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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
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Tagged Dr David Agus, Khan Academy, Sal Khan
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Rose offers the scientific context/framework for Ancestral Health
Science is a mess today as is medicine. Every day we hear a new this or that. Many hold very strong beliefs based on what? What was missing was a context for health. This is what Michael has offered us. … Continue reading
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Michael Rose’s New Scientist Article – Aging can stop
Aging isn’t cumulative process of progressive chemical damage — it can stop By Michael R. Rose, Published: September 6 In 1939, British statisticians Major Greenwood and J.O. Irwin published a little-noticed article in the journal Human Biology that contained a profoundly unexpected … Continue reading
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Tagged Michael Rose, New Scientist
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The Full Lindeberg!
“Food and Western Disease” by Staffan Lindeberg, MD, PhD from Ancestry on Vimeo. Here are his slides – here is the link to his website. AHS Slides_Staffan Lindeberg View more presentations from Ancestry
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So when will you lose your health – Part 4 – How to get it back – Not from medicine
You are reading this post because you believe in a new understanding of how our health works. You know that you can take charge of your health. So why, if you know this to be true, is it so hard … Continue reading
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Tagged Adoption, Crossfit, Health, Paleo, Pioneers
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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
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Tagged Ancestry, Michael Rose, Thesis 52
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How do you get control and power – Riot or take it for yourself?
Lack of power and control and low social status is a major factor in making us ill. So if we cannot change the system, how can we get more power, control and social status? This week we will look at how we might do … Continue reading
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Tagged Dr David Rock, Psychology Today, Viktor Frankl
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Your Baby – Bathtime – What is safe? – Novel Environments
My grand daughter Sophia when she was very little not so long ago. Bath time is the best part of the day for babies and parents. Little did I know what might have been going on. What is in the … Continue reading
Posted in Constraints, Environments, Evolutionary Novelty, Theses
Tagged Babies, Natural Selection
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Diet – What you need to know based on your heritage
Thesis 50 reminds us that if you are a person with a heritage that is adapted to the agricultural diet – say from Western Europe – then you can do quite well on the Agricultural diet for a while. 30 … Continue reading
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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
Aging – What is it and why you can avoid it’s ravages
What is aging? Is the deterioration we see inevitable? Are the diseases that come with age all part of the process? Is it inevitable that we get sick and decrepit as we get older? On the surface it looks as … Continue reading
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Thesis #1
Thesis #1 The biological fitness of a population is the average net reproduction of its members, which in turn is determined by their capacity to survive and reproduce; biological fitness is at the core of health. The starting point of … Continue reading
Thesis # 2
Thesis #2 – Natural selection reliably produces high levels of biological fitness, and thus good health, only under the environmental conditions in which it has been acting for many generations. A common caricature of evolution by natural selection is that … Continue reading
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
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Thesis #4
Thesis #4 Natural selection results in the evolution of good health only when there is sufficient heritable variation affecting survival and reproduction. Natural selection accomplishes nothing without an adequate and appropriate supply of genetic variation on which to act. That … Continue reading
Thesis #5
Thesis #5 Natural selection produces good health only when population size is large enough to overcome genetic drift; inbreeding reliably impairs health in outbreeding species. Many members of the human species have a great propensity to mate with other humans. … Continue reading
Thesis #6
Thesis #6 Natural selection produces good health only when new deleterious mutations are rare or small in magnitude; very few novel mutations will have large and generally beneficial effects, in an environment to which a population is well-adapted. Mutation is … Continue reading
Thesis #7
Thesis #7 Natural selection will sustain nucleotide sequences that foster biological fitness however numerous and however indirect their benefits, making the genetic foundations for the evolution of health genome-wide and complex. The kinds of experiments that most biologists favor involve … Continue reading
Thesis #8
Thesis #8 This complex genomic foundation for adaptation in turn produces a still more complex network of interacting molecules that sustain survival, health, fertility, and function. Arising from the genetic complexity of healthy function is a still more complex set … Continue reading
Thesis #9
Thesis #9 The forces of natural selection weaken with adult age in species that have distinguishable adults and no fissile reproduction. We now face the prospect of developing a 21st Century biology based on formal, mathematical, and computational tools. It … Continue reading
Thesis #10
Thesis #10 When the forces of natural selection weaken with adult age, declining survival and fertility evolve in adulthood, and thus produce the decline in health which is commonly called ‘aging.’ In animals like mammals and insects, the Force of … Continue reading
Thesis 11
Thesis #11 – If the forces of natural selection are strengthened during later adulthood, improved later health will evolve if natural selection is not impeded by very small population sizes, environmental change, or an absence of heritable variation. There are … Continue reading
Thesis 12
Thesis #12 – Aging is a pattern of declining or de-tuned adaptation that is correlated with adult age only because adult age is at first strongly correlated with declining forces of natural selection. We have all seen sunrise and sunset. … Continue reading
Thesis 13
Thesis #13 – The declining forces of natural selection lead to an evolutionary failure to establish the genomic information required for tuning the complex networks of life well enough to provide a high level of health indefinitely; there is no … Continue reading
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Tagged Evolution, Health, Michael Rose, Michael Rose 55 Theses
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Thesis 14
Thesis # 14 – Aging hypotheses based solely on supposed universal imperfections of molecular, cell, or organismal physiology are wholly falsified by the existence of biological species that do not exhibit falling average rates of survival and reproduction among large cohorts … Continue reading
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Tagged Evolution, Health, Michael Rose, Michael Rose 55 Theses, Science
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Thesis 15
Thesis # 15 – Aging evolves because of the previously adduced evolutionary genetic limitations to the forces of natural selection, which are affected by physiology, but aging is nonetheless not a merely physiological process. Do the last five theses imply that … Continue reading
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Tagged Health, Michael Rose, Michael Rose 55 Theses, Science
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Thesis 16
Thesis #16 – Among the most important physiological constraints on the action of natural selection are trade-offs between the biological functions underlying age-specific rates of survival and reproduction. One of the most important features of physiology that affects the evolution of … Continue reading
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Thesis 17
Thesis #17 – When such trade-offs arise from antagonistic pleiotropic effects of genetic variants, they sometimes maintain genetic variation for functional characters, and thus selectable genetic variation for patterns of aging. There are two kinds of trade-off which are important to … Continue reading
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Thesis 18
Thesis #18 – When such trade-offs can be physiologically tuned within the lives of individual organisms, natural selection may act to produce physiological machinery that provides plasticity which enhances average fitness. One of the basic features of natural selection is its … Continue reading
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Thesis 19
Thesis #19 – Such adaptive life-history plasticity will sometimes produce detectable trade-offs between survival and reproduction in the range of environmental conditions that prevailed when natural selection established such life-history plasticity. It is a general, though not universal, rule that, if … Continue reading
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