It’s essential to prioritize what’s best for you. For me, letting go of how I thought recovery “should look” was key to finding my path to emotional recovery after breast cancer.
Although you can get a cold throughout the year, most people have a higher risk of the common cold in the winter and spring months. One of the most common symptoms is a sore throat. Two pleasing ingredients in herbal tea may help soothe your sore throat, making it easier to swallow and eat.
Alternative therapies have become increasingly popular. The basic goal of alternative therapy is to improve your general health and relieve anxiety symptoms with few or no side effects.
After experiencing seasonal depression for 35 winters, I’ve created what I call a “comfort kit” of tools that get me through to spring. My comfort kit is a mix of products, techniques, and activities that make me feel better.
Ivermectin is an over 30-year-old wonder drug that treats life- and sight-threatening infections. Although ivermectin has been a game-changer for people with certain infectious diseases, it isn’t going to save patients from COVID-19 infection. In fact, it could cost them their lives.
On a Thursday morning in late June, about a dozen men and women in bright orange vests bearing the words “clinic escort volunteer” line the streets parallel to the EMW Women’s Surgical Center in Louisville, Kentucky.
Breathing exercises can help make your lungs more efficient and may be beneficial for reducing the impact of COVID-19. The breathing exercises we outline in this article will not prevent COVID-19, but they may help lessen the severity of symptoms.
Epidemiologist and public health researcher Melissa Hawkins explains the way researchers calculate how well a vaccine prevents disease, what influences these numbers and how Omicron is changing things.
Many people have experienced reductions in stress, pain and anxiety and sometimes even euphoria after exercise. What’s behind this so-called “runner’s high”? New research on the neuroscience of exercise may surprise you.
As winter begins and the holidays are in full swing, the COVID-19 pandemic has entered another worrying phase. Increasing rates of infections have left many people unsure about their holiday plans.
As women, we are fortunate to have a monthly cycling of hormones, which ends (or begins) with the physical and emotional catharsis of menstruation. You may at first find this positive contextualization difficult conceive.
While wintertime can certainly be jolly and very festive, suffering from the winter blues is also quite common. If you are feeling the winter blues, here are seven helpful tips to make yourself feel better.
Urgent opposition testimony is needed this week to prevent the licensing of Reiki, qigong and more in Massachusetts. This unnecessary licensure legislation will disrupt an already thriving and well-established industry in Massachusetts.
Polarity forces may be the key to problems, but they are also key healing tools. They are centered in a chakra, but can also be attached to physical organs, systems, or cells, or to auric fields. They can attach to sources either helpful or harmful, and even to viruses, bacteria, and fungi.
As a seventh grader, Emma Lembke was one of the last in her friend group in Birmingham, Alabama, to get on social media. When she did, she says she soon found herself addicted, spending five hours a day on the apps, mostly Instagram.
Smell training is essentially smelling the same odors over and over so that you can retrain your body’s ability to detect and identify that odor.
It’s the time of year when the chances of “coming down with something” increase. If you do end up with either a cold or the flu, you can take a proactive approach to support your body in recovering as fast as possible.
Using holistic Ayurvedic skincare practices is easy to incorporate into your daily life. When used routinely you can expect to see improvement not only in your skin, but overall wellness in body, mind and spirit.
As Lyme disease season makes its annual return, a biologist from the University of Richmond is warning that some symptoms of the disease overlap with those of COVID-19. “Lyme is associated with general flu-like symptoms and fatigue. These are also symptoms of COVID-19.
Imagine coffee shops, grocery stores, school classrooms, restaurants and concert venues now made safe by this technology. These technologies could help protect human health in public spaces in future times of crisis, but also during times of relative normalcy.
Though you may think that back sleeping is reserved for vampires, zombies, and Frankenstein, it turns out that sleeping on your back may be a simple, cost-effective solution to a host of ailments: from sleep issues to health woes.
Hawai‘i also has developed the most comprehensive post-pandemic recovery plan, one that includes feminism as a core principle. The “Building Bridges, Not Walking on Backs” is a plan that advocates for improving the lives of women to spur a post-pandemic economic recovery.
Keep Reiki, qigong, Ayurveda, herbalism, Jin Shin Jyutsu, energy medicine and all alternative health treatments readily available in Massachusetts! Please let the State House know today that complementary healthcare is important to you!
The most important thing to understand about vaccines is that they teach your body how to gear up to fight an infection, without your body having to deal with the infection itself. In this way, vaccines help your body be prepared for invasions by germs that could otherwise make you very sick.
Based on our extensive review of the evidence – and the recognition that there are limited alternatives for the necessary treatment of high fever and severe pain – we recommend that pregnant women refrain from using acetaminophen unless it is medically recommended by a doctor.
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