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Keeping your mind and body in check - popular topics in health and medicine to maintain a long and healthy life.

Looking to Learn Ayurveda in India? Aithein Has You Covered!
Ayurveda is one of the ancient medical sciences of India. Recently, Ayurveda is getting a lot of acclaim from practitioners all around the world and they are working on understanding the ways and means to get to the root of illness. In case you are looking to learn Ayurveda in India; go no further than Aithein.
By Aithein Healing7 years ago in Longevity
Vaccinating Children
Many lives are taken by diseases that could have been prevented if only they’d had the vaccination. Vaccinating children is important, because it keeps our society clear of diseases that were considered “extinct” before. Vaccines are the beginning step towards worldwide eradication for any disease.
By Madison Rheam, B.A.7 years ago in Longevity
A Glimpse into Chronic Insomnia
Living with chronic insomnia can be torturous. It is an emotionally numbing yet simultaneously neurotic existence that can be physically painful,You lie in bed with your softest blanket, the room smelling good. Your pillows are cold and just about right, and everything is pitch dark, but it has been two hours already.
By Loki7 years ago in Longevity
A Life of Limitation: Celiac Disease
My brother is my best friend and our bond is irreplaceable. Between our parents’ divorce and the many cancers our family faced, we always seemed to fight our battles together. This year is not an average year for my brother, as he is finally entering into adulthood and turning twenty-one in just a few months. The excitement is almost too much for him to anticipate, that is before he remembers. He cannot drink any type of beer or wine cooler anymore. He remembers that he can’t even take a bite from his own birthday cake without being bent over in profuse stomach pain for hours. He remembers the doctor appointment that changed his life forever. At just nineteen years old, my brother was diagnosed with celiac disease; an autoimmune disorder where the ingestion of gluten causes normal stomach villi, the fibers that help us digest food, to break down, consequently resulting in severe damage to the small intestine (“What is Celiac Disease”). Gluten is a combination of proteins found in wheat, barley, and rye. It is used to help foods maintain their shape, rise while baking, and provide a chewy texture. Its thick texture makes those with celiac disease have a more difficult time digesting it. This is the reality for 1 in 100 people worldwide with two and a half million undiagnosed in America alone (“Celiac Disease”). This was one battle my brother would have to face alone. Celiac disease causes its victims to live a life of misery with severe symptoms, an array of diagnosis and very little treatments.
By Who7 years ago in Longevity
Living with Diabetes
As a parent, we naturally want to protect our children from the world. We want to be there to comfort them and shield them from any harm that comes their way. But, what if that evil presence comes in the form of a life-changing disease or illness?
By Lori Brizius7 years ago in Longevity
Where Do They Want to Go?
I started to get these weird sensations in my legs and suddenly I'll have to flail them around so that it'll stop. Okay, well, maybe not flail (that's what I used to do), but more like move them enough so that the sensations would cease. These sensations are so very different from any other sensations, so I figured it may be a bit helpful to write out and share some of my coping skills for Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS). While I am at it, why not share what I have learned?
By Kaye M.7 years ago in Longevity
Microtechnology Research Could Help Dental Implant Healing
After this stage of healing is completed, the dental implant dentist can attach something called an abutment to the implant post, and which is used to support the new implant tooth. An implant is a structure that is enormously successful, but like any type of surgical procedure, there are always some risks, one of which is an infection.
By Amelia Grant7 years ago in Longevity
The New Liquid Gold
Hasn't been too long since I last wrote about a miraculous mushroom. But, if we take a quick look back at the Ancient Greek period, one of the most influential figures, Hippocrates quotes is, "Let thy food be thy medicine and the medicine be thy food."
By Letizia De Luca7 years ago in Longevity
I Wish I Had Been Forced to Eat More as a Child, and Here's Why
As a child—my aunt told me—I could be found with half an avocado and a spoon running around my house, or with mango smashed all over my face. I had a taste for food, I had energy pouring from my ears, I had passion for the world, I had great wonder, and I ate—and could always eat—what I was given.
By sa re7 years ago in Longevity
Natural Remedies for Allergy Relief
Whether spring is in the air or the leaves are changing colors in the fall, millions of people suffer from the discomforts of seasonal allergies. Some of those symptoms often include the “greatest hits” of nasal congestion, running noses, sore throats, itchy eyes and watery eyes.
By Jason A7 years ago in Longevity
Should You Pre-Treat Before Chemo and Radiation?
So what is this pre-treating I speak of? Actually, it is of my own creation. I have to believe that all of us have lost someone very close to us to cancer. Or, more likely we lost them to the chemo and radiation treatments. We lost them because their bodies no longer had an immune system capable of protecting or healing them from anything.
By Daniel Gartlan7 years ago in Longevity
Why I'm Donating Blood
A few days ago, my phone pinged with a message from NHS Blood and Transplant reading, “We’re just checking that your appointment to give blood is still convenient?” And though this question filled me with a lot of dread, I knew that realistically the only inconvenience to giving blood is, and always will be, my anxiety towards needles—and nothing more. Giving blood has recently become something at the very top of my agenda in a way that it never was before. I’ve always been on the organ donor registry and that was something that I’ve never really questioned, after all, when the day comes that someone might need my organs, I won’t be alive to need it or feel inconvenienced by the whole process. But, as someone with a genuinely massive fear of needles, I have always been happy to leave blood donation off the agenda. But that has all changed very recently and I hope that with this blog post I can convince more BAME people to do the same.
By Kofo Ajala7 years ago in Longevity