Rest is as necessary to survival as food, but people can’t wrap their heads around that fact. They also can’t understand how getting less sleep causes them to gain weight. Though the physiology is complex, the answer is simple – stop treating your body like a machine. We rebuild and regenerate through rest. Without that […]
Celebrity Rehab and the Power of Rest (9/29/10)
Treatment through the Power of Rest Rest is regeneration, and people are so stressed out they need that reset now. Two months ago in Huffington Post I wrote about how performance pressure, crazy hours, adulation, the end of privacy and the insanity of show business lead many performers into preventable addictions. Yesterday I learned Lindsay […]
Health, not Health Care (9/28/10)
What will be there for you? Over fifty million Americans lack health insurance. Republicans are promising to gut the Administration’s health care bill, claiming it busts the budget. They want to privatize Social Security and talk quietly about doing the same with Medicare. Many health insurance premiums went up 20% last year. The economy went […]
Regeneration – The Health Insurance No One Can Take From You (9/26/10)
What You Can Do to Take Control The medical care bandwagon is losing its very wheels. Health insurance is becoming prohibitively expensive – and only if you can get it. More and more people in their forties, fifties and sixties believe that given the changes in our economy and politics, Social Security and Medicare will […]
You’re never the same – which keeps you alive
1. A lot of you got replaced last night. Physically you’re a different person each time you wake. And because we rebuild so quickly and completely, this represents a fantastic opportunity to rebuild your body the way you want. Proteins are the complicated business end of life, creating enzymes, receptors, muscle. They should last a […]