Burying the hatchet builds body strength
Holding a grudge also increases mental rumination (repetitive thoughts), which lowers cognitive resources, such as glucose, that could be put to better use, such as coping with a physical challenge.
Monthly Archives: December 2015
Stink!
The chemicals in fragrance are known to cause infertility, birth defects, diabetes, learning disabilities and cancer, and can mutate DNA. Yet because of the fragrance loophole, the manufacturers can completely hide these ingredients.
Joss Jaffe
Jaffe groves and pulses us through 11 spiritual melodies, five languages and three continents.
The Spiritual Mysteries of Blood
What follows is a fascinating survey detailing the primacy of blood over tissues and structures of the body, blood’s true purpose, physical and psychic factors influencing blood, blood’s influence on the spirit through perception, hormones and Hippocrates’ four temperaments, and the spirit’s influence on the blood affecting such things as longevity, sleep and death.
Mood Foods
Mental health professionals know that expecting patients to recover by simply popping a pill, such as Paxil, is unrealistic and simplistic. The brain needs a number of key nutrients to operate properly.
Got Milk? Don’t Drink It for Your Bones
The government-funded U.S. Preventive Services Task Force determined that calcium supplementation alone might actually increase hip fracture and mortality risk.
A Community Garden to Fill My Empty Nest
The garden masters are old, and mostly cranky. “It’s past nine. You can’t water past nine, city rules. If it were my rules, you’d be out.” It was 9:15. I stopped watering and smiled. I have a vegetable garden, my first.
Yoga Teacher to Yoga Scholar
“I love how commercially popular yoga has become and I will never say anything bad about yoga’s expansion. However, I felt that I was only teaching an asana practice—not a yoga practice. I knew there was so much more to it.”
Stem Cell “Soup” Nixes Joint Surgery
A specialized stem cell replacement called the “Soup” combines human cells harvested from a patient’s own fat to repair inflammatory and degenerative injuries that might otherwise require invasive surgery.
Sound Is Powerful Medicine
These days, skilled practitioners are using sound for everything from stress and pain relief to remedying sleep disorders and assisting the dying.