jungle of science

Last Sunday was the hottest day in Frankfurt since weather records are archived. The conditions for the triathlon European Championships have been extraordinary hard and lots of precautions have been taken. The water supplies and aid stations have...

Not a lack of substitution but a disturbed regulation is the core of the problem Signs and symptoms of overdrinking tend to develop when the serum falls below 130 mmol/L. Early signs and symptoms can include: bloating, ‘‘puffiness’’,...

Cases of exercise-associated hyponatremia seem to increase. The more people take part in endurance races like marathon or triathlon the more problematic it becomes if amateurs apply the rules for professional athletes to themselves. Water balance too, follows...

Co-existence: benefiting from each other There is no life and no surviving without immunity. Immunity takes care that the integrity of our bodies is sustained, that the many boundaries that make up an organism, are closed and open...

The term stress was first used in biology by Walter B. Cannon, an American physiologist in 1914. It was borrowed from the field of physics and describes the force that produces strain on a physical object. By that original...

A blurry field of hear and say In this article I want to straighten out some of the confusions out there in the marketplace. Biestmilch is a food supplement, it thus has to be processed according to the...

or why the species difference doesn’ t matter as much as we think. Before you read my musings about the importance of immunity you may want know the frame of reference my thoughts are rooted in. Beware, all the...

In February 2015 Herwig and I have been at Ronnie Schildknecht’s* home in Samstagern close by Zurich, a beautiful place at the lake of Zurich. The purpose of the trip was to record Ronnie interviewing me. Last year...