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Dr. Matthew Edlund's video fitcasts and companion Staying Alive columns offer alternatives to the non-stop barrage of advertising to sell products and services... instead, providing information to help us live healthier, happier, and longer. Look for our important FREE programs in the iTunes Store. Dr. Matthew Edlund DocME@DoctorEdlund.com Dr. Matthew Edlund Systems Biology and Weight Loss We look at using a systems biology approach to achieving weight loss. http://www.doctoredlund.com/vodcast/DrMEvodcast0702.m4v Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:00:00 GMT 2:24 Dr Matthew Edlund, weight loss, systems biology, food, activity, rest, walk, talk Dr. Matthew Edlund A Single Can of Soda We look at how that can of soda you drink has a profound impact on the world economy, energy, and politics, as well as your health. http://www.doctoredlund.com/vodcast/DrMEvodcast0701.m4v Mon, 2 Jul 2007 14:00:00 GMT 2:21 Dr Matthew Edlund, corn, dextrose, iran, oil, obese, politics, soda, trade deficit Dr. Matthew Edlund Using DoctorEdlund.com to practice the principles of Human Design This month we introduce the FAR paradigm: Food, Activity, and Rest to live healthier, happier, and longer http://www.doctoredlund.com/vodcast/DrMEvodcast0601.m4v Wed, 27 Dec 2006 14:00:00 GMT 2:15 human design, food, activity, rest, weight loss, obese, DoctorEdlund.com, systems biology Dr. Matthew Edlund A promotional video for Dr. Edlund's third book. BCA helps you maximize your human potential by taking charge of your body rhythms. The leading Circadian Medicine expert also explains relationships between larks and owls, human timing cycles, light patterns, sex, eating, diet, accidents, medicines, using a "Biological Time Test" to reset your Biological Time Clock, and why you should care about the Food-Activity-Rest paradigm. http://www.doctoredlund.com/vodcast/BCAvodcast.m4v Tue, 14 Sep 2004 14:00:00 GMT 13:45 circadian rhythm, body clock, Matthew Edlund, Food-Activity-Rest, larks, owls Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column What do we do when we sleep? Present answers to that question reveal more ignorance than understanding. We know that sleep deprived animals die, a feature not well studied scientifically but known to torturers everywhere; that acute sleep deprivation causes poor decision making and eventually hallucinations; that sleep is necessary to learning and memory, probably stable mood. Yet the intricate relationship between sleep and food attracts the greatest media attention. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive011108.pdf Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:00:00 GMT Eve van Cauter, deep sleep, diabetes, glucose metabolism, pre-diabetic, REM, food-activity-rest, Matthew Edlund Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column Since your twenty-four clocks affect everything you do, whether it’s writing a newspaper article, paying your taxes, or throwing a baseball, it pays to know your inner time. Much of that inner clock is genetically powered. There are genes with names like clock and period, which may literally decree whether you are a morning person, or lark, or a night person, an owl. Yet the majority of the population professes to be neither. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive010408.pdf Fri, 04 Jan 2008 14:00:00 GMT body clocks, circadian, Casablanca, sleep, lark, owl, 24-hour, biochemical, Matthew Edlund Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column Recent research reports that the major genes of 24-hour body clocks can be manipulated directly; that timing anti-hypertensive medication markedly improves blood pressure; and that wrecking internal clocks in sleepless ICU patients, makes them susceptible to infections and worse. Still, people are surprised that their bodies operate differently through each hour of the 24-hour day. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive122807.pdf Fri, 28 Dec 2007 14:00:00 GMT body clocks, circadian, resync yourself, 24-hour cycles, biochemical, Matthew Edlund Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column It’s official.  The main cancer research associations now describe shift work as a “probable carcinogen.”  Why would working at night and sleeping the morning cause breast or as we know now, prostate cancer? The more important question is why people thought biological clocks did not matter. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive121407.pdf Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:00:00 GMT night shift, shift work, breast cancer, prostate cancer, melatonin, biological clock, insulin, ghrelin, leptin, glucose, Matthew Edlund Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column Recent advances in stem cell research promise new attempts to “enhance” human performance and capacity.  However, such “enhancements” have occurred, often disastrously, for decades, and future biotechnologies will probably rely on non-human genes. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive120707.pdf Fri, 7 Dec 2007 14:00:00 GMT stem cell, Cold War, Olympic, amphetamine, anabolic steroids, Joyner-Kersee, Mark McGuire, Barry Bonds, DNA, AIDS, Matthew Edlund Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column How closely related are sleep and mood? Sleep medicine was founded in Psychiatry departments in the 1940’s and 50’s.  Only recently has it been recognized how important sleep is to memory, learning, and rebuilding of body tissues.  So now we come to more proof mood is tied to sleep as well. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive113007.pdf Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:00:00 GMT amydala, locus coeruleus, sleep, soldiers, fatigue, Matthew Edlund Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column Lying is deeply embedded in American politics, but corporate environmental marketing is competing to spin ever more attractive lies.  While the public prefers beautiful lies to the unvarnished truth, such efforts betray and delay the simple, often personal changes required to deny environmental damage - building a false facade of going green. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive112307.pdf Fri, 23 Nov 2007 14:00:00 GMT environment, lululemon athletica, VitaSea, BP, Frito Lay, saurated fat, auto-transport, walk, bike, Matthew Edlund Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column Did you know that spending 16% of gross domestic product on health care is a sign of success?  Or that when in 2050, when we may spend 30% of everything we create on health care, this will be a sign of yet greater success? http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive111607.pdf Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:00:00 GMT health care, Gregory Mankiw, obesity, BMI, farm bill, Matthew Edlund Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column Night or day, you’re probably reading this sentence through sun-powered light.  Most of the energy used on earth comes from the sun, though much of the work was accomplished hundreds of millions of years ago.  Our lives lie on the nexus between energy and information, and almost all that energy is solar. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive110907.pdf Fri, 9 Nov 2007 14:00:00 GMT Solar energy, Oliver Morton, photosynthesis, global warming, carbon, recycling, Matthew Edlund Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column Recent articles from around the world point out polonium 210 can do far more than kill individuals like ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko. Polonium 210 is already killing millions through the original dirty bomb – the cigarette, and the evidence has been out there for more than four decades. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive110207.pdf Fri, 2 Nov 2007 14:00:00 GMT Litvinenko, polonium 210, alpha radiation, tobacco, radioactivity, dirty bomb, Dr, John Little, Matthew Edlund Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column Follow the money. That is what health care technology companies, insurance companies, pharmaceuticals and health care providers are doing with ever greater intensity. At present, $2.4 trillion dollars are spent each year in an American health care system that uninsures 50 million people, denies treatment to millions of children, and delivers the overall health statistics of a third world country. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive102607.pdf Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:00:00 GMT Medicare, health care, insurance, colonoscopy, Big Pharma. Dr. Matthew Edlund Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column This year’s Chicago marathon left one dead, three hundred fifty hospitalized, many in the ICU. The unfinished event came about as the strange concurrence of global warming and the American way of exercise. Sane solutions to both problems lie in simultaneous exercise of human design. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive101907.pdf Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:00:00 GMT Chicago Marathon, Pheidippides, Windy City, walk, run, autotransport, FAR, Food-Activity-Rest, Dr. Matthew Edlund Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column Carol Ann Gotman’s three children may be shielded from the image of their mother screaming, shackled to a table and handcuffed as she died at Phoenix Airport. Lots of people and ideals have died at our airports, including a sense of who we are as a free people, our responsibilities to foreigners, and our ability to connect with family. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive101207.pdf Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:00:00 GMT Gotman, Phoenix Airport, TSA, Netjets, Transportation Safety Administration, Dr. Matthew Edlund Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column Can one sleep too little or too much?  Many sleep researchers agree.   For decades long term population studies demonstrate that people who sleep little, generally less than six hours, and those who sleep more, generally more than nine, die early. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive100507.pdf Fri, 5 Oct 2007 14:00:00 GMT sleep, Whitehall Study, Framingham, Cappuccio, cardiovascular death, Dr. Matthew Edlund Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column Most social connections seem to count in keeping people healthy and alive.  Those with greatest social connectedness seemed “protected” against heart attack, stroke, and depression.  Even their cancer rates were lower.  http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive092807.pdf Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:00:00 GMT glucorticoids, inflamation, lonely, Berkman, Syme, Cacioppo, dependence, Dr. Matthew Edlund Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column People who get to work and visit family and friends under their own power can increase heart health, reduce weight, and improve lifespan while making the country less dependent on foreign oil. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive092107.pdf Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:00:00 GMT Human Desing, autotransport, Catalunya, Madrid, Paris, pedestrian, bicycle, bike, JCDecaux, Dr. Matthew Edlund Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column It’s hard to conceptualize how the body’s giant information network connects and communicates. Yet we can begin to understand by watching how neurotransmitters, information molecules prominent in the nervous system, create completely different meanings depending of where they are found. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive081707.pdf Fri, 17 Aug 2007 14:00:00 GMT SCHIP, Medicare, Boehner, tobacco tax, FDA, Dr. McClellan, Edlund Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column It’s bad enough our American system of managed sick care care costs us $2.4 trillion and delivers national health on par with Lithuania.  Yet the inability to possess a public health policy that preserves and protects American lives has now produced a national health politics of unreality http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive081007.pdf Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:00:00 GMT SCHIP, Medicare, Boehner, tobacco tax, FDA, Dr. McClellan, Edlund Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column Vice President Dick Cheney suffered a cardiac arrhythmia leading to cardiac arrest.  It was planned and premeditated.  After the Vice President’s heart stopped, it either started on its own or was paced back into normal sinus rhythm. And you didn’t read about it.  And you likely did not see it on any TV news program. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive080307.pdf Fri, 3 Aug 2007 14:00:00 GMT Vice President Dick Cheney, defibrilator, ICD, sinus rhythm, cardiac arrest, Edlund Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column A poisonous, radioactive agent kills tens of millions every year, but the American media fails to take notice. On average, American smokers will lose 14 years of life. One legacy of the Bush White House will be its helping tobacco companies addict hundreds of millions in the United States and overseas - to tobacco. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive072707.pdf Fri, 27 Jul 2007 14:00:00 GMT tobacco, EPA, FDA, Bush Administration, Carmona, Edlund Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column This week, we look at stressed and unstressed Georgetown mice provided with two kinds of diets. The unstressed mice didn’t gain much weight on regular food but stressed mice fed comfort - junk - food gained twice as much weight as expected. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive072007.pdf Fri, 20 Jul 2007 14:00:00 GMT Georgetown University, stress, neuropeptide Y, junk food, RNA, DNA, obesity, FAR, Food-Activity-Rest, Edlund Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column This week, we look at revelations at a recent Minneapolis conference of sleep experts. And they woke some up to the real differences between sleep and wake. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive071307.pdf Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:00:00 GMT Mahowald, Schenck, REM, systems biology, circadian medicine, Wehr, Edlund, sleep, wake Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column This week, we look at the importance of taking a break because without rest, your body does not function properly. Americans have cut off an hour and a half of sleep in the last forty years. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive070607.pdf Fri, 6 Jul 2007 14:00:00 GMT coffee, rest, insulin, Dr. Gregory Belenky, hormones, Dr. Matthew Edlund coffee, rest, insulin, Belenky, Professor Dirk van Dijk Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column For centuries coffee has been praised and vilified for its health and social benefits. Caffeinism has been a recognized addiction for hundreds of years - but what is the real health effect? http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive062907.pdf Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:00:00 GMT coffee, anti-oxidants, pancreatitis, Starbucks, caffeine, Dr. Matthew Edlund Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column How did TB return to public consciousness? The story will change in the retelling depending on what is offered by the media. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive060807.pdf Fri, 8 Jun 2007 14:00:00 GMT TB, tuberculosis, CDC, Gerberding, SARS, WHO, GPhin, antibiotic, Dr. Matthew Edlund Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column How healthy is it to take a walk in the woods? According to research sponsored by the British charity Mind, it’s very healthy indeed. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive060107.pdf Fri, 1 Jun 2007 14:00:00 GMT green, walkers, Mote Marine, FAR, Food, Activity, Rest, Dr. Matthew Edlund Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column Inside you, with you, within you, and on you live hundreds of different species. Your own body is a giant, poorly understood, complex ecosystem. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive052507.pdf Fri, 25 May 2007 14:00:00 GMT ecosystem, DNA, retrovirus, Lynn Margulis, multi-cellular, immune system, Dr. Matthew Edlund Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column As the world globalizes, so should accessibility of health and environmental information. Private-public partnerships can lead the way. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive051807.pdf Fri, 18 May 2007 14:00:00 GMT FDA, systems information, clinical drug trials, big pharma, melamine, GPhin, genome, Edlund Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column If national security begins at home, America is in trouble. The same administration which gave back $300 billion to the tobacco industry is making your food and water anything but safe. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive051107.pdf Fri, 11 May 2007 14:00:00 GMT mercury, tobacco, brochiolitis, OSHA, Edwin Foulke, popcorn, spinach, E Coli., IFF, Edlund Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column If you follow economic arguments like that of the highly entertaining “Freakonomics” of Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, there are not that many public incentives to a healthy life... but wait until you hear what arguments you may not have heard. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive050407.pdf Fri, 4 May 2007 14:00:00 GMT FAR,  Food-Activity-Rest, exercise, healthonomics, green, environment, patriotic, social, Edlund Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column Can a too hygienic childhood lead to crippling adult diseases? Might a vaccine treat depression? Perhaps it already has. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive042707.pdf Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:00:00 GMT hygienic, vaccine, mycobacteroium, immune, apnea, cytokines, CPAP, Dr. Matthew Edlund Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column To many, aging means deterioration. Things Wear Out. The skills and strength, ease and beauty of youth are replaced with slow, then quickening debilitation. Given enough time, you fall apart, just like a toaster or a car. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive042007.pdf Fri, 20 Apr 2007 14:00:00 GMT aging, rewing, rebuilding, reggenerating, lifespan, Dr. Matthew Edlund Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column Heart Disease is the single leading killer in America. But the debate on how to treat the nation’s foremost killer is being carried out by Wall Street for Wall Street, with the nation’s public health not even getting a seat at the table. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive040607.pdf Fri, 6 Apr 2007 14:00:00 GMT heart disease, Wall Street, Abbott Labs, Johnson & Johnson, statins, stents, FDA, Edlund Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column Marketers are usually more savvy than physicians about what people really want, generally a very quick, technological fix. Still, you may not be getting the shut eye you pay for. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive033007.pdf Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:00:00 GMT sleeping pills, ambien, lunesta, insomnia, apnea, FDA, FAR, shiftwork, jet lag, Edlund Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column “Use new drugs early before they lose their effectiveness.” The old adage of medical epidemiologists may soon need be replaced by “use new drugs early before we discover their major side effects.” http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive032307.pdf Fri, 23 Mar 2007 14:00:00 GMT vioxx, celebrex, pemoline, ambien, FDA, sleep, Dr. Matthew Edlund Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column The Bush Administration has redefined the nation’s public health. Regulation of food, safety and health, will now occur only in cases of “market failure.” Yet the examples of Cox-2 anti-inflammatories like vioxx, and the SARS epidemic have demonstrated similar “market” calculations easily fail, with catastrophic consequences. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive031607.pdf Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:00:00 GMT Cox-2 inhibitors, Phizer, Merck, SARS, Cefquinome, Dr. Matthew Edlund Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column Telling people their ordinary physical activities constitute exercise can decrease weight, blood pressure, and waist line. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive030907.pdf Fri, 9 Mar 2007 14:00:00 GMT Exercise, BMI, longevity, lifespan, Dr. Matthew Edlund Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column Prepare for Total Information Awareness. More and more of your doctors and hospitals outsource record keeping to foreign companies - who may be sharing YOUR private information with interests eager to do you harm. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive030207.pdf Fri, 2 Mar 2007 14:00:00 GMT Medical records, privacy, outsource, NHIN, HHS, HIPPA, smart card, data mining, Edlund Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column A recent study devised by the head of Epidemiology of the Harvard School of Public Health demonstrated that Greek men who regularly napped experienced far fewer heart related deaths. Though the study should be repeated in countries with differing lifestyles, it’s brought back to public awareness that naps can be healthy for you. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive022307.pdf Fri, 23 Feb 2007 14:00:00 GMT Nap, Food-Activity-Rest, FAR, sleep debt, REM, shiftworker, Dr. Matthew Edlund Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column Move over, EPA, FDA and OSHA directors. There’s a new boss in town. The Decider has the made the Decision that regulations regarding public health, safety, work, and the environment will now be made by political appointees. They answer to George W. Bush who appointed himself scientist-in-chief. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive021607.pdf Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:00:00 GMT EPA, FDA, OSHA, market failure, Eckhart, Inhofe, Lee Raymond, Dr. Matthew Edlund Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column you were told that a drug slated to kill a billion people in the next century had just been made more lethal, would you care? If you are the Bush administration the response is: "No, just stay the course!" The drug is tobacco. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive020907.pdf Fri, 9 Feb 2007 14:00:00 GMT tobacco, nicotine, cigarette, addiction, smoker, Dr. Matthew Edlund Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column Two recent news reports on the use of human growth hormone in the middle aged and gum disease “causing” pancreatic cancer appear at first unrelated. Yet both point to two important public health issues: what happens when you lack a national health surveillance system, and the growing importance of systemic inflammation in provoking disease. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive012607.pdf Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:00:00 GMT pancreatic cancer, gum disease, Whipple procedure, Vgontza, apnea, Dr. Matthew Edlund Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column Systems biology is a new field you’ve probably never heard of that should change the way we live. It studies and models how different parts of life work, interact, communicate, and operate together. It provides a very different way of thinking than the standard reductionist approach in the biological sciences, where smaller and smaller parts are studied in more minute detail. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive011907.pdf Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:00:00 GMT Systems biology, DNA, Francis Crick, molecular biology, bioenergetics, FAR, Dr. Matthew Edlund Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column Vegetables coated with virulent E. coli bacteria have killed several Americans in the last few weeks, and maimed many more. The chain of causality for this and other health tragedies lies in the peculiar American political economy of food and health. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive011207.pdf Fri, 12 Jan 2007 14:00:00 GMT E. coli, vegetables, USDA, FDA, Food-Activity-Rest, FAR, Dr. Matthew Edlund Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column Ordinary physical activity does a lot to prevent disease. This is the message from a series of recent studies investigating lifespan and the prevention of cancer. And while heavy athletic activity can be very helpful, there is such a thing as too much exercise. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive01050.pdf Fri, 5 Jan 2007 14:00:00 GMT housework, walking, Food-Activity-Rest, FAR, Dr. Matthew Edlund Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column Most humans wake each morning with a cold brain. As the night progresses, inner core temperature declines. An hour to an hour and half before you wake, your body reaches its lowest temperature of the twenty-four day – your coldest brain. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive122906.pdf Fri, 29 Dec 2006 14:00:00 GMT REM, cortisol, adrenal, sleep inertia, human design, nap, FAR, Edlund Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column Why have Asian countries shown torrid economic growth in the last 25 years? Vastly improved public health is the major answer, according to two Harvard economists, Drs. David Canning and David Bloom. The great rise in China’s economy was underpinned by the increase in life expectancy from 35 to 68 years that took place from 1952 to 1982. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive122206.pdf Fri, 22 Dec 2006 14:00:00 GMT Public health, David Canning, David Bloom, nutrition, sanitation, vaccination, FAR, BMI, Edlund Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column The British police have declared that former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko was murdered with polonium 210. Less acknowledged is that polonium 210 is presently killing millions of people. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive121506.pdf Fri, 15 Dec 2006 14:00:00 GMT KGB, Litvinenko, polonium 210, cigarette, tobacco, carcinogens, radioactive, Edlund Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column Want to reduce the Federal budget deficit? Turn off your television whenever a drug ad appears. This quick and timely intervention may save you and the rest of us a lot of cash. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive120806.pdf Fri, 8 Dec 2006 14:00:00 GMT Pharmaceuticals, Big Pharma, drug reps, FDA, palcebo, Medicare, Medicaid, Dr. Matthew Edlund Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column You can spot them from afar. Most are young, almost all attractive, some remarkably so. Perfectly coiffed, the men stride forward confidently dressed in dark suits, the women in suits, tasteful dresses and high heels. As they sit, often demurely but at times with seemingly delighted animation, they project a perkiness and healthiness alarmingly out of character with the sad, tired, sick people stuffed into the armchairs near to them. Though they lack an appointment, they often address the doctor as soon as she or he appears at the waiting room door. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive120106.pdf Fri, 1 Dec 2006 14:00:00 GMT Pharmaceuticals, Big Pharma, drug reps, NIH, medications, Dr. Matthew Edlund Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column One of the perils of having disease maintenance instead of a health system for the United States is that you spend a lot of money on things that aren’t worth it. At a time when an estimated 70-90% of world pharmaceutical profits come from the U.S., it’s time to ask whether we’re getting our money’s worth. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive112406.pdf Fri, 24 Nov 2006 14:00:00 GMT pharmaceuticals, disease maintenance, health system, drugs, medicare, FDA, Edlund Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column Not everyone follows the Massachusetts Male Aging Study, which studied men aged 45-79 for changing overall health. What attracted national attention was the finding that male levels of testosterone were dropping about 1% per year beyond the normal effects of aging. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive111706.pdf Fri, 17 Nov 2006 14:00:00 GMT Testosterone, prostate cancer, steroid hormones, Edlund, FAR Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column Food has many meanings. For many of us, food is reward and pleasure. How we eat affects our moods, our social status, our sense of well being. Yet rarely do we think of the many meanings food has for the body. Most of food’s biological meanings are unconscious. We need to think of food as more than fuel – food is literally information. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive111006.pdf Fri, 10 Nov 2006 14:00:00 GMT Caloric restiction, reservatrol, longevity, David Sinclair, Edlund, Judah Folkman, systems biology, FAR Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column To improve America’s health, there’s a lot that should be learned from well-managed cities. Kyoto, the former Japanese capital of a thousand years, is an interesting mix of high tech companies and traditional neighborhoods. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive110306.pdf Fri, 3 Nov 2006 14:00:00 GMT Kyoto, Edlund, urban transit, pedestrian, bicycle, parking, lifespan, food activity rest, FAR Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column Obesity has been around a long time, but its heyday is today. The number of obese people in the world has been estimated at near a billion. By any standards obesity is a “growth industry.” In China, epicenter of global economic growth, the number of obese children has grown 28 times since 1985. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive102706.pdf Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:00:00 GMT Obesity, nitrates, transfats, industrialization, television, Green Revolution, breadbasket, corn, calories, FAR Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column Luisel Ramos was a young, pretty Uruguayan. She had been told by friends and co-workers that she could “really make it” as a model and have an international career. All she needed to do was become thinner. Ms. Ramos complied. For months she subsisted on lettuce and diet coke. On August 2nd, she appeared triumphant on the catwalk in Montevideo, at the weight and shape required. Then she walked off the catwalk and died. She was twenty-two. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive100606.pdf Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:00:00 GMT Luisel Ramos, Christy Turlington, Madrid, smoking, obesity, Twiggy, anorexia, bulimia, cocaine Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column A recent study by Professor Christopher Murray and colleagues demonstrates that while the U.S. ranks 40th among nations in longevity, Asian American women may be the longest living group on Earth. The 48,000 Asian-American women in Bergen County, New Jersey average over 91 years of age. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive092906.pdf Fri, 29 Sep 2006 14:00:00 GMT Longevity, Christopher Murray, Bergen, Okinawan, lifespan, FAR, human design Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column Humankind recently reached a milestone. For the first time in history, the number of overweight people is greater than those who are malnourished or starving. Though estimates vary, about a billion humans are now overweight or obese. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive092206.pdf Fri, 22 Sep 2006 14:00:00 GMT Edlund, overweight, obese, obesity, fructose, corn syrup, farm subsidies, soybeans Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column Sleep less, weigh more. Weigh more, sleep less. It’s pretty clear that Food, Activity and Rest are deeply integrated in human metabolism. Yet how does food affect sleep and alertness? http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive091506.pdf Fri, 15 Sep 2006 14:00:00 GMT Food Activty Rest, FAR, Edlund, hypocretin-orexin, potassium, narcolepsy, weight loss Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column Connections matter. Few expected that systems as different as protein interactions, Internet links, viral epidemics, and inter-corporate relations would demonstrate similar structures and follow the same mathematical models. Thinking network allows us to understand why American health care, the most expensive in the world, ranks 40th in life expectancy. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive090806.pdf Fri, 8 Sep 2006 14:00:00 GMT Edlund, junk foods, inluenza, nutrition, obesity, FCAT, FAR, food-activity-rest Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column Tobacco plants are radioactive. When smokers light up, they literally “light up.” Lung cancer is one result. Yet tobacco is not radioactive politically. The Bush Administration has worked hard to make sure the tobacco industry remains alive and well – even if you won’t. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive090106.pdf Fri, 1 Sep 2006 14:00:00 GMT Edlund, radioactive, smoke, tobacco, cancer, Jack Little, polonium, uranium, carcinogens Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column Lack of a national public health policy is leading the American government to subsidize the obesity epidemic, massively increase national medical care costs and help destroy already weak agriculture in Africa and the Third World. You can find out how by studying a can of soda. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive082506.pdf Fri, 25 Aug 2006 14:00:00 GMT Edlund, carbohydrates, obesity, BMI, overweight, soda, soft drink, pop, sugar, dextrose, caffeine Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column A new “anti-obesity vaccine” was trumpeted across the world. Some day, readers were told, they might take a shot and eat less for the rest of their lives. It was another triumph of media hype, shortchanging hope. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive081806.pdf Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:00:00 GMT Edlund, fat vaccine, ghrelin, leptin, clogged arteries, Food-Activity-Rest, liposuction Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column The U. S. medical care system consumes almost 15% of our gross national product. The money to pay for it is starting to go away. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive081106.pdf Fri, 11 Aug 2006 14:00:00 GMT Edlund, federal debt, social security, medicare, medicaid, budget cuts, vaccination, HMO Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column Many cities are banning trans fats. Are they really that bad for you? The short answer is, yes. Partially hydrogenated or hydrogenised oils are ubiquitous in packaged and processed foods. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive080406.pdf Fri, 4 Aug 2006 14:00:00 GMT Edlund, trans fat, crisco, HDL, LDL, FDA, Frito, hydrogenated, trans-fatty acids Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column Failed states are proliferating. Countries without clear-cut central authority, marked by political and military chaos, are increasing in number. Though much ink is spilled over whether Iraq or Afghanistan will become failed states, less attention has been paid to countries, primarily in Africa, where central political controls have long ceased to operate. From the standpoint of your own health, they deserve your concern. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive072806.pdf Fri, 28 Jul 2006 14:00:00 GMT Edlund, epidemic, Somalia, Darfur, Sudan, AIDS, smallpox, ebola, lassa fever, biological weapons Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column Why sleep? It is a question that has been asked for thousands of years. According to the magazine, the Economist, a group of researchers at the University of Wisconsin at Madison may now have a novel answer. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive072106.pdf Fri, 21 Jul 2006 14:00:00 GMT Edlund, metabolism, Siegel, Tononi, Cirelli, fruit flies, REM sleep, fats, sugars, memory Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column Recent reports have heralded a new “breakthrough” in cancer treatment. Sanjay Gupta of CNN described a study where advanced ovarian cancer was successfully treated by body clock principles. Patients were given chemotherapy timed to the “clocks inside their body,” and experienced lesser side effects and longer lives. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive071406.pdf Fri, 14 Jul 2006 14:00:00 GMT Edlund, Sanja Gupta, cancer, circadian, asthma, histamine, ibuprofen, motrin, ulcer, cholesterol Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column For a long time Americans have been accustomed to think of defining themselves and others as either fat or thin. Approximately 40% of American men and 60% of adult women want to weigh less, and are at this moment considering a new diet to lose that weight. Like many of us, they are obsessed by the weight scale. They should not be. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive070706.pdf Fri, 7 Jul 2006 14:00:00 GMT Edlund, fat, fit, insomnia, vegetarian, body mass index, BMI, overweight, obese Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column Basic clock genes help control not just internal timing but sleep, weight and obesity. Mutations of the gene “clock”, which helps create 24-hour rhythms in most animals, lead to obesity, sluggishness and highly disrupted, poor sleep. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive063006.pdf Fri, 30 Jun 2006 14:00:00 GMT Edlund, FAR, gene clock, obesity, circadian, vegetables, cereals, fruits, buts, fish Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column Human bodies are not machines. Computers and cars are at their best when they first leave the factory floor. They continue to break down and fall apart the longer they are used. Human bodies are alive. They are constantly rebuilding, renewing, redirecting. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive062306.pdf Fri, 23 Jun 2006 14:00:00 GMT Edlund, DNA, brain cells, FAR, calories, bike, hike, row, weight Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column One would think that after our eating for millions of years, more would be understood about food’s effect on people. Yet most foods contain hundreds, even thousands of different substances, some of which act as drugs. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive061606.pdf Fri, 16 Jun 2006 14:00:00 GMT Edlund, FAR, okinawa, fuijian, walnut, goji, berry, fish, omega-3 Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column Many companies are receiving very large amounts of capital to make the attempt to increase human longevity, if not make us immortal. Individuals fork over smaller amounts merely in hope of a victory against time. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive060906.pdf Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:00:00 GMT Edlund, Woody Allen, Gordon Stoltzner, Ben Bova, caloric restriction, immortality, Okinawa, longevity Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column Vioxx. Phen-fen. Guidant defibrillators. Ephedrine. Our unplanned national health system causes Americans to die every day. Faulty medical devices or unexpectedly dangerous drugs prove the cause. Yet we have no idea how many are killed. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive060206.pdf Fri, 2 Jun 2006 14:00:00 GMT Edlund, vioxx, phen-fen, FDA, thalidomide, phocomelia, Ebstein, lithium, lithotripsy, wyeth, merck Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column America the sleepless: that’s what we’re becoming. A nation that used to average 9 1⁄2 hours of sleep each night now “gets by” on seven making for an increasingly cranky, irritable, and obese population. Americans are constantly complaining of being tired. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive052606.pdf Fri, 26 May 2006 14:00:00 GMT Edlund, Body Clock Advantage, circadian, FAR, stimulant, caffeine, insomniac, REM, human design Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column As food, athletic and rest habits change, more Americans have become insomniacs. Last week, we went through some of its major causes, like depression/anxiety, sleeping pills, alcohol, sleep apnea and leg kicks. However, insomnia has literally hundreds of causes. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive051906.pdf Fri, 19 May 2006 14:00:00 GMT Edlund, insomnia, anxiety, sleeping pills, alcohol, apnea, sleep, fatigue, caffeine, hypertension Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column Americans don’t sleep very well. Only about 5% of people claim to sleep well every night. Defined as chronic insufficient sleep, waking throughout the night, or feeling unrested upon waking, insomnia affects about a third of adult Americans and over half over age 65. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive051206.pdf Fri, 12 May 2006 14:00:00 GMT Edlund, chronic fatigue, metabolism, insomnia, sleeping pills, ambien, lunesta, dalmane, halcion, librium Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column Sleep loss makes you fat. Large numbers of studies demonstrate that sleeping less than average and especially less than six hours a night puts on weight. In an American population, which has shaved off 90 minutes of sleep in the last 40 years, our national sleep debt is an increasing cause of the obesity epidemic. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive050506.pdf Fri, 5 May 2006 14:00:00 GMT Edlund, sleep loss, obesity, calories, metabolism, glucose, insulin, cholesterol, gherlin, leptin, rest Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column Most of the data supporting the use of supplements relies on observations of whole foods, not the supplements alone. Eating a nutritionally diverse diet of fruits, vegetables, cereals and fish will often provide what supplements cannot — unknown but critical ingredients that improve your http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive042806.pdf Fri, 28 Apr 2006 14:00:00 GMT Edlund, supplements, vitamins, folate, fish oil, omega-3, fatty acids, DNA, minerals Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column In the last few weeks, calcium has been declared near useless in preventing bone loss. Glucosamine and chondroitin do not prevent joint pain or e osteoarthritis; saw palmetto and soy products do nothing to prevent enlarged prostates or prostate cancer. Have Americans been wasting tens of billions of dollars each year on junk that doesn’t work? Probably. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive041406.pdf Fri, 14 Apr 2006 14:00:00 GMT Edlund, FDA, supplements, hormones, Nurse's Health Study, the pill Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column If you are worried about getting bird flu from foie gras or French range-raised chickens, relax. The fighting cock of the French Republic may be down, but he is certainly not out. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive040706.pdf Fri, 7 Apr 2006 14:00:00 GMT Edlund, bird flu, epidemic, pandemic, black death, syphilis, nightsoil, SARS, AIDS Dr. Matthew Edlund Staying Alive ~ Dr. Edlund's weekly newspaper column Worried about eating French chickens? Just look down at your hands. Even if you’re not a Navy Seal or Rambo on a surly day, they’re lethal. Each palm contains enough pathogens to kill you, plus the rest of humankind. http://www.doctoredlund.com/pdf/stayingalive033106.pdf Fri, 31 Mar 2006 14:00:00 GMT Dr. Matthew Edlund, bird flu, virus, pathogens, AIDS, SARS, influenza clean