Adam Oshien

Vitamin A, Immune Activation Via Vaccination (MMR Specifically) and a Myopia Epidemic That Doesn’t Have a Complete Explanation Something is happening to children’s eyesight, and nobody can fully explain it. In East Asia, myopia rates in young adults have gone from 20-30% a few decades ago to 80-90% today. In Europe and North America, the numbers are climbing fast. The World Health Organization has designated myopia progression a global public health concern, projecting that half the world’s...

Why Your Child’s ADHD Diagnosis Might Be Hiding an Injury Nobody Wants to Talk About Imagine your internal clock — the one that measures time — got gunked up and broken before you were old enough to know you had one. Not the clock on the wall. The one inside your head. The one that tells you how long ten minutes feels. The one that lets you show up on time, finish a test before the bell, keep rhythm when you play an instrument, hold the beat of a conversation without interrupting three words...

A meditation on what physics is quietly telling us about water, DNA, and the strange shape of being alive Let me tell you something that took me years to learn how to say properly. Water isn't just water. I don't mean that mystically. I mean that literally, in the way peer-reviewed physics literally means things. The water in your body — the water making up 70% of your weight, and 90% of your brain — is doing something extraordinary at scales too small for you to see. And what it's doing...