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Embracing pain, difficulty can be freeing

Professor Mark Williams and Dr. Danny Penman are the authors of “Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World” published by Rodale. Shortly after the British mountaineer George Mallory disappeared while attempting to climb Everest in 1924, a journalist asked why the team had continued with their assault on the summit on [...]

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Do you know the mushroom man?

It’s hard to miss Paul Stamets at TEDMED. He’s wearing a hat made out of a mushroom, which he picked up in Hungary. And he brought a large bag containing exotic mushrooms with medicinal properties to his talk, including the large rare tree fungus agarikon. “We have discovered a new class of antivirals and antimicrobials,” [...]

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Swallowing Blueberries, Apples and Hype

Blueberries may reduce the growth of breast cancer! Apples and pears reduce the chance of stroke! I bet I have your attention now. But those are not my words, they’re recent newspaper headlines. It seems that virtually every day some new study comes out touting the ability of this or that food to extend our [...]

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Biofeedback: Can you teach your body to lose stress?

When it comes to stress relief methods for me, the devil is in the execution. More likely than not, I will stack whatever it is or an article or book about it on my bedside table and expect it to sink in through magic and osmosis. Alas …I got a call early last week from [...]

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Acupuncture, Acupressure And Aromatherapy Efficient In Tackling Pain

Many patients suffering from chronic pain try alternative and complementary treatments as these are often viewed as natural and therefore risk-free. Prof. Edzard Ernst (Exeter, UK) warned at the EFIC Congress ‘Pain in Europe VII’ that patients are being bombarded with misinformation on the subject but that in fact very few alternative pain treatments are [...]

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Electro-acupuncture boosts IVF success in study

(Reuters Health) – Women who have an electro-acupuncture session as part of their infertility treatment may have a better chance of ultimately having a baby, a new clinical trial suggests. Read more via Electro-acupuncture boosts IVF success in study | Reuters.

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Army looks toward new ways to fight the pain

Sgt. 1st Class Jennifer Wright used to jog, walk, lift weights and ride her Harley-Davidson Fat Boy, the motorcycle she bought after serving in Iraq. Today, she’s among a growing legion of war veterans suffering from scleroderma, a painful and potentially fatal disease. Wright, 40, feels pain in her face, joints and toes. She’s lost [...]

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How walking the labyrinth changed my life

By Sally Quinn, Special to CNN When I tell people I have a labyrinth and that I walk it regularly, most have no idea what I’m talking about. They think a labyrinth is a maze, a place you walk into and then have trouble finding your way out. In fact it is just the opposite. [...]

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The Truth about the "CANCER UPDATE FROM JOHN HOPKINS" Email

From the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins Medicine Cancer Update Email — It’s a Hoax! STATEMENT: EMAIL HOAX REGARDING CANCER Information falsely attributed to Johns Hopkins called, “CANCER UPDATE FROM JOHN HOPKINS” describes properties of cancer cells and suggests ways of preventing cancer. Johns Hopkins did not publish the information, which often is [...]

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Meditation or Morphine?

What if we could replace morphine and other pain-relieving drugs with meditation? Fadal Zeidan, PhD from the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center recently conducted a study in which he found that a form of mindfulness meditation, known as focused attention, drastically diminished subjects’ experience of pain. In previous findings morphine has been shown to reduce [...]

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