Gut Bacteria May Control Movement It may not only be an army that travels on its stomach. Gut bacteria may control movement according to research. Scientific understanding of the gut microbiome is really just beginning. There are trillions of bacteria in the gut microbiome. Most have not even been identified. The interactions among those bacteria […]
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Whole Person Health In an earnings call with analysts, Cigna’s CEO spoke about the value of whole person health. The connection between whole person health and Cigna’s recent acquisition of pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts remains unclear, however. It is heartening to see a CEO at a major payer make this statement on an earnings call.
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Art Museum Prescription Chronic illnesses are epidemic in many parts of the world and they have been highly resistant to conventional medical treatment. Mental illnesses have gone largely unaddressed in physicians’ clinics and hospitals. Physicians in Montreal, however, plan to add something new to their arsenal… art museum prescriptions. Laughter may be the best medicine
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Amazon Home Health Products Amazon’s interest in and approach to healthcare may be getting a bit clearer as Amazon enters home health products through an exclusive with Arcadia Group’s line of home health products. The cost and inconvenience of going to a clinical setting (with lots of other sick people) is a very unfriendly and
Personalized Nutrition Whether “Food As Medicine”, “Clean Eating” or other new trend there is a fundamental theme supporting all of them… consumers want nutrition for better health. As this interest in better food continues so too does the interest in rehabilitating gut health which has been ravaged in recent decades. Gut health is highly dependent
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We Need Light All light is not the same. Physicists certainly know this and now healthcare has turned on to the fact that we need light… and not just any light. Epigenetics continues to wow us with how genetic expression impacts on today’s generation may stem from many generations ago. Artificial light is only something
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Wrong Cause of Death The US Federal Government has spent over $30 Billion to subsidize adoption of Electronic Healthcare Records (EHR). Medical systems and physician practices have spent billions more. Yet 1 in 3 death certificates cite the wrong cause of death, according to a recent study. There is a dire need for information coordination
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Toxic Stress Childhood is the formative years. Unfortunately, toxic stress is a negative that can form during childhood and can manifest in physical and mental health concerns. Lifestyle is not simply what we eat but it covers our interactions (or lack thereof) with people, Nature, and more. Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) can corrupt the formative
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Why CBD? Health consumer know what ails them. Increasingly, they are taking health matters into their own hands… for better or worse. The New York Times article Why Is CBD Everywhere? gives a long overview of what CBD is and how it differs from the hallucinogenic found in marijuana. Is does an even better job of
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Lifestyle Medicine Specialty Should there be a Lifestyle Medicine Specialty in the US? It is interesting that some in the UK see the need for such a medical specialty. After all, there is a global epidemic of chronic illnesses which are rooted in lifestyle decisions. No number of pills or procedures can cure loneliness, harmful
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