Here we have added in depth studies to help you to read more about issues on our THINK page. Dig in!
Here we have added in depth studies to help you to read more about issues on our THINK page. Dig in!
This 2018 study shows that receiving a hug leads to better relations, mood and decrease in stress.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0203522
A 2016 Study showed that after attending a live music event 117 volunteers demonstrated drops in stress hormone across the board
This large scale analysis shows that loneliness can contribute to a constellation of physical and psychiatric dysfunctions, obesity, high blood pressure, stroke, diminished immunity and increased mortality.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4391342/
Data across 308,849 individuals, followed for an average of 7.5 years, indicate that individuals with adequate social relationships have a 50% greater likelihood of survival compared to those with poor or insufficient social relationships
This study compares the mortality rate with a bad flu year
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7074297/pdf/jcm-09-00419.pdf
Why masks don't work to stop spread of flu
The available evidence shows clearly that masks do not work but do have the potential to cause a variety of health problems – including short-term problems such as breathlessness and long-term problems such as brain damage and death. And yet, despite all this, there have been suggestions from various authorities that mask wearing and social distancing will need to be permanent.
Public mask wearing is most effective at reducing spread of the virus when compliance is high. Given the current shortages of medical masks, we recommend the adoption of public cloth mask wearing, as an effective form of source control, in conjunction with existing hygiene, distancing, and contact tracing strategies.
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/4/e2014564118 Note: some say this study is flawed and there was a request for retraction by leading academics.
Prof Neil Ferguson’s poor modelling of bird flu, foot and mouth and mad cow disease.
This article confirms that covid-19 hits old people hard and why this is the case.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7288963/
Widely disseminated pre-print report by the John Ioannidis of the Departments of Medicine, of Epidemiology and Population Health, of Biomedical Data Science, and of Statistics and Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS), Stanford University that compares covid-19 to a bad flu.
With 0.9% assumed infection fatality rate and 81% assumed proportion of people infected, the prediction would correspond to a global number of deaths comparable with the 1918 influenza, in the range of 50 million fatalities.
This was later criticized but still appears to stand up in academic circles. The fierce debate sparked by his research and the huge level of articles defaming him make are worth exploring.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.13.20101253v3.full.pdf
Why we should look after our pineal gland.