Category: dr ed park
Real patient experiences
God’s Speed, Robin Williams
Robin Williams’ heart stopped beating 4 days ago but there is no way anyone can tell me he doesn’t live on in all of us. Just take a look at this clip to understand the depths of his great soul.
My prophecies for the 50th College reunion
In 2014, it makes many of us sad to realize that our species as a whole, and we as individuals, have been inculcated with structure and meaning as defined by the things we are taught to fear: fear of death, aging, illness, poverty, being unloved, being irrelevant…
The greatest shifts in the human condition won’t be complete until our 75th anniversary in 2089 but surprisingly, most of us will be attending that one in good health at the age of 97!
How to choose a surgeon (and how to stay alive despite their cookbook approach to treating you)
Doctors are seldom allowed and even less frequently motivated to deviate from standard of care, which frowns upon removing the dandelion (the primary cancer of origin) after the seeds have spread (the distant metastases).
Alzheimer’s risk linked to Telomere Length – (Oy Vey)
This is the latest study linking shorter telomeres to disease (there are over 10,000) that once again falls victim to proving obvious yet useless information. In this study, they linked smaller hippocampal volumes (seen in Alzheimer’s) with shorter white blood cell telomeres in a subset of women with a genetic prediliction for Alzheimers (the abnormal ApoE3 gene).
Dr. Park interviewed about living hundreds of years
For #WebinarWednesday, I want to post a 16-minute interview I did recently with author and thought-leader, G. Edward Griffin. In this though-provoking exchange, I explain where humanity is going and why we can live hundreds of years.
I predict that no one is every going to collect Social Security benefits although we will probably keep paying into the system. (Sorry Ben Franklin, it’s really only taxes we can count on now)