6 Life Lessons I Learned Last Year
Danish philosopher and theologian Søren Kierkegaard once wrote, “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” The beginning of a new year is an appropriate time to look back over the lessons learned from the mistakes and experiences of previous months.
In 2018, I wrote two letters of resignation, grieved the ending of two significant relationships, and spent several weeks on a hospital waiting list for severe depression and weight loss. I fumbled, got lost, and confronted demons that I had been running from my entire life. The result is that I came away with a set of invaluable lessons that I...
Source: World of Psychology - January 4, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Communication Depression Health-related Industrial and Workplace Inspiration & Hope Marriage and Divorce Mental Health and Wellness Motivation and Inspiration New Year's Perfectionism Personal Psychotherapy Self-Esteem Self-Help Source Type: blogs
Re-post: Make L. reuteri yogurt
People seem to be having a tough time locating the Wheat Belly Blog post in which I summarized how we make the L. reuteri yogurt, so I’m re-posting it. Remember: It’s NOT about yogurt; it’s about a means of amplifying the counts of a specific bacteria that possesses unique properties. To maximize bacterial counts, the recipe to make the yogurt therefore includes a prebiotic fiber and prolonged fermentation, very different from conventional yogurt. And, no, NONE of these benefits come from consuming conventional yogurt.
We make the yogurt with two strains of Lactobacillus reuteri ATCC PTA 6475 and DSM 1793...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - January 3, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates prebiotic probiotic reuteri Weight Loss wheat belly yogurt Source Type: blogs
First Ever Medical Humanities Chat (#MedHumChat)
Hey#medtwitter, I'm toying with the idea of starting a narrative medicine twitter chat. each week we discuss a poem, essay, short story (something very brief!) relevant to medicine and our experience. Would folks be interested? Would you participate? Does this already exist?— Colleen Farrell, MD (@colleenmfarrell)December 16, 2018by Christian Sinclair (@ctsinclair)What started off as a spontaneous tweet by resident Colleen Farrell, MD (@colleenmfarrell) generated a swell of interest from the health care Twitter community and now is being fully realized with the first Medical Humanities chat on Twitter (#MedHumCha...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - January 2, 2019 Category: Palliative Care Tags: arts humanities sinclair tweetchat twitter Source Type: blogs
How to Network without Face-to-Face Interactions If You ’re an Introvert
You're reading How to Network without Face-to-Face Interactions If You’re an Introvert, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles.
Networking opens many doors for entrepreneurs. This is a sure-fire way to get people interested in your services, find loyal partners, and most importantly, attract new customers. But things are not that optimistic if you’re an introvert like me. A lump in the throat, racing heart, shivers up and down the spine, - that’s how it feels to speak to the crowd of strangers at another loc...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - December 28, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Nick Campbell Tags: career communication featured psychology self confidence success how to network introvert pickthebrain self improvement Source Type: blogs
6 Traveling Tips to Never Feel Lonely While You Travel
You're reading 6 Traveling Tips to Never Feel Lonely While You Travel, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles.
Traveling is one of the coolest things you can do, especially if you`re young. New people, cool places, delicious plates and wild stories you can bore your friends with for a lifetime. But travel isn`t always the cure for your problems. Though it makes you tune in on who you are as a person, traveling can also be lonely especially if you`re traveling alone and for a long period of time. According to resea...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - December 22, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Marwan Jamal Tags: depression featured happiness adventure lonely pickthebrain self improvement traveling tips Source Type: blogs
BMC ‘Research in progress’ photo competition 2018: winning images
The objective of this collage is therefore to recognize diversity, as an essential aspect of our existence.
“Look into my eyes”Lidianne Salvatierra, Federal University of Tocantins (UFT), Brazil
Frontal face of a jumping spider (Salticidae). Jumping spiders have well developed eyes and can actually form images.
The post BMC ‘Research in progress’ photo competition 2018: winning images appeared first on Research in progress blog. (Source: BioMed Central Blog)
Source: BioMed Central Blog - December 14, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: Davy Falkner Tags: Open Access Publishing Research in progress photo competition Source Type: blogs
Podcast: A Delicious Ritual to Reduce Stress
Living in our fast-paced world, many of us find ourselves stressed out, and many others don’t even realize how stressed they’ve become. Many people choose to ignore their stress, others use meditation, exercise, or other endeavors to reduce stress. This episode shares the story of a woman whose solution to stress involves regularly making challah, a traditional Jewish bread. Not only does the ritual of the making of the bread reduce stress, but the history and tradition of the bread are also important to her.
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Source: World of Psychology - December 13, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Psych Central Show Tags: General Mindfulness Stress The Psych Central Show Beth Ricanati challah Gabe Howard Vincent M. Wales Source Type: blogs
Top Digital Health Stories of 2018: From Amazon And Google To Gene-Edited Babies
Instead of mind-boggling inventions, 2018 was the year when national governments, as well as healthcare regulators, started to embrace digital health technologies at scale. The year when Google, Amazon, Apple or Microsoft competed head-to-head for the biggest chunks on the healthcare market, and when the buzzword of the year award went to the blockchain. Here’s our guide to the top digital health stories from last year.
2018: Under the spell of cosmos and microcosmos
Every year, The Medical Futurist team sits down and collects the top stories of the past 12 months in healthcare. We put the novelties under the microscope,...
Source: The Medical Futurist - December 11, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Business Future of Medicine Medical Professionals Patients Policy Makers Researchers Top Lists 2018 AI artificial intelligence artificial pancreas blockchain chatbot CRISPR deep learning diabetes digital health digital he Source Type: blogs
How Empathic People Can Set Effective, Loving Boundaries
You’re a highly empathic person. You fully and intently listen to others. You tend to focus on others’ emotions, often feeling them more so than your own. In fact, it’s like you feel someone else’s pain deep inside your bones.
It’s that visceral.
And you frequently find yourself utterly exhausted because tending to others comes more naturally to you than tending to yourself, according to Joy Malek, a marriage and family therapist who specializes in working with people who are intuitive, empathic, creative and highly sensitive.
And this struggle includes setting boundaries. Your discomfort with boundary setting ma...
Source: World of Psychology - December 9, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: General Habits Industrial and Workplace Mental Health and Wellness Relationships Self-Esteem Self-Help Stress Empathy Highly Sensitive Person Personal Boundaries Source Type: blogs
Gut feelings: How food affects your mood
The human microbiome, or gut environment, is a community of different bacteria that has co-evolved with humans to be beneficial to both a person and the bacteria. Researchers agree that a person’s unique microbiome is created within the first 1,000 days of life, but there are things you can do to alter your gut environment throughout your life.
Ultra-processed foods and gut health
What we eat, especially foods that contain chemical additives and ultra-processed foods, affects our gut environment and increases our risk of diseases. Ultra-processed foods contain substances extracted from food (such as sugar and starch), ad...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - December 7, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Uma Naidoo, MD Tags: Behavioral Health Digestive Disorders Food as medicine Healthy Eating Source Type: blogs
4 Key Ingredients to Avoid in Cosmetics
You're reading 4 Key Ingredients to Avoid in Cosmetics, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles.
As you walk down a store’s beauty aisle, it’s easy to choose the most popular brands and products that line the shelves. After all, they are on sale and the labels claim to be organic or all natural. Despite these perks, what consumers fail to realize is that these labels can deceive consumers into believing their items are safe and toxin-free.
The truth is the beauty market across the United States has lacked regul...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - December 6, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Emily Rosati Tags: featured health and fitness self improvement beauty pickthebrain toxic Source Type: blogs
Key Factors in Being a Better Leader
Leadership is not about your hierarchical role — parent, boss, teacher, elected official. It is not about being better or smarter than anybody else, nor is it about comparing oneself in relation to anybody else in any way. It is about how you act.
People who practice the following actions naturally become better leaders. That is to say, others will look to them in a healthy way. On the flipside, even people who possess some type of hierarchical authority may struggle to be effective if they ignore these steps.
Leaders inspire the trust, vision, and action of those around them. Here are some important and applicable w...
Source: World of Psychology - December 4, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Pratibha Anand Tags: Industrial and Workplace Mindfulness Motivation and Inspiration Self-Esteem Self-Help Leadership Success Source Type: blogs
The Return of the Beauty Brains – Episode 166
After a brief hiatus, the Beauty Brains podcast is back.
Covered on this episode:
Beauty Science stories:
Cruelty free products are free from cruelty.
What does it mean for consumers? Getting rid of animal testing means that products will not be much different than what you could ever make.
EWG on the Kardashian’s show –
We got an email from the PR firm that does the work for the Environmental Working Group (the EWG). This is the group that seems to exist to propagate fear about cosmetics. Well, they sent me a notice crowing about how they were mentioned on the Keeping up with the Kardashian reality tv show. I ...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - December 4, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Perry Romanowski Tags: Podcast hair care natural Source Type: blogs
The Return of the Beauty Brains – Episode 166
After a brief hiatus, the Beauty Brains podcast is back.
Covered on this episode:
Beauty Science stories:
Cruelty free products are free from cruelty.
What does it mean for consumers? Getting rid of animal testing means that products will not be much different than what you could ever make.
EWG on the Kardashian’s show –
We got an email from the PR firm that does the work for the Environmental Working Group (the EWG). This is the group that seems to exist to propagate fear about cosmetics. Well, they sent me a notice crowing about how they were mentioned on the Keeping up with the Kardashian reality tv show. I ...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - December 4, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Perry Romanowski Tags: Podcast hair care natural Source Type: blogs
