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How to Prevent Depression

December 11, 2016 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

In the 1990 Global Burden Disease study, depression was listed as the fourth largest cause of disability worldwide.  In the 2000 study, it was third.  In the 2010 study, second.  Perhaps a third of Americans will eventually get clinically depressed.  It’s also hitting younger ages. Recent surveys point to perhaps 17% of American female secondary students […]

Simple Ways to Treat Insomnia

September 17, 2016 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

America is increasingly sleepless. It’s no surprise.  Insane politics and politicians cause many sleepless nights. But insomnia can be caused by sleep apnea and shift work; hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism; depression and anxiety; alcohol and marijuana; chronic lung disease and congestive heart failure.  Just as there hundreds of causes of insomnia, most people who suffer sleeplessness do […]

Returning to Sleep

February 28, 2016 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

People complain to me ceaselessly – they can’t get back to sleep.  Yet returning to sleep engages the same tools that help you fall asleep. If sleep is as necessary to life as food, why is returning to sleep so difficult?  It seems many of us have forgotten how to rest. To fall asleep most […]

Some New Ways to Renew Your Body – the Four Fold Path

January 9, 2016 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Are there really new ways to rebuild and renew your only human body? That’s one question I’m asked habitually every New Year.  The short answer – yes.  You can renew your body along the lines you like – by combining old ways that work for tens of millions. None of this program is about about “superfoods,” “amazing” herbals and vitamins, […]

Lighting Up the Holidays

December 19, 2015 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Sad Happy Holidays Tis the season to be jolly – and many are not.  There’s the reality of seasonal depression li– that a quarter to half of folks in dark environments like the northern US  feel down in the winter.  Add on a further reality, that about thirty percent of Americans will be depressed lifetime. Perhaps ten percent are […]

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