Health & Wellness

Details: Written by: Saloni Sharma, MD, LAc

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The pharmaceutical industry promotes the fantasy of zero pain: take a pill and eliminate pain. But pills offer only temporary, superficial relief and often have adverse effects.

Details: Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com

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Do you want to avoid flipping through countless diet books that lead you to feel more confused than ever? Have you just been stuffing yourself with quick and easy processed fast foods?

Details: Written by: Joshua Pate

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For every feeling we experience, there is a lot of complex biology going on underneath our skin.

Details: Written by: Johndennis Govert and Hapi Hara

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You can amplify the focal power of mantras through the field of your body and aura with crystals or other minerals.

Details: Written by: Saloni Sharma, MD, LAc

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The goal is to increase movement in any way that works for you, from formal classes to spurts of additional activity throughout the day.

Details: Written by: Bryant Lusk

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Green tea is consistently featured in the list of the healthiest beverages in the world, and for good reason.

Details: Written by: Edward Tick, PhD

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Healing is the leap out of a victim identity and into survivorship and service, out of suffering and into myth, out of the personal and into the collective, out of history, politics, society, and culture and into the universal.

Details: Written by: Lindsay Hamilton

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Octopus is a popular ingredient in many cuisines, with some 420,000 metric tonnes of this mollusc being caught worldwide each year.

Details: Written by: Mark Michaud

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"For more than a century, TCE has threatened workers, polluted the air we breathe—outside and inside—and contaminated the water we drink. Global use is waxing, not waning," researchers say in a new report.

Details: Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com

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Eating disorders can affect anyone, regardless of age, gender, race, or socioeconomic status.

Details: Written by: Rebecca Wildbear

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Our dominant culture trains us to be disembodied. Separating our minds from our bodies makes humans less healthy but more docile and obedient to external power structures.

Details: Written by: Jovanka Ciares

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Wellness is a state of living that applies to all living creatures — humans, animals, and plants.

Details: Written by: Eric Slusher

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New research establishes a link between irritable bowel syndrome and mental health challenges, such as anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation.

Details: Written by: Eric Stann

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Despite an overwhelming number of long COVID symptoms previously reported by other studies, we only found a few symptoms specifically related to an infection from SARS-CoV-2

Details: Written by: Kristin Grayce McGary

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Taking control of your health starts with being aware of the factors that influence your personal well-being. But a healthy lifestyle is more than just awareness...

Details: Written by: Michael J. Shea, Ph.D

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From the moment of conception, the human body builds two waste processing systems. Recycling happens for cells that are dying or cells that have waste products...

Details: Written by: Daniel G. Amen, MD

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We all want to have better lives, less stress, more joy, more focus, more success. But to have all this we need to understand our brains—and the importance of brain health.

Details: Written by: Heather Dawn Godfrey, PGCE, BSc

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Great care must be taken when using essential oils around the very young. These same guidelines should also be followed with the elderly and with those who are frail or whose immune systems are severely compromised.

Details: Written by: Saloni Sharma, MD, LAc

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Sufficient sleep provides the recovery time essential to the healthy functioning of our body and brain.

Details: Written by: Ran Knishinsky

There are many reasons why so many people of different ages, cultures, and races eat clay. Do these earth-eaters know something most people don’t? Yes, they do. Now you will know, too.