Longevity with Criteria

Your cholesterol is rising even though you take care of yourself, and almost no one has explained that the issue might not be on your plate. I am going to show you where the real regulator of that number is, why it decided to increase it, and what you can start looking at starting tomorrow.

You may have been told that it is age, genetics, or that your metabolism has become lazy. But cholesterol does not travel freely through the blood: it travels inside particles called LDL, and it is the liver that removes them from circulation through doors called LDL receptors. The more open doors, the less cholesterol in your blood work.

And here is the key: those doors are opened by a thyroid hormone, T3. When the thyroid slows down, the key turns with less force, the liver stops replacing doors, and the number goes up no matter how much you have emptied your pantry of fat. It is not that your diet has failed: it is that the thermostat of your engine has slowed down.

This was demonstrated by the teams of Onno Bakker in Amsterdam and Gene Ness in Florida, and was intuited much earlier by a 19th-century surgeon, Theodor Kocher, when he removed thyroids and observed what happened afterward. Today we continue to do something similar: we look at the number and turn off the warning light, instead of asking about the engine.

🎯 Why your cholesterol number does not measure what you think: LDL is the truck, not the cargo

🎯 Where the doors that remove cholesterol from your blood are located, and who opens them

🎯 The thyroid as a thermostat: what happens when it slows down

🎯 Why cholesterol rises even when you eat well (and why fat is not to blame)

🎯 The mistake of turning off the warning light: treating the number without checking the engine

🎯 What you can start observing tomorrow and what you should not expect

Key concepts

cholesterol, LDL, LDL receptors, liver, thyroid, T3, T4, hypothyroidism, metabolic thermostat, TSH, Theodor Kocher

Scientific evidence consulted

Transcriptional regulation of rat hepatic low-density lipoprotein receptor by thyroid hormone.

https://doi.org/10.1006/abbi.1995.0061

Thyroid hormone regulation and cholesterol metabolism are connected through SREBP-2.

https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M305417200

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

00:00 The blood test: high cholesterol and guilt

03:40 LDL is not cholesterol: the trucks and the doors

06:37 The thyroid: the master thermostat and T3

11:06 The statin and the dashboard light

16:02 Kocher: goiter, the Nobel Prize, and the lesson

19:22 The symptoms no one looks at

22:19 What to do: changing your perspective

25:51 Three days measuring your thermostat

27:21 The end: the series and medical disclaimer

📺 Watch more about cholesterol in this playlist:

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📺 And about energy and fatigue, right here:

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#ColesterolAlto #Thyroid #Longevity

There is a scene that repeats itself almost every night: you go to bed, turn off the light, and wait for silence. But silence does not arrive. Instead, in the middle of your head or in one of your ears, there is an engine that will not turn off: a high-pitched ring, a constant buzz, the static of an old radio. If this happens to you, you know what I am talking about. And you know the worst part is not the sound itself: it is everything that happens around it.

Today I want to challenge the verdict you were given: "it is chronic, there is nothing to do, learn to live with it." The specialist who told you that was right about only one thing: you cannot fix an electrical problem by treating it like a broken speaker. The error was not your destiny: it was the framework through which they were looking at you.

🎯 Why conventional medicine struggles with tinnitus: the speaker and microphone model, and why it fails to explain what you experience.

🎯 Why tinnitus does not originate in the cochlea: the ear is the input cable, and the true origin lies in how electricity travels along the nerve and how the brain interprets the signal.

🎯 The electrical body: the auditory nerve is not a passive thread, it is a transmission line.

🎯 The two pathways that worsen it: jaw tension (bruxism, chewing, stress) and accumulated physical tension. Why the same brain centers that process hearing receive signals from the jaw.

🎯 What you can actually do: gentle movements, an acoustic background instead of absolute silence, and things that cannot be forced away.

🎯 And what not to expect: why I will not sell you the false hope of a miracle in a bottle.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

00:00 The scene: silence that does not arrive

02:14 The verdict: "learn to live with it"

03:12 The error was not your ear: it was the framework

05:37 The speaker and microphone model

09:31 Tinnitus does not originate in the cochlea

10:41 The electrical body: cable static

15:39 Why the nerve loses its signal

21:59 Automatic gain control

27:48 Fades by day, returns at night

29:25 Why some days are worse: the two modulators

33:56 The jaw and cervical spine

37:11 The action plan: the three keys

40:00 Key 1: mechanical relief

41:20 Key 2: microcirculation and stress

42:50 Key 3: acoustic contrast

44:43 What you take away from this video

#Tinnitus #RingingInEars #EarRinging

Do you have high uric acid and wonder what foods to avoid? What spikes it most isn't red meat or seafood: it's fructose hitting your system all at once. I'll explain how to lower uric acid in your blood, where it comes from, what it does to your blood pressure, and what you can do tomorrow.

You might think uric acid comes from red meat, seafood, or beer, but your liver produces most of it itself while breaking down purines and consuming energy. When fructose from juice, sodas, or syrups enters all at once, your liver is forced to process it rapidly, depleting its energy currency (ATP) and generating a spike in uric acid like ash after a fire.

In rats, that ash inhibits nitric oxide synthase—which relaxes your arteries—and increases renin, which narrows them, raising blood pressure. But there is a window of opportunity. In teenagers with newly diagnosed hypertension, lowering uric acid restored blood pressure to normal levels in most cases. However, in adults aged 18 to 40 with established high blood pressure, lowering uric acid with allopurinol didn't improve blood pressure; in animal models, when high uric acid persists, high blood pressure eventually sustains itself.

Whether you still have time to reverse it or your high blood pressure is already established, stopping the fructose overload is still up to you. Eating whole fruit instead of drinking juice slows absorption in the gut and spares your liver from the rush. If you use juice to treat hypoglycemia, that juice is your treatment and stays as is; if you are underweight, take insulin, use diabetes medication, or take diuretics, discuss any changes with your doctor.

🎯 Where uric acid actually comes from: your own purines and cellular energy

🎯 The fructose mechanism: how sugary drinks force the liver to produce ash

🎯 The blood pressure connection: why uric acid narrows and stiffens arteries

🎯 The window of opportunity: when lowering the number works and when it's just a sign

Key concepts

uric acid, fructose, purines, ATP, endothelium, nitric oxide, renin, blood pressure, hypertension, window of opportunity

Scientific evidence consulted

Fructose-induced hyperuricaemia. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(67)90494-1

Soft drinks, fructose consumption, and the risk of gout in men. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.39449.819271.BE

Elevated uric acid increases blood pressure in the rat by a novel crystal-independent mechanism. https://doi.org/10.1161/hy1101.092839

Excessive fructose intake induces the features of metabolic syndrome in healthy adult men: role of uric acid in the hypertensive response. https://doi.org/10.1038/ijo.2009.259

Effect of allopurinol on blood pressure of adolescents with newly diagnosed essential hypertension. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.300.8.924

Effect of serum urate lowering with allopurinol on blood pressure in young adults: a randomized, controlled, crossover trial. https://doi.org/10.1002/art.41749

📚 All sources for this episode, step by step, on the blog: https://iky.eu

00:00 High uric acid in your bloodwork: the number no one talks about

03:26 What causes high uric acid: it's not red meat or seafood

08:10 Fructose and uric acid: the sugar that spikes it

10:57 What happens to your liver when fructose hits all at once

15:48 The evidence: uric acid spikes in minutes and sodas are linked to gout

20:43 Uric acid and blood pressure: what it does to your arteries

25:23 Fructose and hypertension: the Balearic Islands study

29:58 Uric acid in youth and adults: when lowering it works

38:22 How to lower uric acid: what you can do tomorrow

43:45 Summary: early on it's a driver, later it's a warning sign

Your blood sugar test comes back fine, yet you are still told you have fatty liver. The fructose from orange juice, honey, and agave doesn't show up on that lab test. Here is where it goes and what to do tomorrow.

You get your blood work done every year, your glucose levels look good, and then one day an ultrasound shows fat in your liver. You did what you were supposed to do: you cut out the sugar bowl, sodas, and pastries, replacing them with fresh orange juice, honey, and agave syrup. But sugar is actually two molecules: glucose and fructose, and fructose doesn't have a spot on your lab report. If you wonder whether orange juice is actually good for you, or why non-alcoholic fatty liver happens in people who take care of themselves, this video is about that.

The small intestine acts as the first filter for fructose, and that filter has a limited capacity: roughly the amount found in one piece of chewed fruit (Princeton University, 2018). A glass of juice is two or three oranges without their fiber, drank all at once. Whatever overflows the filter travels up the portal vein straight to the liver, entering a pathway that bypasses the brake regulated by insulin and accelerating de novo lipogenesis—the creation of new fat from sugar. At the University of California, Davis, in adults aged 40 to 72, ten weeks of beverages with added fructose (not juice, but pure sugar, accounting for a quarter of daily calories) increased visceral fat by 14% and worsened insulin sensitivity, with the same weight gain as the glucose group. When fructose replaces another carbohydrate instead of being added to it, trials do not see that damage: the difference lies in adding versus substituting.

That process explains about a quarter of the fat in a fatty liver, not all of it (a small study of nine people: this is an approximate breakdown). But it is the only part you can change tomorrow morning: whole oranges, peeled and chewed instead of juice, and at least two pieces of fruit per day. Honey and syrups belong in the same category as juice. If you use juice to recover from a low blood sugar crash, or if you are underweight, keep that glass. And if you take insulin or medications that can lower your blood sugar, talk to your doctor before cutting it out. Whether fructose damages knee cartilage has only been measured in a test tube; it has not been proven in humans.

🎯 Why your blood test looks normal and misses fructose

🎯 Fructose and glucose: the two molecules you call sugar

🎯 The intestine's limit: a chewed orange is not a glass of juice

🎯 How fructose accelerates fat production in the liver

🎯 The three sources of fat in a fatty liver

🎯 Visceral fat and insulin in ten weeks: fructose added vs substituted

🎯 What to do with juice tomorrow, and who this is not for

Key concepts

fructose, portal vein, de novo lipogenesis, visceral fat, insulin sensitivity, fatty liver, free sugars

Scientific evidence reviewed

The Small Intestine Converts Dietary Fructose into Glucose and Organic Acids. Jang C, Hui S, Lu W, Cowan AJ, Morscher RJ, Lee G et al. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmet.2017.12.016

Consuming fructose-sweetened, not glucose-sweetened, beverages increases visceral adiposity and lipids and decreases insulin sensitivity in overweight/obese humans. Stanhope KL, Schwarz JM, Keim NL, Griffen SC, Bremer AA, Graham JL et al. https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI37385

00:00 Normal blood test results and still fatty liver

01:28 Fresh orange juice, honey, and agave syrup: the change that seemed healthy

03:52 Fructose and glucose: sugar is two molecules

06:06 Why fructose does not show up on your blood test

07:25 The intestine filters fructose, but it has a limit

10:32 Is fresh orange juice good for you? Two or three oranges at once

12:19 Fructose reaches the liver and bypasses insulin control

17:06 Does fructose turn into fat? Where liver fat comes from

23:56 Visceral fat and insulin resistance in ten weeks

31:28 Agave syrup and children: two facts that failed verification

34:30 What to do with juice tomorrow: 3 basic rules

37:50 Does fructose damage knee cartilage? And what comes next: uric acid

There is an organ that reaches its tipping point ten years earlier than your brain, and it determines how things agree with you, how you sleep, and how you start your morning. It isn't your brain: it's your liver. And what sets its rhythm is in your hands.

After forty-five, things no longer agree with you the same way. Two glasses of wine are felt the next day, afternoon coffee disrupts your sleep, and on some mornings your body takes longer to get going. The explanation we all reach for is age, and underneath it, an assumption we accept without ever looking at it closely: that the entire body ages all at once, as if there were a single clock inside for everything. It doesn't work like that. There is a clock for each organ, and they don't all show the same time.

In a study published in Cell in 2026, a team from the Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences measured over two hundred and forty parameters in two thousand nineteen healthy individuals aged eighteen to ninety-one, constructing six distinct proteomic clocks—one per organ. The liver reaches its tipping point around age forty; the brain, around fifty. The clotting factors produced by the liver—F13B, F9, and F10—accumulate in plasma with age, and F13B induced senescence markers in cultured human aortic endothelial cells and accelerated aging of the liver, heart, aorta, and kidneys when injected into mice. And there is a second oscillator that almost no one talks about: the liver's circadian clock isn't synchronized by light—it's synchronized by food, something demonstrated in an animal model.

From this emerge four cost-free levers you can start adjusting tomorrow: how many times a day you activate this organ, what time you close the kitchen, going to bed and waking up at the same time, and walking in moderation. Plus a three-day protocol, using just paper and pen, to see in writing where you stand. No juices, no kits, and no brands.

🎯 Why the liver reaches its steep decline about ten years before the brain

🎯 The two age windows where everything accelerates: from 40 to 50 and from 60 to 70

🎯 Why wine seems to agree more with daily drinkers, and what is actually happening inside

🎯 What originates in an aging liver, travels through the blood, and reaches other organs

🎯 Why your liver cells are less than three years old, regardless of your age

🎯 The four levers and the three-day log to start tonight

Key concepts: multi-organ proteomic clocks, hepatic tipping point, F13B clotting factors, endothelial senescence, acetaldehyde and CYP2E1, hepatic circadian clock, hepatocyte regeneration

Scientific evidence consulted:

Multimodal clocks of human aging. Li J, Jiang B, Zhang W, Qu J, Liu GH. Cell, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2026.04.025

Nonlinear dynamics of multi-omics profiles during human aging. Shen X, Wang C, Zhou X, Snyder M. Nature Aging, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-024-00692-2

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📺 WATCH THE COMPLETE SERIES: The Liver

▶️ Video 1: YOU DON'T NEED TO DETOX YOUR LIVER: What Science Really Says (Link: https://youtu.be/sX5eC63E9Sg)

▶️ Video 2: NOTHING AGREES WITH YOU ANYMORE. Your Longevity Depends on an Organ Aging 10 Years Sooner (You are watching this one)

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

00:00 Three signs that appear after fifty

01:11 You don't have one clock: you have one for each organ

02:02 Why wine seems to agree better with daily drinkers

08:13 Why the liver, and how individual organ age is measured

10:15 The liver accelerates at forty, ten years before the brain

11:54 What an aging liver releases into the rest of the body

14:20 The liver begins aging before the brain: the two age windows

16:25 Stanford: Aging milestones at age 44 and 60

20:56 The liver's clock follows your meal times, not light

24:09 Frequent meals, smoking, and poor sleep accelerate aging; fruit, consistent sleep, and walking slow it down

31:49 An organ doesn't age at the pace of its cells: your liver cells are under three years old

37:11 The four levers to slow down your liver's clock

42:28 What you can do today: keep a paper log for three days

It's three thirty in the morning and a calf cramp wakes you up. You tell your leg to stop and it ignores you, because the order doesn't start there. I'll show you where it comes from, and why magnesium doesn't shut it down.

You suddenly wake up with a cramped calf, a leg as hard as rock, and that feeling that the muscle doesn't belong to you. Nighttime leg cramps happen to a third of people over sixty and half of those over eighty, and almost everyone jumps to the same unverified conclusion: that they're low on magnesium, or not drinking enough water. In this video, I'll show you why those two explanations fall apart when you look at clinical trials, and what is really happening inside you at three thirty in the morning.

The signal that locks up your calf isn't generated in the muscle. It comes from an alpha motor neuron housed in the anterior horn of the spinal cord, firing action potentials at a frequency measured in hertz, triggering the cramp only when it crosses a specific threshold. In 2011, a team led by Marco Minetto measured that threshold in eight healthy men and then anesthetized the posterior tibial nerve with lidocaine—essentially cutting the return wire between the muscle and the spinal cord. With the nerve intact, the cramp lasted an average of 55.6 seconds. With the nerve blocked, 2.6 seconds. The exact same discharge, the same muscle, and the same man, but with the feedback loop interrupted: what keeps a cramp going over time doesn't live in your calf; it lives in the loop connecting your muscle spindles to your spinal cord.

And that leads to what you actually can do tonight. The only thing proven to reduce cramp frequency in a controlled trial is a stretch targeting two specific muscles, done every night before bed: eighty people averaging seventy years old, six weeks, and 1.2 fewer cramps per night. The second factor is your medicine cabinet, as common medications often appear in patient histories right before cramps start, with bronchodilators leading the list. None of this is medical advice to stop any treatment on your own—it's information so you can ask your doctor with the data right in front of you.

🎯 Why you tell your leg to stop and it doesn't obey you

🎯 What five trials on magnesium and cramps say, and what actually came out of them

🎯 The anesthetized nerve experiment: from 55 seconds to two and a half

🎯 The doorframe test, so you can check it on your own body

🎯 The stretch that actually works: which two muscles, and how often

🎯 The medications that show up in patient histories before cramps do

Key concepts

alpha motor neuron, anterior horn of the spinal cord, cramp threshold frequency, lidocaine nerve block, muscle spindles, Kohnstamm phenomenon, serum magnesium

Scientific evidence consulted

Mechanisms of cramp contractions: peripheral or central generation? Minetto MA, Holobar A, Botter A, Ravenni R, Farina D. https://doi.org/10.1113/jphysiol.2011.212332

Magnesium for skeletal muscle cramps. Garrison SR, Korownyk CS, Kolber MR, Allan GM, Musini VM, Sekhon RK, Dugré N. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD009402.pub3

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📺 This video is part of The Electric Body series.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

00:00 You tell your leg to stop and it ignores you

01:12 The signal doesn't come from your calf: it comes from your back

04:12 Why drinking more water won't fix your cramps

06:20 Magnesium and cramps: what five trials show

09:22 What magnesium is actually good for, if not this

10:17 Where the signal that locks up your calf comes from

13:10 The anesthetized nerve experiment: from 55 seconds to 2.5

16:08 What a motor neuron is and why it controls your muscle

18:39 The doorframe test: try it yourself

21:10 Why your arms rise on their own: the Kohnstamm phenomenon

27:40 The stretch that actually works: two muscles, every night

40:43 Medications that appear in your history before cramps do

You step on the scale, see the same old number, and then open your closet to find your pants no longer fit the way they used to. You haven't gained weight, yet you take up more space. If your weight hasn't changed in years but your clothes feel tighter, you're not imagining it: something inside you has changed, and the scale isn't measuring it.

What has changed is your body composition. Over the years, lean mass is replaced by fat, and every kilogram exchanged takes up about two hundred milliliters more space—roughly a small glass of water—without adding a single gram to the scale. In 2002, a research team at Tufts University in Boston measured 131 people and measured them again nine and a half years later. On average, the men's weight changed by just a hundred grams. Beneath the surface, however, they had lost well over a kilo of lean mass and gained a kilo of fat.

And that fat isn't distributed evenly. It infiltrates deep between muscle fibers—where it can't be pinched or seen—and accumulates around the waist. A team at the National Institute on Aging used scans to measure this in over 1,600 people: over five years, those fat deposits grew by nearly ten percent annually in people whose weight stayed the same. And they grew in those who had lost weight, too.

In this episode, I'll show you how to track this at home using a measuring tape and a piece of paper. Just two numbers—weight and waist size—once a month. The exact measurement spot (which isn't your belly button), and the five possible ways to interpret your sheet, so you know whether you're losing fat or the muscle that keeps you strong.

You can find the full measurement guide, including the exact spot to measure and a printable tracking sheet, laid out step by step at iky.eu, along with other key health signs to monitor after age fifty.

In 2009, Elizabeth Blackburn won the Nobel Prize for discovering the mechanism that determines how fast you age on the inside. It is not a cream or a pill; it is hidden at the ends of your DNA, and the most surprising part is what controls it: your mind.

At the tip of every chromosome, there is a protective cap called a telomere. Every time a cell divides, that cap gets a little shorter. When it wears down completely, the cell stops repairing itself and begins to age. For decades, we believed this wear and tear was inevitable. Blackburn discovered it isn't: there is an enzyme, telomerase, capable of rebuilding them. We all have it, but almost none of us have it turned on.

And here is what changes everything. Blackburn and psychologist Elissa Epel showed that what turns telomerase off isn't age or genetics—it's chronic stress. It acts like an invisible acid melting your telomeres from within. That is why in Sardinia, Okinawa, or Nicoya, there are people who live past a hundred with sharp minds without knowing anything about biology: they have built cultures where chronic stress barely exists.

In this episode, I explain what a telomere is and why it matters, what turns telomerase on and off, and three practical steps you can use today: learning to forgive, practicing compassion, and reconnecting with movement that brings you peace. I also walk you through mental telomerase: four simple practices that take just seconds and change the environment your cells live in.

Because aging isn't a one-way street. It is an ongoing conversation between your mind and your cells.

The first episode in a four-part series.

00:00 What if aging weren't a one-way street?

00:19 2009: Elizabeth Blackburn's Nobel Prize

01:08 Sardinia, Okinawa, and Nicoya: living past one hundred

02:28 What a telomere is: the cap that protects your DNA

03:42 Telomerase: the enzyme that rebuilds them

04:19 If we all have it, why do we still age?

04:49 Blackburn and Elissa Epel: chronic stress shortens telomeres

06:17 What Blue Zones get right: purpose, connection, and pace

09:36 Your internal dialogue: the biology of what you tell yourself

13:07 Key 1 · Forgiveness: disconnecting from past harm

15:08 Key 2 · Compassion and the oxytocin that turns off the alarm

16:28 Key 3 · Movement that brings peace, not fat burning

19:32 Your mental telomerase: four quick practices in seconds

21:05 Two questions and the truth behind the Nobel Prize

23:40 What's next: values as an anti-inflammatory

Do you feel that the harder you look after yourself, the worse you feel? A five-hundred-year-old lesson explains why excessive zeal wears your body down, and what the right dose is to keep it strong and lucid for many years.

Inflamed knees after joining the gym full of enthusiasm, heavy digestion after eating "healthy" food in disproportionate amounts, chronic fatigue despite ten supplements every morning. If you look after yourself more than ever and feel worse than ever, you are not alone: it is the direct consequence of an idea planted in our heads that seems logical but is tremendously dangerous. The idea that, in health, more is always better. In this video we dismantle that belief with a lesson formulated in the heart of the Renaissance by Paracelsus, the rebel physician who burned the medical books in the square of Basel and who discovered, by observing miners, that the same substance that kills at the bottom of a mine can save a life at the apothecary.

Your body is not a candle burning down with the years: it is a living system that responds to the stimuli of its environment and repairs itself every day. Science calls that capacity hormesis: small, well-measured doses of discomfort (moderate cold, effort at cruising speed, overnight fasting windows, natural morning light) switch on the mechanisms of cellular cleaning and regeneration, activate circulation and vasodilation, put the immune defenses on alert, and grease the joints without wearing down the cartilage. Overdosing breaks the parts; underdosing shuts the machinery down for lack of use. Real longevity lives at the midpoint of that dose-response curve.

From there come the four everyday doses you will take away from this video: the dose of temperature and movement, the dose of the plate and digestion, the dose of light and shade, and the emotional dose. Four simple areas where we tend to overdo it or fall short, and where finding the right measure, starting tomorrow morning, makes the difference between wearing out and regenerating.

🎯 Why "more" is never better when it comes to your body

🎯 Paracelsus, the Basel bonfire and the sentence that changed medicine: the dose makes the poison

🎯 The salt, the flower pot and the classic car: three images to understand the right measure

🎯 Hormesis: how the body grows stronger with small, well-measured challenges

🎯 The four everyday doses: temperature and movement, plate and digestion, light and shade, emotion

🎯 The 80% rule at the table and the 10–12 hours of digestive rest

🎯 Longevity properly understood: the art of proportion, without punishment or obsession

Key concepts: hormesis, dose-response curve, cellular regeneration, digestive rest, circadian rhythm, vasodilation, chronic stress

Scientific evidence consulted:

Hormesis: The Dose-Response Revolution — Calabrese EJ, Baldwin LA — https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.pharmtox.43.100901.140223

Hormesis defined — Mattson MP — https://doi.org/10.1016/j.arr.2007.08.007

VIDEO INDEX:

00:00 The harder you look after yourself, the worse you feel?

02:06 Gym, diet and water: when care turns into aggression

03:55 Paracelsus: the physician who burned the books to read nature

08:51 The dose makes the poison: the sentence that changed medicine

10:02 The salt, the flower pot and the classic car: the right measure explained

13:36 Your body is not a candle: hormesis and how it repairs itself every day

16:31 Dose 1 · Moderate cold and a brisk walk

18:07 Dose 2 · Eating to 80% and the 12 hours of digestive rest

19:47 Dose 3 · Morning light and darkness at night

21:13 Dose 4 · Simple joy against the stress that rusts