curing Parkinson's

 

"If you imagine the worst-case scenario, you've lived it twice."
- Michael J. Fox

and scotch

"Do the next right thing. As opposed to 'do the next thing right.' Optimism is not about great results. It's that you'll come back and try again."

- Bill Murray [born 1950] explaining to Michael J. Fox [born 1961] his key to happiness.

Brin

Google co-founder Sergey Brin's new blog. His first entry discusses his genetic predisposition to Parkinson's disease; he explains that he discovered this though 23andMe, the consumer-oriented genetic testing company that his wife Anne Wojcicki co-founded.

Coffee

Relax - no real side-effects in moderation and considerable benefits:

Recent disease-related findings can only add to coffee’s popularity. A review of 13 studies found that people who drank caffeinated coffee, but not decaf, had a 30 percent lower risk of Parkinson’s disease.

Another review found that compared with noncoffee drinkers, people who drank four to six cups of coffee a day, with or without caffeine, had a 28 percent lower risk of Type 2 diabetes. This benefit probably comes from coffee’s antioxidants and chlorogenic acid.

[Hat Tip: Andrew Sullivan]