Mind Body Medicine – Page 4

Chronic Disease

How Relationships Impact Your Emotional Health

Two studies demonstrate the impact relationships and social support have on our health.

April 18, 2016 No Comments

Disease Prevention

Are You Ready For A Spring Detox? Here’s 7 Simple Ways to Improve Your Health

Are you ready for spring? Perhaps now is the time to revisit your New Year resolutions and recommit to them, if you’ve let them slip away from your daily activities.

April 11, 2016 No Comments

Heart Health

How Healthy Is Your Heart?

February is heart health month-and while thinking of what I could share with you, the questions occurred, do you have a healthy heart? How would you know? Do you need an angiogram or your cholesterol to let you know for sure?

February 3, 2016 No Comments

Exercise

New Study Confirms Meditation, Yoga, & Prayer Health Benefits

The medicinal benefits of meditation and yoga are now firmly established in scientific literature. One of the latest studies to emerge on the matter comes from Harvard researchers working at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). They determined that meditation literally rebuilds the brain’s grey matter in just eight weeks. It’s the very first study to document that meditation produces changes over time in the brain’s grey matter.

January 26, 2016 No Comments

Chronic Disease

Diet Linked Again to Depression Relief and Prevention

Women who eat fewer than two serves of fruit a day face a greater risk of developing depression, University of Queensland research shows.

January 26, 2016 No Comments

Chronic Disease

Better Sleep and Tai Chi Reduce Inflammation and Promote Health

Inflammatory processes occur throughout the body, with a primary function of promoting healing after injury. However, when too active, these inflammatory processes can also damage the body in many ways, and may contribute to heart disease, stroke, certain cancers, and other significant medical problems.

December 29, 2015 No Comments

Mind Body

Part 2: The Season of Giving: The Heart of Self-Love

During the holiday season, we usually focus on giving gifts to our loved ones. I’d like for you to consider an overlooked, but critically important aspect of this time of year-the importance and primacy of self-love.

December 16, 2015 No Comments