Myostatin is a protein that slows muscle growth. Animals such as the Belgian Blue and Piedmontese cattles lack the gene for myostatin and are very muscular. Wendy the Whippet is an excessively muscular whippet who also lacks myostatin. When mice are genetically…

A study published in the British Journal of Psychiatry found that Englishmen, who ate mainly fruit, vegetables and fish. were less likely to get depression 6 years later, compared to those who were heavy meat and bread eaters. This study had…

I had the privelege to talk at SCIFEST09 yesterday, on the theme of this year’s wonderful program. Numerous topics such as Robot Revolution, Supermarket Botany, Bionic You, Flirting the Scientific Way and How You Will Go to the Moon, were presented. You…

This just in from the Associated Press: Pet owners can weigh themselves with their furry friends on Wii Fit Plus. The updated system, which launches Sunday, lets players create avatars of their dogs and cats, enter information such as their pet’s birthday, and…

A study by Stessman and colleagues from Hadassah Hebrew University in Jerusalem found that initiating physical activity over the age of 70 years leads to a 12% increase in longevity. This study was published in the September issue of the…

Today was the first day of a Conference on Pain Management sponsored by Logan College of Chiropractic,  Saint Louis University and the St Louis Veterans Administration. The conference stressed that pain management requires multiple approaches. Medications alone are rarely the answer. Pain…

This blog is written from Holland, where I just gave the keynote address at a Conference at Radboud University in Nijmegen. The conference focused on the science of movement. As succinctly put by the organizer, Professor Sander Geurts “The motto…

A recent article in Time Magazine, “Why Exercise Won’t Make You Thin,” has the fitness industry pulling out it’s collective hair.
The article says, in short, exercise all you want and you won’t lose weight until you eat less and eat better.…

Two important publications appeared in yesterdays issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.The first article found that in persons in New York who ate predominantly a Mediterranean diet had a reduced chance of developing Alzheimer’s disease.They also reported that…

When I first saw the article on beetroot juice improving the ability to exercise my dyslexia kicked in and I wondered how a bio-exorcist ghost named Beetlejuice( (Betelgeuse), from the 1988 film starring Micheal Keeton  as the thoroughly unpleasant  and scary apparition,…