Cancer leaves a molecular imprint on the body from the moment it develops. Like the breadcrumbs that Hansel and Gretel dropped along the paths to remember the way back home, tumors also leave a trace of their route, signals that now allow scientists to travel that path in reverse to understand the origin. of a … Read more
In 1904, in a talk at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, Elie Metchnikoff, one of the fathers of modern immunology, put forward his idea that aging was caused by harmful bacteria that live in our intestines. To delay it, he recommended eating yogurt, a food with beneficial bacteria widely consumed in a region of Bulgaria … Read more
Neurological diseases are already the leading cause of poor health in the world. A study published in the journal The Lancet Neurology has calculated that, in 2021, around 3.4 billion people around the globe – that is, 43% of the world’s population – suffered from some nervous system ailment, such as Alzheimer’s and other dementias, … Read more
In recent years, it has been seen that nanoplastics can reach breast milk and the placenta, blood plasma or accumulate inside cells. Although some animal studies suggested that these ubiquitous particles could have health effects, there was a lack of analysis in humans that had observed this link. This has changed after the publication of … Read more
Dasha Kiper, psychologist and author of ‘Journeys to Unimaginable Lands’ A woman arrives at a cozy Italian restaurant looking for her husband. When she finds him, she sits down at the table, and together they enjoy a gintonic and a lively conversation. Anyone watching from the outside might envy their complicity, but things begin to … Read more
Four yogurts and two apples a day. Nothing else. That was all she ate, for 15 years, Ana Belén Gómez Conde. Anorexia entered her house shortly after getting married, when she was 27 years old (she is now 42) and she never left again. She stopped eating, going out and interacting with the world: locked … Read more
A scientific revolution underpins the foundations of the fight against cancer: it is now known that no two tumors are the same, even if they are housed in the same organ, and oncological research, immersed in knowing the fine print of tumors that molecular biology reveals , is moving towards more and more personalized drugs, … Read more
With these data on the table, it is not strange that sleeping problems are beginning to be an issue that also keeps us awake as a society. There is increasing scientific evidence that demonstrates the relationship between chronic sleep deficit and the development of numerous diseases, including obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases and some … Read more