Ortho-Bionomy Newcastle

06/09/2026

05/09/2026

Yes. Co-regulation.

03/09/2026

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28/08/2026

Not specifically a bone post, but I suspect followers will nevertheless be interested because it is exercise-related. Ever since one illustrious scientist declared "Sitting is the new smoking", there has been lively discussion on just how bad sitting is for us and whether and how much exercise can overcome the negative effects. For a while it appeared that no amount of exercise could overcome the increased risk of mortality from the prolonged daily sitting most of us do, but then one study provided some hope. It showed that the benefit depends on how much sitting and the level of intensity of the exercise. The below plot shows the more energy you put into exercise, the less bad long periods of sitting are for you (left hand end of the plot) but that milder forms of physical activity are unlikely to overcome the effects of sitting, especially the longer you sit (right hand end). (To understand the plot, a hazard ratio of 1 is the baseline - no increased risk. A hazard ratio of 1.1 means a 10% greater risk, and so on.) Distilling down to the practical implications, around 60–75 min of moderate intensity activity per day is probably necessary to receive protective benefit against the risks of prolonged sitting. In science, the devil is always in the detail. (And yes, ONERO is one of those good higher intensity exercises towards the left hand end of the plot, but you need to be doing exercise that makes you puff and sweat a bit [aerobic] on the other 5 days as well.)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27475271/

23/08/2026

Einstein spent decades calling this "spooky action at a distance," convinced it couldn't possibly be real. In 2019, a team in Scotland photographed it anyway.

This fuzzy grey image comes from physicists at the University of Glasgow, led by Dr. Paul-Antoine Moreau, and it captures Bell entanglement, a particularly strong form of quantum entanglement where two particles interact and end up sharing physical states, no matter how far apart they later travel. To catch it, the team built a source that fired streams of entangled photon pairs through liquid crystal materials designed to shift the phase of the light, then rigged an ultra-sensitive camera to only snap a frame when it detected both a photon and its entangled twin arriving together. That single condition, both particles or nothing, is what turned an invisible quantum relationship into an actual photograph.

The process itself was brutal. The setup ran at negative 30 degrees Celsius in complete darkness, capturing 40,000 frames per second, and researchers had to comb through thousands of frames just to isolate the ones showing genuine entanglement in action. What looks like one simple photo is technically a composite built from four separate images, each showing the entangled photons passing through a different phase transition.

Picture trying to photograph two coins that always land on opposite faces no matter how far apart you flip them, and only being allowed to snap the picture the instant both coins are mid-air at once.

The result did more than settle an old philosophical argument. Researchers say the imaging technique itself could push forward quantum computing and open entirely new methods for capturing images using entangled light.

Does seeing something this strange actually photographed make quantum entanglement feel more real to you, or does it stay just as hard to wrap your head around?

Source: University of Glasgow, published in Science Advances

22/08/2026

Schwann cells are the hidden insulation system of your peripheral nerves. They wrap axons in myelin, helping electrical signals travel rapidly and efficiently.

They also play an important role in nerve repair and regeneration after injury.

21/08/2026