Is America’s economy failing? Why are 45 percent of families barely making it? Is a nation with stalled growth, a corrupt and over powerful financial sector, staggering debt, political dysfunction and fighting two wars overseas while its infrastructure crumbles, able to come back?
“Beer and valium, that’s how I sleep. Works every time, a perfect night’s sleep.” So said an actor friend of mine, who often had trouble “coming down” after a play and used this cocktail three or four times a week. Yet often alcohol plus sleeping pills do not “work.” Thirty percent of American women use some kind of sleeping pill each week, but combinations are rarely remarked upon — though clinically common. Studies of them are relatively sparse, as researchers tend to look at one drug at a time.
You’re an ecosystem — a complicated one. Your cell phone is just one component of it — and an inescapable part of your biology. Fortunately, it’s one you can control. A recent UK survey from 12 separate districts found bacteria on 92 percent of cell phones — and only 82 percent of human hands. Fecal bacteria were found on one sixth of cell phones and human hands. The most feculent cell phones were found in London — 28 percent.
Times are tough. People are out of work and can’t find any, 15 percent of the country often goes to bed hungry, and the euro may crash and upend the world economy. Folks need a break.
“Pills never cured anything!” This was the profound statement that resonated with me after I returned from a wellness seminar last week. Of course I kind of knew that but I never really stood still at this fact because it is so universally ignored
Vitamin — the word itself conjures up healthiness, something vital for life. Without them we can’t live. But can we have too much of them? Yes. Just like we can have too much food
Dr. Matthew Edlund spoke Oct. 18, at Book1Store on Main Street about simple changes we can all make in our daily routines that will add years to our lives and keep us healthier. Dr. Edlund directs the Center for Circadian Medicine and is an internationally recognized expert on rest, biological clocks, performance and sleep. His [...]
Is eating fish the same as eating fish oil? If you believe advertising and the drumbeat of omega 3 supplement makers, you might think so. But the facts are different
June 25, 2009. I was rapidly scanning BBC News when I shouted “No” at the monitor and gasped before recognizing why. Michael Jackson was so young. How could he die? I gasped again when my Webmaster told me CNN Headline News was calling Dr. Conrad Murray, Jackson’s personal physician at the time of his death, the “rest doctor.” Whatever Michael Jackson was getting before he died, it wasn’t rest…
Brain, your gut is calling. It’s got a lot to say — about, stress, anxiety and your mood. That’s the potential upshot of a recent study published in PNAS by Javier Bravo and company from the University College Cork and nicely described in the Sept. 3 edition of the Economist. The study emphasizes how the innumerable gut bacteria affect behavior
