Tag: Mind & Body

Pick Your Way to Simplify Today

The next thing you choose to do … do only that.


Natural Substances for Type 2 Diabetes

Type 2 diabetes develops when your body’s ability to process glucose for fuel becomes impaired, resulting in too much sugar circulating in your bloodstream. Type 2 diabetics may require daily insulin injections to compensate for a lack of adequate insulin production in the pancreas, a dangerous condition if left untreated. Formerly called adult-onset diabetes, this…


Learning to Cultivate an Anti-Cancer Mindset

Last year, COVID-19 deaths got all the attention. But we’ve lived for decades with a far deadlier killer: cancer. In 2020, cancer claimed more than 600,000 lives in the United States. While that doesn’t reduce the seriousness of 350,000 deaths attributed to COVID-19 nationwide, given cancer’s prominence as a COVID-19 comorbidity, it does warrant concern….


More Kids With Borderline Behaviors Are Being Diagnosed With ADHD

During my daughter’s challenging first year of school, we discovered how much effort it took her to sit and learn. She was the youngest in her class, placing her at higher risk of being diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). While she struggled with attention and hyperactivity, her problems were always more frustrating than…


Influenza Vaccination Linked to Higher COVID Death Rates

Vaccines can in some cases trigger more serious illness when exposed to an unrelated virus, via a process known as virus interference. A question that has lingered since the 2009 mass vaccination campaign against pandemic H1N1 swine flu is whether seasonal influenza vaccination might make pandemic infections worse or more prevalent. That concern has come…


Calm a Distressed Mind by Changing Your Environment

One of the biggest contributors to our happiness is something we barely pay attention to: the voice inside our own heads. As psychologist Ethan Kross describes in his new book “Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It,” that voice is constantly analyzing the situations we’re in, reflecting on the…


Liver Damage Is Off the Charts

Rates of alcoholic liver disease have soared 30 percent in the last year at the University of Michigan’s health system, a rise doctors blame on higher amounts of alcohol intake during the pandemic. Anecdotal reports suggest that some patients increased drinking to a bottle of wine or five to six drinks daily from March 2020…


Want More Time for Your Meaningful Work?

A member of my Fearless Training Program has a full-time business that she loves, but it isn’t the meaningful work she’d like to do in the world. She struggles with finding enough time for that meaningful work. Can you relate to this? The rest of our life fills up all the space—how can we find…


A Simple, Natural Approach to a Better Memory

Brain games, crosswords, hobbies, and conversation can all help your memory, but you should prioritize getting a better night’s sleep. A good sleep might be one of the best things you can do to build a strong memory and improve your ability to think and recall information. Sleep influences memory function in several ways. The…


Exposure to Household Chemicals Affects Gut Microbiome

A study out of Washington State University, in collaboration with Duke University, has found the first evidence linking exposure to household chemicals with impacts on the gut microbiomes of children. Published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology Letters, the pioneering study could lead to better awareness of the hazards of repeated exposures to common…