Health
A Healthy Age
Avoid That Nasty ‘Sickly Senior Status’ – Our Immune System Is the Key
But I’m no longer bragging. What in the heck happened to our immune systems this spring? What happens to senior immune systems in general?
A Healthy Age
Look Younger Inside and Out
By sweating, exerting real effort, being breathless you’ve stressed your body, demanding it to respond with repair and growth.
Ban the Chicken Fat?
Stearic acid, found in cocoa butter, doesn't seem to raise cholesterol concentrations, unlike fats high in lauric, myristic, or palmitic acid.... Perhaps can we bite into a steak sandwich instead of broiled fillet of fish while scientists investigate why stearic acid doesn't seem to raise cholesterol levels?
Dear Pharmacist
Acid Blockers May Lead to Gluten Sensitivity
If your gut lining is damaged due to extended use or misuse of potent acid blockers, or gluten, then your brain chemicals are imbalanced. This leads to depression and anxiety.
Eat Right Now
Chocolate-dipped Deception
One of the most disrespectful things you can do to your temple is feed it sugar. More than 8,000 scientific papers support the premise that sugar not only makes people fat but also sick. To place sweet poison into so many foods is like back-alley drug dealers spiking the punch so you'll want more.
Leslie Goes Boom
The Stigma of Mental Illness – How Depressing
I know few people who haven’t either been touched by some type of mental illness personally or know a close friend or family member who has. Nevertheless, the stigma of having a mental illness remains socially poor.
Dear Pharmacist
Benzodiazepine Dangers and Lies
Benzodiazepines are among the most prescribed drugs for the elderly, and their side effects are associated with dizziness and drowsiness, and of course, the natural consequence to that, falling and hip fractures.
Eat Right Now
Mellow Yellow: One Person's Weed – Another Person's Medicine
Dandelion greens, flower tops, and roots are a galaxy of medicinal stars – rich in folic acid, riboflavin, pyridoxine, niacin, vitamin E and powerful antioxidant vitamin C that are essential for optimum health.
Dear Pharmacist
Here's What Happens When You Cry
As an added effect, our emotional pain tolerance increases after we have cried. This is human nature. Some other interesting benefits associated with crying include enhanced communication, better coping skills and antibacterial effects.
Eat Right Now
I'm Cuckoo for Cashews
Two handfuls of cashews is the therapeutic equivalent of a prescription dose of Prozac. Inside your temple chemistry, L-tryptophan is broken down into anxiety-reducing, snooze-inducing niacin.