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What Is Earthing And Will It Reduce Your Stress Levels?(Post)
When (to paraphrase Carole King’s lyrics on ‘Tapestry’) did you last feel the earth move under your feet…? Maybe not move – unless you’re in an earthquake zone – but experience its grounding, balanci ...
And Just B-R-E-A-T-H-E(Post)I haven’t always breathed brilliantly. My overriding childhood memory is of a Wright’s Coal Tar Burner flickering in the corner of my bedroom, in an effort to ‘open up my passages’ (as my mother rath ...
Get In Touch(Post)Many of us think of massage as something pampering, an occasional treat or something we book if and when we ever have time to go to a spa. We might understand the physical benefits of manipulating ...
Sarah’s Health Notes: Beyond Pills Campaign(Post)This article first appeared in The Telegraph Medicines do people a lot of good but they can also cause harm, according to the recent National Overprescribing Review, which found that 10% of drugs ar ...
Reducing The Risk of Deep Vein Thrombosis(Post)Deep Vein Thrombosis, DVT, is caused by the pooling of blood in a vein, which triggers the blood clotting mechanism. The formation of the blood clot, known as a thrombus, usually occurs in a deep leg ...
How To Save Yourself(Post)Life, I’ve decided, is too short to spend dithering over what to wear. And so I post the question: how long did it take you to get dressed this morning? Two minutes? Ten minutes? Half an hour…? Over ...
Kazu Namise’s Los Angeles(Post)Although I grew up in LA, I don’t think I ever thought too much about my love for this city until I was in my early 20s! Spending much of my youth plotting my departure, I left to Washington DC for u ...
Factors Which Compromise Your Gut Health(Post)The health of your gut depends upon the balance between the beneficial bacteria and the pathogens that reside within the gut, as well as the permeability of the lining of the intestinal tract. When t ...
Thoughts On My Brother’s Last Illness(Post)When the father of a dear friend died some years back, we talked about the words we use – ‘death’, ‘dying’, ‘passing on’ and so on – and how they made us feel. Which was at best passive, but more a s ...
The Power Of Looking Up(Post)Today the sky above London is, for a change, the very palest Monet blue, with gossamer fine clouds bleaching it even more. If you ignored the Victorian rooftops and the chilly four degrees, you might ...
What It’s Like Living With An Autoimmune Disease(Post)‘The trouble with us’, says a friend who used to edit a Sunday newspaper and is now retraining as a chef, ‘is that we used to be somebody’. Did we? Or perhaps I should say ‘Did I’? Because said frien ...
Summer Beach Body(Post)Many women and men ultimately desire the amazing beach body you see on many TV shows with a flat tummy and a toned body. The common misconception is that in order to obtain a beach body, you may have ...