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Everyone is Responsible for His Health!

September 19, 2021 by Esther Neumann - Reading Time: 6 minutes

Personal responsibility for health is one of the most important pillars of our healthcare system. Great advances in medical research give us access to expensive treatments that are covered by the healthcare system. People’s life expectancy is increasing. Just in spite of the progress, our society is not getting healthier. The prolonged lifespan is not […]

Seven Foods to Reduce Stress

September 12, 2021 by Martin Neumann - Reading Time: 5 minutes

Just thinking about all the chores that are building up, the errands you have to run, the looming work deadlines and the social demands on your overbooked calendar can run you ragged. Talk about stress! If left unchecked, stress can lead to many health problems, including heart disease, diabetes, obesity, and high blood pressure. Not […]

Celiac Disease – An Intestinal Problem

September 5, 2021 by Esther Neumann - Reading Time: 10 minutes

Celiac disease is a condition like a chameleon. The symptoms are very versatile and the number of unreported cases is high. About one in every hundred is affected. It can take years for the correct diagnosis to be made. If the disease is not detected in time, it leads to severe malnutrition with many secondary […]

Understanding the Causes of Depression

August 27, 2021 by Dr. Cesar Vasconcellos de Souza - Reading Time: 13 minutes

Depression is the leading mental illness, causing death and disability worldwide. We need to understand the possible psychological causes of depression, and what a person can do to gradually come out of this illness. John’s mother, whose name is fictitious, had postpartum depression and a new depressive episode 15 years later. His father was a […]

Extruder Products – How Healthy are Your Breakfast Cereals?

August 22, 2021 by Esther Neumann - Reading Time: 6 minutes

Licorice, peanut puffs, corn flakes, snack bars, breakfast cereals in all shapes and colors, pasta, crispbread, soy meat, cat and dog food, everything passes through the extruder. The extruder swallows almost everything and converts cheap raw materials into expensive products. But who knows this magic machine, responsible for a number of groceries that have found […]

Are You Stressed Out about Having no Time?

August 15, 2021 by Martin Neumann - Reading Time: 13 minutes

You surely heard the phrase: Time is Money. We may agree, but in practical terms, are you one of those people who turn around any penny you spend, but you do not think much about how you are spending your time? Do you try to do everything at the same time, but at the end […]

Selenium – A Vital Trace Element

August 8, 2021 by Esther Neumann - Reading Time: 6 minutes

Selenium occurs only in traces in the human body. An adult weighing 70 kg has just about 7 milligrams on average. In medicine, selenium is considered a vital, essential trace element. It plays an important role in detoxifying the body, protects the membrane of our body cells, prevents red blood cells from oxidizing and is […]

Dealing with OCD – Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

July 28, 2021 by Dr. Cesar Vasconcellos de Souza - Reading Time: 7 minutes

Obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD is a very unpleasant mental suffering, that can have a drastic impact on somebody’s life. What is OCD, and what can somebody do to deal with it? OCD affects 0.7 to 2.5% of the population. So, for example, in a city with 100,000 inhabitants, there should be between 700 to 2500 […]

Small but Important – The Spleen

July 25, 2021 by Esther Neumann - Reading Time: 6 minutes

If everything is going well in the bloodstream, it is not even palpable. The doctor can only palpate it when it is enlarged. It has very important tasks in the defense against diseases and in the red blood cell turnover. But if necessary, you can live without it. The spleen is a soft, small, spongy […]

9 Rules for Improving Sleep to Reduce Stress

July 17, 2021 by Martin Neumann - Reading Time: 13 minutes

There’s a strong correlation between how much sleep you get and how stressed you are. It’s a vicious cycle that can cause mental distress and even wreak havoc on your physical well-being. It’s a well-known fact that people who don’t get enough sleep are lethargic and constantly experiencing an energy slump. This causes irritability, which […]

Twelve Natural Ways to Improve Gut Health

July 8, 2021 by Elizabeth Hall and Poliana V. Vale - Reading Time: 9 minutes

Discover the amazing contributions of gut bacteria to health and disease. Plus scientifically validated natural remedies that may improve your gut health in just few days! Your gut provides a home for trillions of bacteria. So far there are 2,000 known species of gut bacteria. The contributions of the gut microflora are astounding for they […]

How Do Emotions Influence Cancer Treatment?

July 2, 2021 by Dr. Cesar Vasconcellos de Souza - Reading Time: 5 minutes

Have you ever noticed that some people with cancer die unexpectedly, but others with less favorable diagnosis survive? Perhaps this can often be explained by the relationship between cancer and the mind, emotions and cancer. Is there any scientific basis for us to believe that positive emotions have specific physiological effects? About negative emotions, we […]