Category: Mind & Body

When Your Man Has Trouble Sleeping at Night

Is your man having trouble sleeping and waking up often at night?  Is he keeping you up because he needs to pee several times a night? You’re not alone. We know that doesn’t help much, but perhaps some of the following tips will.  First, however, let’s discuss what’s going on with him. Let’s explore potential reasons? …


Cinnamon: Traditional Uses and Health Benefits

Cinnamon, Gui Zhi, is one of the oldest spices around and it is mentioned frequently in the Bible as an ingredient for making holy anointed oil. even earlier, cinnamon received much attention in China. It is mentioned in one of the earliest books (approximately 2,700 B.C.) about Chinese botanical medicine. Today, the cinnamon twig is…


Pennsylvania COVID-19 Patient Fights for Access to Ivermectin

YORK, Pennsylvania—Keith Smith received the first of three doses of ivermectin Monday, while being treated for COVID-19 in the intensive care unit at UPMC Memorial Hospital; the York, Pennsylvania hospital objected to the treatment, but Keith’s wife Darla Smith got a court order to allow it. “Ivermectin has been prescribed for human use for 35…


4 Things to Check Before Taking an Antidepressant

What if I told you that the vast majority of the time, taking an antidepressant for depression is like taking a Tylenol for a shard of glass in your foot. Wouldn’t you rather just remove it? You might not even know that removal is an option if you believe that depression is an inherited disease…


Could Mushrooms Be the Key to Improving Immunity?

Mushrooms, long valued for their medicinal properties, are being explored as tools to boost immunity and fight viruses, including SARS-CoV-2. Dr. Gordon Saxe, director of research at the Centers for Integrative Health at UC San Diego School of Medicine, is the principal investigator of three studies evaluating whether mushrooms are therapeutic for treating COVID-19. During…


Try This to Help Stay Awake

It can be hard to stay awake this time of year. Every day the sun sets a little earlier, and when it’s dark around 5 p.m., it can make 6:30 feel like midnight. Your body is naturally equipped to shut down when it gets dark. It starts producing melatonin, so you get sleepy and crave…


Glaxo Says Its COVID-19 Antibody Treatment Effective Against Omicron

British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline said early-stage lab data shows its COVID-19 monoclonal antibody treatment, jointly developed with U.S. partner Vir Biotechnology, is effective against all mutations of the new Omicron strain. Glaxo said in a Dec. 7 statement that new preclinical findings generated from in vitro testing of the drug, called sotrovimab, show that the treatment…


Stress Is a Health Hazard but Friends Can Help

Stress affects up to 90 percent of people, and we know it harms our mental and physical well-being. For example, stress can impact the activity and function of our genes. It does this via “epigenetic” changes, which turn on and off certain genes, though it doesn’t change the DNA code. But why do some people respond…


Breathing Techniques to Help Calm Your Nerves

Some people simply can’t get into meditation and have no desire to learn. If you can’t fully shut your brain down to meditate or you get bored trying to practice mindfulness, you’re not alone. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t calm anxieties or combat your stress by slowing down. There’s a reason why people…


NIH Director Says Omicron Unlikely the Last Variant of COVID-19

The director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) says that Omicron is likely not the last variant that will emerge from the original coronavirus. “It’s certainly possible that this is not the last emerging variant that will attract a lot of attention and a lot of concern,” Dr. Francis Collins said in an interview…