As someone with finicky, redness-prone skin, I’m hesitant to apply new skin-care products to my face without careful consideration and dedicated swatching beforehand. Because of this, it typically takes me a few days (if not a full week) after receiving a product to determine if it’s gentle enough to work into my regular skin-care routine…
100 Miles Later – The crossing of three UK borders on foot
A Dream Come Through It’s been 3 months since Sophie Brown completed her dream walk – to walk 100 miles along the Kennet and Avon Canal to raise funds for Reparations Youth Projects in Bristol. She raised just over £2,000 to support young people from aged 11 to 16 years with some Arts & Craft…
Do You Have A Fatty Liver
The most common disease in America is something you have probably never heard of, but it affects 90-million Americans and is a major risk factor for diabetes, heart attacks, and even cancer. It is called NALFD (nonalcoholic fatty liver disease) or fatty liver, for short, and is caused by the 152 pounds of sugar and…
Enlargement of Capillaries Narrowed by Hypoxia and Inflammation
SARS CoV-2 affects the microcirculation, causing endothelial cell swelling and damage, microscopic blood clots (micro thrombosis), capillary congestion, and damage to pericytes that are integral to capillary integrity and barrier function, tissue repair (angiogenesis), and scar formation. Like other instances of critical illness, COVID-19 is also associated with elevated cytokine levels in the systemic circulation…….
How Endotoxins and Estrogen Can Wreck Your Health
Today’s interview features Kashif Khan, founder and CEO of The DNA Company, which analyzes your DNA and keeps your data private, unlike 23andMe and other companies that sell your genetic data to third parties like drug companies. Our discussion here is not about DNA analysis, however, but rather endotoxin and mycotoxin, which can play an…
When You’re Doing Hands-Only CPR, Staying on Beat Is Lifesaving
Besides being an eternal dance floor bop, “Stayin’ Alive,” the Bee Gees’ classic disco song, is notable for another reason that’s frankly way more important than tearing it up with your groovy moves: The song’s beat has long been known as a great guide to follow when performing hands-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). But now you…
Want to Improve Team Performance? Increase Your Leadership Self-Awareness
Increasing a leader’s self-awareness can pay dividends by improving their performance and the performance of the teams they lead. Like self-awareness generally, leadership self-awareness starts with understanding one’s own emotions, and how those emotions affect their interactions with others. Self-aware leaders have more insight into their strengths, values, and limitations. This internal self-awareness provides a…
Mind the Mainstream
Scientific research has helped to bring mindfulness and meditation into mainstream culture, medicine, and psychology. Your doctor can officially prescribe ‘meditation’ as a treatment for depression or stress because it is now regarded as evidence-based. How did this come about? Let’s briefly review the science of meditation over the last several decades to understand this…
How to Wean Off Opioids
Editor’s Note: This article is a reprint. It was originally published October 25, 2018. Opioids, narcotic painkillers, killed 33,000 Americans in 2015,1,2,3 and nearly 42,250 in 2016 — over 1,000 more deaths than were caused by breast cancer that same year4 — and the addiction trend shows absolutely no signs of leveling off or declining….
Can You Ever Tell Someone Else That They Should Try Therapy? Mental Health Experts Weigh In
Admit it: At some point in your life you’ve looked at a romantic partner, a friend, a sibling, a parent, a coworker, or, heck, even a perfect stranger and thought to yourself, “Jeez, that person needs to go to therapy.” Whether you’ve spent five minutes with someone, or an entire lifetime, it can be all…