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OCTOBER 21, 2022
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STEADYSTATE How many times has each of us been thermometized in the past two and a half years? Hundreds, no doubt. Maybe you just walked half a mile from your parking spot in baking sunshine and heat, only to be
THENEWCHEATER Every picture tells a thousand words, goes the old saying, but the picture above might tell ten thousand. Ah, but which words are they? Maybe you’re thinking the picture tells the sad tale of a philandering husband who has come home from a business trip or “working overtime,” only to be greeted by evidence that his secret escapades are no longer secret. Fair enough. That’s an understandable conclusion, but it’s a little behind the times. There is a newer, happier version of this picture. We could cheat cancer. We could cheat death from cancer. Already, cancer treatment has progressed to the point that it is often a chronic disease rather than an acute one. Kind of like
predictions about COVID’s future, cancer is in many cases something we live with — sometimes quite amicably — instead of something that kills us. Patients by the hundreds of thousands are cheating cancers that would have spelled the end for our grandparents, and even our parents. But there is more. Medical researchers are redefining what it means to cheat cancer out of another victim. The scientific evidence says that instead of battling cancer and hopefully winning, we don’t even have to get cancer in the first place. We can avoid it altogether. How is this possible? Read on. Please see BE A CHEATER page 9
greeted by someone with a thermal scanner at the entrance to your destination, possibly your workplace. If you lit up the screen at 102° or 103° you were going to be sent home and quarantined for days. Not good! Instead, you were shocked when the digital thermometer showed 98.6°. How is that possible? The credit goes to a small portion of the brain called the hypothalamus, which is basically our on-board thermostat. We’re going to focus on thermoregulation, but the body must regulate much more than its temperature. There are all kinds of gauges that are constantly checked by the hypothalamus to keep blood sugar levels, electrolytes, water and salt levels, excess fluid from kidneys, and more at levels right where they should be. The most visible and easily noticed of all of these functions — known collectively as homeostasis, the creation and maintenance of stability and equilibrium — is temperature control. It’s amazing that the body maintains its core temperature within one or two degrees whether a person is literally digging a ditch in 100° weather or skiing in sub-zero conditions. How does it do it? Read on. Please see STEADYSTATE page 3
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