Author: Tom Patriot

Move more to live longer

Tom Patriot

Improving fitness doesn’t require doing activities you don’t like. That’s the main message of research presented today at EuroPrevent 2019. The largest study to date of cardiorespiratory fitness in healthy people found that moving more is linked to living longer, regardless of age, sex, and starting fitness level. “People think they have to start going to the gym and exercising hard to get fitter,” said study author Dr Elin Ekblom-Bak, of the Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences in Stockholm. “But it doesn’t have to be that complicated. For…

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Babies born at home have more diverse, beneficial bacteria, study finds

Tom Patriot

Infants born at home have more diverse bacteria in their guts and feces, which may affect their developing immunity and metabolism, according to a study in Scientific Reports. Understanding why babies born at home have more diverse microbiota for at least a month after birth, compared with those born in a hospital, could help prevent disease later in life. The human microbiome consists of trillions of bacteria, fungi and viruses that live on and in our bodies, many of which benefit our health and prevent chronic conditions such as obesity, diabetes,…

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A Fire Just Broke Out at Coachella 2019 & the Footage Is Insane

Tom Patriot

Coachella 2019 Weekend 1 has only just started, but the drama has already arrived. After an unforgettable first night, which featured performances by Janelle Monáe and Childish Gambino, as well as guest appearances by Cardi B and Selena Gomez during DJ Snake’s set, a fire broke out on the Coachella site. The explosion, which quickly turned into a fire, was enough to wake some revelers. As Twitter user @justxdamian wrote, “the explosion was about 60ft away from our tent… all seriousness this wasn’t a cool thing to wake up to. Meanwhile, @allisynrees wrote, “Explosion…

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Tesla Shares Down After Gigafactory Expansion Put on Hold

Tom Patriot

Just a few percentage points from their all-time highs, the major stock indexes appear to be waiting for a catalyst to take them over the top. It could be a trade deal with China. The two sides appear to be ironing out the details of an enforcement mechanism for the agreement. It could be corporate earnings reports, which begin in earnest next week. The numbers won’t be strong, but if they beat lowered expectations, they may lift stock prices. A late-afternoon rally pared losses on the stock indexes today. The…

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Advances in deep brain stimulation could lead to new treatments

Tom Patriot

A new paper published in Nature Reviews Neurology suggests that recent advances in deep brain stimulation (DBS) for Parkinson disease could lead to treatments for conditions such as obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), Gilles de la Tourette syndrome and depression. The authors of the paper, from the Geneva University Hospitals (HUG), University of Geneva, University of Tübingen and the Wyss Center for Bio and Neuroengineering, argue that bi-directional electrodes which can both stimulate and record from deep brain structures — known as closed-loop DBS — could have applications beyond Parkinson disease. Other bi-directional brain-computer…

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