is vital to brain...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 11, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Health Sensors & Trackers Medical Professionals Patients Researchers digital health future health trackers Innovation personalized personalized health sleep sleep sensor sleep tracking technology wearables Source Type: blogs
A Human SGLT1 Variant Reduces Glucose and Calorie Uptake, thereby Lowering Disease Risk and Mortality
Researchers here report on a gene variant associated with reduced incidence of metabolic disease, type 2 diabetes, and heart disease. The mechanism of action is a reduced uptake of glucose (and thus calories) in the gut. The estimated effect size over decades of life based on the short term data gathered is large: a reduction of a third in mortality risk. That is sizable enough for me to think that the study needs replication before taking it at face value, but it is thought-provoking nonetheless.
One thing to consider while reading this paper is that gene variants of this nature may help to pin down the plausible s...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 11, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
The Top Sleep Apps To Start Your Bedtime Tracking Journey
Instead of angels, dragons or unicorns, trackers may guard your dreams in the 21st century – which at least gives you a chance to gain more insight into your sleep data and actually improve your bedtime. If you want to become the master of sleep tracking, start with an app. Here, we collected the top sleep apps to choose from!
With data for a better bedtime
Research shows that humans spend one-third of their lives with sleeping or at least attempting to do so. If you have trouble with the snooze, there have been many traditional and non-traditional, legal and illegal methods to help: sleeping pills, booze, marijuana, inh...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 10, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Health Sensors & Trackers Medical Professionals Patients android app apps fitness future iphone Personalized medicine sleep sleep app sleep sensor sleep tracker smartphone technology wearables Source Type: blogs
A cartography of consciousness – researchers map where subjective feelings are located in the body
Bodily feeling maps, from Nummenmaa et al, 2018
By guest blogger Mo Costandi
“How do you feel?” is a simple and commonly asked question that belies the complex nature of our conscious experiences. The feelings and emotions we experience daily consist of bodily sensations, often accompanied by some kind of thought process, yet we still know very little about exactly how these different aspects relate to one another, or about how such experiences are organised in the brain.
Now, reporting their results in PNAS, a team of researchers in Finland, led by neuroscientist Lauri Nummenmaa of the University of Turku,...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - October 8, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: biological Emotion guest blogger Source Type: blogs
Psychotropic drug use is common in Alzheimer ’s disease
This study was part of the nationwide register-based MEDALZ study conducted at the University of Eastern Finland. The study included all 70,718 persons diagnosed with Alzheimer ’s disease in Finland during 2005-2011. Researchers from Utrecht University also contributed to this study.The results were published in European Neuropsychopharmacology.CitationKim Orsel, Heidi Taipale, Anna-Maija Tolppanen, Marjaana Koponen, Antti Tanskanen, Jari Tiihonen, Helga Gardarsdottir, Sirpa Hartikainen. "Psychotropic drugs use and psychotropic polypharmacy among persons with Alzheimer's disease".European Neuropsychopharmacology, 2018; D...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - October 2, 2018 Category: Neurology Tags: alzheimer Alzheimers Dementia alzheimers risks health memory test psychotropic drugs research science sleep Source Type: blogs
Disrupting the Cholesterol Test: Finnish Startup Nightingale Health
By JESSICA DA MASSA, WTF Health
Today’s cholesterol test is about to be disrupted. Nightingale Health, a five-year-old startup based out of Finland, has built a better blood test that – among other things – is about to disrupt the cholesterol test of today.
Their blood test collects 50 times more biomarker data than the standard test – boasting a 20% better prediction rate for diabetes and cardiovascular disease – and they’re offering it at the same price point as the existing industry standard. Why does this matter? Well, for clinicians, researchers, or those working on new drug development, the Nightingal...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 6, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Matthew Holt Tags: Jessica DaMassa WTF Health blood test Finland health tech metabolic data Nightingale Health Startup Source Type: blogs
