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This article is dedicated to the many Behçet’s warriors we have lost since my diagnosis 20 years ago, in 2003. Your memory and impact in this life and with this illness will be remembered and revered forever.May represents and serves as an opportunity to raise awareness about Behçet’s syndrome, an illness with which I have been fighting for at least 25 years.Behçet’s syndrome (usually pronounced “BUH-shehts”) is a chronic and frequently systemic auto-inflammatory condition of unknown etiology. It is an unusual illness with diverse manifestations, often presenting very differently in different patients. Further, Behçet’s is a unique type of autoinflammatory vasculitis…
Below is an approximation of this video’s audio content. To see any graphs, charts, graphics, images, and quotes to which Dr. Greger may be referring, watch the above video. Intro: This is the first in a four-part video series on bariatric surgery, the most common of which are stomach stapling and gastric bypass, and both make major changes to a person’s gastrointestinal anatomy. So how safe are these procedures, and how well do they work for weight loss? Tune in to find out. The treatment of obesity has long been stained by the snake oil swindling of profiteers, hustlers, and…
From 1986 to 2011, Oprah Winfrey hosted The Oprah Winfrey Show. It was the highest rated talk show of all-time and familiar to nearly anyone who owned a television set in North America at that time. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, the “Queen of All Media” built a brand that stretched far beyond the television screen. She went on to become a billionaire, a well-regarded philanthropist, and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. And as she was busy working toward these otherworldly accomplishments, Oprah relied on a simple habit: journaling. Journaling is simply the act of thinking about…
Allen Golec, of Florida, logs his Chicago Marathon training runs while pushing his 19-year-old daughter, Abigaile, in an effort to raise awareness and funds for the Danny Did Foundation, according to the Citrus County Chronicle. Golec, 53, started walking and then running about 18 months ago, when he was “60 pounds heavier and Abigaile was having a bad day, he told the outlet. “My blood pressure was out of control, and I made a choice to make a difference. The next day I got up and started walking, and then after a few weeks I started doing light jogs.”Abigaile was…
55 Lbs. Lost For Lindsay, a stay-at-home mother in her early 30s from Las Vegas, NV, the motivation to lose weight and live healthier was simple. She wanted to keep up with her three young children and demonstrate to them that a healthy lifestyle is a cornerstone for a happy family. Being the primary caregiver for three children is no easy feat. After eight years of being either pregnant or breastfeeding, Lindsay felt like her metabolism and sense of when she was actually hungry was “completely out of whack.” I would go from feeling not hungry at all to feeling…
You probably don’t check your heart rate except during your workouts. It’s reasonable to see the number tick up as you put your body through the paces, but it can be a little jarring when the beats are coming faster on your tracker even though you’re sitting still or your heart rate won’t go down after resting post-activity. Let’s back up a sec here: Your heart beat is the result of a special electrical system, says Gioia Turitto, MD, a cardiologist at NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital. “With each cycle, an electrical signal is generated by the system operator—the sinus node—and…
A vagus nerve stimulation device, approved by the Food and Drug Administration, is being used in rehabilitation to help patients recovering from an ischemic stroke. If a patient is having trouble using their hand or arm after a stroke, this stimulation device helps create new pathways in the brain as the person performs exercises. This can help the person regain function faster than rehabilitation alone. Dr. Jonathon Parker, a Mayo Clinic neurosurgeon, discusses how the vagus nerve stimulation device is helping some stroke patients recover their mobility in this Mayo Clinic Minute. Watch: The Mayo Clinic Minute Journalists: Broadcast-quality video…
By Leo Babauta I’ve noticed that most of us let ourselves be driven by our resistance to something difficult, scary, unknown. We take on a hard task — creating something, for example — and then we feel some kind of resistance. Or maybe it feels like overwhelm. It’s simply uncertainty, and fear of the unknown. This is quite normal, to feel uncertainty, fear, resistance, overwhelm. Then we let it drive our actions, letting the fear be in the drivers seat. That’s pretty normal too, and very understandable. What would it be like if we didn’t need ot let this resistance…
If you’ve been around the gym trenches, you have heard the term if you cannot grip it, you can’t rip it, and forearms play a big part in it. Forearm strength and endurance are critical in all grip-intensive exercises like deadlifts, chin-ups, and all row variations. The grip often fails before the intended muscle group trained is fatigued. Forearm strength must be addressed and is a common weakness for many lifters. Because forearm strength and endurance are involved in many upper and lower body lifts, it pays to show them a little extra attention. And stronger forearms mean more weight…
Hepatitis C is a viral infection that can cause serious liver damage. Research suggests that more than 2 million American adults have hep C, but the real number is probably much higher. About half of people with hep C have no clue they’ve got it, because this virus often sneaks in without symptoms.The virus spreads through blood-to-blood contact, such as sharing a needle or syringe with someone who has hep C when injecting drugs or getting a tattoo in a less-than-clean shop. In rare cases, the virus can pass from person to person during sex — but only if there’s…