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: Erin DiCaprio
Wear a mask, but skip the gloves. Don’t sanitize the apples. And if you are older than 65, it’s probably best to still order your groceries online.
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- Written by: Alexander (Sasha) Poltorak
The current pandemic is unique not just because it is caused by a new virus that puts everyone at risk, but also because the range of innate immune responses is diverse and unpredictable.
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- Written by: Larry Johnson
Throughout history, peoples in many parts of the world have sought ways to develop their energetic potentials for improved health, martial power, and to bring themselves closer to the divine. In China these practices are called QiGong. It is believed that the correct regulation of body, breath, and mind will harmonize yin and yang, balance Qi and blood...
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- Written by: Eugene Zampieron, Ellen Kamhi, Burton Goldberg
Dietary practices have a major impact on arthritis. In fact, if you eat the typical American diet, it could be making your arthritis worse. The right foods can keep you free of stiff joints, swelling, and fatigue. Changing the way you eat will change the way you feel. Among the offenders are...
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- Written by: Ryan Malosh
Now that states are relaxing social distancing restrictions, people desperately want to see friends and family, go to a restaurant and let our kids have play dates.
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- Written by: Pierce Salguero
Millions of Buddhists seeking protection and healing from the novel coronavirus are turning to traditional religious rituals.
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- Written by: Clare Collins
When it comes to weight loss, there are no magic tricks that guarantee success. What works for you is likely to be different to what works for your partner, neighbour or workmate.
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- Written by: Jeremy Howard
In late March, I decided to use public mask-wearing as a case study to show my students how to combine and analyze diverse types of data and evidence.
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- Written by: Kevin J. Bennett
The burden of COVID-19 in rural areas has been under the radar, as the toll of the disease so far has been heaviest in dense urban areas.
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- Written by: Jeffrey Miller
With people confined to their homes, there is more interest in home-baked bread than ever before.
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- Written by: LaTina Emerson
Foods such as French fries, cheese, cookies, soda, and sports and energy drinks are common in the diets of United States adults with inflammatory bowel disease, according to a new study.
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- Written by: Kristopher Nielsen
What exactly are mental disorders? The answer to this question is important because it informs how researchers should go about trying to explain mental disorders
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- Written by: Rahel Mathews
My health conscious friends and colleagues tell me that they need an alternative to soda but plain water is too boring.
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- Written by: Genia Pauli Haddon
Yoga! Suddenly, everyone wants to know about this gentle approach to whole-self fitness. A Roper poll revealed that over six million Americans (more than 3% of the population) already practice yoga. You don't have to be lean to do yoga.
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- Written by: William Petri
As researchers try to find treatments and create a vaccine for COVID-19, doctors and others on the front lines continue to find perplexing symptoms.
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- Written by: Bruce N. Eimer, Ph.D., ABPP
All of us who have chronic pain know that it tends to change our personality. Over time, the continued struggle with pain tends to zap your energy and strength. Life is harder and more stressful when persistent pain is a central part of it. Fortunately, now there are...
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- Written by: Zhen Yan
Scientists are constantly revealing newly discovered benefits of exercise. In experiments over the past 10 years, my research has found that exercise can help with a respiratory problem known as ARDS.
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- Written by: Dana Ullman
Children respond extremely well and rapidly to homeopathic medicines. What is even better news is that they love to take homeopathic medicines, since the remedies are usually made with lactose or sucrose and thus tend to be sweet.
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- Written by: Carrie LEsperance
The adrenal glands were long regarded as emergency glands -- pouring out their internal secretions only when a person was confronted by a dangerous situation and had to resort to 'fight or flight.' Later, it was shown that adrenaline is so vital that humans cannot live for 4 seconds if it has been drained from the blood.
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- Written by: Judith Corvin-Blackburn
In her doctoral dissertation, Meredith Davis notes that “all discomfort in our lives, whether physical, mental, emotional or psychic, is the attempt of our Self to shift an energy pattern that is ready to be released on some level.”
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- Written by: Brigitte Mars
Sugar is not only the most prevalent addiction in our society, but it's also the least recognized and one of the hardest to kick. Yet almost no one calls sugar an addictive substance. What's truly frightening about it is that sugar is found in practically every food product on the grocery store shelf. Are we a society of unknowing addicts? Perhaps.
