Description
- Embrace the Intangible on the Road to Happiness
- Fibromyalgia patients and Author Remez Sasson help uncover the inside secrets on how to look at life from a new perspective and find happiness
- Specific directions on how you can create one really great day for yourself, and how that can lead to another
- Eye Candy for the Brain
- Science shows that when your mind is occupied by a challenging task that is fun you seem to feel less pain
- Researchers Sean Mackey, M.D., Ph.D., Jarred Younger, Ph.D., Hunter G. Hoffman, Ph.D., and Noayuki Osaka, Ph.D., are looking at images in your environment that trigger pain relief and how you can put them to work for you
- Ken's Corner: Stabilize Your Hips to Avoid Winter Slippage
- Want a little more stability in your step? Ken Lamm, P.T., offers fully illustrated techniques and simple explanations of fun steps to strengthen your balance
- Improving Gut Function Leads to Better Health
- How your gastrointestinal function can affect your overall health
- GI tract dynamics, irritable bowel, gut health
- How probiotics work and what you need to know
- Natural treatment approaches, current medications, and what's in the pipeline
- Is Good Quality Sleep Eluding You?
- Science is having a hard time defining the function of sleep and exactly what is considered normal, says Daniel Buysse, M.D.
- The role of an overnight polysomnography (PSG) study
- Treating sleep disordered breathing, apnea, and upper airway resistance syndrome with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP)
- Restless legs (RLS), attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), fibromyalgia, and sleep
- Thyroid Malfunction Dragging Your Down?
- New evidence shows thyroid malfunction plays an important role for many diagnosed with fibromyalgia and that an underperforming metabolic system could be at the heart of many symptoms including your pain
- Experts John C. Lowe, D.C., M.A., Brian Kim, M.D., and Laura Bazzichi, M.D., offer expertise on genetic defects, key symptoms, and your auto-immune system
- Hashimoto's disease
- Self-help suggestions and therapies
- Losing Your Mind? Or does pain wear out your brain?
- Roland Staud, M.D., looks at the activity of brains in healthy individuals and tries to understand why fibromyalgia patients are losing gray matter
- The link between pain processing and making quick decisions
- Treatment News
- Comparing Lyrica with the generic, less expensive medication, gabapentin (Neurontin)
- Combining an over-the-counter hormone (melatonin) with a simple prescription medication (Prozac/fluoxetine) creates a amazing synergy
- Therapies that Work
- Deep, Restful Sleep as Medicine
- A Little More Vitamin D, Please
- Patient Resources - Free article reprints on understanding the mechanics of sleep, and irritable bowel. Books, web site links and suggestions to create your own road to happiness. Metabolic health and thyroid science links. Abstracts online link, and connect to Facebook, A Patient's Guide brochure, contact information, and discounts.
