Do you remember when you could drive on a road trip and get up the next day and be fresh to drive the next stretch - and now you get tired when you drive too long? Does reading also make you tired? Do you have less fun in life because you feel down and sluggish and...
Where do emotions come from? Are they hard-wired reactions to what is going on around us? Do people and circumstances provoke the same emotions in everyone? What can we do to manage our emotions, so they don’t run us? Neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett says that we...
History Creativity Liveliness Color Fun St. Michael statue La Parroquia, the parish church of San Miguel Arcangel El Jardin (Plaza Allende) Mojigangas of a bride and groom A mix of the old and the new A mural at Instituto Mural at a parking lot General Ignacio...
Did you see the Bill Murray movie in which he was sentenced to repeat the same day until . . . he didn't know what. He went to bed at the end of the day, and woke up again and again the same day, Ground Hog Day. He was a grumpy reluctant reporter sent to a cold...
Baby boomers probably don't have to worry. We grew up in a different time. Maxwell Smart had his shoe phone. Mobile phones were imagined in science fiction. Today's young people cannot be surgically separated from their smart phones, it seems. Look at...
Our world is constantly clamoring for our attention: texts, phone calls, emails, advertisements. Then the kids want something from us too. Not to mention our significant other and family and friends. We can be lost in this morass of stuff, the content of our lives....
Ketogenic diets, raspberry ketones, and all things fat-burning are all the rage. What is the truth about your metabolism and ketones? When I was in Naturopathic Medical School, the Atkins diet was making a come-back. Originally developed in the 1960's by the...
Every cell in your body contains antioxidants for the purpose of preventing or delaying cell damage. As cells create energy and fulfill their specific functions, they generate molecules which oxidize other necessary molecules. Antioxidants neutralize those molecules...
Movement is fundamental to our bodies. The body is designed to move smoothly, freely and with fluidity. In addition, we are entitled to move without pain. If we have been in pain, we may have gotten sedentary. However, there are plenty of us not in pain who do...
Why is my diet and exercise program not working? When we see the stunning results from the before-and-after pictures, we want that for ourselves. We want the dramatic shrinking in girth from the new diet. We want the toned arms and rippled abs from the exercise...
