Scientists Want You to Lucid Dream (2019)

Experts think lucid dreaming could be therapeutic. How to achieve the dream state is complicated. | Continue reading


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The Absurdity of Peer Review

Your life, sourced by science. A publication from Medium about health and wellness. | Continue reading


@elemental.medium.com | 2 years ago

The Benefits of Taping Your Mouth Closed During Sleep

What I learned by re-training myself to breathe through the nose | Continue reading


@elemental.medium.com | 2 years ago

The Mystery of Why Some People Keep Testing Positive for Covid-19

Inside the debate over how long the coronavirus lasts in the body | Continue reading


@elemental.medium.com | 3 years ago

Do Vitamin D, Zinc, and Other Vitamins Protect Against Covid-19?

Do vitamin D, melatonin, zinc, and vitamin C protect against Covid-19? | Continue reading


@elemental.medium.com | 3 years ago

Signs the Pandemic Is About to Get Much Worse

New Covid-19 infections are accelerating, portending a deadly fall and winter | Continue reading


@elemental.medium.com | 3 years ago

The Most Likely Way You’ll Get Infected with Covid-19

You don’t have to sanitize your apples anymore, but you do have to wear a mask | Continue reading


@elemental.medium.com | 3 years ago

The Most Effective Strength Training Workout, According to Science

The number of reps and sets you do is less important than these fundamentals | Continue reading


@elemental.medium.com | 3 years ago

A Supercomputer Analyzed Covid-19 – and an Interesting New Theory Has Emerged

A closer look at the Bradykinin hypothesis | Continue reading


@elemental.medium.com | 3 years ago

A Supercomputer Analyzed Covid-19 – and an Interesting New Theory Has Emerged

A closer look at the Bradykinin hypothesis | Continue reading


@elemental.medium.com | 3 years ago

‘Surge Capacity’ Is Depleted – It’s Why You Feel Awful

Here’s how to pull yourself out of despair and live your life | Continue reading


@elemental.medium.com | 3 years ago

What It’s Like to Go into Lockdown for the Second Time

We’re back under curfew and heavy restrictions in Australia | Continue reading


@elemental.medium.com | 3 years ago

What Experts Know About Covid-19 That They Didn't Know Then

The disease has not changed, but scientific understanding has evolved dramatically | Continue reading


@elemental.medium.com | 3 years ago

Intentionally infecting people with Covid-19 for science

Inside the movement to launch a human challenge trial for Covid-19 | Continue reading


@elemental.medium.com | 3 years ago

There’s Good News About Your Immune System and the Coronavirus

Launches the Purple Hive Project. | Continue reading


@elemental.medium.com | 3 years ago

Even If You’re Asymptomatic, the Coronavirus Can Do Damage

New research on asymptomatic people reveals underlying effects | Continue reading


@elemental.medium.com | 3 years ago

Coronavirus May Be a Blood Vessel Disease, Which Explains Everything

In sub-Saharan Africa, about half of travelers move around by foot. Yet in its cities, conditions for pedestrians remain incredibly dangerous. | Continue reading


@elemental.medium.com | 3 years ago

Theranos Would Be Thriving in the Covid-19 Era

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@elemental.medium.com | 3 years ago

There Is No Noise in a Covid-19 Emergency Room

Nigeria is one of the most exciting frontiers for emerging technology usage. The country, known as the “giant of Africa,” shows up in headlines calling it “Africa’s unofficial tech capital,” and “the new economy of Africa.” However, many Nigerians fueling this rapid growth in the … | Continue reading


@elemental.medium.com | 4 years ago

When This War Is Over, Many of Us Will Leave Medicine

Firefighters fighting fires and now oppose cell towers. After cell towers were placed on firestations, firefighters developed headaches, fatigue, memory loss. | Continue reading


@elemental.medium.com | 4 years ago

What Happens When Scientists Admit Error

The ruling is another court victory by French unions against Amazon in a battle over workplace safety. | Continue reading


@elemental.medium.com | 4 years ago

What You Need to Know About Remdesivir, the Potential Coronavirus Drug

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@elemental.medium.com | 4 years ago

Anonymous DNA Testing Is Here

Get these analyses to your inbox — https://axial.substack.com/ | Continue reading


@elemental.medium.com | 4 years ago

We Need a National Mental Health Response to Coronavirus

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@elemental.medium.com | 4 years ago

One Morning as an ICU Nurse on a Covid-19 Unit

After an inquiry from Times reporters, Zoom said it would disable a data-mining feature that could be used to snoop on participants during meetings without their knowledge. | Continue reading


@elemental.medium.com | 4 years ago

Coronavirus Is Fast-Tracking Medical Research

Vacuum-maker aims to engineer and make a new type of ventilator, but others are focusing on existing designs. | Continue reading


@elemental.medium.com | 4 years ago

Coronavirus Testing in the U.S.: What You Need to Know

How JavaScript works with browser APIs, explained step-by-step | Continue reading


@elemental.medium.com | 4 years ago

Something Is Causing Our Eyeballs to Elongate

Human eyesight is degrading right before our eyes, and the problem is growing | Continue reading


@elemental.medium.com | 4 years ago

15 Months of Intermittent Fasting Didn't Change My Life

Lessons learned from the latest biohacking fad | Continue reading


@elemental.medium.com | 4 years ago

What if Burnout is Depression?

The symptoms can be similar. So how do you know what you’re experiencing? | Continue reading


@elemental.medium.com | 4 years ago

Curiosity is the secret to a happy life

Engaging with the unfamiliar can keep mind and body fit. So how to pump up one’s levels of curiosity? | Continue reading


@elemental.medium.com | 4 years ago

Do You Need to Floss?

The research is weak and misleading, yet dentists are adamant. So where does that leave us? | Continue reading


@elemental.medium.com | 4 years ago

One biohacker’s quest to change her brain through meditation

One biohacker’s quest to change her brain through meditation | Continue reading


@elemental.medium.com | 4 years ago

What it feels like to have schizophrenia

An insider’s perspective on experiencing and treating psychosis | Continue reading


@elemental.medium.com | 4 years ago

We invented calories and why they aren't accurate (2019)

Calorie counting has become a religion in Western countries — but we’re getting it all wrong | Continue reading


@elemental.medium.com | 4 years ago

The US consumes 3.3M trees, 9B gallons of water per year to make paper receipts

Stop the madness, CVS | Continue reading


@elemental.medium.com | 4 years ago

Chemo Truthers Are the New Anti-Vaxxers

Social media companies like Facebook and Twitter are trying to step in, but the misinformation permeates | Continue reading


@elemental.medium.com | 4 years ago

Making the flu vaccine is basically a high-stakes game of biological matchmaking

An in-depth look at the CDC process. (It’s basically a high-stakes game of biological matchmaking.) | Continue reading


@elemental.medium.com | 4 years ago

Is Dopamine Fasting the Solution to Our Overstimulated Lives?

Avoiding pleasurable activities to reset the brain’s ‘reward chemical’ sounds great. Too bad that’s not how dopamine works. | Continue reading


@elemental.medium.com | 4 years ago

Biohackers with Diabetes Are Making Their Own Insulin

Diabetes is a punishingly expensive disease. In an Oakland warehouse, scientists are going DIY. | Continue reading


@elemental.medium.com | 4 years ago

The Unique Health Benefits of Autumn Hikes

It’s the best season for forest bathing | Continue reading


@elemental.medium.com | 4 years ago

Is Marijuana Addictive?

Well, yes. But it’s complicated. | Continue reading


@elemental.medium.com | 4 years ago

Overactive Brain Has Been Linked to a Shorter Life

One key to a longer life could be a quieter brain | Continue reading


@elemental.medium.com | 4 years ago

Office Chair Is Hurting You

But also, forget standing desks. Try ‘active sitting,’ according to a trauma surgeon who wants to cure sitting disease. | Continue reading


@elemental.medium.com | 4 years ago

Why Your Brain Needs Idle Time

Some vital brain functions demand downtime | Continue reading


@elemental.medium.com | 4 years ago

The Ongoing Controversy over the Marshmallow Test

The legendary psychological experiment measured self-discipline, but its findings are squishy | Continue reading


@elemental.medium.com | 4 years ago

A miracle exercise bike, NOT

A new stationary bike claims that by using artificial intelligence, it can deliver the same benefits of a 45-minute workout in less than… | Continue reading


@elemental.medium.com | 4 years ago

The Science of 'Sleeping on It'

Experts say if you want to harness sleep’s problem-solving powers to the fullest, think about your dilemma just before bed | Continue reading


@elemental.medium.com | 4 years ago