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People who eat dark chocolate less likely to be depressed suggests a new large study (n = 13,626), which found that eating dark chocolate may positively affect mood and relieve depressive symptoms. Dark chocolate has higher concentrations of flavonoids, antioxidants that reduce inflammation.
Weekly Link Love — Edition 40
Research of the Week
12 weeks on a ketogenic diet normalized metabolic and psychological health markers in a 65-year-old woman who’d had type 2 diabetes and clinical depression for 26 years.
Rewiring the brain with gratitude.
Higher protein intakes may save senior bone health.
Oh, good! They’re making “advances” in tech for reducing the cholesterol content of egg yolks.
New Primal Blueprint Podcasts
Episode 361: Josh Perry: Host Elle Russ chats with Josh Perry, a former pro BMX athlete, current motivational speaker, and certified health coach who’s using a ketogenic diet to fight four brain tumors.
Primal Health Coach Radio, Episode 20: Hosts Erin and Laura chat with Kate Jaramillo about the necessity of creating it if it doesn’t exist.
Each week, select Mark’s Daily Apple blog posts are prepared as Primal Blueprint Podcasts. Need to catch up on reading, but don’t have the time? Prefer to listen to articles while on the go? Check out the new blog post podcasts below, and subscribe to the Primal Blueprint Podcast here so you never miss an episode.
Media, Schmedia
Government panel of nation with thousands of years of history eating cheese, butter, and meat rule that cheese, butter, and meat are terribly unhealthy. And some people have commented on the report.
Here’s what happens to your organs in extreme heat.
I still chuckle at the notion that not eating between meals is a “fad.”
Interesting Blog Posts
Yeah, what if?
Social Notes
I had a great time with Shawn Baker, Paul Saladino, and Brian Sanders discussing meat on Brian’s Peak Human podcast.
Don’t forget about the humble, mighty pushup.
Everything Else
Not all restaurants are buying into the Beyond Meat hype.
What fish can teach us about regenerating limbs.
Man bedridden for 11 years invents a surgery to cure himself.
The curative potential of mastic, ancient Greek medicinal shrub.
Here’s what you’ll be allowed to buy at the grocery store in our glorious future.
Things I’m Up to and Interested In
What I mean by “Live Long, Drop Dead”: This.
I think we all knew this: Trees are better than grass.
Story I enjoyed reading: “The Death of a Chimpanzee.”
I marvel at human ingenuity: The innovative new process converting vegetables into meat.
This is wild: One of the longest-lived “organisms” is a 6000 year-old sexually-transmitted dog cancer.
Question I’m Asking
How do you intend to “live long, drop dead”? What will you be doing, and does it involve an escalator?
Recipe Corner
- I’m not a big cocktail guy, and I rarely post alcohol recipes, but PaleOMG always has good stuff, and this carrot margarita looks very impressive.
- Using pickle juice to brine chicken wings is genius.
Time Capsule
One year ago (Jul 28– Aug 3)
- What Are Exogenous Ketones and Who Should Take Them? – Do you need a boost?
- Metabolism and Menopause: What Does Research Suggest is the Best Dietary Strategy?– Can diet make menopause better?
Comment of the Week
“My nemesis is the lone star tick, here in rural TN. I created a repellent that I actually tested on a tick. First the recipe: rose geranium oil plus citronella oil, diluted in jojoba oil and a bit of alcohol. I put this in a sprayer. The alcohol makes it easier to spray and less thick.
I tested it by spraying it on a table, and putting a tick next to it. The tick tried to get away from the sprayed spot as fast as possible, repeatedly. Every day, I put this stuff NEAR but not ON the places you never want to get a tick, when I get dressed in the morning. (Mucus membranes should not be exposed to essential oils.)
Also I spray my hat and shoes with permethrin and let it dry overnight. This lasts a few months as a repellent and is relatively non-toxic.
Inspect yourself every evening for ticks. If one bites you, but you get it off within 24 hours, it is unlikely to infect you with any diseases.”
– Good tick tips, shannon stoney.
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Discover what’s possible – Introducing the interactive Healthcare Portfolio Explorer
It’s an exciting time in healthcare. New tools. New technologies. The opportunities for improving care for patients and optimizing how clinicians, IT, and hospital administrators do their jobs may seem endless.
With all the possibilities out there, how do you know your investments in new technologies are going to have a real impact? Taking those next steps all begins with understanding where your efforts can have the biggest impact – for patients, clinicians, administration, and IT.
Seeking medical care can be overwhelming and confusing. With in-person and virtual services, it’s possible to deliver 24-hour care that’s easy to access and navigate, increasing patient and caregiver engagement and satisfaction.
Think about the last time you needed to make a doctor’s appointment. For example, a trip to the doctors can mean making a call, waiting on hold, and repeating information you know your doctor already has. Then, you have to pick an appointment date and time possibly weeks in the future. What if your plans change, and you can no longer make the appointment? You start the process all over again.
But there is a better way. Population Health Outreach and EHR-Integrated Telehealth capabilities can help improve the experience. One example is Luma Health. They’ve built a telehealth bot that’s integrated directly with Webex Teams. So when a patient cancels an appointment, Luma Health determines if they are eligible for a telehealth visit. That decision is based on appointment type, characteristics (diagnosis and procedure), and provider preference. If a patient qualifies and agrees to a telehealth visit, then the patient and provider can join a private room. Finally, when the visit is complete, the room is deleted to ensure privacy.
Technology should help staff provide care, not create barriers. From preventive to specialized care, solutions that help clinicians communicate and stay connected boost effectiveness and efficiency. As a result, this improves care team coordination and collaboration.
For Parkview Medical Center in Colorado, the answer to a better clinical experience was mobile technology. For example, it frees clinicians to focus on the more meaningful work of patient care. Since implementing Clinical Communications and Collaboration solutions, the organization has experienced a 60-minute reduction—per nurse, per shift—in the time spent on documentation and coordination. Less time on documentation means each nurse has one hour more each shift to spend at the patient bedside.
Additionally, the benefits of mobility solutions aren’t just limited to clinicians. Parkview has seen a 210% increase in their HCAHPS score (Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems), which measures the patient’s view of their care experience.
On the road to a better bottom line, IT should serve as a facilitator, not a bottleneck. Transforming healthcare operations can help increase efficiency, reduce waste, keep costs down, boost staff productivity, and automate your network.
Meander Medisch Centrum (Meander Medical Center) in the Netherlands needed to be ready to support any new technology to transform how patient care is delivered and help save lives. In an effort to deliver new services and capabilities, they rolled out Next Generation Data Center capabilities.
By expanding their underlying data center infrastructure, Meander was able to be more flexible, and easily manage their systems to support innovation. As a result, they accelerated the deployment of new services for patients and clinicians by 400 percent. Also, Meander has reduced IT management time by up to 75 percent, while increasing server utilization by 40 percent.
Healthcare is more connected than ever. As a result, there are new opportunities but also new vulnerabilities. As cybersecurity threats grow increasingly sophisticated and frequent, organizations need to find innovative ways to provide IT security and meet regulatory requirements.
Ensuring Network and Micro-Segmentation and creating a holistic, effective device security strategy should be priorities organization-wide. For Sentara Healthcare that means doing more with less and providing a highly secure, digital care environment. With 300-plus care sites, this is a constantly moving target. In order to protect connected administrative and research networks, medical devices, guest wireless, and more from cybersecurity threats through network segmentation, Sentara completed a full network refresh.
During that process, Sentara secured 140 physical locations and 45,000 endpoints in just 14 months. That result would have been impossible with their old approach. For example, they can now segment and control access to critical-care devices, points-of-sale, building control systems, and other high-risk endpoints. As well as secure high value data, including protected health information and payment card details.
With the interactive Healthcare Portfolio Explorer, you can delve into each use case across patient experience, clinical experience, security and compliance, and operations. Through this tool, discover case studies and see technical overviews that show the technology that brings these solutions to life.
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