Feel blue? Putting on weight? Tired? This could be why
When it comes to your health, many times the cause and effect relationship is abundantly clear. Cut your finger as you’re slicing vegetables? You can count on seeing blood (maybe even stitches). Come into contact with something you’re allergic to? You’ll be sneezing and your eyes will water in no time. Fall down the stairs? Hopefully bumps and bruises are the only things you have to worry about! But there are other issues where...
- Tags: General Health, Healthy Eating, Hormones, Mental Health, Stress
Curb your anxiety safely and naturally
Here are some sobering statistics for you today: A whopping 40 million adult Americans are affected by varying degrees of anxiety. That’s just under one out of five of us! And as if that number wasn’t startling enough, the prevalence of anxiety is increasing, especially over the last decade or so, and it’s affecting people and younger and younger ages. Current estimates show that 50 percent of mental health problems are established by age...
- Tags: Anxiety, Healthy Living, Mental Health
Keep your brain in tip-top shape for life!
Here’s a little brain humor to start your day: “I don't know why my brain has kept all the words to the Gilligan's Island theme song and has deleted everything about triangles.” – Jeff Foxworthy "It's perfectly okay to make a decision and then change your mind. Being able to change your mind is the best way to find out you still have one." —William E. Lewis, Jr. Yes, that mass in your skull...
- Tags: Brain Health, Healthy Living, Mental Health
A very serious consequence of lockdowns
Now that communities are beginning to open back up following the COVID-19 mitigation measures, jokes and memes about the “COVID-15” (weight gain resulting from the lockdowns) are flooding social media. While gaining weight in most instances is not the best thing for your health, there is an arguably far more serious consequence of our recent forced quarantines and the social and economic devastation that has resulted. Depression! Even people who were never prone to...
Slash your risk of dementia with these simple tips
My Mom (who passed away in 2015 at age 94) spent the last three years of her life in a nursing home after falling and breaking her hip. And although those final years were filled with pain and being confined to a wheelchair, she would always say to me with a smile, “I hurt from head to toe, but it’s OK, Sher. I still know who you are.” Amen! Unfortunately, increasing numbers of people...
- Tags: Dementia, Healthy Living, Mental Health
Tired and depressed? This could be why!
Let’s play a little imagine game for a moment. Let’s say you went to the doctor and reported that you’ve been feeling tired lately, you get indigestion a lot, and you feel depressed. You get tested for low thyroid, iron, hemoglobin A1C, cortisol, mono and maybe even get an endoscopy and everything comes back normal. So, at that point you might walk out with prescriptions for an ADHD drug (for the fatigue), an acid reducer...
- Tags: Energy, Immune Health, Mental Health, Vitamin B12