Today we live in a world of rampant denial of scientific facts and the truth of just about everything. Denial of science and scientific facts never cease to amaze me. Why do only certain people become deniers? What kind of mindset do they have? Isn’t the truth self–evident?
Many of us had our tonsils and adenoids removed or our appendix taken out. However, ongoing clinical and scientific studies have shown that all our organs and body parts are vital and essential, and that they play important roles in our health and wellbeing.
The amount of health care expenditures in America is more than Canada, UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, China and Australia put together. Yet, America still loses more peoples to preventable medical conditions than any of these countries. Why are the American yearly health care expenditures so high? Why nothing is being done about it?
Since the coronavirus pandemic and lockdown started, corporate America had no choice but make all of their non-essential employees work from home. Some employees are thriving, others feel trapped. Why?
Uncertainty created by the coronavirus pandemic could create one of the worst mental stressors and induce high stressor anxiety, which triggers the body’s neuro-chemical defense mechanism by producing plenty of stress hormones to create an immediate fight–or-flight reaction. How do you combat and prevent this from happening?
Breathing through your mouth is not good for us. In the long run, it could cause many health problems and even cognitive impairment. Why? And what are the health differences between breathing through your nose vs. mouth?
Because of the unknowns of the deadly Coronavirus pandemic, we all feel very tense and edgy. We are ready to fall into despair or explode in rage. When we feel this way, emotions take over our mind and our body. Instead of rational thinking, we act with our primitive spinal reflexes. The only way to get out of this terrible situation is to use our willpower to calm our body and our mind with a Buddhist’s approach.
Accumulating evidence points that COVID-19 survivors are not home free. They have many chronic and disabling physical and mental health problems.
Beliefs do not depend on objective criteria or facts like knowledge does. Actually beliefs defy logic, rational thinking and scientific data, because beliefs did not form on the basis of them. But beliefs are necessary. Our belief provides our identity and gives us a sense of belonging to the group of friends and the community we live in.
We don’t know much about this novel coronavirus named COVID – 19. We have no effective treatment, drugs or vaccine for it. Therefore, nobody really knows how this pandemic is going to end.
Evidence is mounting that face masks are far more effective at preventing transmission than previously realized. Its use must be made obligatory. Every crowd may have some silent carriers.
In the case of Coronavirus’s actions, unfortunately we have not been able to create stronger forces of reaction. Therefore the actions of Coronavirus will continue unabated, until we discover an effective vaccine and/or proper antiviral medications.
Viruses are the most devious pathogens to invade the immune responses’ of their host. Once inside the cell, Coronavirus uses the genetic materials of the host cell to produce a special protein to keep host’s immune defenses at bay. How does our immune system work?
The President of the United States is more concerned about upcoming elections than the devastating COVID-19 pandemic on human life. He is using the pulpit of daily press briefings to campaign for his reelection and acts like daily press briefing are his reality TV show.
Why are new drugs so rare and so expensive? 9 out of 10 experimental drugs fail the clinical trial stage. Studies have shown that it takes 10 to 12 years to bring a new drug from laboratory to the market, and it costs about $2 billion dollars.
How is fever related to your overall health? One out of four infected Coronavirus cases remains contagious without any fever symptoms. Checking for a fever isn’t enough.Read on for more temperature measurements and its relationships to health from a historical perspective.
