Surprising causes (and real answers!) for depression
Depression affects nearly 350 million people worldwide, and those numbers have continued to rise over the last several decades. As a matter of fact, depression is now the #1 leading cause of disability, replacing chronic back pain and arthritis. Recently, it’s gotten even worse—during the COVID-19 lockdowns it was estimated that US cases of depression nearly tripled! Depression is very difficult to treat because it’s not a “cut-and-dry” illness…and sadly that means many people...
- Tags: Depression, Digestive Health, Mental Health, Thyroid
A blatantly ignored cause of disease and death
Despite what you may read on most pharmaceutical company-sponsored “health” websites and even what your doctor may tell you, disease doesn’t just pop out of nowhere and bite poor unsuspecting you in the derriere. Disease is not normal, it is not a reflection of your body needing some drug, it’s not something you should expect as you age, and it is not some mysterious phenomenon that nobody can explain and for which you have...
How to beat the holiday blues
Now that Thanksgiving is behind us (and I hope yours was happy!), it’s full steam ahead to Christmas, New Year’s, Hanukkah or whatever holiday you may celebrate! For many of us, that means trimming a tree, lighting the menorah, baking, shopping, wrapping gifts, cooking galore, and if you’re like me, hanging lights on your trees and shrubs. This is good for a laugh--here’s a picture of me hanging lights on my pine trees that are getting enormously taller each year! Good thing I invested in an extension pole...
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
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