Author: Dr. David Lowemann

Study: Fasting Outperforms Calorie Cutting

Fasting every other day can prompt more weight loss than simply cutting calories, a new clinical trial shows. People who undertook 4:3 intermittent fasting lost just under 8% of their body weight within a year, compared to a 5% loss among people who cut their daily calories… Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David LowemannDr. […]

Published on April 1, 2025

Playing With Language in the Manual Modality: Which Motions Do Signers Gradiently Modify?

Abstract Language is traditionally characterized as an arbitrary, symbolic system, made up of discrete, categorical forms. But iconicity and gradience are pervasive in communication. For example, in spoken languages, word forms can be “played with” in iconic gradient ways by varying vowel length, pitch, or speed (e.g., “It’s been a loooooooong day”). However, little is […]

Published on April 1, 2025

Mystery Illness Reported in Russia

Several regions of Russia have experienced minor outbreaks of an unknown illness with early symptoms in humans appearing to be similar to those of pneumonia. Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David LowemannDr. David Lowemann, M.Sc, Ph.D., is a co-founder of the Institute for the Future of Human Potential, where he leads the charge in […]

Published on March 31, 2025