Over 4.5 billion prescriptions are written in the US every year, a staggering number that’s been climbing for over a decade. While many of these medications save lives, they also come with a host of less desirable consequences: sky-high price tags, risk of addiction, and uncomfortable side effects. In hopes of protecting their patients from… Continue reading Trade in Your Meds for Mountains with Forest Bathing
Author: Katherine Grames
A Tweet Better than Twitter: Birdsong Therapy
With a new political firestorm breaking on Twitter each day, it can be hard to remember that a “tweet” isn’t just a 280-character quip that instantly reaches millions of followers. Yes, long before a tweet was a cringe-worthy echo from our nation’s capital, it was simply a sound that a bird made, a note in… Continue reading A Tweet Better than Twitter: Birdsong Therapy
Treating Illness at its Root: The Healing Power of Earthing
The simple fix behind a cure for fatigue, insomnia, and more. If you dig back far, far into your brain—a la elementary school and the awkward joys of middle school—you might remember the first time you learned that everything is made of something called matter. And within this matter are tiny, swirling, electrically-charged particles called… Continue reading Treating Illness at its Root: The Healing Power of Earthing
Top Surprising Nutrients for Bone Health
Healthy bones require a total of 19 vitamins and minerals for optimum health. And many foods contain more than one top bone health nutrient. Whole foods that are unprocessed and organic are best, since pesticides inhibit the growth of nutrients within a plant. It’s also recommended that we regularly alter our menu choices to derive bone… Continue reading Top Surprising Nutrients for Bone Health
10 Fascinating Facts About Cholesterol
CHOLESTEROL MAY PROTECT YOUR SKIN. Skin treatment research, while still in early stages, indicates that cholesterol added as an ingredient in moisturizers could actually help protect skin from UV damage. According to research published in the Journal of Dermatological Science, other lipid—or fatty—ingredients do not confer the same type of protection, making this a potentially… Continue reading 10 Fascinating Facts About Cholesterol
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Are You Physically and Mentally A Good Candidate for Plastic Surgery?
In 2009, then-Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, signed the Donda West Plastic Surgery Law, requiring health checks be conducted prior to all major plastic surgery procedures in the state. This was following the death of rapper Kanye West’s mother. It was later determined that her heart attack was spawned by a combination of numerous postoperative… Continue reading Are You Physically and Mentally A Good Candidate for Plastic Surgery?
How Safe Are Electronic Health Records?
Four years after publication by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), voluntary guidelines designed to increase the safety of e-health records have yet to be implemented fully, according to a new survey. The findings appeared recently in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. “Less than 20 percent of… Continue reading How Safe Are Electronic Health Records?
Sit Up and Be Smarter
The classic advice to “sit (or stand) up straight” may actually help your performance in academic or other areas, researchers say. As part of a study by investigators at San Francisco State University, 125 college students were tested to see how well they could perform simple math — subtracting 7 from 843 sequentially for 15… Continue reading Sit Up and Be Smarter
How to Treat a Minor Cut
Cuts from a sharp knife or a piece of glass are very common. They often occur while people are preparing food, washing dishes or even crafting. All it takes is a slip of the knife or a dish breaking, and suddenly there’s blood. However, while these types of cuts are startling, most can be safety… Continue reading How to Treat a Minor Cut
It’s a #PeriodParty… And You’re Invited
Tucked into a cozy, bright basement in Williamsburg, a crowd of women from across New York City sit facing a single mic stand. The wall behind the mic is pure white save a single string of letters. It reads, “PERIOD PARTY.” These women came to see a lineup of poets and performers talk about periods,… Continue reading It’s a #PeriodParty… And You’re Invited
How the #MeToo Movement Ended a Prison’s Illegal Tampon Trade
2018 might technically be the year of the dog, but it’s been looking more like the year of the cat. Why? Because pussies across America have been grabbing back. (Harsh language, I know—but the president said it first!) In part sparked by a barrage of sexist statements coming from our top government official himself, a… Continue reading How the #MeToo Movement Ended a Prison’s Illegal Tampon Trade
Cannabis Bliss for your Period?
If you’ve experienced a period before, you’ve probably experienced a craving or two or three. For about half of American women, chocolate —lots of chocolate— is high on that cravings list. And with medical marijuana use on the rise, that monthly chocolate fix is being taken to a whole new level, combining the deliciousness of… Continue reading Cannabis Bliss for your Period?
The Period-preneurs Who Launched an Organic Tampon Revolution
There are a lot of myths floating around about periods that we need to dispel. First, whatever that blue stuff they pour on pads on television is not anything like the real deal. Second, sharks are not going to attack while you swim in the ocean on your period (phew, it’s summer). And third, those clean tampons… Continue reading The Period-preneurs Who Launched an Organic Tampon Revolution
Try this Clever Trick to Knock Off Your To-Do List
How long is your to-do list? For most people, the answer is probably: “too long.” The Huffington Post reports that 50% of to-do list items are completed within one day of being written. Those aren’t bad odds, considering how many things we know can get in the way of a productive day. However, the same… Continue reading Try this Clever Trick to Knock Off Your To-Do List
This New IVF Treatment Will Blow Your Mind: Making Babies From Skin Cells?
There is a newly developed reproductive method, called “in vitro gametogenesis” or IVG, which could shake the fertility world to its core, by making it possible to bypass a person’s existing eggs – and create brand new ones, as well as sperm, by using his or her own skin cells. The eggs and sperm would… Continue reading This New IVF Treatment Will Blow Your Mind: Making Babies From Skin Cells?
7 Resolutions to Drop Before January 31st
Put down those free weights and drop the kale smoothie! Your New Year’s resolution might be sabotaging your life. U.S. News reports that an astonishing 80% of Americans ditch their resolutions by February of any given new year. A failed resolution, especially so early in the year, can be a disheartening and expensive waste of… Continue reading 7 Resolutions to Drop Before January 31st
The Key to Your Best Self in 2018 is in the Simple Things
For those of us looking to make big changes to our lives in the 2018, it’s easy to think that we have to make big changes to our routines. But actually, we might be better off focusing on the simple things. And trust us. When we say simple, we mean…simple. Like, elementary school simple. We’ve… Continue reading The Key to Your Best Self in 2018 is in the Simple Things