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IT'S TIME TO GET SERIOUS ABOUT BRAIN HEALTH! Did you know that STRESS & DEPRESSION can shrink your brain?? It has been found that major depression or chronic stress can cause a loss in brain volume. Loss of brain volume CAN and WILL cause

Give Your Immune System a Break Long-term immunity is built as the immune system becomes stronger by reacting to bacteria, fungi, parasites, and viruses that pose a threat to our health. By severely restricting our exposure to these microbes by regularly sanitizing our environment, we risk the lack of creating our usual natural immunity to common bacteria and viruses. Emotions also have a profound impact on our immunity. Loneliness, stress (particularly chronic stress), and depression can lower our resilience to these same microbes. The lifestyle changes, isolation, and financial insecurity of

Keeping Your Brain Healthy As the world emerges from what was for many a prolonged period of inactivity and stress, it’s not just our bodies that have become soft - our brains are inevitably affected too. Just as Dr. James Levine coined the term “sitting is the new smoking” to describe the increase in heart disease and diabetes that accompanies too much inactivity, 2018 research from the University of California has found that sedentary behavior is also linked to thinning in regions of the brain that are critical to memory formation. Our Brain is Arguably our Most Valuable Organ A healthy brai

A Natural Approach to Lowering High Blood Pressure Did you know your blood pressure could be out of control without you even knowing? High blood pressure is a major contributor to heart disease, and the months of stress, uncertainty, poor diet and immobility we have all been going through are not helping matters. When the way your blood flows through your body is affected by your habits, vital nutrients and oxygen can’t get to where they are needed in the body. And as the pressure continues to mount, we start to see physical damage in the arteries and organs that can lead to heart disease and

Could the cause of hair loss be something more? There are so many reasons as to why hair could be thinning. It could be genetically predisposed, diet, shampoo use, stress, hormones, pregnancy or even vitamin deficiencies! There is always a

Aloha, Spring is here and the weather is warming up! People are getting outside and enjoying the beautiful sunshine. Personally, the warmer weather motivates me to exercise more and shake off my winter’s hibernation. But as I exercise more, I experience more aches, pains, and tight muscles. I constantly need to stretch in order to keep my body mobile, flexible, and injury-free. I find yoga and stretching help significantly with my aches and pains from a bulging lumbar and neuropathy in my feet and legs. Yoga can help in more ways than you can imagine ranging from relieving stress to protecting

Stress, sleep, nipple stimulation, medications, pregnancy, and macroprolactin matter.

How you sit or lie down for the sample, and stress during collection, can affect this result. Use the cutoff from the lab that ran your test.

…e immune cells that can release cytokines when they receive stress or danger signals. Follow the pathway Dr. Purser discusses reactive oxygen species, NF-κB, NLRP3, and the cytokines IL-8/CXCL8 and CCL2/MCP-1. His antioxidant teaching pair…

…often with finger or toe color changes triggered by cold or stress. Primary and secondary Raynaud’s have different implications. Follow the pathway Dr. Purser connects blood-vessel function, endothelial stress, and inflammatory pathways in…

…269, rs4818, rs4646312, and rs165722. He connects COMT with stress response, pain sensitivity, sleep, and estrogen processing. Linked groups of variants are called haplotypes; a label such as “slow COMT” is a simplification, not a psychiatr…

…es SLC19A1, folate availability, methylation, and metabolic stress alongside gout. Urate crystals can activate the NLRP3–IL-1 beta pathway; homocysteine is a separate consideration that should not be confused with the crystal that triggers …