You know why they tell you to take a deep breath when you’re piping mad and ready to explode? It’s because deep breathing is incompatible with anger. Anger—and frustration, and annoyance, and irritation, and all
The debate on whether walking is an effective fat burning exercise has been going on for decades, and shows no sign of abating. But that debate is irrelevant for our purposes. I don’t recommend walking
You probably wouldn’t hear much about vitamin B5 except for the fact that it’s gotten a reputation as the “stress vitamin”, or, more accurately, the “anti-stress” vitamin. That’s because vitamin B5 is vitally important to
Vitamin B3 is one of a select group of vitamins—along with C, D, B12 and thiamine-- that actually has a deficiency disease associated with it. In the case of niacin, the disease is pellagra, a
Hi everyone, As a lot of you know, I’m out on the tennis court a couple hours a day, and in Southern California, that requires sunscreen. So recently I began to look into the sunscreens
Our thoughts and feelings have a profound effect on our physiology. You may have heard said, “what you think about expands?” All that really means is that what you pay attention to, what you spend
Unlike superstar vitamins like vitamin D-- which consistently garners attention in the nutrition press—you don’t hear much about vitamin B2. That’s because it’s best known as a supporting player. But don’t make the mistake of
Sleep is the ultimate anti-aging strategy. Anyone remember from the old movies how people who were stressed out and experiencing what was then quaintly called a “nervous breakdown” were sent away to a sanitarium for
Vitamin B1 (also known as thiamine) is one of the eight B vitamins sometimes collectively known as B-complex. All B vitamins help you turn your food into energy, but they each have specific (if overlapping)
Years ago, I participated in a panel at a health and wellness fair sponsored by the Los Angeles Times. On this panel were a number of practitioners, many of them forward-thinking specialists in integrative and
