Do only the lonely die young, or does social connection and support affect most measures of health and longevity? Yes, it’s true: the less social connections you have, the greater the tendency towards illness of many kinds – physical and mental. Even if you don’t feel lonely at all. But how big an effect? For […]
Some New Ways to Renew Your Body – the Four Fold Path
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, […]
Star Wars’ Lessons for Health
Wookiehealth Is the Star Wars Universe healthy? Has technology capable of hyperdrive and planet cracking created sensible and effective health care? Indeed, the experiences of a galaxy far, far away provides many lessons for the backward populations of present day Earth: 1. Wars are hell on planetary health and health care. For Rey, one of three young, new […]
Preventing Holiday Colds
Stopping Colds It’s winter, time for holiday coughs, colds and flus – and ways to prevent them. True, it does not look like winter; Christmas time temperatures in the seventies across the northeast US should give even the most hardened global climate change “hoaxist” real pause. But though cold weather with its changes in nasal and sinus temperatures, […]
Lighting Up the Holidays
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 […]