The digestive tract is the most dynamic part of the body. It is where things really happen, not in that ivory tower we call our brain. Most of us have been led to believe that we are just ‘heads’ walking around perceiving the world, with our body acting merely as a life support system for
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In the last 4 parts on our Happiness discussion we looked at how our conscious mind was like a rider (conscious mind) on the back of an elephant (the rest of mind/body). The thing is the rider has very little authority to direct the elephant to do something that it does not want to
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In part 3 of these Happiness blogs, we saw some of the processes that modern Positive Psychology has found to increase Happiness. There are three things that have been shown to change the way the ‘Elephant’ relates to the ‘Rider’ (Happiness 1 – 3). They are meditation, cognitive therapy, and Prozac. We added in two
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It was once thought that a PSA (Prostate-Specific Antigen) test should be routinely (yearly or so) given to all men over 40 years old. This was suggested to reduce the incidence of prostate problems as well as early detection of prostate cancer. I have recommended for many years that this testing was not as important
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