Cortisol: The Master Hormone Book Review

Jefferey Metcalfe

Book Reviews, Everyday Solutions Improve Your Health, Weight, Fertility, Menopause, and Longevity, and Reduce Stress Cortisol: The Master Hormone is an empowering, informative, and motivational read. Wibe Wagemans and Ioana A. Bina, MD, Ph.D. book, Cortisol: The Master Hormone: Improve Your Health, Weight, Fertility, Menopause, Longevity, and Reduce Stress, provides […]

10 Impressive Elephant Grass Health Benefits

Jefferey Metcalfe

Move over wheatgrass, there’s a new green drink in town! Elephant grass, also known as miscanthus giganteus, is a giant grass that is native to Asia. It’s been used for centuries in traditional Chinese medicine and is now gaining popularity as a health food. Elephant grass health benefits include improving […]

Short Run May Improve Brain Function, Study Says

Jefferey Metcalfe

Running is undoubtedly one of the simplest methods to get the benefits of physical exercise since it is inexpensive and readily available. Running promotes cardiovascular health, muscular strength, and bone density. In addition to these physical advantages, running has also been linked to enhanced mental health. A team of researchers […]

The Year Without Germs Changed Kids

Jefferey Metcalfe

In the spring of 2021, Brett Finlay, a microbiologist at the University of British Columbia, offered the world a bold and worrying prediction. “My guess is that five years from now we are going to see a bolus of kids with asthma and obesity,” he told Wired. Those children, he […]

China’s COVID Wave Is Coming

Jefferey Metcalfe

In China, a dam seems on the verge of breaking. Following a wave of protests, the government has begun to relax some of its most stringent zero-COVID protocols, and regional authorities have trimmed back a slew of requirements for mass testing, quarantine, and isolation. The rollbacks are coming as a […]

Peer Support Interventions for Perinatal Depression

Jefferey Metcalfe

A peer support intervention is defined as “the provision of emotional assistance (e.g., attentive listening), appraisal assistance (communication of information that is pertinent to self-evaluation), and informational assistance (provision of knowledge relevant to problem-solving) by a created social network member who possesses experiential knowledge of a specific behavior or stressor […]