Tag: blood pressure

Looking and smile elderly woman portrait on a dark background

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 24, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Alzheimer’s disease, blood pressure, C. Everett Koop, cognitive impairment, death, delay, dementia, drug interactions, Ebola, euthanasia, grandchildren, grandmother, health conditions, medicine, Michael Bloomberg, New York City, old-age home, prevention, Quebec, Resolve to Save Lives, Science Alert, Tessa Koumoundouros, The Formula for Better Health, Tibi Puiu, Tom Frieden, urinary tract infection, vitamin B12, Wall Street Journal, ZME Science}

For a Long Time, Dementia Was the New Leprosy

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 24, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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I use the term “delay” rather than “prevention” for a reason: It may be that the human brain will inevitably start to break down after a century or so. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
May 6, 2025

Categories
Anatomy
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, abstract thought, Aristotle, blood pressure, brain function, brain state, breathing, Denyse O'Leary, Edward Feser, elementary particles, emotion, heart rate, hormones, intellect, James Ross, logic, matter, measurements, memory, Michael Egnor, mind, movement, neuroscience, perception, photons, Plato, precision, puppy, retinal cells, soul, triangle, uncertainty, Uncertainty Principle, will}

The Logical Basis of the Immaterial Mind

_{Michael Egnor
May 6, 2025

Anatomy, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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The indeterminacy of matter precludes brain states from forming the basis of abstract thought. Simple logic points to this truth. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
May 5, 2025

Categories
Anatomy
Botany
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, anatomy, angiotensin, animals, auditory nerve, auditory signals, blood pressure, brain, cells, communication, comprehension, epinephrin, expression, insects, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, pharynx, procreation, reception, Sciuridae, singing, sounds, speech, squirrels, teeth, throat, tissues, tongue, trees, vibrations, volatile organic compounds}

Communication, in Human Life and Beyond: An Irreducibly Complex Design

_{Eric Hedin
May 5, 2025

Anatomy, Botany, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Communication saturates the animal kingdom in many forms. At the cellular level, communication forms an integral part of sustaining physical being. Read More ›

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Author
Howard Glicksman

Date
September 3, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Technology
Tagged
, blood pressure, blood vessels, cell membranes, cellular biology, cytoskeleton, death, DNA, Douglas Axe, evolutionary biologists, evolutionary biology, evolutionists, gene regulatory networks, genes, heart rate, hospice, James Tour, laws of nature, Marcos Eberlin, molecular biology, multicellular organism, muscle cells, RNA, Santa Fe Institute, The Extracellular Space (series), water, Your Designed Body}

Why Evolution Struggles to Explain the Transition to Multicellularity

_{Howard Glicksman
September 3, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine, Technology

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It is as if evolutionary biologists don’t take death into account. All their theories seem to work like magic. Read More ›

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Author
Howard Glicksman

Date
July 30, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Technology
Tagged
, Asa Gray, athletes, blood, blood pressure, blood vessels, calcium, carbon dioxide, Charles Darwin, circulatory system, Communications Biology, Darwin’s Bluff, embryo, evolution, glucose, great apes, hard problems, heart, heart rate, humans, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, Michael Behe, natural selection, oxygen, placenta, potassium, Robert Shedinger, selective pressure, Steve Laufmann, temperature, Your Designed Body}

Exposing the Heart of Neo-Darwinism

_{Howard Glicksman
July 30, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine, Technology

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At complete rest, for your organs and tissues to work properly, your heart must pump out about five liters of blood per minute. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
December 1, 2023

Categories
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, blood pressure, death, degradation, Eric Anderson, health, heart, Howard Glicksman, human body, hypothalamus, ID the Future, kidneys, life, medicine, podcast, receptors, salt, sodium, water}

Liquid Harmony: How Our Bodies Manage Salt and Water

_{Andrew McDiarmid
December 1, 2023

Engineering, Intelligent Design, Medicine

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Left to their own devices, the laws of nature tend toward degradation and death, not life. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
October 4, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Mathematics
Tagged
, alligators, americans, blood pressure, cats, cattle, chickens, divine, Dogs, domestication, Enterprise, friendship, guinea pigs, horses, humans, intelligent design, kittens, mammals, pets, Philadelphia, pigeons, rabbits, Star Trek, stress}

Intelligent Design in Human-Animal Friendships

_{Eric Hedin
October 4, 2023

Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design, Linguistics, Mathematics

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A man and his emotional support alligator, Wally, made headlines last week when they tried to attend a baseball game together in Philadelphia. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
March 13, 2023

Categories
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, blood pressure, cud, Dean Kenyon, esophagus, evolution, fossil record, geneticists, Giraffe, giraffe’s neck, grass, heart, intelligent design, jackpot, leaves, Live Science, lottery, mutations, Nature (journal), necks, okapi, Percival Davis, President, rete mirabile, Richard Dawkins, ruminants, South Africa, The Evolution of the Long-Necked Giraffe, University of Cape Town, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig}

Evolution’s Tall Tale — The Giraffe Neck

_{Jonathan Witt
March 13, 2023

Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The engineering marvel that is the giraffe, long neck and all, was intelligently designed. Read More ›

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Date
September 16, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, blood pressure, cats, Darwinism, Dogs, evolutionary theory, information, intelligent design, lobsters, Northwestern University, PNAS, rabbits, rats, rodents, whiskers}

Rats! Another Code Found in Whiskers

_{Science and Culture
September 16, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Neurons in a rat’s whiskers “represent multiple stimulus features in a tiled and continuous manner, thus encoding large regions of a complex sensory space.” Read More ›

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Date
August 26, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, barometer, blood pressure, Eric Anderson, evolution, hormones, Howard Glicksman, ID the Future, intelligent design, kidneys, podcast, Science Daily, sodium, Systems Biology}

Blood Pressure — And Genuflecting to Evolution

_{Science and Culture
August 26, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine

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Systems biologists assume for the sake of research that a biological system under investigation is optimally engineered. Read More ›