Never Give Up—Fight Illness With Strength And Science
Audio updated March 31, 2026, for Apple device compatibility and a better infographic. 🎧 ▶️ Press the play button below to listen in English. 🇪🇸 Spanish (Latinoamérica) 🇨🇳 中文（简体） Introduction Welcome back to our resilience series, where we explore how natural, drug-free strategies can boost the body’s strength and adaptivity. In previous articles you’ll recall:…
Audio updated March 31, 2026, for Apple device compatibility. Updated on November 30, 2025, with new Latin American Spanish and Mandarin audio versions to help readers worldwide access this content. 🎧 ▶️ Press the play button below to listen in English. 🇪🇸 Spanish (Latinoamérica) 🇨🇳 中文（简体） Series: Ischemic Preconditioning and ResiliencePrevious: Drugs and Ischemic Preconditioning…
Audio updated March 31, 2026, for Apple device compatibility and a better infographic. This article has been edited for brevity and readability. Updated on November 29, 2025, with new Latin American Spanish and Mandarin audio versions to help readers worldwide access this content. 🎧 ▶️ Press play below to listen in English. Your browser does…
Audio updated on April 2, 2026, for Apple device compatibility. 🎧 ▶️ Press the play button below to listen in English. 🩺 Introduction In our recent article, Fasting vs. Sulfonylureas: Diabetes and the Heart, we introduced the fascinating concept of ischemic preconditioning—the body’s built-in defense mechanism that makes the heart, brain, and other organs more…
Damar Hamlin, the Buffalo Bills safety who had a cardiac arrest during the recent Monday Night Football three days ago, has made substantial improvement according to his doctors at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center. From the Buffalo Bills website, Among those improvements include Hamlin being awake and responsive with the ability to move both…
Updated on November 30, 2025, with new Latin American Spanish and Mandarin audio versions to help readers worldwide access this content. 🎧 ▶️ Press the play button below to listen in English. 🇨🇳 中文（简体） 请按下方的播放按钮收听。 This article is Round 3 of Intermittent Fasting (I.F.) vs. Sulfonylureas Recap: Round 1 went to I.F. because it protects…
What Happens In a Heart Attack? In a heart attack, a blockage forms in the blood vessels supplying the heart. Heart muscles die if deprived of blood supply. In the emergency room, priority is given to heart attack patients. Blood flow should be restored right away. One way is with an injectable “clot-buster” drug to…
Take Away Message: Commonly used prescription medicines like the diabetic drug family of sulfonylureas like glyburide and glibenclamide, the asthma drug aminophylline, and the opioid reversal agent naloxone can worsen the outcome of a heart attack or stroke by interfering with ischemic preconditioning. Review of Ischemic Preconditioning (IPC) What is Ischemic Preconditioning? is an introduction to the subject of IPC….
Take Away Message High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) but not endurance training can produce ischemic preconditioning. High-intensity interval training is repeated exercise lasting for seconds but intense enough to make the heartbeat go up to 85 to 95% of maximum. The high-intensity exercises are separated by intervals that are shorter than the exercise durations. The rest…
Ischemia is a condition of inadequate supply of blood and oxygen to the cells. Since cells need oxygen for maintenance and function, lack of oxygen can lead to cell death. The heart and the brain consume more oxygen compared to other organs. Because of this, they are very prone to damage if there is a…