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Depression and dementia in the age of COVID-19

Every seven seconds, someone in the…

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This Is How Intermittent Fasting Improves Your Brain

Fasting was an evolutionarily advantageous…

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Everything Your Brain Needs to Know About Mindfulness

Over recent decades, mindfulness has…

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8 Ways Walking Improves Your Brain

Exercise is one of the…

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What Your Brain Needs to Know About the Link Between Diabetes and Dementia

Diabetes affected 463 million people…

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10 Vitamins and Minerals the Latest Research Shows Help Improve Depression

It’s well-documented that natural disasters, wars,…

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July 19, 2020 ACEs

4 Mental Health Problems Free Play Can Improve in Children

Statistics show that more children than ever are experiencing symptoms of mental illness. Among adolescents and teens, the rates of depression and anxiety have been steadily increasing for decades and the most recent CDC data shows a similar trend in…

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July 6, 2020 emotions

4 Ways to Make Peace with Overwhelming Emotions

Emotions are like waves. When you’re in the middle of an intense situation, emotions can be overpowering — like they’re going to sweep you away and drown you. When you feel like this, it’s hard to remember that emotions are…

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June 21, 2020 anxiety

Why Your Brain Sees Anxiety as an Advantage (and How You Can Calm It Down)

Your brain’s top priority is always keeping you safe and alive. Therefore, your brain is biologically wired to be jumpy and reactive. It feels safe and like it is doing its job well when you feel that way. That feeling…

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June 7, 2020 anxiety

8 Ways You’re Making Your Anxiety Worse

While depression is the most prevalent mental health condition worldwide, anxiety is more common than depression in the U.S. According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, it affects 40 million adults age 18 and older, or 18.1% of…

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May 17, 2020 anxiety

How to Help Your Anxious Brain Focus

Worrying and anxiety have become the norm. According to The National Institute of Mental Health, anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the United States. And that was before anyone had ever heard of COVID-19 or was living…

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April 19, 2020 connectedness

How to Keep the Oxytocin Flowing While Physical Distancing

If you’re in lockdown with family members, significant others, or roommates, you may be having more than enough interaction with them if you’ve been sharing the same space together for weeks. However, if, like me, you live by yourself and…

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April 5, 2020 anxiety

5 Mental Health Tools to Calm Your Mind and Body Instantly

It’s all too easy in today’s world to go from calm to crisis in a just few seconds flat. I used to actually be surprised when “bad” things showed up in my world. Not anymore. I’m here to tell you that…

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March 22, 2020 mind-body

How to Boost Your Immune System with Your Mind-Body Connection

Every minute of every day, your body is physically reacting, literally changing, in response to the thoughts that run through your mind. It’s been proven without any doubt that just thinking about something causes your brain to release neurotransmitters, chemical…

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March 15, 2020 anxiety

How to Work With Your Mind to Stay Calm During This Pandemic

I have been anxious all my life. While I’ve learned many ways to calm my mind and ease the worry, this coronavirus, COVID-19, global pandemic is triggering my old anxiety-producing habits big time. Even though I’m not in a high-risk…

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February 23, 2020 epigenetics

Epigenetic Changes Can Hurt or Help You

The emerging science of epigenetics is proving that who you are is a result of the events in your life. Your genes actually switch on or off depending on your life experiences. In other words, a person is born with…

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February 16, 2020 biofeedback

How to Use Your Body’s Biofeedback to Calm Your Brain

You know that your brain controls your body, but did you know that your body also controls your brain? It’s a feedback loop that works both ways. The activity in your brain changes every second based on what your body…

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February 2, 2020 ACEs

How childhood trauma can affect mental and physical health into adulthood

For millions of children in the U.S., poverty, neglect or abuse is a reality of everyday life, though these struggles are often hidden from view. Adult survivors often feel ashamed about and stigmatized for their childhood adversity. This makes it…

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