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What Does Stress Do to The Body?

For our ancestors, stress was a helpful motivator for survival, allowing them to avoid real physical threats. While this stress response can still ...

What is Holistic Medicine?

Holistic medicine is a form of healing that considers the whole person -- body, mind, spirit, and emotions -- in the quest for optimal health and w...

Tips for Getting Vitamin C

To preserve as much of the vitamin content as possible, either steam the food or microwave it with as little water as possible, Bush says. It cause...

Relaxation Techniques: Learn How to Manage Stress

Life is stressful and sometimes the stress can overwhelm you, but there are steps you can take to learn how to relax. It’s normal to feel overwhelm...

When Procrastination is a Problem, and How to Fix It

The real reasons we procrastinate lie deep within human behavior. We tend to view things in the future as less real or concrete. For about one in f...

Bee Pollen Benefits and Side Effects

Before you take any natural product for a health condition, check with your doctor. Bee pollen is also recommended by some herbalists to enhance at...

Integrative Medicine: a Patient's View

When Barbara Lee Epstein was diagnosed with a rare form of appendix cancer, she got the best that high-tech medicine has to offer: treatment at a w...

Is My Stress Level Too High?

Your muscles tend to tense up when you’re stressed, and over time this can cause headaches, migraines, or musculoskeletal problems. Stress can caus...

Colon Cleanse

While you lie on a table, a low- pressure pump or a gravity-based reservoir flushes several gallons of water through a small tube inserted into you...

Life and Wellness Coaches

First, you'll sit down with your life coach or wellness coach over the phone or in person. Through the questions your coach asks, together you'll d...

Power of Circadian Rhythms

Our body's rhythms are governed by a 'master clock' located in a tiny region of the brain called the suprachiasmatic nucleus. It works much like a ...

For Healing and Health, Dream On

While Tibetan Buddhism does include many specific methods of dream yoga, traditionally the details aren't discussed publicly, Everest says. The fir...