Psychosomatic Diseases

8 Natural Remedies for Mental Clarity

June 7, 2026 by Dr. Cesar Vasconcellos de Souza - Reading Time: 7 minutes

Do you think your mental health doesn’t depend on what you eat, drink, and do with your body? Do you think you can eat whatever you want, lead a sedentary lifestyle, spend all your time indoors, avoid sunlight, and not drink water—and still not suffer any adverse effects on your brain? Human health is the […]

How Lifestyle, Mental Health and Stress Control Go Together

January 18, 2026 by Barbara Jacquelyn Sahakian and Christelle Langley - Reading Time: 6 minutes

Our cognition and mental well-being are crucial factors for our quality of life and put us in a good position to contribute to society. Ultimately, it can be near impossible to achieve physical goals and demanding life challenges if our brain health is not optimal. Yet most of us appear to be more concerned with […]

How Do Emotions Affect Your Everyday Life?

August 10, 2025 by Dr. Cesar Vasconcellos de Souza - Reading Time: 4 minutes

Emotions have the power to drive our actions on a day-to-day basis, and they influence our physiology, or our bodies, more than we think. Understanding how our emotions affect us and our relationships can help us achieve better emotional well-being. In the book Discovering Psychology, Don and Sandra Hockenbury conceptualize emotion as a complex psychological […]

Autoimmune Disease – Why Does the Body Attack Itself?

June 15, 2025 by Dr. Cesar Vasconcellos de Souza - Reading Time: 6 minutes

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 […]

Engineered for Success

May 25, 2025 by Vicki Griffin - Reading Time: 4 minutes

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 […]

How to Remain Youthful and Resilient Despite Stress

May 4, 2025 by Jolanta Burke and Padraic J. Dunne - Reading Time: 7 minutes

A bit of stress can be good for your mental and physical well-being, but too much can lead to anxiety, depression and other health problems. It can also make you age faster. So learning to become more stress-resilient is important if you’re not in a hurry to grow old fast. Studies have shown that people […]