By Derek Henry, Holistic Health Coach for Healing the Body At the root of every disease process is inflammation, a first defence process used by the body in order to try and heal itself. The problem is that when your body is in that state chronically it creates an overactive immune system, which brings crippling pain with it….
How Modern Marijuana Changes the Brain
August 1, 2022
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Big things are happening for the humble marijuana (or cannabis) plant. On July 21, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) introduced a bill to legalize marijuana at the federal level with Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.). Booker released a statement on the bill on July 21, saying this can undo the damage…
When Eyes Meet, Brains Get to Work
New research charts the surprisingly widespread response in multiple brain areas when the eyes of two individuals meet and social gaze interaction happens. “There are strong robust signals in the brain that are signatures of an interactive social gaze,” says Steve Chang, associate professor of psychology and neuroscience at Yale University, a member of the…
Is the Basis of Alzheimer’s Research Fundamentally Flawed?
Alzheimer’s disease is a type of dementia. It is named after German pathologist Alois Alzheimer, who discovered what is believed to be the distinctive feature of the disease–plaques and other protein deposits–in the brain of a deceased patient in 1906. In the 1980s, a protein called amyloid beta (Aβ) was identified as the main component…
Could Sleeping in This Position Protect Your Brain From Decline?
Lou Gehrig’s disease—also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis—is devastating. It took the life of my classmate, Stephen Heywood, when he was just 37 years old. A young dad, Heywood did not get to watch his son grow up. This disease does not affect the mind but it does affect the motor neurons (the cells in…
$10.3 Million Settlement Reached in First COVID Vaccine Mandate Class Action Suit
Liberty Counsel settled the nation’s first classwide lawsuit for healthcare workers over a COVID shot mandate, for more than $10.3 million, July 29 2022. The class action settlement against NorthShore University HealthSystem is on behalf of more than 500 current and former healthcare workers who were unlawfully discriminated against and denied religious exemptions from the…
Monkeypox Declared a Public Health Emergency
What are the odds? In 2017, we started accumulating this vaccine – and this week, despite zero deaths attributed to the disease, the WHO leader overruled the treaty committee to declare a monkeypox public health emergency. STORY AT-A-GLANCE By the third week of July 2022, some 16,000 cases of monkeypox had been recorded across 75…
Lack of Tranparency in Trials for Cancer Medication: Study
August 1, 2022
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A multi-national study led by Australia’s Flinders University has found that more than 50 percent of the clinical trials the U.S. Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) used to approve anti-cancer medications over the past decade are not available for public scrutiny. This comes after the pharmaceutical industry made a commitment in 2014 to improve data transparency….
8 Minimalist Principles for Our Kids
Sometimes my kids are the biggest reminders of what it means to live more intentionally. At a young age, their innocence and unfiltered comments (often embarrassingly honest) resonate with me as they take in the world around them. The other day, my daughter made a remark which made me realize how much she really is…
Game of Thrones Star Emilia Clarke Is Missing ‘Quite a Bit’ of Her Brain. How Can People Survive and Thrive After Brain Injury?
In a recent interview, “Game of Thrones” star Emilia Clarke spoke about being able to live “completely normally” after two aneurysms—one in 2011 and one in 2013—that caused brain injury. She went on to have two brain surgeries. An aneurysm is a bulge or ballooning in the wall of a blood vessel, often accompanied by…
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