There are plenty of studies in the medical literature that look at severe sleep issues and how hard insomnia is on the human body… …linking insomnia to: (click to read articles I’ve written for you on these medical studies): Asthma Weight Gain ADHD & Dementia But today’s study goes further. Because a… Read more »
Today I am excited to share with you a new healing tool I just developed… Daily Healing Focus Cards! I created this simple tool to help patients have a simple way, each and every day, to align with Well Being. Filled with fun, uplifting and simple tips and techniques… these are things that are… Read more »
Increased inflammation in the body worsens symptoms of clinical depression, says a new study published in JAMA Psychiatry on November 18, 2015. Higher levels of blood markers of inflammation were found to be directly correlated with a variety of depressive symptoms, including sleep difficulty, decreased energy levels, decreased motivation and increased or decreased… Read more »
We all know that getting morning light each day significantly improves seasonal blues (or winter depression.) But a new study shows that light therapy lifts depression — even depression that is NOT seasonally related — *more effectively* than antidepressant drug therapy. The assumption has always been that major depressive disorder is different from seasonal… Read more »
As we head into 2016… the one thing that is crucial for you to know that: You are literally a self-healing machine… …it’s what you *DO* best! Your: acupuncturist chiropractor nutritionist herbalist therapist physician surgeon massage therapist etc… ALL rely on *your body* to heal itself. I know I rely on my patient’s… Read more »
Recently published in the Journal Of Neuroscience (June 2015) researchers looked at the role of norepinephrine in songbirds to determine what effect it has on stimuli detection and processing. What they found is that norepinepherine helped decrease the “background noise” of the brain, allowing songbirds to not only enhance their auditory signal detection but… Read more »
As I blogged about last week… mood is not just something that colors our day. Our moods actually make a huge difference in our projected lifespan… this is now a medical fact! On the heels of that study, yet another study was published just last month (August 19, 2015 in the Proc Biol Science) … Read more »
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