Life Changes
Healing Through Storytelling: Lessons from The Odyssey
The journey of Odysseus in Homer's 'The Odyssey' offers profound insights into healing...
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- Written by: Liza Bayless, YES! Magazine
In an industry usually focused on medicine and procedures, a Philadelphia-area hospital decided what its patients needed was a farm and advice about food.
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- Written by: Sophie Medlin
The debate over the necessity of dairy in human diets continues, influenced by genetic adaptations and cultural practices. While many populations thrive on dairy, others face lactose intolerance. Recent studies challenge the traditional view of calcium's role in bone health, suggesting that while dairy is not essential for adults, it offers important nutrients that may be harder to obtain from other sources.
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- Written by: David Salisbury, Vanderbilt University
Research indicates that psychotherapy, particularly cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), is highly effective in improving daily functioning for individuals with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). A study analyzed over 1,700 patients, revealing that CBT leads to significant improvements in daily activities compared to other therapy types, highlighting its importance in IBS treatment.
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- Written by: Sarina Gleason, Michigan State University
A common bacterium found in improperly cooked chicken can cause Guillain-Barré Syndrome, or GBS, the world’s leading cause of acute neuromuscular paralysis in humans.
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- Written by: Julia Short, Cardiff University
Taking a low-dose aspirin every day to reduce the risk of heart disease or cancer may be worth the increased risk of stomach bleeding, an analysis shows.
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- Written by: Lynn Hodges
One of the most difficult aspects of depression is coping with the negative thoughts that happen moment to moment. People often ask me whether I think you can take an active role in managing and reducing your depression. I answer a very big yes to this question...
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- Written by: Mark Michaud, University of Rochester
A new study challenges the hypothesis that nerve cells in the brains of people with autism spectrum disorders do not reliably and consistently respond to external stimuli.
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- Written by: Ryan Underwood, Vanderbilt University
The idea that healthy foods are universally more expensive can lead consumers to make choices that aren’t always necessary, a new study suggests.
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- Written by: Texas A&M University
Is it possible to sneeze without closing your eyes? You might recall the age-old myth that warned against sneezing with open eyes to mitigate the possibility of eyeballs popping out. Tales swirled for decades speculating that...
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- Written by: Joseph Murphy
It was not the splinter of wood from the sidewalk that healed him. It was his imagination aroused to an intense degree, plus the confident expectancy of a perfect healing. Imagination was joined to faith or subjective feeling, and the...
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- Written by: David R. Montgomery, University of Washington
Most of us considered microbes little more than nasty germs before science recently began turning our view of the microbial world on its head.
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- Written by: Lori Dajose, California Institute of Technology
Scientists have discovered for the first time a functional link between bacteria in the intestines and Parkinson’s disease.
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- Written by: Primrose Cooper
As light is necessary for the growth of plants and trees, animals, insects and bird life, so it is essential for us. We need sunlight to build strong bones and teeth. Without it children can develop rickets and dental decay. Without realizing it we can suffer from light starvation...
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- Written by: Barbara E. Savin
It’s time to clear the aura. Sweeping and clearing remove congested and diseased energy and cleanse, strengthen, and greatly facilitate the healing process. Many simple illnesses can be healed just by sweeping and clearing the aura.
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- Written by: Vanessa McMains, Johns Hopkins University
Just one dose of a hallucinogenic drug offers many cancer patients up to six months of relief from disease-related anxiety or depression.
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- Written by: Alexis Blue, University of Arizona
In a remote area of Tanzania, Hadza men leave their huts on foot, armed with bows and poison-tipped arrows, to hunt for their next meal. Meanwhile, Hadza women gather tubers, berries, and other fruits.
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- Written by: Taylor Graham, Johns Hopkins University
Safer styling practices and shampoo and conditioning choices can help remedy a type of hair loss and damage that often afflicts African Americans, researchers say.
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- Written by: Matthew Solovey, Penn State University
A system of sensors added to defibrillator implants might make it possible to predict heart failure events—sometimes more than a month before they happen.
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- Written by: Peter Rüegg, ETH Zurich
Eating a very high-fat diet early in life may disrupt development of the prefrontal cortex in young brains, according to new research in mice.
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- Written by: Lawerence Synett, University of Pittsburgh
People living with serious illness who receive palliative care have better quality of life and fewer symptoms than those who don’t, a new study shows.
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- Written by: Meg Blackburn Losey, Ph.D.
Healing has always been a great mystery, especially when a cure works for one person but perhaps not for another. Part of the success or failure of any healing modality is how the recipient perceives and accepts the healing. Let’s face it. Some of us...
