#81: Inflammation Might Help Defeat Diabetes. With the rise in obesity has come a corresponding increase in rates of type 2 diabetes, in which fat and muscle cells become resistant to insulin, the hormone that transports energy-rich glucose into them.
The health implications of diabetes are daunting—heart disease, nerve damage, and worse—so the search for a cure has been fierce. Yet many scientists may have missed a crucial clue by focusing on the wrong root cause of the disease. Researchers have long tied type 2 diabetes to chronic inflammation, caused by a ramping-up of immune system activity that ultimately damages insulin receptor signalling and leads to insulin resistance. But in September, Umut Ozcan, an obesity researcher at Children’s Hospital Boston, reported that a key inflammatory protein actually reduces insulin resistance in obese diabetic mice, curing them of diabetes. The protein, called XBP-1s, turns on genes that direct the assembly of other proteins that keep insulin function working correctly in the cells.
#1: Faster than the Speed of Light. Einstein, relativity, and much of 20th-century physics have come under assault from an esoteric but far-reaching experiment.
A collaboration of 174 physicists fired bursts of neutrinos from the headquarters of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, in Geneva, Switzerland, to a detector in Gran Sasso, Italy. They tracked 16,111 of the ghostlike particles and measured how long they took to complete the trip. After three years of experiments and intense analysis, the team reported in September that the neutrinos were arriving one 17-millionth of a second early. The minuscule discrepancy revealed by the experiment, dubbed OPERA (Oscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus), has staggering implications. It seems to indicate that the neutrinos were traveling faster than light, violating what has long been regarded as an ironclad cosmic law.
The result was so peculiar that the CERN physicists encouraged other scientists to look for design errors in their experiment. Www.menshealth.com/mhlists/diy_health_remedies/printer.php. Eating 10 hot dogs in 6 minutes and belching the national anthem may impress your friends, but neither of those feats will do much for your body—at least not much good.
Instead, why not train yourself to do something that may actually pay off? We're not talking bench presses and interval training (though those do help). You can teach your body to cure itself from everyday health ailments—side stitches, first-date jitters, even hands that have fallen asleep. Just study this list, and the next time your friends challenge you to an ice cream eating contest, chow down: You know how to thaw a brain freeze—and 17 other tricks that'll make everyone think you're the next David Blaine.
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