Author: Maggi Pier

1 According to recent research and clinical experimentation, high-dose treatment with the following has been shown to significantly improve COVID-19 outcomes: Melatonin Recent research suggests melatonin may be an important adjunct to COVID-19 treatment. Patients hospitalized with COVID-19 pneumonia who were given high-dose melatonin as an adjunct therapy to standard of care improved within four…

I didn’t run my first mile until I was 20 years old. What started with me huffing and puffing my way to the one-mile mark quickly turned into regular six-mile jogs through Washington, D.C., and by the end of my junior year of college, I considered myself an official “runner.” Blame it on the fact…

Dr. David Hanscom, an orthopedic surgeon whom I’ve previously interviewed about strategies for chronic back pain, quit his practice to focus on educating others on becoming pain-free without surgery. Most recently, after surviving COVID-19, he turned his attention to prevention and surviving it, which is an important part of this discussion. We’ve known for some…

There is not a single photograph of me from the year 2009 that doesn’t make me cringe. That was the year I discovered under-eye concealer, but unfortunately, didn’t quite take the time to discover how to properly use it. Cut to dozens of shots of my face with a ghostly white cast under my eyes…

To listen is to suffer because we do not want to listen to anything that might require a change. To listen is to change. We cannot change without listening. Listening implies a change. We need to change just to listen.   I entitled this work as I did because it is the mind that does……

As someone who’s spent many a late night glued to the infomercial channel, often with my credit card in hand, I’ve learned the hard way that it’s rare that anything “As Seen On TV!” truly lives up to the hype. So when a machine that promised to “turn any frozen fruit into soft-serve” showed up…

I was re-watching Phantom of the Opera recently, and in the middle of “Music Of the Night,” I started to ponder how the Phantom was able to Svengali a smoking hot soprano. No spoilers, but it wasn’t because he was a looker. What became clear to me in that moment, as he sang, was that…

Posters? Check. Chargers? Check. Duvet? Check The car has been filled to the brim and so many items deposited in a small study bedroom that you wonder if there is anything left in your family home; your teenager is finally installed at uni. It is always a tough moment for parents, smiling through anxiety as…

Autumn is the season to begin slowing down, drawing inwards, and doing some heart evaluation. It is also a time to connect with others in a real and meaningful way. I refer to this as autumn work, and one of my favorite places to do this type of work is in the bath. As the……

The story of human freedom is coming to an end. We are in a great crisis as a species with madmen (public health officials) believing that we humans need to be controlled to control a virus that has killed few. The head honchos of the world are having a field day with the rest of……