Health & Wellness

Details: Written by: Daniel G. Amen, MD

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We all want to have better lives, less stress, more joy, more focus, more success. But to have all this we need to understand our brains—and the importance of brain health.

Details: Written by: Heather Dawn Godfrey, PGCE, BSc

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Great care must be taken when using essential oils around the very young. These same guidelines should also be followed with the elderly and with those who are frail or whose immune systems are severely compromised.

Details: Written by: Saloni Sharma, MD, LAc

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Sufficient sleep provides the recovery time essential to the healthy functioning of our body and brain.

Details: Written by: Ran Knishinsky

There are many reasons why so many people of different ages, cultures, and races eat clay. Do these earth-eaters know something most people don’t? Yes, they do. Now you will know, too.

Details: Written by: Ellen Meredith

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Listen. Perceive. Have fun, be playful. Let your body show you the way!

Details: Written by: Holly Korthas

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You see it in commercials every day: creams and lotions to reduce wrinkles, dyes to eliminate gray hair, and remedies to reduce muscle and joint aches

Details: Written by: Jovanka Ciares

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Sometimes, we are so eager to improve our life and feel better that we rush ahead and try to change everything all at once.

Details: Written by: Kristin Grayce McGary

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I have discovered that self-sabotage can be a fundamental, although dysfunctional, aspect of protection. It can be a strategy to avoid change.

Details: Written by: Candice Covington

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Nowadays most everyone is familiar with the unique health benefits of fruits, vegetables, protein, herbs, and spices, and their specific effects on the human organism.

Details: Written by: Wibe Wagemans

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It seems cortisol is both the chicken and the egg, with high cortisol increasing the risk of attracting COVID, and low cortisol involved in long COVID symptoms.

Details: Written by: Ran Knishinsky

The most conclusive evidence for the healthful effects of clay points to protection and detoxification as its primary benefit.

Details: Written by: Taraneh Pettinato-

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The brains of people with cognitive decline fare better with higher levels of vitamin D, research finds.

Details: Written by: Taylor McNeil

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Two common compounds—green tea catechins and resveratrol in red wine and other foods—reduce the formation of Alzheimer’s plaques, a new study shows.

Details: Written by: Katherine Gombay

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To arrive at this conclusion, the researchers combined health and mortality data for seven million Canadians gathered over a 25-year period with information about the levels of outdoor PM2.5 concentrations across the country.

Details: Written by: Pierre Pradervand

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I grew up as a hypochondriac and overnight, at the age of 33, I made a complete turnaround and adopted such an extraordinarily effective spiritual medicine that during over 30 years I only had to...

Details: Written by: Taylor Kubota

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In reality, you can be infected and have it fly under the radar of the medical system

Details: Written by: Maureen J. St. Germain

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All of you have the opportunity to be ahead of the curve, not so you may be first, but so that you may help others. Your job is to pay it forward...

Details: Written by: Patti Verbanas

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An infectious disease expert argues getting the annual flu shot is important to individual and public health.

Details: Written by: Natureza Gabriel Kram

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We can feel ourselves to the extent that we feel safe. When we feel safe enough, we can open ourselves to connection. Embodiment is the doorway to feeling ourselves.

Details: Written by: Arielle Hogan

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As you sit here reading this article, your cells are working away in your body performing all the diverse biochemical reactions necessary to keep you going.