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Keeping your mind and body in check - popular topics in health and medicine to maintain a long and healthy life.

Everything about Knee Replacement Surgery that you should know
Knee Replacement Treatment is a very common surgery procedure which involves replacing a damaged part, diseased or worn knee with an artificial part. Mostly knee replacement surgery is needed for an adult between the ages of 60 to 80. But sometimes it needs young people as well in the condition of accidents and damaged knee. This treatment has a small operation that is known as partial knee replacement but you may need to redo within 10 years.
By Akhil Vikram Singh5 years ago in Longevity
One Step at a Time
I remember playing tag. It was the thing to do at recess in the fourth grade, but I hated it. Each time we played I would silently pray that I wasn’t chosen to be it, because then no one would be caught unless someone volunteered to get tagged by me so they could go and chase other people around. And if I wasn’t it, my only viable strategy would be to hide, at least until someone who was it found me. There would be no escape then—I could only surrender.
By P.L.5 years ago in Longevity
Apartment 413
January 25, 2021 It is a new year, and I don’t think I have written since the start of 2021. It is only January and look what the year has brought me. I was out pretty much since week 1 due to COVID. Yes, I could have written but I was out emotionally too. Not only was my body overwhelmed with sickness and fighting to recuperate, but my mind was also waging a war against anxiety at the same time. Not to share “TMI-too much info” but I also started my period straight away from coming out of being sick for two weeks, talk about energy depletion. Not only was my body tired but by the end of my isolation so was my mind. So, since I got COVID-19 I didn’t work for the past two weeks and a half and I also didn’t have the mental strength to sit down and type out a blog in completion. What better day to start again than the day I am back to work?
By Melanie Guajardo5 years ago in Longevity
This Goddess Got You! Mom and Holistic Gut Health CEO is Joule Goddess
There’s a quiet revolution happening in the body health industry. Experts who have been talking about the differences between men’s bodies and women’s bodies for years are finally gaining some traction. Women are discovering the gut-brain connection is key to looking and feeling their best.
By Victoria Kennedy5 years ago in Longevity
Campaign Started To Cut Use Of Disposable Face Masks
It is feared that the number of dumped, contaminated, disposable face masks could read 19.5 billion. That's according to litter pickers across the UK who are reporting an increase in the number of dumped face masks being spotted during their patrols. The scale of the problem of people recklessly dumping their face masks after they've used them is massive as we use fifty two million single use plastic masks a day and sadly some of these are being dropped or simply fall out of people's pockets as they walk around from place to place.
By Ashish Prabhu5 years ago in Longevity
Medicinal Herbs and How They Heal
If you read about medicinal herbs you are bound to encounter unusual terms such as adaptogen and rubefacient, and understanding these terms is the key to determining how they can best be used.
By Maria Hebert Blanco5 years ago in Longevity
Forget Chicken Soup When You're Sick. Try This Instead.
We've all heard the old advice: if you're feeling sick you should have some chicken soup. The magical healing powers of chicken soup for colds, flu, and other viruses have been well-documented.
By Rose Bak 5 years ago in Longevity
The Peace I've Found.
Sometimes I think about how, for someone who's only twenty-two years old, I seem to be dealing with a nice and heavy hand of health-issues. You ever carried around a bowling ball in your bag? Probably not, and I haven't either, but for the sake of analogy I just mean to say: You can imagine that, after a while, it would get pretty heavy. I've just been fighting these issues for so long it might be time to admit that it's finally gotten to me.
By H.L Parchment5 years ago in Longevity
A Fat Girl's Manifesto
***TRIGGER WARNING*** There's no way to tell where it all really, truly started. It could have all started as a playful joke about the cookies and snacks I'd stacked high on my plastic lunch tray to compensate for waking up late and being forced to skip breakfast.
By Aaliyah Hanna5 years ago in Longevity
How I recovered from an unknown illness
CRIPPLING FEAR We live our lives daily not knowing what’s going on in our internal world of our bodies. We get up and lie down imagining that all is well even on our bad days. It all takes that one stimulus to trigger or awaken what has been festering deep within us. It is this event of the stimulus that puts us in fight or flight mode; true survival instincts begin to kick in depending upon our own beliefs. In relation to this, we receive subconscious messages through our dreams, feelings, mental states, environment, or our relationships, to name a few to let us instinctively know what’s presently occurring to us to bring us back into balance. Whether acute or chronic, the body never not finds a way to communicate with our conscious minds for protection, safety, maintenance, and growth & development.
By I AM5 years ago in Longevity
Vitamins and Supplements
Vitamins and supplements are good alternatives to making sure you're body has what it needs to be strong and healthy. When I think of vitamins and supplements I think of holistic healing. In an article found on Roger Williams University, holistic healing or holistic medicine, considers five aspects when it comes to a persons' overall health; "physical, emotional, social, spiritual, and intellectual." When I think of holistic healing and medicine, I think of nature, which leads me back to vitamins and supplements. Most vitamins are products of nature that have been scientifically altered. You can take vitamins like Cranberry Extract for UTI's, Elderberry and Vitamin C for immune health, Melatonin for a more restful sleep. According to the FDA's website, "dietary supplements, in general, are not FDA-approved. Under the law (Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994), dietary supplement firms do not need FDA approval prior to marketing their products. It is the company’s responsibility to make sure its products are safe and that any claims are true."
By Shasta Scott5 years ago in Longevity
Preparing yourself for the Covid Vaccination!
The COVID‑19 vaccine was developed to provide acquired immunity against COVID‑19. The research that was ongoing around developing vaccines for SARS and MERS helped to accelerate the COVID‑19 vaccine. Many governments across the world have approved the emergency usage of Covid Vaccines. In addition to this, there are fifty more vaccines that are undergoing different phases of the trial. In most countries, the current vaccination phase covers frontline workers in healthcare, police, etc., and senior citizens. The article will help you understand the things you need to know about the new COVID-19 vaccination program.
By George Ukkuru5 years ago in Longevity