Monthly Archives: December 2017

Naked Power and the Power of Nakedness.

Alexander (the Great) & the Gymnosophists*. Two different mythologies. Two different ways of looking at the world. One believes this is the one and only life. The other believes this is one of many lives. So the story goes: Alexander met a person in India whom Plutarch refers to be a Gymnosophist, which means aContinue reading “Naked Power and the Power of Nakedness.”

A job well done

 The ninth edition of the WHO’s classification of diseases, details: 1.  more than thirteen thousand different diseases, syndromes, and types of injury, 2. six thousand drugs and 3.  four thousand medical and surgical procedures. _ Atul Gawande In the good old days, when I was studying medicine, a single physician could cover all cases medicine-Continue reading “A job well done”

The Japanese fresh fish story.

 “Man thrives, oddly enough, only in the presence of a challenging environment.” — L. Ron Hubbard. My favorite Japanese people love fresh fish. However, the waters close to shore do not have as many fish. So the fishing boats got bigger and went farther than ever. The farther the fishermen went, the longer it tookContinue reading “The Japanese fresh fish story.”

Our telomere length is a measure of our youthfulness.

How do our cells know when to stop, age and die ? What’s the technology ? Aging kills 100,000 people every day. That’s twice as much as any other causes all together. In developed countries it shares 90% of all death. Each of us ( from the 6 feet giant to  a 4 feet Lilliput)Continue reading “Our telomere length is a measure of our youthfulness.”