Researchers have explored many complementary health approaches for preventing or slowing dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease. Currently, there is no strong evidence that any complementary health approach can prevent cognitive impairment. What the Science Says Following are some of the complementary health approaches that have been studied in recent years. Fish Oil/Omega-3s. Among the nutritional and dietary factors studied…
Understanding Alzheimer’s, the Basics
February 22, 2022
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Hormone Havoc: Chronic Stress & Adrenal Burnout
February 22, 2022
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The adrenal glands (AKA the stress glands) may be small, but they have a big purpose. These endocrine glands are located on top of each kidney and are quite useful when a flight-or-fight situation arises. However, our bodies can start to experience hormonal havoc when that same surge of the flight-or-fight response occurs several times…
Childhood Trauma Creates Seeds of Disease
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…
Beyond Diet: Ways to Heal Autoimmune and Improve Thyroid Health
People commonly fixate on diet, supplements, and medication when it comes to managing a chronic health condition such as Hashimoto’s hypothyroidism or other autoimmune disease. But these approaches fall short if you don’t also address the impact of the mind on health, or “psychoneuroimmunology.” Autoimmunity is a disorder in which the immune system attacks and…
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…
Statins Do More Harm Than Good
Amid the pandemic media storm in January 2021, a study1 published in the journal Atherosclerosis quietly revealed that people taking statin medications had a higher rate of cardiovascular events than those who were not on statins. In the study, the researchers separated the participants by assigning them a coronary artery calcium (CAC) score. This is a…
Recovering From the Pandemic Aftershock
February 20, 2022
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It was a lazy Saturday morning, and I sat curled up on the couch with a coffee in hand. My cell phone rang, and I was surprised to see a friend’s daughter calling from the West Coast. It was 6 a.m. her time. I picked up with a little catch in my heart. I knew…
How Depression Can Be a Symptom Instead of a Diagnosis
Depression is one of the most common mental disorders in the United States, affecting more than 16 million people. As such, antidepressant use has jumped by 65 percent in the last 15 years, with one in eight Americans over the age of 12 taking antidepressants. These statistics are alarming considering the root causes of depression…
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…
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