Talking to Mercè Boada is talking with optimism, despite the fact that her Ace Alzheimer Center in Barcelona is full of patients, both in the public and private areas. This 76-year-old woman is an expert in fighting Alzheimer’s. Neurologist and co-founder and medical director of Ace Alzheimer Center, Boada has just received the gold medal … Read more
According to Greek mythology, Zeus punished Prometheus for giving fire to humans. He chained Prometheus and made an eagle feast on his liver. Every night, the liver grew again. And every day the eagle returned to feast. Actually, can a liver regrow? The liver is the largest internal organ in the human body. It is … Read more
Four years are about to pass since the outbreak of a pandemic that shook the world and although the covid virus is now controlled, its hangover still weighs on millions of people. Persistent covid, which manifests itself with an amalgam of lasting symptoms over time – there are more than 200 different ones identified – … Read more
Owen Monroe’s heart was born sick. The little boy suffered from a very complex heart disease, very rare; If he was not repaired urgently, he was doomed to death. The large arteries of his heart, the aorta and the pulmonary artery, were fused and he barely had one valve (in healthy hearts, there are two, … Read more
Obesity, a pathology that affects more than one billion people in our society and is constantly growing, is characterized by an increase in body fat, and constitutes a risk factor for a set of diseases, including risk of cardiovascular, diabetes, cancer, stroke, hypertension, COVID, joint problems, and a long etc., which represent serious limitations in … Read more
The way you eat is key in health and illness. But not only what and how much we eat influences, but also when. In recent years, science has focused on unraveling the phenomenon of chrononutrition, which explains the relationship between temporal eating patterns, circadian rhythms and metabolic health. And some research has already shed light … Read more
At the age of 14, Elena Briongos left Peñalba de Castro, a small town in the province of Burgos, to go to Barcelona to study. “When she was 18, she was studying and working as a secretary, living what could have been a late adolescence, looking for myself,” says Briongos, who is now 61 years … Read more
The composer Héctor Berlioz described in his Memories “the awful feeling of being alone in an empty universe.” In this state, the musician stopped composing, he remained inactive and immobile because he had no other capacity “other than to suffer.” Andrew Solomon says that acute depression is both a destruction (the instinctive functions of life … Read more