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The Exercise Myth – Strength and Activity
From Chris Highcock’s wonderful short PDF book which you can buy here. Chris’s book opens with the best context for Fitness and its link to health and how we grow old that I have yet seen. This site has talked … Continue reading
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Tagged Chris Highcock, Crossfit, Hill Fit, Walking
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“Cancering” – It’s all about systems not one thing
An exceptional piece that sheds light on the systemic issues related to Cancer. As Michael points out in the 55 is the flaw in how we approach science – reductionism – this video shows how different medicine will be. Dr … Continue reading
Posted in A New Vision, Context, Environments, Physiology, Resources, The New Science, The Science, Theses
Tagged Dr David Agus, Khan Academy, Sal Khan
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Ancestry Foundation – A great centre of information – Videos from the conference
Earlier this month, the Ancestry Foundation hosted the first of what will be many conferences on Health as seen through the perspective of Evolution. Here is the link to the many excellent videos Here is the link to the slides and here … Continue reading
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So when will you lose your health? – Part 3 – When you don’t know this
Every day we read of a new study that says “This is bad for you” and “This is good for you”. No wonder when it comes to taking control of our health, we are confused by science. I read a … Continue reading
So when will you lose your health – Part 2 – When you live in the wrong environment
You get ill when you look like this – this is how I looked aged 59 – I weighed 205 lbs. How I look here has all the signs that you have not lived your life according to the rules. … Continue reading
Why are we so fat in rural settings? – Part 3 – Our Ancestry!
Prince Edward Island, where I live, has a very high obesity rate. So do many rural parts of America and of cource the rest of Atlantic Canada. We have looked at why there is an physical environmental difference between cities and … Continue reading
Posted in "Paleo", A New Vision, Aging, Ancestry, Constraints, Context, Diet, Environments, Evolutionary Novelty, Physiology, Plateau, Population, The Plateau, The Science, Theses
Tagged Ancestry, Michael Rose, Thesis 52
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Your Mind and your Health – Part 2 – The Power of Neuroplasticity
This is the conventional picture of the brain – a thing with discrete compartments – a thinking machine. This idea of the brain – which is also how most of us “see” the body and so organize medicine is wrong. … Continue reading
Posted in A New Vision, Complexity, Context, Environments, Evolutionary Novelty, Physiology, Resources, The New Science, The Science, Tuning
Tagged Alan Deutschman, Dr Norman Doidge, Neuroplasticity
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Your Mind & Your Health – Part 1 – Overcoming bad environments
Most of us understand that if we eat better (whatever better means) and if we are more active, our health will improve. But few of us know that if we use our mind “better” that this too will help us … Continue reading
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Tagged Michael Marmot, Robert Sapolsky, Viktor Frankl
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Diet – Where your ancestral heritage is important
Surely we must have adapted to agriculture by now? The answer is no and sort of yes to that question. It depends on what your ancestral heritage is or how long you have been exposed to agriculture. Let’s take dairy. … Continue reading
Where can we find answers to the questions raised by Michael Rose? A Hack Community
Finding out how best to live in a way more attuned to our Paleo past is not a well established protocol yet. How do we give up sugar if we are addicted? What is the best form of activity to … Continue reading
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Tagged Paleo Hack, Resources
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The PaleoGraphic – The Story in Pictures
Learn more about the Paleo Diet. From Paleolithicdiet.com
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Michael’s Recent Interview
Michael is interviewed by Jimmie Moore on how Evolution plays such a role and also on how diet is so important. Here MR summarizes the key factors of the 55 in a few minutes.
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Talking about Environments – carbs are novel
This is what most of us – especially our Dr’s think is the ideal start to the day. A cup of oatmeal is 60 grams of carbs. The National Academy of Sciences recommends no less than 120 grams of carbs … Continue reading
Posted in "Paleo", Diet, Environments, Evolutionary Novelty, Physiology
Tagged Carbs, Mark's Daily Apple, The Missing Human Manual
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Talking about environments – What’s in your shampoo, soap, deodorant and face cream?
I am just waking up to Michael’s warning about novel environments – here is the lowdown on what goes on in our bathrooms! If you want to know more go here. It scares me to think of how I could … Continue reading
Posted in Environments, Evolutionary Novelty, Physiology
Tagged Personal Care, Soap
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Talking about Environments – What about your mouth?
Ideally our mouths should be on the alkaline side. Before the modern diet, they were. Before the modern diet there was next to no caries. Today we brush our teeth to give us a chance of beating caries. But what … Continue reading
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Tagged Oral hygiene
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As primates we need to live in the “right” social environment – much of our illness stems from a poor fit – the cure is a better fit.
A central tenet of Michael’s is that we do best in environments that fit our evolved state. Diet is a very important aspect of finding the best fit. But so is our social environment. Practical work at one of Canada’s … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, Environments, Evolutionary Novelty, Physiology
Tagged CIBC, Disability, VAC
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Michael’s Rose’s “Twin Sister?” – Dr Mary Vernon – The practical aspect of the 55 Theses
No one I have found so far explains how our metabolism works better than Dr Vernon – a GP who could not help any of her diabetic patients get well by following the “rules”. Who then became an expert in … Continue reading
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Sir Michael Marmot to expand the Whitehall Study to look at why we “age” differently
Marmot’s Whitehall Study is a longitudinal study that has studied the effects of social status on health. He used as his sample a large number of well educated British Civil Servants – Hence “Whitehall”. A key finding has been the … Continue reading
Posted in Aging, Context, Diet, Environments, Physiology, Population
Tagged Michael Marmot, Michael Rose, Robert Sapolsky
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Cancer is not a disease but a part of mammalian life – Paul Davies
In Thesis 15 Michael makes the point that cancer is not a disease but is part of how we as a mammal evolve. Here Paul Davies backs him up. The video is here We can prevent it
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Thesis # 3
Thesis #3. Health and adaptation thus reflect the action of natural selection on a population in its previous environments, not its present environment, when these differ. For the purpose of re-founding medicine scientifically, theses 2 and 3 direct us to … Continue reading
Posted in Constraints, Environments, Physiology, The Science, Theses
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Thesis 25
Thesis #25 – Repairing all forms of cumulative damage and altering all types of regulatory signaling during the aging phase will also fail to fully alleviate aging, because some features of aging will arise from the absence of structural gene-products … Continue reading
Posted in Complexity, Constraints, Context, Physiology, Theses
Tagged Michael Rose, Michael Rose 55 Theses
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Thesis 30
Thesis #30 – The forces of natural selection plateau at zero values at very late adult ages, and do not decline further for all subsequent ages. This is the most important thing of all, even if no one understood what … Continue reading
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Tagged Michael Rose, Michael Rose 55 Theses
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Thesis 33
Thesis #33 – When late-adult plateaus in survival and reproduction occur, members of biological cohorts that reach such plateaus will show stabilization of some but not necessarily all functional characters. Evolutionary theory makes a simple prediction about how the key … Continue reading
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Tagged Shahrestani
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Thesis 34
Thesis #35 – Severe antagonistic pleiotropy can cause the evolution of zero late-adult survival probability even under ideal conditions, when genetic trade-offs between early reproduction and subsequent adult survival are sufficiently strong. Not all organisms have three phases to their … Continue reading
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Tagged Michael Rose, Michael Rose 55 Theses
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Thesis 36
Thesis #36 – Experimental populations which have evolved different time-points for the cessation of aging can be used to uncover the biological foundations that determine the timing of the cessation of aging. During the 1980s and 1990s, my laboratory devoted … Continue reading
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Tagged Burke, Michael Rose, Michael Rose 55 Theses, Shahrestani
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Thesis 38
Thesis #38 – Some environmentally-induced variation in patterns of aging reflects the impact of selectively-favored patterns of life-history plasticity, but some environmental variation in aging does not reflect adaptive plasticity, such as that due to novel environments. An important distinction … Continue reading
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Thesis 41
Thesis #41 – Experimental strategies for the study of aging that involve the use of environments that are evolutionarily novel will systematically impair the scientific study of aging, as natural selection will not have previously fostered adaptation to such novel … Continue reading
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Tagged Hamilton, Michael Rose, Michael Rose 55 Theses
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Thesis 47
Thesis #47 – This novel agricultural lifestyle initially depressed adaptation and health, leading to intense natural selection for adaptations to the digestion of foods derived from grasses and milk, which has since produced adaptation to agricultural conditions at early ages. … Continue reading
Thesis 49
Thesis #49 – In agricultural populations over the last ten thousand years, the longer-sustained effectiveness of natural selection has resulted in an age-dependent pattern of falling adaptation to agricultural conditions in which functional decline is sustained over a longer period … Continue reading
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Tagged Does Aging Stop, Michael Rose, Michael Rose 55 Theses, Mueller, Rauser, UC Irvine
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