Tag: Mind & Body

Frontline Care Doctor Shares How to End COVID

According to this critical care doctor, every major society has failed to provide honest, useful scientific information. And that’s led to unnecessary deaths and a pandemic that never had to happen. Dr. Paul Marik, a critical care doctor at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital in East Virginia, is renowned for his work in creating the “Marik…


New Study on Ivermectin ‘Should Convince Any Naysayer’: Dr. Pierre Kory

A recently published study indicating the anti-parasitic ivermectin worked well as a prophylactic against the virus that causes COVID-19 should help sway critics of the drug, according to Dr. Pierre Kory, president of the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC). “That should convince any naysayer,” Kory told The Epoch Times’ “American Thought Leaders.” “What…


Healthy Breathing Makes You Brainier

There’s no denying that the past two years have presented challenges. At work and in family life, we’ve all dealt with unprecedented situations. The COVID-19 pandemic has created an urgent need to address mental health issues due to a global increase in anxiety and depressive disorders. While mental well-being is a multifaceted issue, research out…


How Journaling Can Help You in Hard Times

As I often do in tough times, I turned to journaling. I decided I’d keep a record of my quarantine life through the month of April, a way to remember this crazy historical moment and process my feelings. Now it’s August, and my daily journal continues. I’ve left my building about two dozen times since…


Heartburn Is a Red Flag for Serious Health Risks

When a patient complains of subtle bloating and heartburn, typically doctors diagnose them with high stomach acid and prescribe acid-blockers. However, reducing stomach acid frequently compounds the problem because in many cases the issue isn’t high, but low stomach acid caused by a pervasive H. pylori infection. H. pylori is a common bacterium that burrows into the…


Kids’ Diets and Screen Time: To Set up Good Habits, Make Healthy Choices the Default at Home

The availability of junk foods and screens is increasingly creating challenges for parents. But in the home environment, parents shape their children’s diet, activity, screen time and health. This includes managing the foods they eat and the activities available to them, and the expectations around these. We know early childhood is a key time to influence and…


American Diets Have Gotten a Little Healthier, but Still Fall Short of Guidelines

American diets have gotten a little healthier, but still fall short of federal government recommendations for healthy eating, finds an analysis of nationally representative interview data from 1999 to 2016. The research, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, analyzes a total of 43,996 adults’ one-day diet logs collected over the study period. The analysis focuses on the…


Perfect Salads, Made Perfectly Simple by Dr Fuhrman

Let’s talk about salads – the color, the crunch, an endless choice of fresh, crisp veggies. (Ok, you had me at crunch.) Eating one huge salad a day can literally change your life and make a huge difference in your overall health. Eating raw veggies does great things for your body, like helping out the digestive…


It’s Long Past Time to Dump the Masks

Commentary The face mask debate is unfortunately again rearing its ugly head in many parts of the country, and it’s becoming ever more clear that it will never entirely go away. Even as OMICRON confers some form of natural immunity to large segments of the population before it begins its fade into the sunset, the…


Pfizer Board Member: Immunity From Omicron Likely Protective Against Sub-Variant

Pfizer board member Dr. Scott Gottlieb said that the Omicron COVID-19 variant appears to confer some protection against an Omicron sub-variant known as BA.2 that was recently discovered in several countries. “You should be protected. So the mutations in this new version are not in the receptor-binding domain on the spike protein,” Gottlieb told CBS…