Chronic Conditions May Be Rooted In Inflammation

There's good evidence that if you make lifestyle changes that reduce inflammation, you will reduce the incidence or symptoms of many chronic conditions.

There's good evidence that if you make lifestyle changes that reduce inflammation, you will reduce the incidence or symptoms of many chronic conditions.

Sleep deprivation is increasing in Hong Kong as half of adults report inadequate sleep, poor sleep quality - which can have serious health results.

In some cases, anxiety symptoms can be reduced or even eliminated with the right vitamin and mineral supplementation. Getting the right forms is tricky.

Low testosterone in women can result in a number of symptoms that not only reduce quality of life, but can have serious health consquences. Get treatment!

You depend on your gut microbiome for good physical health. Those legions of bacteria, yeasts, and fungi living in your digestive tract process food for you, supplying you with energy and nutrients. Now new research suggests those microscopic creatures can have a dramatic impact on your mental health as well.

Acupuncture therapy is an ancient healing and anti-aging practice of traditional Chinese medicine which involves the insertion of fine needles into the skin. It began to spread rapidly during the twentieth century in Western Europe and North America and has become a popular modality used to offset stress and the effects of aging.

Stomach pain strikes all of us at some point, with varying degrees of discomfort from mild to extreme. While stomach pain can be caused by relatively benign issues, there are also causes that should be addressed medically.

Do you feel down during the winter? Is your energy lower than it should be? Do you feel depressed or run down? Then you may suffer from seasonal affective disorder (SAD for short). If that’s the case, treating seasonal affective disorder is vital to keeping you enthusiastic about and in love with life.

In Western medicine, we’re made of a dense physical body which can be serviced like a car. It’s maintained in good condition by prevention, treatment and cure in the form of medication, care and surgery.

Research has looked closely at the two ways the mental health profession treats depression: depression counselling and drugs. While evidence suggests that drugs have a more immediate impact, counselling is more effective over the long term. Also, drugs have side effects that may be worse than the condition they are meant to treat.

You depend on the bacteria in your gut to keep you healthy. These help you digest food and protect you from illnesses that might otherwise pass from your gastrointestinal tract into your bloodstream. So keeping your gut healthy is vital to overall health. What are the signs that you have an unhealthy gut?

If you suffer from leaky gut, the lining of your small intestine is damaged and food particles, bacteria, and toxins can pass with relative ease through the intestinal wall into the bloodstream. This causes your immune system to respond as though your body is under attack.