You Need to Know About, and Consider, Naturopathic Medicine
Sarah LoBisco, ND, IFCMP A Sick Care Model for Promoting Health is Doomed to Fail Are you happy with your current healthcare? If you have ever had the misfortune of needing to go the ER (Emergency Room) or Urgent Care, you were probably incredibly grateful for the ability to access modern medicine’s life-saving modalities, diagnostics, and […]
Environmental Factors of Keeping Brain Young
Razi Berry A stimulating environment keeps the “hippocampus” — which is the brain’s memory control center — young, so to speak. Causes of this are molecular mechanisms that affect gene regulation. These current findings from studies in mice provide clues as to why an active, varied life can help preserve mental fitness in old age. […]
Exercise Improves Sleep
Razi Berry Those who had both the poorest sleep quality and who exercised the least were most at risk of death from heart disease, stroke, and cancer, the findings indicate, prompting the researchers to suggest a likely synergy between the two activities. Both physical inactivity and poor sleep are independently associated with a heightened risk […]
How Power Changes Relationship Success
Razi Berry Want to have a happy relationship? Make sure both partners feel they can decide on issues that are important to them. Objective power measured by income, for example, doesn’t seem to play a big role, according to a new study in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships by the Martin Luther University […]
Could Reversing Grey Hair be Possible?
Razi Berry Legend has it that Marie Antoinette’s hair turned gray overnight just before her beheading in 1791. Though the legend is inaccurate — hair that has already grown out of the follicle does not change color — a new study from researchers at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons is the first […]
Training the Brain to Overcome ADHD
Razi Berry Scientists explored a technique called ‘neurofeedback,’ which enables ADHD patients to train their attention, based on instant feedback from the level of their brain activity. The team of neuroscientists found that not only did the training have a positive effect on patients’ concentration abilities, but also that the attention improvement was closely linked […]
The Elixir of Life
Dr Nicola Dehlinger, ND Many people wonder…what is the answer to my health concern? How can I easily and affordably improve my health? The answer is simple – drink more water. It’s been said so many times, we don’t even hear that advice anymore. But a basic understanding of how your body works might spark […]
Physically Punishing Kids is Not Effective
Razi Berry A conclusive narrative review has found physical punishment of children is not effective in preventing child behavior problems or promoting positive outcomes and instead predicts increases in behavior problems and other poor outcomes over time. The study by an international group of scientists including a researcher from The University of Texas at Austin […]
The Sweet Spot of Information to Encourage Curiosity in Children
Razi Berry Preschool children are sensitive to the gap between how much they know and how much there is to learn, according to a Rutgers University-New Brunswick study. The research, published in the journal Psychological Science, found preschool children are more likely to choose to gather more information about something if they know just enough […]
Brain Cell Lipid Balance Important Factor for Alzheimer’s
Razi Berry Alzheimer’s disease is predominant in elderly people, but the way age-related changes to lipid composition affect the regulation of biological processes is still not well understood. Links between lipid imbalance and disease have been established, in which lipid changes increase the formation of amyloid plaques, a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease. This imbalance inspired […]