5 Things To Be Proud Of When Fighting Depression (And How To Get Better)
I have heard depression described as an angry black shadow that follows you wherever you go -- and this is a description I agree with wholeheartedly.
I mean, if you take a second to think about it, it just makes sense.
You are forever in its presence, constantly aware of it, but not often within its dark embrace. You feel it creeping away at the edge of your consciousness, but everytime you turn to look at it, it disappears into nothingness.
Then it suddenly engulfs you at the slightest provocation, and you are rendered completely and utterly incapitated.
During these times it feels as if the world is end...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - May 12, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Lindsay Israel Tags: depression featured motivation psychology self-improvement positivity Source Type: blogs
The WTO Needs to Drag Itself into the 21st Century
Inu ManakThe World Trade Organization (WTO) has recently been under fire. The Trump administration has called for its reform, but to date, its confrontational approach has aggravated allies and gotten in the way of any progress.Now, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, work at the WTO has ground to a halt, which puts the institution at risk of irrelevance. The only multilateral talks the WTO is conducting, that is, negotiations that include the entire 164 country membership, are on eliminating harmfulfisheries subsidies. These talks are now in jeopardy. A key obstacle is an inability to find a way to conduct negotiat...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 11, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Inu Manak Source Type: blogs
What to eat to reduce your risk of Alzheimer ’s disease
Would you like reduce your risk of cognitive impairment, Alzheimer’s disease, and dementia? Researchers from around the world having been studying a variety of different factors that might reduce these risks and keep the brain healthy.
Old news: The Mediterranean diet is beneficial
One factor that a number of studies have converged on is a Mediterranean-style diet. This diet includes
fish
olive oil
avocados
fruits
vegetables
nuts
beans
whole grains
red wine in moderation.
Now, if you’re like me and you happen to like all these foods, then you have all the information you need to eat a brain-healthy diet. On the other...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - May 8, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Andrew E. Budson, MD Tags: Alzheimer's Disease Health Healthy Eating Memory Source Type: blogs
Expert Tips Revealed: How to Boost Mental Health in Lockdown
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Many of us have our own hacks for managing mental health, but how do they fare in lockdown? In these unprecedented times, we’re all having to adapt to a new way of living, and with that, new ways of managing our wellbeing, too.
In these trying times, and with social interaction being largely off limits, it’s important we give our brains that extra bit of love. While experts have been calling...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - May 6, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Elizabeth Nightingale Tags: featured health and fitness productivity tips psychology self-improvement covid_19 quarantine self improvement Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, May 4th 2020
The objective is to start treating chronic diseases from the root and not the symptoms of the disease. As we are starting to enroll patients in "senolytics-clinical trials," it will be imperative to assess if senolysis efficiently targets the primary cause of disease or if it works best in combination with other drugs. Additional basic science research is required to address the fundamental role of senescent cells, especially in the established contexts of disease.
Notes on Self-Experimentation with Sex Steroid Ablation for Regrowth of the Thymus
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2020/04/notes-on-self-experi...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 3, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Some unexpected benefits of omega-3 fatty acids
The post Some unexpected benefits of omega-3 fatty acids appeared first on Dr. William Davis. (Source: Wheat Belly Blog)
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - May 1, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle bowel flora dha epa fish oil microbiota omega-3 Source Type: blogs
How to Plan and Carry Out a Simple Self-Experiment, a Single Person Trial of Flagellin Immunization
This lengthy post covers the topic of setting up and running a self-experiment, a human trial of a single individual, to assess whether a ten week course of flagellin immunization will significantly and beneficially affect gut microbe populations. Flagellin is the protein making up a flagellum, the appendage that bacteria use to move themselves around. As it happens, the presence of flagellae correlates decently well with harmful gut microbes, and the absence of flagellae correlates decently well with helpful gut microbes. In principle, provoking the immune system into greater efforts to chase down and destroy anything wit...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 27, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Self-Experimentation Source Type: blogs
Home-cooked meals with less salt
With more people staying at home these days, there’s more opportunity to prepare homemade meals. Although home-cooked meals tend to be much lower in salt than what you’d get from a restaurant, you still need to be careful, says Liz Moore, a dietitian at Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC).
Why worry about salt?
Most Americans consume far too much sodium, which raises blood pressure and the risk of heart disease. On average, we consume around 3,200 milligrams (mg) per day. That’s about 30% more than is recommended by the federal dietary guidelines, which advise people to limit their dai...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - April 14, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Julie Corliss Tags: Cooking and recipes Health Healthy Eating Hypertension and Stroke Source Type: blogs
COVID: Supplements, the Immune System, and Preventative Care
In the midst of a viral pandemic, with orders to “shelter at home” in effect, parents may be wondering what else can be done to protect the health of their families. Unprecedented circumstances often lead to feelings of a loss of control, which can sometimes generate a sense of fear, and even sadness.
Minimizing unnecessary travel and condensing trips to the grocery store or pharmacy is a vital part of slowing the spread of illness, however, there are also ways to take care of yourself and your children that can improve the function of the innate immune system, lessen stress, and increase the chances of staying safe an...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - April 13, 2020 Category: Child Development Authors: Alan Greene MD Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Air Quality COVID COVID-19 Immunity Vitamins & Supplements Zinc Source Type: blogs
How to Find the Best Products That Promote Health and Wellness
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Staying on top of your health may be one of your top priorities. However, you may be doing various things to keep your health in tip-top shape, but sometimes, it can be worth it to try new products to see how effective they are in improving your overall health and wellness. Unfortunately, it can be challenging to do this because there are so many products to choose from. So how can you tell which...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - April 8, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Erin Falconer Tags: featured health and fitness self-improvement beauty products pickthebrain self improvement wellness Source Type: blogs
Eating during COVID-19: Improve your mood and lower stress
My patients these days are expressing more angst and fear, and looking to find ways to cope with the pandemic and the “new normal.” With children and entire families home together all day, and work and school schedules disrupted, loss of a daily routine can increase anxiety and disrupt healthy eating. One of the drivers for this increase in anxiety seems to be uncertainty, which can throw plans for healthy eating out the window.
Meal planning for a family, a challenge on its own, can be more so now with seclusion at home, more people to feed with different tastes, and more food stores with limited groceries and shoppin...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - April 7, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Uma Naidoo, MD Tags: Diet and Weight Loss Food as medicine Healthy Eating Prevention Probiotics Source Type: blogs
Exploring the human brain and how it responds to stress (1/3)
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Worry is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.
— Erma Bombeck
The brain is the control center for all of our thoughts, actions, attitudes, and emotions. It’s the pilothouse on the riverboat of our lives. It’s Mission Control for all of our flights into space or time. It’s the air traffic controller that helps us navigate and reroute our paths based on incoming and outgoing information and how we’re feeling about it at the time. It’s the John Williams of our personal symphony. It’s the Mother Ship to our Starfleet; it’s … (Uh, sorry, I got carried away there, but I...
Source: SharpBrains - April 6, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Dr. Jerome Schultz Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Education & Lifelong Learning Health & Wellness human-brain neurological neuropsychologist Stress Stress Response Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, April 6th 2020
This study delves into the mechanisms by which a short period of fasting can accelerate wound healing. Fasting triggers many of the same cellular stress responses, such as upregulated autophagy, as occur during the practice of calorie restriction. It isn't exactly the same, however, so it is always worth asking whether any specific biochemistry observed in either case does in fact occur in both situations. In particular, the period of refeeding following fasting appears to have beneficial effects that are distinct from those that occur while food is restricted.
Multiple forms of therapeutic fasting have been repor...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 5, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
The Stormy Petrels – a song
In splendid isolation or otherwise, I try to find time to write a song every once in a while. The title of this one – The Stormy Petrels – refers to the desperate fishermen of my home village of Cullercoats who used to brave the North Sea in their cobles regardless of the weather and sometimes taking pride in riding the storms to bring home the catch. Unfortunately, not all were lucky, there were many tragedies.
The Stormy Petrels – a song
The painting I’ve used for the artwork for this song is “Daughter of the Coast Guard” (1881) by Winslow Homer, she’s brandishing a voice horn me...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - April 2, 2020 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Sciencebase Source Type: blogs
Transplanting Gut Microbes from Long-Lived Humans into Mice to Assess the Outcomes
It is well known that the gut microbiome is influential on long-term health, and undergoes detrimental changes with advancing age. Beneficial species decline, while inflammatory and otherwise unhelpful species prosper. The reasons for these changes are not well understood, but probably involve a combination of many factors, such as diet, immune dysfunction, and so forth. There is a growing interest in the research community in assessing the contribution of gut microbiome changes to degenerative aging, and finding ways to reverse those changes.
The study noted here is less interesting for the presented data, and more...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 1, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
