Mechanisms
What Causes Rheumatoid Arthritis? Do Early Life Events Affect Risk?
What causes rheumatoid arthritis? Kelly Young, founder of an organization dedicated to improving the lives of people with rheumatoid disease, blogger at Rheumatoid Arthritis Warrior (RAW), and
Causes of Chronic Disease: Life Experiences Change the Brain via “Pruning”
This New York Times article describes recent research that is increasing our understanding of the cause of schizophrenia ((Sekar, A., et al. (2016). "Schizophrenia risk from complex variation of
The Ripple Effects of Trauma
I've recently read a series of articles and quotes that spoke to me and emphasized the direction I want to keep taking with this blog. It has to do with the remarkably unrecognized role that trauma
Epigenetics: Why Chronic Illness may be Reversible
I’ve been wondering about the field of epigenetics for a few years now. Epigenetics are apparently how the environment determines whether genes turn on or off, and how active they are. I've been
