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Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦 @helioxpodcast.bsky.social · 1d

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#SpaceWeather #HeartHealth #WomensHealth

💔 Solar storms and heart attacks: Geomagnetic Storms and Myocardial Infarction Susceptibility in Women - Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦‬

Please take a look at the corresponding Substack episode.We've been looking in the wrong direction.While cardiologists scrutinize cholesterol panels and blood pressure readings, while researchers pars...

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Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦 @helioxpodcast.bsky.social · 1d

This isn't fringe science. The KP index measures geomagnetic activity 0-9. The study found clear correlations at medium latitudes—not just polar regions. Machine learning confirmed: severe space weather clusters with female cardiac events.
Should we add space weather to cardiac risk monitoring?

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Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦 @helioxpodcast.bsky.social · 1d

The hypothesis? Earth's electromagnetic "heartbeat" (Schumann Resonance at 7.8 Hz) matches our brain wave frequencies. When solar storms amplify this signal, it disrupts melatonin, serotonin, and circadian rhythms—triggering cardiac events in vulnerable people.

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Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦 @helioxpodcast.bsky.social · 1d

When space weather turns turbulent, the typical 2:1 male-to-female heart attack ratio collapses to just 1.22:1. Women's baseline risk skyrockets during solar storms.

For women over 60, it gets worse: 14 female deaths vs. only 9 male deaths during disturbed periods.

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Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦 @helioxpodcast.bsky.social · 1d

💔 What if your heart attack warning should come from NASA, not just your doctor?

New research from Brazil tracked 1,340 heart attacks over 7 years and found something shocking: geomagnetic storms TRIPLE cardiac risk—especially for women.

We've been looking in the wrong direction.

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Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦 @helioxpodcast.bsky.social · 2d

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Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦 @helioxpodcast.bsky.social · 2d

The liberation: start by ADDING diverse plant foods to every meal. Not restriction—strategic abundance.

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#nutrition #wellness #healthyeating

🔬Diet Signatures in the Gut Microbiome Across 21,561 Individuals - Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦‬

Please take a look at the corresponding Substack episode.The future of health might be less about restriction and more about strategic abundanceWe've been having the wrong conversation about food. For...

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Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦 @helioxpodcast.bsky.social · 2d

Here's the plot twist: dietary QUALITY mattered more than labels. High plant-food scores predicted beneficial bacteria regardless of whether you're an omnivore, a vegetarian, or a vegan.

The microbes don't check your identity card. They respond to what you feed them.

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Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦 @helioxpodcast.bsky.social · 2d

Vegetarians? The dairy makes all the difference. Streptococcus thermophilus from yogurt, lactic acid bacteria from cheese—they're either temporary visitors or permanent residents reshaping the neighbourhood.

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Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦 @helioxpodcast.bsky.social · 2d

The omnivore gut: bacteria built for meat & fat (Ruminococcus torques, Bilophila). Some are linked to inflammation.

The vegan gut: fibre-fermenting specialists producing butyrate compounds that literally feed & protect your intestinal cells.

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Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦 @helioxpodcast.bsky.social · 2d

Scientists can read your diet from your gut bacteria with 90% accuracy. 🦠

A study of 21,561 people reveals something wild: your microbiome creates unique dietary fingerprints. Omnivores, vegetarians, and vegans have completely different bacterial communities.

#microbiome #guthealth #plantbased

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Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦 @helioxpodcast.bsky.social · 3d

Ever fumble with a zipper and wonder: is this just aging, or something more?
Your hands might be whispering secrets about your brain health that you're not hearing.
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#BrainHealth #Neuroscience #AgingWell

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Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦 @helioxpodcast.bsky.social · 9d

The future? Pairing these planetary observations with LLMs like Gemini for predictive reasoning about environmental crises, resource scarcity, even geopolitical tensions.

We can finally see. What we do next is up to us.
Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦 S5 E43 • 18:42

Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦 @helioxpodcast.bsky.social · 9d

Here's what breaks my brain: Ecuador is notoriously cloudy—optical satellites see nothing for weeks. AEF synthesizes radar, temporal patterns, & physics models to map agricultural development anyway.

It doesn't just collect data. It understands context across space and time.

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Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦 @helioxpodcast.bsky.social · 9d

The impact is already real:

🌳 Global Ecosystems Atlas mapping unknown ecosystems
🌲 MapBiomas monitoring Amazon deforestation in real-time 🔥 Insurance firms predicting wildfire risk from environmental patterns
📡 All publicly available on Google Earth Engine

Democratized planetary intelligence.

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Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦 @helioxpodcast.bsky.social · 9d

Google DeepMind's AlphaEarth Foundations distills every 10x10m square of Earth into just 64 numbers.

16x storage reduction. 24% fewer errors. Classification from 150 examples instead of thousands.

It sees through clouds. Fills gaps in time. Creates continuous planetary records from 2017-2024.

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Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦 @helioxpodcast.bsky.social · 9d

We're drowning in planet data but can't see clearly. Finally, AI displays Earth as meaning, not noise. This changes everything. 🌍✨

Seeing the Whole Earth—AlphaEarth Foundations

🎧 Listen: www.buzzsprout.com/2405788/epis...

📖 Essay: helioxpodcast.substack.com

#AI #ClimateScience #EarthObservation

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Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦 @helioxpodcast.bsky.social · 13d

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Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦 @helioxpodcast.bsky.social · 13d

Most meaningful change doesn't happen in dramatic breakthroughs. It occurs in the quiet persistence of systems that learned to keep going.

HELIOX: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦 S5 E41 • 14:57

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#Research #FutureTech #Harvard #MIT #QuantumTechnology

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Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦 @helioxpodcast.bsky.social · 13d

They built a "living organism"—a system that heals itself while running. It cycles 50 million atoms, replacing what's lost, shielding what's working.

The quantum computer didn't become useful when it got bigger. It became useful when it learned to persist.

#Physics #QuantumPhysics #innovation

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Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦 @helioxpodcast.bsky.social · 13d

⚛️ A quantum computer just ran for 2 hours straight—previous: milliseconds.

But the real story is about how they solved it—and what it teaches us about persistence.

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#QuantumComputing #Science #Technology

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Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦 @helioxpodcast.bsky.social · 15d

36% - 46% of COVID survivors live with chronic illness.
Our song "The Elevator to Two" talks about what this means.
#LongCOVID #ChronicIllness #DisabilityAwareness
🎧 Episode: www.buzzsprout.com/2405788/epis... Essay: helioxpodcast.substack.com/publish/post... Song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMJS...

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Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦 @helioxpodcast.bsky.social · 17d

One person's recovery becomes another's salvation—this is medicine as community care.

Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy • 14 min • S5 E39

#COVID19 #CellTherapy #Immunocompromised #MedicalBreakthrough #LongCOVID #Immunotherapy #HealthPodcast #Science

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Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦 @helioxpodcast.bsky.social · 17d

These "off-the-shelf" cells don't just clear active infection—they hunt down persistent viral fragments linked to long COVID.
Beyond COVID: If borrowed immune memories can safely persist for months, hunting down viral debris, what else could they target? Cancer cells? Autoimmune triggers?

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Heliox: Where Evidence Meets Empathy 🇨🇦 @helioxpodcast.bsky.social · 17d

The trial results defy conventional immunology: • 99% viral elimination by day 14 • 2-3 days to symptom relief • Zero GVHD (graft-vs-host disease) • 6-month persistence of donor cells

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