Health & Wellness

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.

Details: Written by: Ellen Meredith

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Listen. Perceive. Have fun, be playful. Let your body show you the way!

Details: Written by: Holly Korthas

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You see it in commercials every day: creams and lotions to reduce wrinkles, dyes to eliminate gray hair, and remedies to reduce muscle and joint aches

Details: Written by: Jovanka Ciares

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Sometimes, we are so eager to improve our life and feel better that we rush ahead and try to change everything all at once.

Details: Written by: Kristin Grayce McGary

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I have discovered that self-sabotage can be a fundamental, although dysfunctional, aspect of protection. It can be a strategy to avoid change.

Details: Written by: Candice Covington

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Nowadays most everyone is familiar with the unique health benefits of fruits, vegetables, protein, herbs, and spices, and their specific effects on the human organism.

Details: Written by: Wibe Wagemans

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It seems cortisol is both the chicken and the egg, with high cortisol increasing the risk of attracting COVID, and low cortisol involved in long COVID symptoms.