Personalized Nutrition The Blood Type Diet Blog - 4YourType

Discretion is the better part of valor. People often talk about “the immune system” as if it were one organ, like the heart or the liver. We say it is strong or weak and try to boost it. This is a natural way to think ab...

Imagine you have spent your whole life in France. You think in French, you argue in French, you take your coffee standing at the counter and your lunch seriously. None of this is written down anywhere. It is simply the tuning you acquired by growing...

In wargaming, quantity has a quality all its own. Despite my career in medicine, I’ve always fashioned myself more of a historian. In fact, every astrologer who's ever looked at my chart (not at my urging, but at the request of others) always...

'And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.'Romans 4:22-25 A polygenic risk score (PRS) is an estimate of an individual’s relative genetic liability to a specific trait or complex disease, made by summing the effects of multiple ge...

The ABO blood group, that simple A, B, AB, or O scrawled on your donor card, is a working museum of nearly every way that life edits its own genetic code. In one small stretch of DNA, the ABO system manages to display the full repertoire of genetic...

A few thoughts about ‘acceptance’ in medical ‘science.’ It’s a common game to make it difficult for an idea that you despise to see the light of day. At first, when my book, Eat Right 4 Your Type was released, the most...

Mention melatonin and most people picture the same thing: a small tablet taken before bed, or the drowsiness that creeps in once the lights go down. That reputation isn't wrong, but it captures only the smallest part of the story. Melatonin is one o...

There is a single nerve that touches your heart, your lungs, your gut, your voice, and your mood — and most people have never heard its name. It is the vagus nerve, the tenth cranial nerve, and its old Latin label tells you everything about it...

Getting close to dying alters one's expectations. I've been building an "E-school" — a creature known as a Learning Management System. I've looked at many of these, and they are not intuitive; they don't seem to care much about the student exp...

A few years back, we saw air pollution levels skyrocket here in Connecticut in the face of Canadian wildfires. Every time we stepped outside, we were confronted with a thick, dense air that burned our eyes supremely. With that, we quickly became vig...

Most herbs do one thing. Echinacea pumps up your immune system. Turmeric dials down inflammation. From a scientific standpoint, what makes Andrographis unusual, and genuinely fascinating, is that it does both — depending on the circumstances....

  Your body has a built-in cellular cleanup crew. It is called autophagy, from the Greek for "self-eating," and while that sounds alarming, it is one of the most important maintenance processes supporting healthy cells. Every cell in your body a...