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Water Helps to Relief Anxiety

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Many can feel overwhelmed at some stage of their life with feelings of tension, nervousness and fear for the worst. In a 2020 Survey, 62% reported having some degree of anxiety, and around 31% will experience an anxiety disorder in some point in their life. The growing field of nutritional psychiatry focuses on the effects […]

Healthy Weight Helps

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Cindy had many challenges in her life. She made a positive choice to quit smoking but then gained 80 pounds. “I felt miserable and had a terrible self-image. I was plagued by headaches and stomach pain. I decided that it was time to change my attitude, my thinking, and my choices to turn my life […]

Exercise: It Goes to Your Head

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Hulda was depressed, overweight, sickly, and constantly fatigued. In her 60’s and suffering from the loss of her husband, her poor health aggravated her depression. Born in 1896 and reared on a Canadian farm, her diet was rich in meat, milk, cream, butter, eggs, and candy. She began walking to relieve her sadness — and […]

Do Athletes Really Need Protein Supplements?

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Protein supplements for athletes are literally sold by the bucketful. The marketing that accompanies them persistently promotes the attainment of buff biceps and six-pack abs. In 2021 the protein supplement market in the US was valued at 2.1 billion US Dollars, and is predicted to keep growing by about 8% per year. But do athletes […]

Chronic Pain: Roots and Remedies

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It all began with a slip on icy steps, a broken hip, an injured back, and a messy lawsuit. Surgery and medication had not resolved Jim’s pain. “I can’t believe it,” he complained: “Here I am, an executive being reprimanded for poor work. I am taking high doses of pain pills that are affecting my […]

Plea for a Simpler Life – Less is More

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If my grandfather, born in 1890, were to come into my house, he would not find his way around, neither in my household nor in my office. Our present generation has so many more opportunities to shape our working world and our private lives. But life has also gotten more complicated. We need to be […]

How Fasting Improves Mental Health and Stress Control

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There are many different motives why people choose to do fasting. Some will do it to lose weight, others to clean the body, and often it is done for religious purposes. While all of that can be achieved when done properly, many do not realize that fasting has a positive effect on our mental health […]

Exercise – Intensity or Duration?

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When you start an exercise program, you will begin slowly and build up gradually. This increases can be in exercise duration, or in intensity of the exercise routine. When do you go for longer duration, and when do you want to increase exercise intensity? And how do you go practically to maximize the benefits of […]

Autophagy – A Key to Better Health

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It is happening in every cell of our body, but hardly anyone knows about autophagy. It is an important process to maintain cellular health. In 2016, the Japanese researcher Yoshinori Ohsumi received the Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering important links between fasting and autophagy. But already in 1963 the Belgian biochemist Christian de Duve […]