As I embark upon a new pathway of exosome therapy, I have been reflecting upon what it means to be a doctor. Once upon a time, there was a mystique around being a doctor fostered by our culture. It seemed noble, impactful, financially secure, and autonomous. Arguably, some of the brightest and ambitious youngsters dreamed …
Japan and U.S. cultures could not be more different. Last night, as I and a bunch of pedestrians were walking through a busy intersection in Kyoto, a white haired woman beat ferociously on a car that had stopped too late in the crosswalk thereby forcing everyone to walk around both sides and side step onto …
“I’m walking here!” vs. “We’re walking here!” – a study in cultural diversity Read More »
Has this ever happened to you? You really want to see a specific movie but you REALLY want to appreciate in a big dark room with some friends and a lot of strangers. This morning, I awoke wanting spend the last days of my summer with my sons watching The Wizard of Oz or The …
For my #MondayMusing I want to comment on a poster I saw in my local library yesterday. It was made by the “Council on Aging” and it is entitled “Aging as Art” Warning: This post will probably briefly offend you, so I will apologize in advance. It is decidedly NOT meant as hyperbole, facetious irreverence, …
“Aging as Art” – Is it Schadenfreude or just existential sleight-of-hand? Read More »
Tonight, I was asked by my mom to drive 90 minutes to L.A. to have dinner with her and my aunt. I am really busy these days but I had a disturbing dream about her last night so I couldn’t refuse. When I sat down to order, the waitress asked me “excuse me, are you …
I am currently writing a book about exosomes and you would think that with such great results many of my patients have had using exosomes, that it would be easy. But it is not. To quote Isaac Asimov: “I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I’ll believe …
Last week, I was in Honolulu treating nine patients, of whom seven were repeat patients. Allow me to explain why they all decided to repeat exosomes. But first… For some people, the question of “why repeat?” is like a rhetorical attack on the lack of efficacy. For them, if the exosomes didn’t work, then …
At Christmas, when I told my sister I was going to see Van Morrison January 16th, she half-joked “Is he still alive?” Since then, we have had the passing of David Bowie, Glenn Frey of the Eagles, and Lemmie Kilmister (of Motorhead) in just a short time. It seems odd but there may be an …
“Is he still alive?” Gallows humor and the concentration camp of life Read More »
Anita Ekberg, the Trevi Fountain-dancing star of La Dolce Vita, passed away today. Here is an article about her. http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/01/11/376515134/anita-ekberg-50s-screen-star-and-sex-symbol-dies-at-83 Here is the iconic scene from Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” that gave us the term “Paparazzi” (Paparazzo was an annoying photojournalist in that film). So what is it about a young starlet …
“La Dolce Vita” star, Anita Ekberg, passed away today Read More »
Just a Valentine’s-themed post about a study that shows love is good for your telomeres: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23602876 In this case-control study, they found a trend towards longer telomeres in people who practiced loving kindness meditation. They found that the “p-value” was 0.083 for an association between loving kindness meditation and longer telomeres; so in other words, …
“Love will keep us (and your telomeres) together” Read More »
Recollecting the fateful day when Robert Oppenheimer detonated the first nuclear bomb: “We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do …
“Now I am the TELOMERATOR – destroyer of kingdoms” Read More »
Recollecting the fateful day when Robert Oppenheimer detonated the first nuclear bomb: “We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do …
“Now I am the TELOMERATOR – destroyer of kingdoms” Read More »
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