2 posts tagged with "Health"

Summer 2023, wildfires are terrible in Canada. Air quality deteriorates: Montreal becomes temporarily the worst city in the world for air quality. This is the most direct effect of climate change so far. It is in our face.

With the effects of global warming increasing every year, I suspected it marked a turning point. In the future, we won't enjoy the constant freedom of breathing in fresh air whenever we step outside. We'll have to pick the moments, like during Canadian winters when snowstorms hit: we'll need to stay indoors, close windows, and wait for conditions to improve. Or do we?

I'm currently reading a fantastic book from Peter Attia: Outlive - The Science & Art of Longevity. The book emphasizes the fact that traditional medicine - Medicine 2.0 as he calls it - is shaped around the notion of healing at the very end of a disease lifespan, like the crew of the Titanic tried to save the ship at the last minute, even after being warned hours before the incident.