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Also sold as “diphenhydramine,” this allergy medicine is used by many to help them fall asleep. Life happens. The usual way of ensuring you get a good night’s rest should be to be active during the day, get some exposure to the sun, avoid drinking too much coffee too close to bedtime, and be relaxed.…
People are always struggling to quit something, start something, or stop something. They even struggle to stop struggling, to relax. The circadian rhythm is part of the struggle. Also known as the wake/rest cycle, men and women struggle to wake up and struggle to go to sleep. You can’t fight—or struggle well—if you don’t recharge. At…
Travel can be an amazing amount of fun. There’s the opportunity to try new food, see new sights, meet new friends, and make lifelong memories. Many people have world travel on their bucket list. Travel is a goal for them. But, oh, that desynchronosis! Desynchronosis, the bane of travelers between time zones everywhere, is also…
There Are 6 Important Questions You Need To Have Answered For Therapies For Sleep or Other Health Problems. Running for Senate must be tough. Almost winning is undoubtedly tougher. After his January 2019 loss to Sen. Ted Cruz, former Rep. Beto O’Rourke went to New Mexico later that year and ate “holy dirt.” He brought…
Sometimes emergency departments will get patients who are hypothermic. A child will have fallen through ice into a pond during winter. A man will have been found passed out laying on a cold garage floor for hours. A woman will have been sitting in thin clothes better suited for a summer on a frigid night…
Part 2 of 4 Nobody exists in a vacuum. Society influences everybody. Consider Edgar Cayce a Western version of an Eastern yogi. He’s what a yogi would be if they were shaped by Western society. As a Westerner, it was inevitable he come into contact with people who wanted to objectively and subjectively study his…
Part 1 of 4 It can be hard to date the origin of any term. I first heard the term “evidence-based practice” sometime in the late ’90s. It’s an offshoot of “evidence-based medicine,” introduced around 1992. The idea behind it wasn’t new; the term was. Over the years, usage spread into areas tangential to healthcare. That…
Part 3 0f 3 The brain is physical. It exists in the physical world. The mind is nebulous. It’s your consciousness. It’s not entirely of this world. The brain has a physical makeup. That makeup is called anatomy. So, too, does the mind have a makeup. The makeup is called a mental state. The mental state can be compared…
Part 2 of 3 The mind and brain are separate yet together while on Earth. What this means is that they are two different things and the mind resides within the brain. There are three distinct phases to the mind’s being: instinctive; intellectual and intuitive. • Instinctive: this phase consists of cravings, desires, and emotions like fear…
Part 1 of 3 What’s the difference between the brain and the mind? Maybe, the better question is, is there a difference? People use the terms interchangeably. Sleep benefits your brain. Dream journaling benefits your mind. The brain isn’t better than the mind or vice versa — not at least while you’re alive on Earth. You…
A study of one allows you to see whether a given change improves health or life. A lot of things can be studied by you studying one individual, you. Two good areas are a change in diet or effects relating to a new exercise program. Studying yourself or doing a study of one is different…
When they’re out in the field, soldiers don’t spend a lot of time thinking about the “vibe” of the area where they sleep. Male or female, they have a cot and maybe a footlocker. Maybe they live out of a rucksack. It’s a simple, spartan existence. Of greater concern than the vibe projected by where they sleep are the…
Sometimes doing an action can take the place of taking a certain medication. Positive morning affirmations can work like an antidepressant. Grounding can decrease inflammation. Chiropractors routinely prescribe exercise routines to relieve pain. Some doctors have said, “If exercise were a drug, I’d give everyone a prescription.” Sometimes what you’re doing is making a drug…