Neuropathy sufferers discover a new way to live!
Imagine feeling as though you can’t participate in life with your family, take a simple walk or get a good night’s sleep. Imagine living life worrying about losing your balance and falling, leading to a broken bone. For over 20 million Americans that is exactly how they go through life due to neuropathy. Neuropathy is […]
The Smartphone Generation: Should Parents Be Concerned?
For as long as screen-based technology has existed, concerned parents have questioned the potential consequences of its presence in the lives of their children. Even when it was limited to devices like a television set in the family room, the fear that technology could developmentally stunt children and adolescents was alive and well. That anxiety […]
Belly Fat and Brain Health: How They’re Connected
Without question, one of the most common New Year’s resolutions made annually is weight loss. Many of us begin the year focused on our health and well-being. We are enthusiastic about the possibility of change and fully committed to creating new habits for a new season. We capitalize on that momentum, filling our refrigerators with […]
Medicinal Marijuana, Brain Age, and Your Internal Pharmacy
One of the most significant brain imaging studies to be conducted, thus far, has linked the use of marijuana to accelerated brain age. The study, published by the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, was led by scientists from a number of respected medical research institutions, including John’s Hopkins and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The […]
Brilliant Learning: Empowering Adults to Empower Children
Childhood is filled with milestones. From the day their children are born, parents look forward to their first smile, their first steps, and their first words. Each of these experiences comes with its emotional dynamic. The first day of school, however, brings a unique pressure all its own. Parents often experience an intense sense of […]
New book, Saving Your Brain, unravels the mystery of the many chronic illnesses ravaging the American population today
If we could travel back in time to 1920, or even 1950, and ask anyone on the street, “What is Alzheimer’s?” probably 100 out of 100 would answer, “I don’t know.” Alzheimer’s disease was so rare in the first half of the 20th Century, in fact, that most of the family doctors of the time […]
This study group was 88 percent less likely to develop dementia! What did they do that others don’t?
As our population ages, scientists are scrambling to understand neurological diseases such as dementia as well as ways to prevent or even cure them. In the latest study on the subject, published in Neurology, researchers focused on one specific action people can take to lower their risk of cognitive and neurological decline. Fitness Level and […]
Duke University students and staff learn braintapping during the Duke Week of Wellness
Healthy Duke Duke University has long been considered among the top providers of healthcare in the country, and now they are striving to ensure the campus is among the healthiest organizations as well. To that end, they’ve launched the Healthy Duke initiative to engage students, faculty, and staff, in not only living healthier lives, but also realizing […]
Cancer Treatment Gets a Boost from Braintapping
Cancer. That single word strikes fear in the hearts of almost everyone. It ranks right up there with war, famine, and other diseases as a deadly horror. People ravaged by this disease are burdened with tension, depression, worry, and sleepless nights. Worse, the very stress associated with diagnosis and treatment can suppress the immune system […]
Does the Placebo Effect have the Power to Heal?
Your Mind Do we really have the power in our own minds to create change in our bodies and our lives? That answer is a resounding yes! It’s called the placebo effect, and it’s many times proven more effective than the drug it’s being tested against. For example, in a 2012 article published in Women’s […]
