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Holiday Stress is Contagious in Relationships

December 11, 2025 by Rosie Shrout - Reading Time: 5 minutes

With the flurry of shopping, spending money and traveling to see family, stress can feel inevitable during the holidays. You might already know stress can affect your own health, but what you may not realize is that your stress – and how you manage it – is catching. Your stress can spread around, particularly to […]

What Happens to Your Body when You’re Dehydrated?

December 7, 2025 by Toby Mündel - Reading Time: 4 minutes

Water is essential for human life. It accounts for for 50-70% of our body weight and is crucial for most bodily functions. Any deficit in normal body water – through dehydration, sickness, exercise or heat stress – can make us feel rotten. First we feel thirsty and fatigued, and may develop a mild headache. This […]

How Do Male and Female Minds Diverge?

November 30, 2025 by Dr. Cesar Vasconcellos de Souza - Reading Time: 6 minutes

Years ago, I read an article in a scientific journal about female ambiguity, written by a gynecologist from Rio de Janeiro, Dr. Nelson Socou, with the following title: “A study on ambiguity in women.” Let’s reflect on this. Dr. Nelson explains in his article that although it is a difficult topic to explore, practical observation […]

10 Tips to Avoid Weight Gain During the Holidays

November 23, 2025 by Cyd Notter - Reading Time: 4 minutes

The weeks between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day can be the most challenging for those striving to lose (or maintain) their weight. The abundance of cookies, rich desserts, and beverages, combined with increased stress levels, lack of sleep, and sedentary lifestyles, leads to the perfect storm for veering off track. Plus, we often give ourselves unspoken “permission” to over-indulge. It’s […]

Reversing Brain Damage of Chronic Stress

November 16, 2025 by Barbara Jacquelyn Sahakian, Christelle Langley and Muzaffer Kaser - Reading Time: 7 minutes

A bit of stress is a normal part of our daily lives, which can even be good for us. Overcoming stressful events can make us more resilient. But when the stress is severe or chronic – for example, caused by the breakdown of a marriage or partnership, death in the family, or bullying – it […]

Immune Health: Your Firm Foundation

November 9, 2025 by Vicki Griffin - Reading Time: 5 minutes

Hilbert and Sandy built a beautiful home in Apopka, Florida. The foundation was not built on solid ground. The poor soil and shifting sand resulted in drops in the foundation throughout the house. Over time, the house developed massive cracks in the brickwork; the basement floor buckled until it resembled the aftermath of an earthquake; […]

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