Sarah Cimperman, ND More than thirty million people in the United States are living with heart disease and it’s the leading cause of death.1 According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one person dies from cardiovascular disease every thirty-six seconds.2COVID-19 is catching up now that news outlets report the coronavirus—also known as SARS-CoV-2—kills […]
Razi Berry It’s not just to hide clutter anymore — add “saving the planet” to the reasons you leave the camera off during your next virtual meeting. A new study says that despite a record drop in global carbon emissions in 2020, a pandemic-driven shift to remote work and more at-home entertainment still presents significant
Katarina Meister and Stephanie Yakupitiyage The news of a cancer diagnosis can feel devastating to a once ordinary life. Cancer is a difficult experience. Anxiety and fear creep into the mind often, if not constantly. While life can feel out of control, there are foundations of good health which can help during this time. In
Razi Berry Anthropologist Caleb Everett and former student Sihan Chen used a novel data analysis of thousands of languages, in addition to studying a unique subset of celebrities, to reveal how a soft food diet — contrasted with the diet of hunter-gatherers — is restructuring dentition and changing how people speak. Their findings, published in
Razi Berry Most consumers of drinking water in the United States know that chemicals are used in the treatment processes to ensure the water is safe to drink. But they might not know that the use of some of these chemicals, such as chlorine, can also lead to the formation of unregulated toxic byproducts. Johns
Razi Berry Physical activity is not only associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular disease, but there is no threshold for that association, with the lowest risk of cardiovascular disease seen for those who are most active, according to a new study published this week in PLOS Medicine by Terence Dwyer of University of Oxford,
Razi Berry Almost 18,000 Americans experience traumatic spinal cord injuries every year. Many of these people are unable to use their hands and arms and can’t do everyday tasks such as eating, grooming or drinking water without help. Using physical therapy combined with a noninvasive method of stimulating nerve cells in the spinal cord, University
Razi Berry Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a complex psychiatric disorder brought on by physical and/or psychological trauma. How its symptoms, including anxiety, depression and cognitive disturbances arise remains incompletely understood and unpredictable. Treatments and outcomes could potentially be improved if doctors could better predict who would develop PTSD. Now, researchers using magnetic resonance imaging
Dr Nicola Dehlinger, ND We are in the middle of a very cold and dry winter. Even though we live indoors, the climate around us has such a huge effect on our physical, emotional and mental bodies. But because we’re used to living indoors, we can often disregard how much impact the weather is actually
Razi Berry A study by a team of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) psychologists has found a link between extroverts and their word choices. The finding highlights the need for stronger linguistic indicators to be developed for use in online personality prediction tools, which are being rapidly adopted by companies to improve digital marketing
