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Finding Joy in Little Things

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Find joy in the little things. This piece of folk advice has been around for eons, and is one that many of us try to live by. But is there actually any real benefit to this practice? According to research, yes, there is indeed some benefit to savoring fleeting moments of joy – also known […]

Reversing Diabetes

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Jimmy was a big baby—10 pounds at birth. By age ten, he tipped the scales at 150 pounds. Just baby fat, his mother reasoned. He will grow out of it. Jimmy did grow out of it and into something worse: diabetes. By age thirteen he was twenty pounds heavier, tired all the time, and constantly […]

Autoimmune Disease – Why Does the Body Attack Itself?

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Autoimmune Disease: Why Is My Immune System Attacking Itself? With this title, Dr. Ana Maria Orbai published an article on autoimmune diseases on the Johns Hopkins Medicine website. Let’s now analyze why, in these diseases, the body starts to attack itself. According to Dr. Orbai, a rheumatologist at the Johns Hopkins Arthritis Center, autoimmune diseases […]

Ginger – From Culinary Delight to Modern Medicine

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Ginger (Zingiber officinale) is the underground stem or rhizome of a tall, perennial, tropical plant. The fleshy rhizomes of ginger are harvested when the plant is about one year old and sun-dried for about a week. Typically, that sold in a store is candied or crystallized; it is prepared by boiling the fresh rhizome in […]

Is Stress Turning my Hair Grey?

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When we start to go grey depends a lot on genetics. Your first grey hairs usually appear anywhere between your twenties and fifties. For men, grey hairs normally start at the temples and sideburns. Women tend to start greying on the hairline, especially at the front. The most rapid greying usually happens between ages 50 […]

Engineered for Success

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In September 2017, Harvey pounded Texas with such violence that it put 2/3 of Houston under water. Irma followed shortly after, crushing the Caribbean Islands, pounding Florida, and wreaking havoc in surrounding islands. Aside from the indescribable human and private property loss, these hurricanes inflicted more than 500 billion dollars in damage. Storm-ravaged cities face […]