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How can diagnostic accuracy benefit both patient and physician alike? If breast cancer is diagnosed precisely and accurately the first time, treatment can be much more effective. Press play to learn:
Sandy Borowsky, Doctor and researcher at the UC Davis Center for Comparative Medicine, describe their work with diagnosing breast cancer and its accuracy.
By utilizing various categorization and detection techniques, specific breast cells can be determined as the culprit for breast cancer. Due to the highly variable nature of breast cancer, this diagnostic technique allows for a more targeted treatment and therapeutic path.
The level of variation may even warrant breast cancer being treated as a set of almost ten different diseases. Each form offers its own risk, with some slipping under the body's radar and others directly fighting the immune response.
Episode also available on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/30PvU9C
How can you be sure any medical treatments are safe and regulated? Organizations around the world are responsible for the information, but are they telling the truth? Listen up to learn:
The founder of ICAN, Del Bigtree, discusses medical risk assessment and informed consent revolving around the central issues facing society today.
A rush to develop a treatment for burgeoning diseases historically leads to botched trials and ultimately risks the health of individuals globally. Informed consent before treatment has become a movement being backed by millions of wary consumers through education and activism efforts.
Efforts to cover up negative repercussions of rushed treatments may cause even more significant harm than was initially necessary. Corruption throughout global leadership hampers efforts to reveal the truth, but many organizations continue to fight back.
To learn more, search for @delbigtree on Twitter or visit https://www.icandecide.org.
Episode also available on Apple Podcasts: http://apple.co/30PvU9C
Do your circumstances dampen or enhance your ability to make a decision? Studies show that high-pressure decision-making can be much more difficult without certain factors put in place. Listen in to learn:
President of ShadowBox LLC, Gary Klein, Ph.D., discusses his research into decision making during strenuous situations and how to enhance your cognitive ability.
Making decisions can be difficult even under the most conducive situations, but it can be practiced and trained like many other skills through various techniques. For instance, the ShadowBox technique developed by Dr. Klein has been proven to enhance decision-making ability under duress.
Paying attention to specific cues in their body and the situation can lead to more effective and meaningful decisions. By training under challenging conditions early rather than focusing on the basics, evidence shows that an individual will retain the learned practices for an extended period.
Visit shadowboxtraining.com for more information. Episode also available on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/30PvU9C
How can artificial intelligence modify psychiatric treatment to benefit the patient? Analyzing large sets of data and the study of genomics can target specific doses of medications more effectively for each individual. Listen in the learn:
Maurice Chiang, the cofounder of Prairie Health, describes his work using machine learning and data analysis in psychiatric treatment.
By analyzing longitudinal data sets collected over decades, treatment in psychiatry can be tailored more effectively for each patient based upon their response to medication. By studying the data with artificial intelligence systems, genetic trends can be discovered, and analysis techniques can be refined and made more effective in the years to come.
For patients who have tried and found particular treatments ineffective, this research opens a new opportunity to investigate why their bodies may not have responded to medication. Through the continuing study, these patients will be able to fit treatment precisely for their genetic makeup.
Visit prairiehealth.co to learn more. Episode also available on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/30PvU9C
How can Tasmanian Devils give cancer researchers a hint into the spread of tumors and how they interact with the body? The spread of facial tumors in the population may be an appropriate starting point. Press play to learn:
Camila Espejo, a researcher at the Tasmanian School of Medicine in the College of Health and Medicine, shares her work with Tasmanian Devils and oncology.
When Tasmanian devils bite each other, there is a chance that a tumor-laden devil can spread the cells into healthy devils through saliva. If the disease can be detected early before the tumor begins to form, treatment becomes an option and can extend the lifetime during the disease's incubation.
It is crucial to understand how the disease spreads and can be treated to prevent a possible extinction event. Without devils present as apex predators, the ecosystem may be thrown out of balance, and native species could be impacted.
To learn more, contact Camila Espejo on twitter at @CamilaEspejo19. Episode also available on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/30PvU9C
Where can quantum computing take the next step to continue improving and begin outperforming current computers. Theoretically, physical transformations may be the next stage of development. Listen up to learn:
A Research Fellow working in the Physics Department of the University of Oxford, Chiara Marletto, joins the conversation to discuss the quantum theory of computation.
While our current understanding of computers focuses mainly on speeding up and bolstering computing power, research leads quantum computational researchers in a new direction. Constructors theoretically have the capability to modify shape within the laws of physics and appear to be on the horizon for quantum computing.
Constructor theory relies on solving the problems from the current generation of computing machines, such as the noise, need for cold, and computational powers. What sets constructors apart from classical computers is the possibility of self-reproduction and a wide variety of other previously thought to be impossible tasks.
For more information, visit http://constructortheory.org. Episode also available on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/30PvU9C
"The evolution of the nucleus may have initially occurred . . . because of this coevolutionary dynamic with giant viruses," says Professor Frank Aylward. He shares several mysterious tidbits of giant virus evolution and how these particles may have caused evolutionary pressures that produced everything from the silica shell of diatoms to cellular metabolism. Listen and learn
Frank Aylward is an assistant professor of biological sciences, at Virginia Tech. He specializes in microbial diversity and is fascinated by the abundance of microbes "that play critical roles in human health, the evolution of life on Earth, biogeochemical cycling, and the biosphere." Lately, he's focuses on giant viruses. These viruses are distinct for their size and their propensity to only infect eukaryotes. This means, for example, that while giant viruses and bacteriophage have different domain hosts, they're just as abundant, present in waters alongside marine bacteria, in soil, and even in freshwater.
He shares numerous fascinating aspects of what these viruses tell us about our world. For example, they may have developed their size from an evolutionary effort of tricking amoeba into eating them. They practice biological mimicry, mimicking the look of the microbes that amoeba like to eat, so the amoeba will phagocytose it: the Mimi virus actually stands for mimicking microbe. Professor Aylward shares more about the natural history of these viruses, down to their connection with cellular nuclei and metabolism. Listen in for more about the magic in microbial diversity. Episode also available on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/30PvU9C
Are genetically modified food products the best option you have when shopping for food? Emerging research shows that there may be better choices both for your health and for the environment. Listen up to learn:
Expert in his field, Dr. Bill McGraw, lends his experience with GMO research and its implications on the long-term health of individuals around the world.
Originally thought to have no negative repercussions to consumer health, genetically modified products seemed to be the key to many logistic problems plaguing produce manufacturers. However, in the years since their introduction, GMO products have begun to show their true colors.
Without proper labeling required in supermarkets, it can be challenging to determine if a product is genetically modified or comes into contact with other GMO products. GMO salmon or salmon fed with GMO ingredients can leave lasting impacts on the environment by spreading plasmids throughout the area.
Visit www.newaquatechpanama.com for more information. Episode also available on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/30PvU9C
Is time what clocks measure, or is it the difference between the shape of two triangles?
Explore the answer, and discover:
Physicist and author of The Discovery of Dynamics and The Janus Point: A New Theory of Time, Julian Barbour, joins the show for an eye-opening and mind-probing deep dive into his ideas of time and space, and how they've been shaped by and differ from the ideas of other great thinkers in history, like Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, and Johannes Kepler.
"Science is always tentative, but my feeling is that people have lost some contact with the real foundation of things, of what reality is really like, and so I think it certainly doesn't harm to go back and see what people like Kepler did," he adds.
Barbour explains the development and details of his books, elaborating on this statement: "You cannot imagine finding your way if there's nothing by which you can see your way."
He also shares his most recent ideas with listeners, such as the idea that the complexity of the universe might literally be time itself, and the most important part of energy itself.
Interested in learning more?
Tune in and be sure to check out Barbour's most recent book, The Janus Point: A New Theory of Time. Episode also available on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/30PvU9C
"I am not a conspiracy theorist, I am a fact investigator…I want to know facts as soon as I can possibly get them. Is there a way to do that? Yes, there is," says David Getoff.
Tune in to learn how, and discover:
Getoff is a board-certified clinical nutritionist, traditional naturopath, author of Abundant Health in a Toxic World, and internationally recognized lecturer on a variety of topics surrounding nutrition and health.
"Almost every holistic professional that I've ever met has had something go on in their life where mainstream medicine was not able to help them or cure them or get them better…or save their life…but some other holistic professional was," he says.
But unlike these holistic professionals, Getoff didn't have this experience; he simply started reading books and magazines and newsletters written by holistic health professionals, which led him to dig deeper and discover why so much information that could transform our health and our lives is not easy to find, or altogether censored.
He discusses his work with people who come to him with a range of ailments, including heart disease, autoimmune disorders, diabetes, and cancer. Within months of changing their nutritional intake—often against the advice of their current doctor or nutritionist— and eliminating the many toxins we're exposed to in everyday life, most of the people Getoff works with find that they no longer need their prescription medications, and enjoy a revolutionary level of health and wellness.
Getoff explains what is missing from the vegan and vegetarian diets, the value in listening to experts whose perspectives differ from your own, toxic food preservatives and cleaners most of us use on a daily basis, the health impacts of wireless technology, and why there are no longer enough nutrients in our food, why we need more than we used to, and how to get them.
Learn more at https://naturopath4you.com/. Episode also available on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/30PvU9C
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