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The human body is an extremely adaptive organism. If you live in a cold climate country, your body creates more subcutaneous fat to serve as insulation. If you live in a sunny part of the world, chances are, your skin is darker to help deal with the sun’s harmful rays. The body’s own metabolic process ...click here to read more

Sleep is an integral part of your health. Without it, all the systems and functions in the body go awry. Think about it—when you go one night without proper sleep, how do you feel? Aside from being tired, you probably feel foggy in the brain and your attention span decreases drastically. These are just the ...click here to read more

There are times when we can’t remember where we placed our keys or the TV remote, or when we realize we have forgotten a person’s name. It can be embarrassing and isn’t something anyone would like to happen to them, especially in front of others. Being forgetful is usually synonymous with being old, as whenever ...click here to read more

Phantom limb pain is something of a conundrum. It’s described as pain felt in a limb that is no longer there. This condition occurs in hundreds of people who have had an arm or a leg amputated, which is a common occurrence in military veterans or even people with poorly controlled diabetes. A new form ...click here to read more

Retrograde amnesia is a disorder that affects an individual’s ability to remember incidents or experiences preceding a specific event in time. This means you are able to make new memories but are unable to recall your past. Retrograde amnesia is marked by an impairment of autobiographical memory. This is the exact opposite of anterograde amnesia, ...click here to read more

Winning large sums of money is a fantasy that many people have. It is this desire for quick cash that has made the casino business so lucrative. It takes advantage of many people’s uncontrollable urge to gamble, often leaving them in financial ruin. Gambling problems can affect both men and women but in different ways. ...click here to read more

If I ask you what America’s biggest health problem is, you’d probably say smoking, obesity, or heart troubles. Unfortunately, you would be missing out on a huge growing problem. That problem is living a sedentary life—sitting all day long—and experts suggest it’s becoming a problem worse than smoking. Some experts refer to it as the ...click here to read more

Determining what causes liver pain can be difficult, considering that the brain perceives abdominal pain from many organs in what experts call an “ill-defined” way. Still, advances in medicine have helped the medical community come to a better understanding of what causes pain in the liver area. Research tells us that the liver’s pain receptors ...click here to read more

We all want to improve our memory. Forgetting someone’s name or where you put your car key is embarrassing and often a reflection of your mental capacity. We try to learn new tricks to remember things, like mnemonics or associations, which help. But the process of forming and recalling memory is complex, often leading these ...click here to read more

Drinking tea has long been known to have many benefits. It is a great alternative to coffee if lower levels of caffeine are desired, it contains antioxidants, and can even help with weight loss. Tea also plays a key role in modulating disease risk in humans by suppressing tumor progression, decreasing inflammation, and influencing estrogen ...click here to read more

Headaches are a common occurrence and occur to everyone at least once in their lives. There are more than 300 types of headaches currently known, and some occur in various regions of the head. One of these locations is behind the ears, and there are a number of  reasons for it to occur there. Headaches behind the ...click here to read more

Alzheimer’s disease is the most common neurodegenerative problem in humans. It effectively destroys our memory and other important mental functions. Scientists believe that this progressive disease is primarily the result of amyloid plaque or tau protein tangle development within the brain. This leads to the symptoms seen in Alzheimer’s. Sadly, many of these symptoms don’t ...click here to read more

Dear Friend, Do you find yourself yawning at 3 p.m.? Do your eyes become heavier mid-afternoon? Would you say your work performance or willingness to do anything hits a complete wall post-lunch? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you’re not alone. It’s an epidemic. At around 2:30 p.m., you and those around ...click here to read more

Diverticulitis is a condition that results from the inflammation of diverticula—pouch-like bulges that are found in the lower part of the large intestine. Diverticula in themselves are not harmful and are actually commonly found in adults over the age of 40, but when these pouches become infected, it can lead to the diagnosis of diverticulitis. ...click here to read more