The Plight of The Chronic Headache Sufferer

For those unlucky enough to inherit chronic headaches, where the meds do not work all that well and the headaches are frequent, life can be very rough. Personally, family/spouses/friends often do not want to hear about it, and have little empathy(altho there are some...

This & That–New Book—“Proof of Heaven”

Hi from guest blogger Shari: On November 12th, the last guest of the Dr. Oz show, was Dr. Eben Alexander, a very talented neurosurgeon, who has wriiten a book about his near-death experience, when he contracted Meningitis in 2008 and was in a coma for a week. I have...

Rethinking Exercise

  Exercising may decrease headaches. It is certainly crucial for weight loss. To get most of the benefits of exercise, you only need to think of exercising in small chunks of time, even 10 or 15 minutes. Most people are able to fit exercise more easily into their...

Antidepressants and Menopause

According to a new study, about a third of menopausal women who took antidepressants for hot flashes and night sweats, saw a return of symptoms after they stopped taking the drug. Dr. Hadine Joffe, associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and lead...

Aromatherapy – Too Much of a Good Thing?

A team of researchers from Taipei Medical University in Taiwan set up an experiment to model conditions of a typical spa – including the use of a vaporizer dispensing bergamot essential oil into the air. Healthy spa workers were then recruited to stay in the...

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