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"Can Lifestyle Changes Reverse Alzheimer's Disease? Dr. Dean Ornish, Dr. Bruce Miller, and Dr. Joel Kramer are directing the first randomized controlled trial to determine if the progression of early stage Alzheimer's disease may be reversed by a comprehensive lifestyle medicine program, without drugs, devices, or surgery. This lifestyle medicine program includes a whole foods low-fat, low-sugar plant-based diet;moderate exercise; stress management techniques including meditation; and psychosocial support." Tied into Rob Knight's lab

Recommended by Sharon Wampler "ABSTRACT Lyme disease (LD) is an increasing public health problem. Current laboratory testing is insensitive in early infection, the stage at which appropriate treatment is most effective in preventing disease sequela. The Lyme Disease Biobank (LDB) collects samples from individuals with symptoms consistent with early LD presenting with or without erythema migrans (EM) or an annular, expanding skin lesion, and uninfected individuals from endemic areas. Samples were collected from 550 participants (298 cases and 252 controls) according to IRB-approved protocols and shipped to a centralized biorepository. Testing was performed to confirm the presence of tick-borne pathogens by real-time PCR, and a subset of samples was tested for Borrelia burgdorferi by culture. Serology using the CDC's standard two-tiered testing algorithm (STTTA) for LD was performed on all samples. LD diagnosis was supported by laboratory testing in 82 cases, including positive STTTA, PCR, culture, or 2 positive ELISA's with EM >5 cm, while the remaining 216 cases had negative laboratory testing results. For the controls, 43 were positive on at least one of the tiers, and 6 were positive by STTTA. This collection highlights and reinforces the known limitations of serologic testing in early LD, with only 29% of individuals presenting with EM >5 cm yielding a positive result using the STTTA. Aliquots of whole blood, serum, and urine from clinically characterized patients with and without LD are available to investigators in academia and industry for evaluation or development of novel diagnostic assays for LD, to continue to improve upon currently available methods."

Click to download the PDF. Oura's primary goal is to help UCSF engage and increase the number of users who have rings and are opting in to early detection efforts. Oura is offering rings at $250 for orders of 1000 rings supporting TemPredict. Immediate impact: Participants are presented every morning with daily personalized insights on heart rate, HRv, respiration, temperature, sleep staging, and activity to empower them to monitor their own health and change their behavior accordingly. This is especially important in medical personnel and high-risk patients. Future impact: UCSF will leverage Oura's backend data to build models that can aid in identifying symptom profiles, pinpointing at risk populations, predicting severity, and validating recovery, containment, and treatment efforts. The data gathered now may be our only chance to measure these changes so we can recognize them and deploy predictive algorithms to minimize the next wave of this outbreak, expected in Fall 2020. We ask all donors to go to OuraRing.com and buy rings for medical personnel so they can join this effort.

"ReCODE Health is here to support technologists, researchers, ethicists, regulators, institutions and participants involved in the digital health research process. Our value proposition is to increase awareness of ethical principles and practices from the earliest stages of technology design to the deployment of digital health research."

"Agile science is: people-centered as it is grounded in the real-world needs of individuals.   success-oriented as we ground all evaluation and optimization on clearly defined criteria of success.   efficiently  rigorous via the classic scientific concept of triangulation. We strive to clarify the most important assumption being made at a given moment and then evaluate it as efficiently and rigorously as possible. We then iterate and test again, often with a complementary but also efficient method for the stage of the process to balance strengths/limitations of the approaches." Eric Hekler, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Family Medicine & Public Health Director, Center for Wireless & Population Health Systems

NEW SONG BY GURU SHABAD SINGH FOR CHARITY, TO BUILD A SAT NAM RASAYAN SCHOOL IN CHIAPAS MEXICO. In honor of his beloved, departed Hari Das, Guru Shabad Singh invites you to contribute to creating a global, multi-cultural, multi-modality healing center space for students and practitioners in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico.  ( People from around the world will come to experience and train in multiple healing modalities, including Sat Nam Rasayan, in which Hari Das was a dedicated and devoted senior teacher.( ( The Center is in its nascent stage, with initial plans coming together for the space and the programming. Your donation is a precious chance to honor Hari Das' legacy as a healer of the planet. ( To learn more about Sat Nam Rasayan please visit: www.satnamrasayan.it

"No matter what our illness - and we are all ill at some point or another - from the common cold to COVID, to the illness that will end our life, there are seeds of personal evolution and the potential to initiate ourselves into a new way of being after our illness is over. "

Enlivening Edge is an international community of collaborators and Partners drawn together by a shared purpose-to nourish the growing ecosystem of Next-Stage (Teal) organizations. We are interwoven in a global vanguard of people and organizations transforming their workplaces for the benefit of all.