Tag: Mind & Body

How Lion’s Mane Mushroom Benefits Your Brain

Lion’s mane is one of nature’s gifts to your nervous system. It’s the only mushroom possessing not one but two potent nerve growth factors, showing potential benefits for Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease, mild cognitive impairment, multiple sclerosis, leg cramps, anxiety, and more. Lion’s mane mushroom has been used medicinally in Asia for centuries, but for…


One in Four Australians Affected by Suicide Amid COVID-19 Lockdowns: Poll

One in four Australians know someone who has committed suicide during the past 12 months amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to figures from Suicide Prevention Australia. The group found that 25 percent of Australians knew someone in their personal life or networks who died, or attempted suicide, while 27 percent said they had directly, or…


Magnesium May Help Your Arthritis

For individuals who are suffering from arthritis, some relief may come in the form of a common mineral that is deficient in far too many people—magnesium. Anywhere from half to as many as 80 percent of Americans don’t get enough of this essential nutrient. Since magnesium is intimately involved with more than 700 enzyme processes in the body, suffering…


Insomnia in Pregnancy Is Common but It’s Not Normal

Many pregnant women find themselves waking up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom (for the third time) or struggling to find a comfortable sleep position. Mildly disrupted sleep is common and bothersome but should not be confused with the much more serious problem of insomnia—which impacts more than 20 percent of…


Learning What to Look for in a Cancer Specialist

Cancer is one of the most common diseases of our age, and yet those who face it rarely know what’s about to happen to them beyond the broadest terms. “Cancer up Close” is an open recount of Michele Goncalves’s cancer journey from pre-diagnosis to life after treatment. As someone who favors treating my maladies as…


Eating Clean and Planning for Optimal Health

There are certain large, casual dining establishments I’m sure we’ve all been to that emphasize serving you lots and lots of food on family-sized platters. In doing so, these successful companies try to satisfy their customers’ desire for delicious value. But are we valuing the right things? Similarly, a diet that is gaining in popularity,…


Meditate Twice and Call Me in the Morning

There was a scene in a movie from about 30 years ago, in which a woman is having what appears to be a panic attack in a department store. She starts to sweat and become jittery as she lies down on the floor. Her concerned partner leans over her as a crowd gathers around. The…


The Unexpected Joy of Journaling

I was in the bookstore looking for a new journal. I pulled one with Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night painting on the cover off the shelf, assessed how many pages it had, and checked the price. It had lines. An unlined journal is better for drawing and sketching, which I like to do, but other…


Fixing Bad Habits

You know smoking is taking years off your life. You wish you would stop checking your phone first thing in the morning because looking at Instagram photographs of your friends’ beach vacations is making you miserable. You are determined to start taking a daily walk but no matter how firm your resolve the night before,…


Disposable Diapers, Bad News for Babies and the Planet

A popular baby shower decoration is to make a three-tiered cake out of disposable diapers. “They’re one of my favorite gifts to take to a baby shower because they double as a decoration,” writes Jennifer, owner of The Craft Patch, on her how-to blog about diaper cakes, “…they’re a handy gift that you know every…