- Stroke RehabilitationAccording to Dr. Chih Hao Lin, neurologist and director of the Brain Stroke Center at Lin Shin Hospital, brain fog is cognitive dysfunction. Memory, judgment, behavior, emotions, languages, spatial sense, and other cognitive functions are all part of the brain’s operations.
- Primary CareWith 1 in 3 Americans living with high blood pressure, the condition can hardly be ignored. Ask any primary care physicians about the percentage of patients in their practice with a diagnosis of hypertension. They will tell you that the vast majority of their patient population has this pervasive and potentially devastating health condition. As one of the most significant risk factors for heart disease, stroke, and kidney failure, this largely preventable diet- and lifestyle-driven condition deserves attention.
- Constipation
- Irritable Bowel SyndromeAnother example is irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), which plagues many people nowadays, with patients being prone to brain fog, anxiety, and other non-intestinal symptoms.
- Diarrhea
- ImmunizationsWhat a novel idea....actually using health as "frontline defense"..... In a recent opinion piece for the LaCross Tribune, Frank Edelblut, commissioner of the New Hampshire Department of Education, posed what some vaccine-focused health officials on the COVID-19 front lines might call a radical idea: Why not work on getting healthy to fight COVID-19? “It’s not an anti-vaccination statement to say, vaccinating Americans will not make Americans healthy,” Edelblut wrote. He cited studies showing that COVID-19 patients with a range of comorbidities are more at risk for getting COVID-19, having a severe case of it, and even dying. And most of the comorbidities are diseases directly connected with poor lifestyle choices, beginning with obesity, which he said is “the top health...
- EndometriosisSome research suggests that most hysterectomies are elective—meaning they are not performed to save a woman’s life—and that about 90 percent of hysterectomies are not necessary because they are performed for conditions like uterine fibroids, abnormal uterine bleeding, and endometriosis for which there are other, viable alternatives.
- Pregnancy
- Ovarian CancerJolie’s op-ed in The New York Times discussed her decision to have a preventive double mastectomy because she has a mutation in the BRCA1 gene that makes her more susceptible to developing breast cancer—her doctors estimated her risk was 87 percent. Jolie later had her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed as a preventive measure against ovarian cancer (which her gene mutation made 50 percent more likely to develop.)
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)Some research suggests artificial food colorings like red dye 40 may exacerbate attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms in children. In 2007, a randomized controlled trial conducted in the UK revealed that the consumption of artificial colors and/or the widely used preservative sodium benzoate was linked to heightened levels of hyperactivity in children.
- Depression
- Mental HealthMindfulness and self-compassion are now buzzwords for self-improvement. In fact, a growing body of research shows these practices can lead to real mental health benefits. This research—ongoing, voluminous, and worldwide—clearly shows how and why these two practices work.
- Psychiatry“[Energy drinks] are often packaged in aluminum, a neurotoxin that has been linked to Alzheimer’s disease,” Dr. Aruna Tummala, an integrative psychiatrist at Trinergy Health and founder of Psychiatry 2.0, told The Epoch Times.
- Insomnia
- Anxiety
- Diabetes Care
- HysterectomyAfter years of searching for a more sustainable solution, three separate doctors told me I should have a hysterectomy to remove my uterus. I was fifteen years old.