He is so good looking that it´s okay for heterosexual men to say so. This puts him in the same league as Brad Pitt where he’s seen as a male…

Worldwide, 12 million girls marry before age 18 every year. Say “child marriage” and the average American thinks of a developing country, where economic hardship forces parents to marry off…

With big tech helping government officials to control the sharing of information, we need to support alternatives to undermine their censorious efforts. Within hours of the massacre at two mosques…

Hallucinations, delusions, thoughts of suicide and homicide. All the signs pointed to the 14-year-old patient having rapid onset schizophrenia. But when the usual treatments failed, physicians looked elsewhere and found…

GABA is the mind’s natural calmness signal, it’s the neurotransmitter that relieves anxiety, helps you get good sleep, relax, and wind down. By reducing overactivity in the brain, GABA increases…

There is a narrative in spirituality that says: ‘We chose that’ – or, ‘We chose that when we signed up for this life.´ Often it is used to understand suffering from…

The success story of one woman who replaced her pills with plants. After drug use caused Sharmila Clee’s parents to lose custody of her and her siblings in 1998, Clee…

Do human beings have a magnetic sense? Biologists know other animals do. They think it helps creatures including bees, turtles and birds navigate through the world. Scientists have tried to…

the spirit of the warm spring wind has come effortless moving furniture around in open places through narrow streets it sweeps turning the abundant orange blossoms into a seductive snowfall…

I am sitting at my desk with my eyes closed, moving a dinner plate back and forth in front of my face while repeating “Test! Test! Test!”. It may look…

Thousands of dolphins are kept in captivity around the world, mostly for the entertainment of tourists. Certainly it’s no fun for the dolphins. How did I spend my winter vacation?…

Last month, Caryn Isaacs went to see her primary care doctor for her annual Medicare wellness visit. A patient advocate who lives in Manhattan, Ms. Isaacs, 68, felt perfectly fine…

Tragically, suicide is not as rare as one might think. In 2016, the last year global data is available from the World Health Organization (WHO), there were an estimated 793,000…

‘Other conditions that studies have shown are improved by marijuana are: cancer induced nausea, Type 2 diabetes, two forms of epilepsy, HIV-induced weight gain, irritable bowel syndrome, migraines, multiple sclerosis,…

Look out at the Universe all you want, with arbitrarily powerful technology, and you’ll never find an edge. Space goes on as far as we can see, and everywhere we…

If you’ve experienced even a few sleepless nights, then you know just how much of an impact lack of sleep can have on your life. There’s nothing worse than the…

Elderberries have long been touted for their amazing health benefits. They are widely used in natural medicines and food. Elderberries are the rich, dark purple fruit of the elderberry shrub…

In February 2015, amid the cedar masks, canoe paddles and totem poles at the Tulalip Resort Casino north of Seattle, the talk was all about pot. Indian country had been…

And as usual, it’s the communities that are least responsible for it that suffer the most. Air pollution is a particularly covert killer. Sometimes smog burns our throats and sears…

Depression is a very complex disorder and we simply have no good evidence that antidepressants help sufferers to improve. Your grief and guilt overwhelm you. You are so tired you…

As I have written and predicted: When the influx of Migrants reaches Critical Mass – this is exactly what the system will use in order to say: ‘We will not…