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The holidays can be stressful. You have to shop for gifts, attend parties, host family gatherings and still fulfill your usual work and home commitments. The holidays can also be hard on your stomach too. Weeks of eating rich foods, way too many carbs and one too many desserts can quickly take a toll on your digestion. But what if you could solve both of these problems with one fell…
I have a close friend that, about a year ago, kept giving me the run-around whenever I would try to plan something for us to do together. We had been close since our college days, so I couldn’t understand what was different, and why she didn’t want to make plans with me. Instead of letting it eat at me, I finally just told her how it was making me feel,…
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There are many factors that can contribute to hair loss, and many of us assume aging is the main culprit. People are more prone to losing hair strands in the winter, most likely due to dry scalp and less circulation in colder months. But while more than half of Americans 40 and older experience some degree of hair loss, aging and seasonal changes alone don’t account for it. And in…
My favorite exercises are the ones where one posture or movement works many different body parts at the same time. This saves time and produces the most results from the least effort. So today, yoga teacher Lauren Golen shares with you yoga’s “chair Pose,” which works every part of the body, and tests one’s commitment and strength of will, all in a minute or two. The intensely fierce pose that’s…
Mercury in any form is poisonous. The phrase “Mad as a hatter” was coined in the late 1800s for hat makers who developed slurred speech, tremors, stumbling, and, in extreme cases, hallucinations from long-term exposure to mercury products used in the hat-making trade. Mercury’s toxicity was first noted in 1889 by Jean-Martin Charcot in his “Clinical Lectures on Diseases of the Nervous System.” In his classic textbook of neurology published…
Having helped women of various shapes and sizes meet their fitness goals for more than three decades, I’ve learned a lot of terms for the upper arms: few of them endearing. It’s a body part we all seem to have some trouble with. That’s why I’ve put together my favorite set of upper arm toning exercises here in this short workout…. For best results, perform this series three times a…
Men are usually told they should have their PSA (prostate-specific antigen) level measured beginning between ages 40 and 50, depending on their ethnicity and family history. Why is it recommended you have your PSA checked? An elevated PSA can be an early indication that something is not quite right with the prostate, such as the possibility of prostatitis, an enlarged prostate, or prostate cancer, while a lower PSA is a strong indication of good prostate health. However,…
Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease… like when you take proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) to treat your acid reflux. But with mainstreams medicine’s track record, that probably doesn’t surprise you. PPIs, like Prilosec, Prevacid and Nexium, may be among the most dangerous drugs in your medicine cabinet. In fact, they cause so many health issues that acid reflux becomes the least of your problems… Instead you have to…
With the demands of the holidays, the lack of sunlight, the frigid weather and being trapped indoors, it’s no wonder depression rates tend to spike in the winter months. Of course, for many people depression is a yearlong or even lifelong battle… In fact, more than 41 million Americans take prescription antidepressants. But at least half of these people don’t respond to antidepressant drugs and many others muddle through with…
I have never been a fan of homeopathic medicine even though I am a personal advocate for other forms of natural medicine and holistic and traditional health practices. Why? On my personal journey, searching for relief from chronic body pain, headaches and spells of anxiety and insomnia, I have never experienced a positive response with a homeopathic treatment. But others have… just as many have been helped by the placebo…