Understanding and Treating Herniated Discs

Herniated discs are a common yet often misunderstood condition affecting millions of people worldwide. This condition involves a tear in the outer layer of an intervertebral disc, allowing its soft, central portion to bulge out. This bulge can lead to discomfort, pain, numbness, or weakness, stemming from nerve irritation or compression. Grasping the anatomy, causes, symptoms, and both conventional and alternative treatment options is essential for those seeking relief.

Having alcohol in the evening reduces your ability in combating stress.

Melatonin is a powerful endogenous antioxidant that is also involved in circadian rhythm regulation, thermoregulation, sleep induction, immunomodulatory, and countering oxidative stress. It is also a regulator of your sleep/wake cycle, helping you feel awake during daylight hours and sleepy at night. Research shows that consuming alcohol — even in a moderate dose — an hour before bedtime can cause a notable reduction in melatonin production.

Napping in the later part of the day, as the need for sleep naturally increases, will comprise more deep sleep. Unfortunately, this may disrupt your ability to fall asleep at night and may throw off your circadian rhythm. However, if you nap in the morning, it becomes less likely that you will disrupt your body's internal clock, which is responsible for regulating many of your body’s vital functions such as digestion and hormone balance.

I can just catch up on the weekends?

I am sorry I have to break this to you. Unfortunately, research has shown that weekend recovery sleep is not an effective strategy to prevent metabolic dysregulation associated with recurrent insufficient sleep. Because, just for one hour of sleep debt, a person would actually need four days of adequate rest. Since many people get less sleep than they need almost every weeknight, it becomes mathematically impossible to close that gap in only two weekend nights. If this becomes habitual, it can result in chronic elevation of cortisol levels that affect the resiliency of your normal stress response and may accelerate the development of metabolic and cognitive consequences of cortisol excess.

Any reputation whether it's a person or product trust is hard to build but is easy to destroy. In the case of soy during its coming out party it received negative press. We all know how hard it is for someone or something to recover from a bad first impression. Unfortunately, for soy it has been charged, tried and found guilty and sentenced to death. But before we put soy to death completely, wouldn’t it prudent to take another look just to make sure we are not killing off something purely innocent, because, we all know humans get things right 100 percent of the time–right?

Gluten is it good or bad?

Gluten-free diets have become increasingly popular in over the last couple of years, so much so that if walk into any supermarket especially New York you will notice they are now carry more than a handful of options. Though more people are becoming aware of gluten-related disorders such as celiac disease the majority of people are unaware of how gluten impacts their health and is major contributor to chronic disease.

Coughing, sneezing, runny nose, sore throat, loss of appetite. Does this sound familiar? Every winter like clock work, people are inundated with these symptoms. Your grandmother’s grandmother may have attributed these collection of symptoms to evil spirits or catching a cold, but since the 1950s many have adopted a more sophisticated view attributing these common symptoms to the rhinovirus, a mysterious virus invisible to the naked eye, which lies in waiting and ambushes people when they are vulnerable. But is catching a cold, which really means becoming sick due to exposure to the cold be so farfetched? Recent evidence suggests that grandma may have been right after all.

Some people think the modern way of farming is better and is actually making people healthier. I guess that is true if you are one those people who think up is down. Because statistics is actually saying some thing different. For example in In America 60 percent of its citizens are diabetic or pre-diabetic, 1 out 2 men are diagnosed with cancer and chronic diseases are associated with 7 out of 10 deaths. How much this is related non organic farming?

The five things that you should never do if you’re not feeling well?

Many at times feel like they are stuck in a repetitive cycle unable to make any substantial progress in their lives. Year after they make goals and year after they fail at them. Why? Because, their goals were just a dream—something they wished would happen. Real goals involve planning, flexibility and good old fashioned hard work.

What reliable steps can you take to reach your goals in 2023?