健康的五行

五行是說不同的能量行為模式，金是收，木是放，水是下，火是上，而土是持平。一年有24節氣，而大家都是懷胎十月生下來，所以在媽媽肚子裡吸收的能量總會少一行。如果知道缺少的，可以平常去注意調理那方面。

personalized medicine

Chinese medicine is very personalized. The same symptoms can be different cause in different people, so the treatment will not be the same.

TDS

Total Dissolved Solid (TDS) is the measurement of the mineral dissolved in the water It's a metric for water purity. But it's not the more pure the better. Human body at different conditions, just like what the Chinese medicine is talking about, require different water. Water with different TDS is like having different personalities that are fit for different situations. For example, after working out, the body needs more minerals, so higher TDS is better. When people just want to relax, a lower TDS can be more refreshing and easier to be absorbed.

taste sensitivity decrease with age

The taste buds deplete as we age, so the sensitivity of different tastes decreases over time as well. Sometimes, when we think we got used to a certain taste we dislike as kids, it is in fact because we don't taste it anymore.

DNABII

It's a protein that bacteria use to turn the normal, right-handed B-DNA into a less common Z-DNA, left handed. The Z-DNA is harder to be digested by our body and can form biofilms in our lung to cause disease like COPD.

preregistration

Before enrolling patients, research publish the hypothesis, methods, sample size, and analysis plan so that people can not change the plan after seeing the data. It hopefully will make the results more trustworthy.

hook

In agentic coding, a hook is a command or script to be executed before or after a certain trigger during a agentic coding workflow. You can set it up to automate the task.

ISO tasting glass

Special glass for testing liquid. It can be wine, sake, whiskey, and even water. It helps people see the color and smell the aroma better.

hazard and peril

In insurance term, hazard is the behaviors that might cause damage to the insured, and peril is the actual things that is damaging the insured. For example, jumping off the cliff is hazard, but what actual kills the person is the impact to the ground. And that impact is the peril.

tau protein in neuron

The tau protein is what makes neurons the special shape of long tail and be able to conduct electric current. When they are off however, they become clumps together and form tau tangles, which are associated with Alzheimer's disease.