Prostaglandins are nature’s universal signalers, self-regulating every physiological function, and defined as “a generalized physiological control mechanism”. They are minute, ephemeral, and powerful, and extraordinarily sensitive to all forms of stress. whether mechanical, physical, chemical, biological, or interpersonal. When enzymes increase prostaglandin production...

Stimulating defective immune function to perform efficiently is a desirable approach to defeating pathogens. Such stimulation is represented as unavailable, while in truth the immunostimulating properties of lithium and antidepressants were documented many years ago.[1-4] A therapeutic claim is reinforced when the mechanism is known. Prostaglandins, when produced excessively,...

Dead crabs and fish wash up on shores, birds drop from the skies, and cows flop in the fields. One hundred and fifty one years ago, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace knew that birds dropping from the skies, dead fish and crabs washing up from the sea, and cows flopping in the fields, are nature’s spectacular staging of what Darwin termed natural selection. Darwin...

“[I]t could be argued that the real moral and political challenge of ecology may lie in accepting that the world is not about to end, that human beings are likely to survive even if Western-style civilization does not. Only if we imagine that the planet has a future, after all, are we likely to take responsibility for it.” - Paul Corrigan Decades ago when...

No one realized that Pope Benedict cared so much about male whores that he would give them a dispensation that allowed the use of condoms in the course of their daily (er, nightly) work. Of course, they weren’t going to get anyone pregnant anyway. They weren’t going to stop the rain of babies that floods the world.   Did this mean that married couples could use condoms...