The liver is one of the most incredible organs in our body. When you look at it, it just looks like a boring slab of meat. No special characteristics, but it has an astonishing array of functions. Then you look at a heart with its 4 chambers, different types of valves, arteries and veins, an […]
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We live in a world today where life is rushing past us at warp speed. The demands we are trying to live up to are often overwhelming. The choices we have to make are making us crazy and exhausting us to the bone. We’ve chosen our life, our path – now how can we live
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Have you noticed how many auto-immune diseases exist today? Everything from Lupus, to Auto-Immune Thyroid disorders to Psoriasis to Rheumatoid Arthritis. In fact, there are over 80 defined auto-immune disorders today. They are rampant. While much attention is put into treatment by drugs to suppress the immune system, what we should be asking is “why
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Good news for mature women – hot flashes aren’t a normal part of menopause! Common, yes, healthy, no. We have come to accept hot flashes as being a normal part of menopause, when in fact it is a symptom of hormones out of balance. Women who go through menopause symptom-free don’t talk about it! One
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Staying healthy, or getting healthy takes work. Most of the time, it is the non-commitment to doing the things necessary for being healthy that got your health into trouble in the first place. There are many facets to being healthy and many barriers. The most obvious when we discuss barriers is exercise. We all know
Headaches (all types) plague more people in the United States than perhaps any single symptom (except fatigue). Headaches can be simply an annoyance, or severe, such as a migraine – incapacitating the person for up to several days at a time. As with all of the many symptoms a person can have, headaches are the
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So often we are duped into believing that the gallbladder, appendix, uterus, tonsils and other organs don’t matter; that we can live “just as well” without them. But is that really true? I personally don’t believe that God made a mistake and gave us worthless organs. Every organ matters, and every organ is made to
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A few decades ago, fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) was considered a myth, or a psychiatric problem, because it was difficult to diagnose with the tests of the time. Since typically a person suffering with it seemed also to have increased stress and depression, it was easy to brush it off with a comment to see a
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Why does it seem like the people who want to get pregnant, can’t, while those who possibly shouldn’t, do? Becoming pregnant for the couple who has been unsuccessful becomes the focus of their life. Like it or not, everyday it enters the mind in one way or another. It becomes an obsession although they try
A large faction of the population suffers from fatigue. They may have felt tired for quite a long time – chronically – but that is not what Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is. It is a medical diagnosis used to describe an amalgamation of symptoms where no definitive test has been established. It is generally associated
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