My physical therapy … and cardiac toxicity caused by carfilzomib
First, my big news: I began physiotherapy yesterday, and, drum roll!!!, I won’t have to wear my shoulder brace anymore, or rather, “you don’t have to wear it unless you feel as though you need it,” my physiotherapist told me. She reassured me that there’s no way I could make my shoulder worse unless she jumped up and down on it. And, since that’s not likely to happen, I agreed that the brace should come off. It had become sort of like a Linus blanket (Peanuts reference) for me…I felt safe with it!
My physiotherapist pointed out that keeping my arm in a brace at home would have a ne...
Source: Margaret's Corner - June 20, 2019 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Margaret Tags: Blogroll cardiac toxicity carfilzomib carfilzomib toxicity Source Type: blogs
Psychology Around the Net: June 8, 2019
This week’s Psychology Around the Net takes a look at one country’s new budget to focus on citizen well-being, how non-athletes can use performance psychology in the office, the safest ways to help your friends resolve a fight, and more.
Enjoy!
Rainbow: A First Book of Pride: This month, the American Psychological Association spotlights Rainbow: A First Book of Pride, a “must-have primer for young readers” and “sweet ode to rainbow families, and an affirming display of a parent’s love for their child and a child’s love for their parents.” Author Michael Genhart, PhD is a pict...
Source: World of Psychology - June 8, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Alicia Sparks Tags: Psychology Around the Net brain childrens books Emotion Regulation Happiness Internet Michael Genhart PhD Performance Psychology Rainbow: A First Book of Pride Source Type: blogs
Healthy meals: 3 easy steps to success
Healthy meals don’t just happen — you need to make them happen. Here are three easy steps to get you on your way.
Step 1: Make a plan
The first step is to plan your menu for the week. It doesn’t need to be elaborate, just jot down what you and your family would like to eat.
Then think about ways to make your choices healthier. Substitute chicken breast for steak and add more vegetables, for example. Can you streamline your cooking? Consider cooking a large batch of grains on the weekend and using them in more than one meal.
Step 2: Shop smart
You’ve already planned your menu. Once you make your shopping list, you...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - June 6, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Katherine D. McManus, MS, RD, LDN Tags: Health Healthy Eating Nutrition Source Type: blogs
12 Depression Busters for New Moms
It’s supposed to be the most exciting time of your life … and everyone is telling you how lucky you are to have a beautiful baby, but all you can do is cry. You’re pretty sure none of your new-mom friends are feeling this way. But they might be. Because 15 to 20 percent of new moms, about 1 million women in the US each year, experience some form of postpartum depression.
Truth be told, my baby days were the most difficult and painful hours of my life. I was a hormonal and stress train wreck. Looking back now–my youngest is five–I see that a few alterations in my lifestyle might have helped ma...
Source: World of Psychology - May 24, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Brain and Behavior Depression General Health-related Mental Health and Wellness Parenting Personal Psychotherapy Relationships Self-Esteem Sleep Stress Treatment Women's Issues Baby Blues Baby Days Beautiful Baby Brooke S Source Type: blogs
Survey for Athletes with AF
Hey Athletes:
My colleague, Professor Rachel Lampert, from Yale, along with the StopAF.org patient group, seek to learn more about how atrial fibrillation (AF) and its treatments affect athletic people. If you are an athlete or if you regularly exercise vigorously, please give the Yale researchers a few moments of your time.
Here is the link to the survey.
Since I had AF in the past, I filled it out. It takes only a few minutes.
Prof. Lampert’s research into this area is important because AF affects people in vastly different ways.
It’s weird; while most AF stems from advanced age or lifestyle...
Source: Dr John M - May 23, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr John Source Type: blogs
Tree nut allergies and cosmetics – episode 183
On today’s episode we answer beauty questions about :
Should one be worried about tree nuts in cosmetic products?What’s the difference between a toners and astringent?How does one spot a bad dupe versus an affordable product that works?Why do some nail polishes last longer on some people than others?
Show intro notes
Article: You are what you eat: Within-Subject Increases in Fruit and Vegetable Consumption Confer Beneficial Skin-Color Changes
Is there really a problem with walnut facial exfoliators?
Do you need to exfoliate your head?
Beauty Science Questions
Should we be worried about tree nu...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - May 22, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Perry Romanowski Tags: Podcast Source Type: blogs
Tree nut allergies and cosmetics – episode 183
On today’s episode we answer beauty questions about :
Should one be worried about tree nuts in cosmetic products?What’s the difference between a toners and astringent?How does one spot a bad dupe versus an affordable product that works?Why do some nail polishes last longer on some people than others?
Show intro notes
Article: You are what you eat: Within-Subject Increases in Fruit and Vegetable Consumption Confer Beneficial Skin-Color Changes
Is there really a problem with walnut facial exfoliators?
Do you need to exfoliate your head?
Beauty Science Questions
Should we be worried about tree nu...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - May 22, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Perry Romanowski Tags: Podcast Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Self-Care for Your Mental Health
Self-care is important for everyone, but our hosts feel it is extra important for people managing mental illnesses and other mental health issues. It stands to reason that, if you don’t take care of yourself, then the symptoms of an illness will have an easier time making our lives miserable.
In this episode, our hosts discuss what self-care is, what self-care isn’t, and what they personally do to care for themselves. Listen now!
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“Would it be self-care for me to watch a bunch of guys getting hit in the privates?’”
– Gabe Howard
Highlights From ‘Self-Care f...
Source: World of Psychology - April 29, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: A Bipolar, a Schizophrenic, and a Podcast Tags: A Bipolar, A Schizophrenic, and a Podcast Schizophrenia Self-Help Source Type: blogs
Wearable Epinephrine Injector to Stop Allergic Reactions
People susceptible to acute allergic reactions, particularly children, can find it difficult to keep an epinephrine injector (think EpiPen) on hand. Adrenaline, the common name of epinephrine, has to be delivered quickly before anaphylactic shock sets in, so a team at Rice University have developed a wearable injector that can be used at any time.
“The idea came from me, because I suffer peanut allergies,” in a Rice release said Justin Tang, who worked on the device at the Brown School of Engineering’s Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen with adviser and Rice lecturer Deirdre Hunter. “I’m very self-aware and worrie...
Source: Medgadget - April 22, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Emergency Medicine Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
The Best Ways to Parent When You ’re Not Feeling Like Your Best Self
You're reading The Best Ways to Parent When You’re Not Feeling Like Your Best Self, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles.
Becoming a parent means taking on the equivalent of three full-time jobs with no vacation or paid sick leave. And on top of it all, you still have to make it into the office each day to keep a roof over your family's head. Throw in preparing meals, changing diapers and wiping snotty noses, and it becomes easy to see why so many moms live in a perpetual state of exhaustion.
As much as y...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - April 22, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jennifer Landis Tags: featured self improvement parenting parenting advice Source Type: blogs
6 Mistakes to Avoid in Your Recovery from Depression and Anxiety
Recovering from depression and anxiety call for the same kind of shrewdness and amount of perspiration as does running a 4,000-person company. I say that having never done the latter. But hear out my logic: great leaders must master impeccable governing skills, develop the discipline of a triathlete, and build enough stamina to manage multiple personalities. And so does anyone wanting to get outside of her head and live a little.
So I think it’s fitting to translate the insight of a book about business success, The Wisdom of Failure: How to Learn the Tough Leadership Lessons Without Paying the Price by Laurence Weinzimm...
Source: World of Psychology - April 11, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Bipolar Brain and Behavior Depression General Habits Industrial and Workplace Mental Health and Wellness Motivation and Inspiration Personality Self-Help Depression Recovery Depressive Episode Source Type: blogs
30 Days of 16/8 Intermittent Fasting
On Sunday I finished a 30-day trial of intermittent fasting, testing the variation where one fasts for 16 hours and eats only during an 8-hour window each day. In this post I’ll share what the experience was like.Of the various 30-day trials I’ve done, this was one of the easiest, especially after the first few days of adjustment. I messed up on one day for logistics reasons, eating in about a 10.5-hour window that day, but otherwise it was pretty smooth sailing. Some days I got the eating window below 7 hours. The tightest eating window I tried was about 6 hours.I’ve had some previous fasting experience,...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - March 26, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Health intermittent fasting Source Type: blogs
How To Go Beyond The Airline Medical Kit To Keep Passengers Healthy In The Future?
Humanity has come a long way from treating patients who have fallen off cliffs after having tried to fly, dressed like birds: parallel to the development of flying, the practice of how to keep people alive during flights has also greatly evolved. How can digital health add to the practice of aviation medicine in the future and make sure that passengers step off the plane as healthy as they got in?
From Icarus through hot air balloons to mid-air
meditation
The human desire to conquer the sky is a
thousand-year-old story, with tales such as the Greek myth about Daedalus and
Icarus. The duo wanted to escape from Crete,...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 21, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Health Sensors & Trackers aero aeronautics aviation emergency emergency medicine flight flight medicine Healthcare portable portable diagnostics predictive prevention technology wearables Source Type: blogs
“ I need something to dip into guacamole ”
Dipping foods into various dips and sauces surely ranks among the favorite ways to enjoy food: dipping chips into salsa, celery sticks into guacamole, crackers into cheese, shrimp into cocktail sauce, etc.
So how do we go about resuming our dipping habits sans wheat and grains? Here are some ideas for foods to use for dipping, healthy choices that contain no wheat or grains and provide limited exposure to carbohydrates, while remaining otherwise healthy. And some, like jicama and asparagus, also provide prebiotic fibers to nourish bowel flora; dip them into hummus and you’ll add even more probiotics to your day. Vegg...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - February 25, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates gluten-free grain-free wheat belly Source Type: blogs
