Health

The mid-point of medical residency is probably the bleakest point in medical training. The daily grind of death and disease wears young doctors down, and the end of residency seems impossibly far off. Read More

Whose fault is it if you're fat? More precisely, if you carry more fat than is considered healthy, is it just because you lack willpower around food?

Three new studies deliver three more blows against the argument (and implied shame game): "If you're fat, it's because you eat too much, and you only have yourself to blame." Read More

In our first coaching session, Diane created a forward-looking statement to describe her motivation for moving toward wellness: "To be in a state of health with sufficient energy and vitality that enables me to support myself in all realms - physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and financial - and that enables me to explore and pursue my life's mission." In our second session, it was time to get clear about what this visionary statement would look like applied to the real world. Read More

Of the literally hundreds of herbals, supplements, vitamins and nutrients that are touted as being effective, four of them have emerged with various levels of documented efficacy in the treatment of mental health disorders. Read More

The more bored you are, the more likely you are to die prematurely. The science is in. If survival is important to you, if seeing your grandchildren is important to you, don't miss this blog post. Read More

An interview with Alan Gordon, LCSW, pain psychotherapist.  "Many of my clients bounced around from doctor to doctor for years, unable to find relief for their chronic pain. Usually they come upon the TMS diagnosis as a last resort, having exhausted every treatment from physical therapy to magnets to South American shamanism." Read More

While the use of opioid medications for chronic pain has gained increasing acceptance-albeit excruciatingly slowly, in the opinion of many-there remains a dearth of quality research regarding the long-term effects of such medications in the chronic pain population. Read More

In our first coaching session, Diane created a forward-looking statement to describe her motivation for moving toward wellness: "To be in a state of health with sufficient energy and vitality that enables me to support myself in all realms - physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and financial - and that enables me to explore and pursue my life's mission."

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Most people who come to see me complaining of fatigue are worried something is wrong with them physically but turn out only to be sleep deprived. Sleep seems to be something we all wish we did more, making us for the most part a chronically and persistently sleep-deprived society. Read More