Tag: Mind & Body

NIH Says Moderna Wrongly Left Off Government Scientists From COVID-19 Vaccine Patent

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Moderna are engaged in a dispute over which scientists developed Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine, with the conflict possibly heading to court. Moderna and government scientists collaborated on the development of the shot and the government asked the company to include a trio of scientists on its patent application. But…


Everything Is a Practice

I have a client who has completely changed his life—it’s been a complete transformation, and it’s breathtaking. One of the most powerful things he’s brought into his life is the practice of self-compassion. It changed everything. But one of the next most powerful things he created for himself is the view that everything is a…


Moderna’s COVID-19 Vaccine Offers Better Protection, Higher Myocarditis Risk Than Pfizer’s: Company

Moderna on Thursday said its COVID-19 vaccine offers better protection against so-called breakthrough cases than its rival Pfizer’s jab, but also said that more cases of heart inflammation have been seen in people who received its shot. “A small increase in cases of myocarditis is seen with mRNA-1273 compared to BNT162b2 in males 12–29 years…


10 States Sue Biden Over COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate for Healthcare Workers

A coalition of 10 states led by Missouri’s attorney general on Wednesday sued President Joe Biden over his administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers. A federal court has blocked, for now, the administration’s private employer vaccine mandate, but a stricter one for healthcare workers remains in place. The healthcare worker mandate, which covers over…


Seniors Decry Health Providers’ Age Bias

Joanne Whitney, 84, a retired associate clinical professor of pharmacy at the University of California–San Francisco, often feels devalued when interacting with health care providers. There was a time several years ago when she told an emergency room doctor that the antibiotic he wanted to prescribe wouldn’t counteract the kind of urinary tract infection she…


900,000 Children 5-11 Have Gotten Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccine: White House

The rollout of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for young children is going well, with over 1.6 million either getting it already or scheduled to get it, Biden administration officials said in a virtual press briefing on Wednesday. Over 900,000 children between the ages of 5 and 11 will have gotten a shot of the vaccine by the end…


Top 5 Longevity Foods to Postpone Aging

As I was researching my newest book “Radical Longevity,” I took a good hard look at the longest living populations from Okinawa, Japan, and Sardinia, Italy, to Costa Rica, Greece, Loma Linda, California, and the Ashkenazi Jews from Eastern Europe. What were they doing differently? Was it just good genes? Apparently not, because, according to…


Are Carbohydrates Inherently Bad?

Nutritionally speaking, carbohydrates usually amount to little more than sugar, and in the current dietary vernacular, sugar means bad. But is this fair? Not really. Although carbohydrates are sugars, starches, and fiber, (but mostly sugar), they aren’t inherently bad. Not all sugar is bad, believe it or not. In fact, your body needs sugar to…


When an Old Friendship Needs to Change or End

Nothing stays the same, including us. We change and grow over our lifetimes—thankfully. And often, our longest and dearest friendships need to change as well, in order to keep up with who we are. However, the process of changing a long-term friendship isn’t usually an easy one, and sometimes, the friendship doesn’t survive. Sometimes the…


A Minimalist Guide to Health

Minimalism is intentional living. It’s stripping away what isn’t needed, in order to focus on what matters most. It’s a framework that can be applied to just about any area of life, including your own personal health. I approached writing this article with two questions in mind: What are the essential factors in promoting a…