Daily Archives: 5 January, 2025

I wish you all the best for 2025. December went by so quickly and maybe it passes so fast because you know from experience that December is an intense and eventful month. This Christmas I didn’t have much Christmas feeling. Christmas candy is available in the summer, and cream buns are available during the Christmas holidays. Nothing is as usual anymore. This year I was mostly looking forward to a quiet weekend with a naive wish for peace on earth. I was looking forward to and hoping for a beautiful white Christmas Eve. I got my wish fulfilled. No hares but deers jumped across the field to Molly’s great delight.

Last Friday I took my 6th dose of COVID-19 vaccine. I like to exercise and stay active and I do not want to suffer from long-term Covid. Do you remember the orienteering deaths in the 1990s in Sweden? When orienteers died of cardiac arrest due to subacute myocarditis; caused by the TWAR bacteria, but it later turned out to be the Bartonella bacteria. Competing orienteers had to be quarantined from orienteering for several months. They were treated with broad-spectrum antibiotics. Many orienteers had probably unknowingly carried the infection for a long time. It was believed that sudden death was due to too little recovery between training sessions. The sports doctor said that the immune system works intensively for a period but requires rest and recovery to function optimally.

Sometimes people tell me that I have inspired them to read. That makes me happy. After working for many years on my book Generations, I have had a lack of inspiration. My next book will be about epigenetics; how environment and genes interact. There must be an enormous amount of information to be processed, I thought. Maybe AI (artificial intelligence) will be useful? After emailing a very skilled researcher in AI, I understand that AI is already being used. I was given recommendations on reading, and the fact that AI is already being used in reality in this area made me silent. I was overwhelmed by this tool that will lead to major changes. The pharmaceutical industry is already well on its way, I was told. Please see:  Artificial intelligence is taking over drug development.

Now it is a new year and a new year of exercise. There is no doubt that training has a positive effect on health. A fine example of epigenetics is long-term training which affects the genetic material of muscles, i.e. DNA. My genetic information;