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Antifragile 8 Jul 2013 | 09:12 am
Hormesis is the ability of organisms to become stronger when exposed to low-dose stress. Is hormesis a basic principle of biology — or is it merely a strange but unimportant quirk of nature that only...
Physical improvements using hormesis 18 Jun 2013 | 08:18 am
Here is a link to the slides I presented at the Health Activator conference today, June 19, 2013: Physical improvements using hormesis Many thanks to Christine Peterson for inviting me as a speaker....
Discuss hormesis with Todd – this Wednesday! 18 Jun 2013 | 08:18 am
Do you have questions about how to apply hormesis to improve your health? I’ll be discussing hormesis and answering questions at the HealthActivator conference, this Wednesday evening, June 19, 7-8 p...
What causes allergies and autoimmune disease? 26 Mar 2013 | 11:33 am
Allergies and autoimmune disease are reaching epidemic proportions — not just in the U.S. and Europe, but in the rest of the industrially developing world. Asthma, celiac disease, Type 1 diabetes, ar...
An alternative to vitamin D supplements? 11 Feb 2013 | 01:21 pm
My recent post on Why I don’t take vitamin D supplements generated a lot of interest and a few misconceptions. In that article, I did not suggest any practical alternatives to taking high dose vitami...
Conquer your fears 14 Dec 2012 | 08:20 am
What follows is a guest post by a frequent contributor to the comments and Discussion Forum of this blog, Dr. Nate Eliason. Nate, who has an M.D. in Pathology, has written on the Discussion Forum abo...
Why I don’t take vitamin D supplements 12 Nov 2012 | 08:47 am
Vitamin D has been associated with numerous health benefits, including cardiovascular and immune health, bone strength, and prevention of cancer. However, studies claim that most of us are deficient i...
AHS 2012 14 Aug 2012 | 11:01 am
What a great conference! I had heard such high praise for the inaugural meeting of the Ancestral Health Symposium last August, but I was too late to register in 2011. This year I submitted an abstra...
See you at the Ancestral Health Symposium 16 Jul 2012 | 09:35 am
I’m excited to be poster presenter at AHS 2012, meeting August 9-11 at Harvard University: My presentation at AHS 2012 will be about the role of hormesis in optimal health. The Ancestral Healt...
How one person improved his vision 22 Apr 2012 | 07:41 am
One of the articles on this blog that has garnered the most interest and generated the most comments–both here and on the Discussion Forum–concerns the use of plus lenses and threshold focusing in ord...
