Every day, we are exposed to things such as pollution that can increase our risk of illness. Many people take on additional risks—due to tobacco smoke, fast food, or alcohol, for example. But there’s a less-recognized exposure that is even more common than smoking and increases the risk of heart disease, diabetes, cancer, chronic lung diseases, sexually transmitted infections, chronic…
8 Warning Signs of Stomach Cancer That You Shouldn’t Ignore
As medical researchers and healthcare providers have emphasized in messages to the public over the past decades, cancer can often be beaten or at least managed. But this depends on one all-important factor—detecting the disease before it has the chance to develop and spread. Stomach cancer isn’t the most common form of cancer in the…
The Ups and Downs of the Sun Hormone
There has been a lot of discussion about vitamin D circulating among natural health enthusiasts recently. As a certified functional medicine practitioner, vitamin D status is something that I monitor very closely. Vitamin D is actually a hormone, specifically a prohormone that the body converts into a steroid hormone. It’s synthesized in the skin from…
4 Ways Your Home Can Affect Your Health
The amount of time people spend indoors has increased tremendously, especially due to businesses’ transition to remote work. In fact, the Environmental Protection Agency has found the average American spends 90% of their time inside, surrounded by pollutants that can be 2 to 5 times more concentrated than those found outdoors. If you’re concerned about how…
Why Perfectionism Stops US From Creating New Habits
When we decide to create a new habit — exercise, healthy eating, meditation, writing — we can get excited and optimistic, and have an idea of how it will go perfectly. This is such a hopeful time! Unfortunately, reality has other plans. Our perfect idea of how our new habit will go is pretty much…
Sliding Bad Habits Into Good Ones
When you identify hidden habits, you can also trace them back to their needs and desires, and then you can devise more deliberate ways to satisfy those desires. It’s likely you have some habits you may identify as bad or problematic, but they’re actually serving you well. Think of a bad habit as a good…
Headaches Are of Different Types and Each Has Some Health Reasons, Find Out More
February 19, 2022
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Knowing which kind of a headache you are experiencing can help you to treat it properly. Here, we have listed six types of headaches together with their symptoms in order to help you make a diagnosis. Although a headache is defined as a pain localized “in any region of the head,” in reality, there are many…
Vagus Nerve: What It Is and How to Make It Better
The vagus nerve is the longest cranial nerve in the body, traveling from the brain stem down through the spinal cord to the abdominal area. Along the way, it reaches out and affects many organs. Also known as cranial nerve X and the pneumogastric nerve, the vagus nerve is the primary component of the parasympathetic…
Why Your Kitchen Sponge Is so Gross
Your kitchen sponge is a better incubator for diverse bacterial communities than a laboratory Petri dish, researchers report. It’s not just the trapped leftovers that make the cornucopia of microbes swarming around so happy and productive, it’s the structure of the sponge itself. In a series of experiments, researchers show how various microbial species can affect one…
Turmeric: A Wellness Promoting Tonic At Low Doses, Research Reveals
Turmeric has legendary status as a disease-fighting agent, but did you know that when administered in low doses to already healthy adults it significantly improves their wellness? Over the years, there has been plenty of research performed on the value of natural substances in treating human diseases, but very little has been conducted on the effects of…
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