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Birth Month & Disease Risk. Your Horoscope = Your Health?:
As much as we’d like to think so, Science is not new.
Mankind has been trying to solve problems using their best guess since the beginning of time.
Sometimes that involved explanations using natural phenomena, like the stars.
And although people haven’t put much stock in Astrology since the Tarot-card-reading days of the 1600s,
A new take on this old system may prove the prior wisdom correct, in surprising ways…
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Chronic Loss Of Sleep Could Give You Clinical Anxiety:
One of the more difficult problems a person could try to solve is anything involving your mind.
And neurochemists are doing their best to create solutions to this every day.
Two of the thornier ones they try to fix for us are Depression and Anxiety.
But perfect pharmaceutical fixes so-far have been elusive, and the ones we get are not without side-effects.
But a recent study by researchers at UC Berkeley is starting to shed a little more light on how Anxiety works and how you might start fighting back against it; even without drugs…
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Loneliness, Sleep, And That Weird LCD Light:
So when a simple, understandable problem happens, Science is pretty quick to step-in and fix it.
But when people start experiencing stranger things, the process gets more complex.
And something along those lines is happening with an epidemic of psychological symptoms centered around Loneliness.
But a few studies by Universities at Berkeley, Toledo, and San Diego State might just put the steps of that puzzle together…
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10+ Tips To Help Yourself Get Through Tough Times:
So in this video, Dr. Mike asks, “What if You’re Having A Tough Day, Or Week?”
You might be sad, anxious, regretful, overworked, temporarily-flummoxed, etc.
And there are many real Sources to consider, like: Depression/Anxiety, & also many involved-Solutions like: Problem-Solving, Stress-Management, Mindfulness Meditation, or Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy.
BUT! Sometimes people want the most easy & simple “get through the day/week”-type advice, just to simply make it through.
So here’s what he says are his best “Easy-Version” tips…
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Out Of Time:
We’ve written here before about the possible differences between early-birds and night-owls, and more recently on the perils of trying to wake up.
Well, among those surfaced a trend. Something between the outside world and people’s sleep-patterns seemed misaligned.
And it turns out that scientist and researcher, Dr. Paul Kelley went into the details to find out exactly why.
One of his conclusions is that most of us are being tortured every day of our lives…
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A Different Kind Of Jet-Lag:
Ever have trouble waking up?
We all have, and in this video DNews gives a couple hints at what might be happening that makes it so difficult.
And it all starts with a term found in some pretty interesting studies: Social Jetlag…
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The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year!:
Around the colder months of the year, we all get a set of mixed-blessings.
Lots of fun new Winter sports, several new if inconvenient paintjobs on the landscape by Mother Nature that make everything a quiet wonder to observe.
And the inevitable disruptions in our body’s internal-balance that make us get sick in all kinds of glorious post-new-years-eve-vomit-jamboree ways.
Well CollegeHumor and U.Michigan have each gone their own unique ways to show us the different shades of awful this productivity-sapping season can go…
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The Drug-Pushers Are Here For Your Soul:
In this video, Cracked’s Honest Commercials touches on a little bit of our problems with drug companies.
This time, for Antidepressants.
It’s a bit drier and more ironic than their normal stuff, but a lot of it is dead-on.
Especially about switching medications, the placebo effect on mood disorders, incomplete understanding of depression-mechanics and their brain-chemistry roots,
And most of all, Marketing psychoactive drugs to individual consumers…
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