- Ice: Do not use ice for muscular injury. After a million years of evolution the human body generates heat to promote healing, not cooling. Swelling is the body's emergency repair team surrounding the site to assist. Icing slows the blood highway that facilitates the healing process. Instead, heat the injury.
- Dieting: Dieting starts at the store.
- Free radicals: Free radicals are the human body's exhaust resulting from food converted to energy. They contain single oxygen cells eager to combine with other atoms or molecules. Don's journal describes antioxidants and water as a possible response, with blueberries, broccoli, apples, beans, greens and vitamin C listed as sources.
- Coffee: Coffee is not good for you. One or two cups in the morning can result in skipping or shrinking the most important meal of the day. Those cups tell your brain that you are fueled and ready for the day, while your stomach may still be void of calories and nourishment.
The Covid vaccine
I am no fan of pharmaceutical companies, but this is one positive story that should be headlining the Covid era. Dr. Kathrin Jansen, an executive of Pfizer who knew Ugur Sahin and Ozlem Tureci in Germany, helped connect their work with Pfizer. These German biologists were experimenting with messenger RNA molecules that could instruct the human body. Pfizer committed significant funding, and the resulting vaccine arrived with remarkable speed.
This engineered approach is revolutionizing the pharmaceutical world and is one of the most important new weapons to prevent or fight disease since penicillin was invented.
Dizziness
Don's journal suggests that sonic or vibrating toothbrushes may contribute to dizziness, especially after age fifty, by disturbing fluid in the inner ear. Anyone experiencing dizziness should seek evaluation from a qualified medical professional rather than self-diagnosing from this observation.